skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I missed this one but I will reply. Yes, I’ll happily pay the Danegeld if it means I’m not faced with the prospect of ending someone’s life. I’m not qualified to make that decision. Do you think you are? I believe deadly violence should be the absolute last course of action after every other option is tried and fails.
I can't speak to GP, but AI is exactly what I had in mind when I read their comment. With AI transforming website content, the sites themselves just become data sources.

You could be right though, especially with more and more sites blocking robots. Legitimate companies might just have to shrug and say, "this site prohibits me from reading it. You'll have to go there instead) though that seems like a legal problem to me rather than a technical one.
> A lot of people were hoping for a big pop on some big development

They are waiting for earnings projections for such a pop since right now it is extremely overbought and struggling to move past >$1,000 per share.

For now, Microsoft and OpenAI will use these chips, but in the long term they are just looking at this and plotting to build their own chips and reducing their dependence on Nvidia and will be ready to switch once their contracts have run out.
I would take this a step further and make it required that companies create an easy way for users to opt-out of this type of content.
I'm specifically referring to long covid neurological symptoms like brain fog. Not hospitalization rates, mortality, or whatever measure of recovery most studies of severe patients would be concerned with.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10229204/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7786260/
Warranties?
Does USA have places that sell kebab?
The article makes no mention at all of how much VRAM they might have. Other articles state plans for up to 192GB of HMB3e, and a power draw of 1000 watts.
Aren't they usually built on most of the same training data?
PowerShell command with hidden window style and bypasses the execution policy
Yeah he said he didn't rehearse and it really shows.
Interviewing at Canonical
That would be either poor understanding or poor enforcement of the rule, since they specifically list stuff special effects, beauty filters etc as allowed.

A more plausible scenario would be if you aren't sure if all your stock footage is real. Though with youtube creators being one of the biggest groups of customers for stock footage I expect most providers will put very clear labeling in place.
There'd just be a run down to lowest policy price, and then after a disaster the government would have to bail out. Which it does with glee.
The 30x number is for a really narrow scenario tbh. Running a GPT 1.8T parameters (w/ MOE) on one GB200
Of course. I don’t think anyone is going to be arguing that content captured by these cameras is real, it’s that the content is captured by the owner of that specific camera. There always needs to be some aspect of trust, and the value comes in connecting that with a trusted identity. Eg one couldn’t embed the CSPAN watermarks from a non-CSPAN camera.
> Unfortunately, the way browsers implement WebSocket it undermines TCP's flow control. It's trivial to crash a browser tab by opening a (larger than RAM) file and trying to stream it to a server using a tight loop sending on a WebSocket. WebSocket.bufferedAmount exists, but as of 2019 I failed to use it to solve this problem and had to implement application-level backpressure.

Before you were saying, "WebSockets lack flow control (backpressure) and multiplexing, so if you need them you either roll your own or use something similar to RSocket.", and now you're saying you can't roll your own? ;-)

> HTTP3 actually falls under my concern. There are still networks that block HTTP3, because it has really nice fallback to HTTP2/1.1, so there's no obvious impact on users.

Erm, HTTP2 & HTTP 1.1 have their own problems, some of which you yourself have identified. We actually rolled back from HTTP2 to HTTP 1.1 because of problems with HTTP2, particularly with mobile performance.

Our migration to HTTP3 has been all win so far. While UDP might be blocked for security reasons, there are security reasons to move to HTTP3.

That said, there are cases where only HTTP/1.0 is supported.

> The reason I care is that I'm currently developing a protocol that WebTransport is an excellent fit for. But I can't assume WebTransport will work because UDP might be blocked, so I'm having to implement WebSocket support as well, which is a lot more work.

I feel your pain. I've been using WebRTC, and the vast majority of the time UDP doesn't seem to be blocked anymore. That said, adoption of HTTP3 seems to be about half that of HTTP2 right now. Not bad for a brand new protocol, but I'd say we still have a significant amount of time to go before HTTP3 is the dominant protocol. I think the path forward is going to require some toil by the likes of you to support both, but no reason you can't support HTTP3 better! ;-)
> Potentially throwing away so many good years

How much time did you spend changing oil?? It's a 20-30 min job once you have done it coupe of time and know the ropes. I sometimes do it myself not because I want to save few bucks, but because it's sometimes faster than going somewhere.
That got me thinking that these things will be able to first learn and then write the optimised code to avoid the energy usage. Think 'muscle memory' but for AI interacting with external world (or another AI)...
> After a few of those it's just "it's a little bit slow everywhere".

And after that, you need fine-grained profiling to find multiple 1% wins and apply them repeatedly.

(I do this for a living, basically)
The reason no one wants to pay the fee is because the exposure standards are so unreasonably low, that remediation costs huge $$$. And since we’ve made everyone terrified of the stuff, only specialized dumps handle it.

