skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are actually 8.1 billion humans. Say that everyone wants beef for dinner, .5 lb / person, rounding down to 3 lbs weekly, rounding down to 150 lbs per year. That is 1.2 trillion pounds of beef per year. The real number is much lower due to age demographics, dietary choices, and poverty (about 60 lbs per person, per year in just the US) but let's keep it simple;, "If everyone in the world wanted 3 lbs of grass fed beef a week, how would that work out?"

400 lbs of meat per head of cattle is 3,000,000,000 cows. 5 acres per head of pure grass fed, double number of animals because of average slaugher at 2 years, and that is 30 billion acres devoted to grazing. For context 125 million acres are utilized for cattle (feed and grazing) in the US. Globally that is 3 times more than is used for all agriculture, globally. This is ignoring dairy.

So this is not very tricky. It is wildly unrealistic for grass fed beef to be anything but an extreme luxury food without large numbers of people starving.
In some EU countries, like Austria for example, there are royalties to pay on non-volatile storage memory[1], who's funds go to the local mafia...errr I mean music/movie rights holders association, because get this, storage can be used for storing reproductions of copyrighted content, so if you buy anything from external HDDs to phones with flash memory, then you're automatically a potential pirate and you owe them money upfront to compensate them for the piracy induced losses.

It's a tax that started from the 1980's first on audio and VHS cassettes, and kept getting updated over the years to include MP3 players, flash memory, smart phones and smart watches.

I expect the exact same thing will happen to LLM bots. The juggernauts like Ringier or Axel Springer will lobby in their respective countries or at EU level to get their pound of flesh whenever people use something like ChatGPT, because they'll claim it was trained on their copyrighted data and so they deserve to get their cut, otherwise the service will have to be banned in the EU.

[1] https://www-wko-at.translate.goog/oe/handel/maschinen-techno...

| Integrated memory in mobile phones: EUR 2.50 |
| Integrated storage in tablets: EUR 3.75 |
| Integrated memory in PC, desktop computer, notebook, subnotebook, ultrabook, netbook, laptop: EUR 5.00 |
| Hard drives as individual storage media: EUR 4.50 |
| External memory cards: EUR 0.35 |
| Digital picture frames: EUR 2.00 |
| Smartwatches: EUR 1.00 |
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describing apple as having been asleep on this is journalistic somnambulation. not all work gets shouted to the press, and the prevalence of ai-flavored shouting has caused a bit of a smell anyway.
South Korea is the worst example of free market spontaneously leading to great outcomes through sweatshops. The amount of government cental planning and protectionism is I think unparalleled there for a success story.
Breakfast is a protein shake of casein and collagen protein. With added berries in water. Oatmeal and a glass of coffee.

Lunch is a can of cooked chicken breast, 2 cups of fat free Greek yogurt , and a small salad with olive oil and vinegar.

Dinner is typically whatever my wife decides to make. She's Greek so a lot of Greek and Mediterranean food. Salads at every meal.
That’s damn true
Thank you, it really means a lot! The video should autoplay so I hid the controls; I'll add them back though as I guess autoplay is flakey.
Yeah, I almost wish I hadn’t asked given the comments. Really points at an interesting mechanism though. Hopefully this means some kind of preventative or even treatment is possible.
They don't condone piracy, you mean.
As someone who periodically listens to papers via text-to-speech, I was intrigued when I saw this link. I'm a little uncertain about the "AI simplification" - If I'm reading a paper I don't want to have the second guess everything I hear as to whether it completely misinterpreted, elided, or hallucinated a point.

Do you have any personal experience with the results?
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Obviously no, because signals take time to move from A to B, while humans live in the now.
2/3 is very realistic even for households. It is just prohibitive time wise (it takes more times in most cities to go by car than by train) and parking wise (densities is high, parking is on the street, searching a parking slot up to an hour, ...). You do not want to own a car.
Generally, yes.