Reasonable precautions that prevent 95% of exposure could be had at a fraction of the cost if people were more reasonable about the stuff.
It's often a franchisee wave coming through.

One reason to limit the number is to prevent them all dying out - I saw a situation near my house years ago where there was a successful laundromat, another opened nearby and both were doing OK but not amazing, and then a third opened up - and all three ended up dying. There was no laundromat for awhile and finally a new fourth one opened up nearby.
There is no area of human creativity safe from hyper-commoditisation by ML models.
Old Android handsets seem to be the big ones.
I've said before that we're entering an age where no online material is truly verifiable without some kind of hardware signing (and even that has its flaws). Public figures will have to sort out this quagmire before things get even uglier than they are. And I really hope that's the biggest problem of the next decade or so, rather than that we achieved AGI and it decided we were inferior.
The technologies you mentioned are merely the framework in which the work is done. 25 years ago none of that was even needed to create software. Now they are needed to manage the complexity of the stack, but the actual content is the same as it used to be.
I think the opposite will happen, non-AI content will be "certified organic"
It's terrifying to think about how many watts of power are being spent on generating useless trash
The hit rate for fallback is pretty low. It was less than 5% the last I checked.
These are exactly my thoughts. I comfort myself by thinking that it is still a while away and also not certain, but this might just be willful ignorance on my side. Because TBH, no clue yet what else I would like to (or even could) do.
As I expected, a very one sided article clearly favoring censorship and downplaying any concerns.
Exactly. “Hello, potentially revenue-generating customer. Now go away!” Insanity.
I see a lot of confusing authenticity with accuracy. Someone can sign the statement "Obama is white" but that doesn't make it a true statement. The use of PKI as part of showing provenance/chain of trust doesn't make any claims about the accuracy of what is signed. All it does is assert that a given identity signed something.
because raccoons like shiny things
Can you have it make an instrumental without vocals.
The products, animations and slides are doing some heavy lifting. Most jokes don't land and his presentation is somewhat confusing at times (e.g. star trek intro token count)
From how I understood it, it means they optimised the entire stack from CUDA to the networking interconnects specifically for data centers, meaning you get 30x more inference per dollar for a datacenter. This is probably not fluff, but it's only relevant for a very very specific use-case, ie enterprises with the money to buy a stack to serve thousands of users with LLMs.

It doesn't matter for anyone who's not microsoft, aws or openai or similar.
Hard not to imagine some grad students snickering when they decided to abbreviate it so that the paper could be generously sprinkled with WTF.
CO2 is only one measure of environmental impact. Pollution is a very big problem for disposable beverage containers, and the good thing about aluminum is that it is highly recyclable and also has a significant enough scrap value that it incentivizes collecting the waste instead of discharging it into the environment.

This is (unsurprisingly!) also in that source:

> Aluminum cans have relatively high MCI scores of ~0.7, which reflects the highest average recycled content (55% of can stock, 3% of end and tab stock) and end of life recycling rate (69%) of all beverage packaging materials.
It's great for things you wouldn't expect. Like mercury in fish, or lead and BPA in plastic.
> Some folks just get there faster.

From my observation, most folks get there temporarily or faster in their own specific way.

I have friends who lost their hearing early for a variety of reasons.

There are lots of ways to have imperfect eyesight, or lose it temporarily. You can lose your glasses or not be able to wear contact lenses for a while.

Lots of folks with laser surgery eventually regress. Also the surgery itself has visual side-effects.
I think you're right to be sad about it, and I would add "deeply concerned" as well. Our society is at a point where the most dangerous risks are ones that the human mind is pretty bad at reasoning about. That's a big problem, to put it mildly.

Climate change, nuclear weapons, bio threats, and runaway AI all pose immense risks, at scales that are hard to reason about intuitively. Hopefully we develop ways to better manage current and future risks before a big one blows up.
I'm pretty curious to see more as well, though FYI at first glance this looks like it's using DIDs
The £8B futuristic city for 2k people in mass human experiment
In neibhouring thread that deeper difference appeared to be: “PI is not actually a number.”
> and if they get hurt you're liable

That is about as true as you being liable for a mechanic hurting themselves working on your car or a repairman falling off the roof fixing your HVAC in that it's not true at all.

Now, if a mechanic is working on my car and my garage door spring snaps and injures them then yes, I would be liable.
chatgpt description?
I did end up nuking the yard with pesticide that year.

Since then I've ground up the leaves this time of year and pile them up to compost them. In spring and summer I bag grass clippings and stuff those into the pile of composting leaves and it's amazing how hot those clippings get. Hot enough to roast any ticks in there for sure. So for the past few years we've had almost no ticks at all during the warm season. And I haven't had to use any pesticides.
I'm a bro-scientist on this subject, and often suggest others supplement with Vit D because, "it probably won’t hurt, and it might help".

While I have generally suggested people take somewhere between 1,000 IU - 4,000 IU daily, I do always suggest people test their blood levels if taking doses in this range because toxicity can very occasionally occur if you're taking doses above 2,000 IU daily. Anything above 5,000 IUs daily and you're almost certainly taking too much.

I think it's worth remembering that in the Northern hemisphere a significant percentage of people have Vit D deficiencies in the winter and about 50% of people have insufficient Vitamin D levels.

Long-term having insufficient Vitamin D levels can increase your risk of cancer, heart disease and various other chronic diseases.

Given we're just coming out of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, if you're not currently supplementing Vit D and you're reading this comment from somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere there's a greater than 50% chance you currently have insufficient levels of Vit D.

Here in the UK the NHS warns against taking more than 4,000 IU of Vit D daily if you're an adult, and generally doses of 1,000 IU - 2,000 IUs are suggested to maintain adequate Vit D levels. I think these are on the high end if I'm honest, but the fact the NHS says this would suggests that 4,000 IUs daily in adults is probably generally tolerable which roughly correlates with the research and personal experimentation I've done on this subject.

Supplementing with 2,000 IU daily is almost never going to cause problems in an adult. Personally I supplement with 4,000 IUs daily in the winter and generally drop this to 2,000 IUs in summer, and I know from testing this keeps my Vit D levels slightly above the recommended 50 ng/mL all year round (although imo 70 ng/ml is a better target). I will note though that I get very little sun exposure so what I take is probably on the higher end of what's needed to maintain healthy levels of Vit D.

I'll also note that typically toxicity won't occur in most people until they reach levels greater than 150ng/ml and I get no where near this despite taking a rather high daily dose for years.

What I'm trying to say here is that evidence does suggest that most people probably should be supplementing with Vit D and not doing so for fear of Vit D toxicity is kinda stupid because unless you're taking ridiculous doses for months on end you're realistically never going to reach toxicity levels.

If you're really worried about Vit D toxicity and do not want to do blood testing, please consider just supplementing with 500 - 1,000 IU / daily. Your risk of toxicity at these levels is probably non-existent, but it should ensure at the very least you never become deficient. In my opinion there's really no good reason not to do this, especially if you're at increased risk of having low Vit D (such as being elderly or having a darker skin ton).

Vit D deficiency is such a big problem though that I think it's crazy we don't do more to encourage more people to supplement with it to be honest.
Like disabling frame pointers
The same reason you have to check a box saying you're not a terrorist when entering the USA. It gives them a legal basis to actually do something about it when found out from other means.
Can't speak to pesticides, but lead would have been detected in blood tests
That’s a good idea! We started having a blog now focusing on our quantum competitions
The "Sponsored Content" tag on a channel should link to a video of face / voice of the channel talking about what sponsored content means in a way that's FTC compliant.
Luckily https://dollyparton.com/imagination-library is a thing
Note that the author misses an essential point: custom compression dictionaries, which can only be used by WebSockets (WS13) and hardly by the others, as that would break compatibility. I'd argue that you can push websocket data usage way lower than the other protocols, if you use a binary compression based on a predefined schema.

In WebSockets, you can use plug&play extensions which can modify the payload on both the client and the server, which make them also ideal for tunneling and peer-to-peer applications.

I've written an article from an implementer's perspective a while ago, in case you are interested [1]

[1] https://cookie.engineer/weblog/articles/implementers-guide-t...
idk "it's in a bucket forever" sounds like a pretty good remediation strategy to me. dollar-for-dollar that government money probably has more impactful things to do. eg plastering public spaces in cities with bollards (see the awful awful west portal crash)
Yeah and the 30x is largely due to the increase in factors like packaging and throughput. It's not indicative of general purpose performance which is what I was talking about.

Again, I do think the throughput and energy efficiency gains are impressive, but the raw performance gain is lower than I'd have expected for the massive leap in node size etc
I know it’s only FP4, but 1.4 exaflops in one rack is still crazy.
parking decks don't save you from needing washes
> • FreeBSD has a reputation for better stability than Linux, and fewer, less frequent, updates.

This is at minimum clickbait and very wishful thinking at maximum.

FreeBSD has not yet dare to have LTS, try to keep security fixes in packages without bringing changes.

Not even mentioning hiring FreeBSD devops guys is a non funny time spending with very pessimistic forecast. For business continuity and mentioned stability, nothing good here.
Pretty harmless to the building occupants. The contractor is at risk it they are doing it everyday for a decade.
All that speaks to the point that the underlying protocol does not matter that much. The larger design is a more important consideration than the specific push tech.