CA and NY are also states that mandatory pay range disclosures for job adverts, too.
preclude: I think you mean that can be a prelude to. Though could also be presage.
Not to be a downer, I do sympathize with all you wrote here. But its not a simple as, people have different preferences and we should let everyone do what suits them. Cars have major externalities that harm the environment and affects the well-being of others.
Sounds like you need some swap (?)
Yes this is a concern of mine which is why I am dosing 100IU of HCG as a preventative to this.
The first study[1] I could find that included analysis of vegan vs non-vegan diets' correlation with blood PFAS levels suggest that vegan diets are negatively correlated with some classes of PFAS (and neutral with the other classes analyzed): "The strongest correlations with food groups, derived from a food frequency questionnaire, were observed between levels of PFOA and water consumption (in case of the total study population, n = 72), and between levels of PFOS as well as PFNA and the consumption of ‘meat and meat products’".

I'm not proposing that a single study is proof, but I'm default-skeptical of dietary claims without strong evidence, especially ones that comport with other aspects of worldview or preference.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S143846392...
I don't have evidence for this, but my suspicion is that the sand was not supposed to be long-term, but just to look impressive for suckers while the owners dump their now worthless real estate.
> You need to posit a product built out of compute that does more. Maybe replaces a bunch of existing workers in an existing industry, something like that. So far the market is still looking.

Although, even if that is the ultimate result, there's still going to be plenty of money changing hands on the way to that conclusion. See also all the blockchain/web3 companies, when there was (to me at least) clearly a lot less substance/potential there.
> In 30 years of developing software I don’t think I ever used multi-line regexp even once.

As long as sharing anecdata, in 30 years, it's almost the only way I use it.

It's incredible for slicing and dicing repetitious text into structure. You generally want some sort of Practical Extraction and Reporting Language, the core of which is something like a regular expression, generally able to handle the, well, irregularity.

Most recent example (I did this last week) was extracting Apple's app store purchases from an OCR of the purchase history available through Apple's Music app's Account page that lets you see all purchases across all digital offerings, but only as a long scrolling dialog box (reading that dialog's contents through accessibility hooks only retrieves the first few pages, unfortunately).

Each purchase contains one or more items and each item has one or more vertical lines, and if logos contain text they add arbitrary lines per logo.

A good match and sub match multi-line regex folds that mess back into a CSV. In this case, the regex for this was less than an 80 char line of code and worked in the find replace of Sublime Text which has multiline matching, subgroups, and back references.

Another way to do this is something like a state match/case machine, but why write a program when you can just write a regular expression?
Your framing heavily incentivises malicious compliance. After all if the subjects of regulation coöperate to derail, delay, mislead the public and overload enforcement it's going to have a bad outocme by default.

The main problem with GDPR is the scale of non-compliance greatly exceeds the size of any reasonable enforcement capacity, at least until enforcement catches up.
and yet INTC has been in business for decades, profitable the whole time, producing chips without this grotesque handout of taxpayer monies.

They have already used their excess profits - many $10's of billions of dollars in recent years, for stock buybacks, but apparently they really, really need this money from taxpayers to stay a going concern.
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If it's apple silicon you need to run `xattr -cr` on the .app to get it to be executable.
They did that. It's called "btrfs".

A stable clean-room ZFS with on-disk compatibility would be a huge task. How long did stable NTFS write capability take? And NTFS is a much simpler filesystem. It would also be a huge waste of time given that btrfs and bcachefs exist, and that ZFS is fine to use license-wise – it's just distribution that's a tad awkward (but not overly so).
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> Why might a focus on compute scaling ultimately be inferior to something else?

a) Humans at some point between here and eternity become more efficient easier, than scaling compute is hard. Seems unlikely.

b) Compute is overrated, now or will be in the near future. I will be happy to donate to the church of "compute is overrated" if that makes people get off of gpt-4+ and let me cook. Read that as: I doubt it.