None of this favors SSE, or anything else for that matter. You still have to think about bursting / thundering herd behavior after server restarts, which would affect any protocol. The browser auto reconnecting doesn't mean you can assume the connection remains alive indefinitely if a reconnect hasn't happened; you may want periodic notifications as a keepalive to enable more immediate recovery. Long-lived server state introduces its own distributed coordination and cleanup problems, which strict request-reply polling sidesteps entirely. Etc.

There is no silver bullet, only tradeoffs in the design space that need to be matched to your application's requirements.
> next-gen NVLink switch that lets 576 GPUs talk to each other, with 1.8 terabytes per second of bidirectional bandwidth.

Well that's a pretty big step up from the 18 for the H100...
University of Zurich withdraws from international university ranking
Yes. And for fast food.. coffee shops and many other minimum wage jobs. Someone is applying to McDonalds over Big Jim's almost edible meat 9 times out of 10.
My issues with Dart are pretty shallow honestly, mainly coming down to look and feel[1] and personal preference. I have no remaining technical qualms with Dart, just that I don't like it's flavor of ice cream (metaphorically speaking of course). It reminds me a lot of Java and feels like it was created to be more like what Javascript "should" have been had it been designed to be a scripting version of Java from the start. Of course this makes a ton of sense given it was designed at Google from a lot of Java devs.

[1]: In the past I did have some criticisms around performance and non-native widgets, but those have been worked out
I personally like closed captions and subtitles

(Though I don't understand the tech and how converting media frequently loses this)
Creating a song about AI taking over, and backing it with the most derivative EDM hip pop, that's some brilliant irony.
One thing always wonders me is coffee. How did we got to harvest, dry, mill, roast, grind, brew it just to make a beverage that is not even nutritious?
I recall reading some rather concerning accounts from plant maintenance workers in chlor-alkali plants. It wasn’t some nicely contained chunk of asbestos — it sounded like fluffy asbestos got everywhere.
> I often see other developers/Adkins propose "huge improvements"

Ha I see that too at my group. I try to fight it. But buying a NAS for like few hundred <insert favorite major currency> just seems like common sense. Just buy it, connect it to a VPN, setup regular backps, then forget about it for a decade.
Bees and chimpanzees can learn socially, just like humans
That effect is becoming increasingly common in the Linux world over time as well.
It isn't an error, either. It's doing exactly what it's intended to, exactly as it's intended to do it. The error is in the human assumption that the ability to construct syntactically coherent language signals self-awareness or sentience. That it should be capable of understanding the semantics correctly, because humans obviously can.

There really is no correct word to describe what's happening, because LLMs are effectively philosophical zombies. We have no metaphors for an entity that can appear to hold a coherent conversation, do useful work and respond to commands but not think. All we have is metaphors from human behavior which presume the connection between language and intellect, because that's all we know. Unfortunately we also have nearly a century of pop culture telling us "AI" is like Data from Star Trek, perfectly logical, superintelligent and always correct.

And "hallucination" is good enough. It gets the point across, that these things can't be trusted. "Confabulation" would be better, but fewer people know it, and it's more important to communicate the untrustworthy nature of LLMs to the masses than it is to be technically precise.
I don't come here because of the UI, I come here because of the content. If it were my site, the UI would be a little more suited to the current year.

If everyone loved it, there'd be no Hacker News mobile apps.
And the old paid ads are actual user posts.

Front page looks like a mix of fake ragebait and ads.

How much is left on Reddit, outside of niche small subs that you have to "know" to use? E.g. the actual good content.
Cool story! Was there a reason using existing LoRa sensors was off the table? YoLink and maybe others are cheap.
seemingly every electronics cable

If it's something you've bought recently the offending ingredient should be listed. Otherwise, my money would be on lead being used as a plasticizer. Either way at least you have the tools to find out now.
What about this seems like it's written by ChatGPT to you?
I have yet to see any of that in practice. Guessing no one is enforcing it.
This is a bit vague, are you talking about this new GPU/LLMs, social media, industrial society, or something else?
I don't agree, but I'm sure that was clear from my initial comment.
Using the 30 year statistic as proof there’s no crime is extreme dishonesty. You’re taking about the tail end of the crack epidemic which saw some of the worst crime in our nations history. Further, this is true on average but people in major cities have seen a rise in crime with a city like Seattle having its highest rates in a generation. Even cities like SF have not recovered to pre-Covid levels.
It might almost make sense if you wash your car weekly or more often during winter when they salt the roads.

But I never see anyone using the subscription car wash in town, so who knows? The new ones connected to the gas station see some action.
Tell me more about why you believe their stock is hilariously overvalued.
In the long run, everybody is disabled. My eyesight is way worse than it used to be, as an example, and it's beginning to affect my ability to computer. Absent some miracle treatment (which is bound to cost an arm and a leg and NOT be covered by insurance anyway), it's not going to get any better.