I don't see a c)
Why pissed off? Intel is the one with experience and the US is desperate de-risking TSMC and control more of the chip as chips is one of the most important resources now and in future. Would they give it to Y-combinator startups? If Yes they would be a fraction of it, Intel earned this by being American and being the cornerstone of American Chip business for past few decades
Bcachefs is not a drop-in replacement for btrfs yet. It's still missing critical things like scrub:

https://bcachefs.org/Roadmap/
There's a geopolitical issue regarding countries with ample farm land and islands for instance with moatly sea resources though.
I imagine that Nvidia is trying to build a more sustainable moat. If the only things they have that their competitors don’t are a nice development framework, nice libraries and nice drivers, it’s not that hard for a customer to get their software working on a competing hardware platform and cut out a bunch of Nvidia’s enormous markup. But if Nvidia also strong buy-in with datacenter operators and an entire platform to magically run people’s applications without having them need to think about how they’re deployed, then they can try for an AWS-like moat in which customers want to avoid the ongoing cost of DIYing their stack.
That’s great. I’m not; it isn’t even speech, and I reject the Lockean view of “freedom” anyway (which is actually license). Porn is incredibly destructive. Indeed, both pornography and prostitution are unethical, but of the two, prostitution is less bad. At least there’s another person involved, and the sex act is real, however defective. Less defective and destructive than glad handing yourself and laying waste to your mind that’s also difficult to recover from.

Here we must distinguish between state permission and state sanction. The state can licitly permit certain evils if banning them leads to a worse situation, given the crooked state of humanity. Prostitution was traditionally one of these.
That's a pretty short journey (probably about 15 minutes), but yes it will definitely be a lot better now. I think also part of it comes down to 1. getting used to it, and 2. the time you cycle at. Rush hour, while more hectic, actually is quite a bit easier because you're often going far quicker than any cars.
Cows are literally one of the least calorie-per-CO2 efficient means of getting meat. Here's some actual data: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-kcal-poore

You'll note that beef is by far the worst.

Here's one that better describes the components of that CO2 footprint (whether it's methane production, or transport overhead, etc.): https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local
> > "Miss Julie" has exactly as much inherent context as "Riemann Hypothesis", or "Kubernetes"

> No it doesn't. Let's think super hard. "Miss Julie" could be anyone named Julie.

That is, frankly, bullshit. "Let's think super hard"... "Romeo and Juliet" could be any two people named Romeo and Juliet. But that's not what you thought when you saw the names, is it?

Just because your Allgemeingbildung is sucky enough to only know (or at least have vaguely heard of) Shakespeare, but not Strindberg, doesn't make "Miss Julie" any more generic than "Romeo and Juliet". It just means you need to work on widening your literary horizons, not just your hacker ones.
I've had similar ideas recently.

If I have an SPA querying a moderately-sized static dataset, then something like this is appealing. I can stand up a container on Fly, store the SQLite DB on the volume, and serve directly from there without needing to worry about # of reads I involve (w/ something like Turso) or all the ops complexity of a real DB.
The beaches keep eroding because the dune ecosystem that was in place to keep the sand there was destroyed to put beachside housing on it.
you mean other than the rampant inflation we are seeing now - and will almost certainly get worse - everything is fine?
Do they expect a company to believe them when they say "Yes, that anonymous social profile is actually me, John Emu maker. Really." Then if they proove it, by logging in and posting a known sentinel for example, do they expect everyone on that interview loop to keep their secret?

Companies generally don't take anonymous credentials.
Did you read what the experts said? It doesn't matter if the incident rate is higher in NYC, anything about NYC has no bearing on this. The fires in china are due to low quality batteries.
Do you live in one of these places?
What is driving me nuts is that we have Unicode now, so there is no need to use common characters like $ or ^ to denote special regex state transitions.
Exactly. Please stop saying "hi" and waiting for a response, just say what you need in the first message. This is a great template.
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But that literally never happens, each city contains both rich and poor people.
That’s several thousand miles of additional journey on your way to Shenzen or wherever? Massive amounts of track, tunnel and bridge that has to be maintained in extreme conditions and across multiple nations at odds with each other?

Or just put it on a boat?
That's just an execution issue, you clearly know your strategy.
I may not have said it as well as you did, but that is what I was trying to get across with the barrier analogy.
Beautiful build, especially the electronics bits
It's not hard to believe.

The idea that future of computing is related to parallel numerical computing and linear algebra (HPC, graphics ,scientific computing, data science, machine learning) predates current deep learning boom.

Already in 2003 and GPGPU (General-purpose computing on graphics processing units) was a thing. OpenVidia came out in 2003.
Ironic because most of their users will never experience actually having to pull out
> But we already have a co-piloting AI tool; it’s called GitHub Copilot! Microsoft launched it 2.5 years ago, and it became the leading AI coding assistant almost overnight. Today, more than 1.3 million developers pay for it (!!) across 50,000 companies.

> At $20/month, it’s a price point that is very hard to compete with, especially given how expensive GPU infrastructure is, which needs training and fine-tuning for operating large language models.

And Microsoft was reportedly losing $20 a month per user at this price point, as of early 2023.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/microsoft-is-reportedly-losing...

This seems like a very difficult space for startups to compete. Devin has to be a lot better than copilot for people to spend money on it, which they need to if the authors don't want to burn through capital like Microsoft is.
This is something those who didn’t spend much time around electronic components might not be aware of
Think I would have picked exactly the reverse (i.e. ^^ being more "starty" than "^").
For me Evernote peaked around 2014-2015. The native clients were fast and small and integrated well with the host platform. I haven't used it since around 2020, so I'm glad to hear they are actually working on it.

I subscribed on the Plus plan for 8 years at $35 / year. Now the personal plan is $130 / year. I used it maybe once a week so for me that would be $2 every time I launch it. It just isn't worth it.
I was bullied mercilessly in high school.... Trying to befriend them, laugh with them, and avoid them never worked.

Public education is like Lord of the flies. Bullying makes some kids feel powerful, and others feed off that power or shrink from it less they become the target of the bullying. The only response to bullying that ever worked was when I punched them in the mouth. That was in the mid 2000s and no matter how much I complained, no matter how much my parents complained, the teachers and the administration did absolutely nothing.

The way to bully proof your kids is to remove them from public education. Private or homeschool.
Grrr. They were scientists, not "researchers". They may have been scientists engaged in astronomical research, but that makes them actual scientists.
My partner does a lot of biostats in RStudio and I really think it breds terrible habits. Instead of categorizing code by files, everything is shoved into massive files. Instead of running a file top-to-bottom, code is run out-of-order which makes the code organization and flow of a program a complete disaster.

There is something to be said about running and processing large CSVs and keeping that in memory while running other parts of the program as well as having clickable access to all the dataframes loaded into memory.
Decades is still long after the first GeForce. Before CUDA we had third parties using graphics primitives to run general purposes computing.

So I'm not buying it.
I think we can be certain that AGI will be compute intensive. Something Ilya Sutskever said made that clear. If you only have a small model, there's logically not much you can do with it. You can represent a single edge of an object, maybe. But it's not enough capacity to represent multiple edges and how they mix together to form an object. And if it can't do that, then it has no representations it can use for reasoning.

There's still the secondary question of how compute heavy it will be, and I don't think anyone knows. But Sam Altman, in a recent speech he gave in Korea, expressed confidence that there isn't a limit in sight for returns from GPT scaling.
In the obese, glucose is preferentially directed to adipose tissue for storage as fat. This is due to both insulin resistance, and to the limited storage capacity in muscles and the liver for glucose in the form of glycogen. I was writing colloquially and intentionally left out details like lipogenesis, which in retrospect probably wasn't a great idea.
Yes, I've read the wikipedia article too. I was also studying Latin America in college at the time and can read Spanish so I was pretty closely following the issue.

Having an opinion on the outcome you want doesn't mean you're actively putting a thumb on the scale or driving events. The State Department has a position on almost ever major political event happening in the world. It can't possibly be intervening in all of them.

> If there is a coup in their back garden, they'll have someone there doing some pruning.

Except the US specifically stayed out of this and encouraged Honduras's neighbors not to get involved either. If the US had chosen to support Zelaya, then the people backing the Supreme Court would have called that a US intervention.

Is your standard that having an opinion on a foreign political outcome is tantamount to intervention? If not what is your standard and how does it apply here?
Yes, much of the ocean is basically a desert due to a lack of iron. Low iron leads to low plankton which leads to low fish counts.

Ocean fertilization could 10x the number of fish, and possibly store some carbon also.
> At the risk of offending the canon, I have to say that I really did not enjoy Strindberg

Yeah, by all acounts, he was pretty much an arsehole. But fuck, could that arsehole write!
The vast majority of databases currently recommend using XFS.
Let's be real, nobody cares about their acronyms being unique or not confusing.
NVIDIA AI Enterprise: The operating system for enterprise AI
Right? I searched for "Town of Salem" on my android phone yesterday and it was the third result, the exact name. The top two results were some other games, maybe sponsored ad spots?

Either way, its the same with a lot of these companies, looking for more and more places they could companies to pay to get their information first. Just like Google search results, I've seen the first 3-5 links being sponsored spots, that's like half the page and you have to scroll to get to real search results!

I am glad I switched to Kagi as my search engine. Sadly, until we start paying for these services we will be the product.
I quite like bear - tastes like a beefier beef. Depends on what the bear ate.
They've been peddling compute since mid-2000's, however Nvidia has been around for much longer. To the revisionist history point, I'm unfamiliar seeing any of this prior to that. Unless I'm missing something, they were very much a graphics only company competing with 3dfx, Matrox, S3, ATi, etc
OpenAI Expected to Launch 'Better' GPT-5 for Chatbot Mid-Year
If I just set that money on fire, I'd at least get some heat out of it.
I don't faint but I get super weird and blood slows to a trickle. But I think I need to try again.
It surprises me how few people dev/test against HTTPS, given that it isn't exactly hard to setup manually (with tools like this making it even easier). Just point a wildcard DNS entry at 127.0.0.1 or some other useful address if your dev copy is actually not that local, and chuck a web server there acting as a proxy to what-ever apps, with a LetsEncrypt wildcard cert. It isn't zero work, but saves time in the long run as soon as you hit unexpected issues caused by small differences between dev and prod.
At some point the bill needs paid, and like all moral hazards, this is one that foots the bill to someone else in the meantime.

Physics doesn't care about the dumb economic/political decisions you made in the past. Pushing it 10 years just creates 10 more years of damage to yourself and others and burns money the entire time.

You're acting like you can just science/money your way out of a problem that has grown massively over the last 70 years, but we no longer can. The bill is due with interest. Yea, you can roll over the debt if you want, but the house of cards falls down eventually.
Right, I've not seen stainless ones before (perhaps I have but it never registered—I never use straws, haven't since I was a kid).
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the idea of changing a decades old convention to instead use, as I assume you are implying, some character that requires special entry, is beyond silly.
Before the invention of the elevator, buildings were more naturally mixed-use: shops (and stables?) on the ground floor, posh tenants on the first, all the way up to artists and baristas in their garrets under the roof.

By democratising travel within a building, ironically the elevator made it possible to have neighbourhoods for which service workers had to commute primarily from the outside along the x and y axes, not merely within the neighbourhood along the z.
We aren't so starved so as to have to prioritize eating efficiently, people will eagerly prioritize aspects of taste and eat inefficiently, and it's great that they can do that - it would be horrific and a symptom of unacceptable overpopulation if people couldn't afford to eat "inefficiently" and would have to resort at eating whatever as long as it has sufficient nutrients.