skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cost of computing decreases over time. No one will pay $100 Billion to train GPT-6. That is absurd. The current top supercomputer in the world (Frontier) cost $600M.

It is rumoured that GPT-4 was trained on 10,000 A100 processors released in 2020. Total cost is $100M at $10k each.

Today they can buy more powerful hardware and train much larger models for the same cost.

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-blackwell-platform...

https://www.cerebras.net/product-chip
Pay to win apps aiming for addiction get a tiny number of whales out of millions of people. So yes apps try very hard, but the vast majority of people just don’t get addicted long term just obsessed for a short period.

Compare retention numbers between smoking and clash of clans, a clearly successful pay to win game, and it’s not even close.

We could talk about various other apps, but nobody has actually nailed addiction for the general population just the people highly susceptible to such behaviors.
I did not say the world is literally ending, I said that it is depressing to watch so much death. How much death do I need to see before it goes from anecdote to data? Does it matter that it was also, by a significant margin and unexpectedly, the hottest year on record for the entire world?[0]

[0]https://www.noaa.gov/news/2023-was-worlds-warmest-year-on-re...
It needs to stop but won’t be by either of those methods. They have enough money to build shelters to evade the economic disasters, and if they can’t evade it then regular folk don’t really stand a chance either. Political intervention is also unlikely because they bankroll the politicians and money is not coming out of politics due to citizens united.

A revolution might be a good bet, but it probably will be thwarted like in China or Russia. Too many people also believe the money is well earned.
Besides the "GPT-4 cost about $100 mil to train" number, everything else is still just a number you pulled out of your ass.

Why would you estimate that the $100 million training bill would require a billion in GPUs? That's kind of like saying getting a $100 million of water would take a billion in plumbing.

I don't know what the number is, but I'm not going to start just making them up.
Those metrics don’t mean anything because climate models are no more scientific than a monkey with a dart board. That’s exactly the propaganda I mean.

It’s like we only have people who either deny climate change is happening at all, or swallow this bullshit wholesale, and nothing in between.

We have the technology to generate all of the energy we need from renewables. We have electric cars. We can use as much energy as we want and still get back to 1800s level carbon emissions if we just decide it’s worth paying for, and the worse things get, the more we’ll think that. We’re not going to wait until New York is under water.

It’s now even getting to where we are doing so just because it is cheaper. In 2040 nobody will be building a fossil fuel plant. Barely anyone is now. Over 80% of new power generation is renewable globally, a number that will only increase.

It’ll be fine.
Establish why its "crappy teacher" and not "crappy student". I've seen far more of the latter than the former.

I don't think its hard to find something interesting about math either, and it is immediately applicable, even with what I think is extremely stupid in the form of common core as presented in the USA, you are literally being presented story problems about common every day occurrences and activities.
I worked at a grocery store for 5 years. A couple retirees worked there because they had to, but most of them just wanted something to do and health benefits.
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Actual Engineering or software engineering?

Read some papers in the field - the sparse coverage is not an issue and yes, it is possoble to get global estimates within error bars from sparse coastal points.

> I do suspect that you don't know much about "M".

More proof your intuition and opinions here are sub par.
For me it sounds that they read the messages to measure sentiment (what people are watching / what they like and dislike / what they recommend / generic information about competition from other rv shows, movies and video games), but probably the system was "bugged" (plausible deniablity) so those with access could read everything they wanted - be it messages made by employees from some competitor startup, or perhaps partners and sweethearts. Creepy stuff.
No, you can’t have one local maxima, or one global maxima, because it’s plural. You can have one local or global maximum, or two (or more) local or global maxima.
Semi-related: The point of GDPR opt-outs is it's something that's offensive to the user, which should give the site owners pause. "Is it really worth it to jump through these hoops and give the users annoying popups so we can set trackers?"

Instead, the industry rallied around popups and tried to shift the blame to the GDPR.
It takes time to re-engineer an entire ecosystem of tools. The whole 9-pregnant ladies in 1 month analogy comes to mind.

If you’re trying to accomplish a goal, how long are you willing to wait for your entire dependency tree to be engineered in-house. It’s happening slowly, but teams have to ship, and can’t wait for other teams to build fresh tools.

Additionally, the compute hardware is rented, and if there’s no alternatives available for rent it doesn’t matter. Data centers aren’t full of NVidia and AMD GPUs and TPUs (because the support isn’t there). It’s a crazy chicken/egg situation where everyone benefits but no one makes the move. It’s slowly happening, but it’s not there yet to totally replace them.
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Facebook also installed root certificates through Onavo to spy on their competition. Some email exchanges from this court doc https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.36...

From Zuck:

Whenever someone asks a question about Snapchat, the answer is usually that
because their traffic is encrypted we have no analytics about them. . . .
Given how quickly they’re growing, it seems important to figure out a new way to
get reliable analytics about them. Perhaps we need to do panels or write custom
software. You should figure out how to do this.

From Danny Ferrante (FB Data Scientist):

- We developed "kits" that can be installed on iOS and Android that intercept traffic for specific sub-domains, allowing us to read what would otherwise be encrypted traffic so we can measure in-app usage (i.e., specific actions that people are performing in the app, rather than just overall app visitation). This is a "man-in-the-middle" approach.

- Our plan is to work with a third party—like GFK, SSI, YouGov, uTest, etc.—who will recruit panelists and distribute the kits under their own branding. We already have proposals from several of these providers.

- The panelist won't see Onavo in the NUX or in the phone settings. They could see Onavo using specialized tools (like Wireshark).
More broadly, what percentage of mergers are successful? I'd guess less than 20% if compared to the analyses that make them attractive to companies.

I've been involved (at the worker bee level) in multiple mergers and in every case where they attempted to merge systems it easily took 5-10X the estimated time, cost and resources.

The most successful mergers were the ones where they either left the companies separate (minimizing the ability to reduce costs) or the ones where they just threw away one of the company's systems, got rid of most of their employees, most of their products, and just acquired their customers.
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What is your definition of artificial intelligence?

OpenAI has an explicit goal of developing AGI for the "greater good," whatever that means. If LLMs are indeed AI, as many assume, then OpenAI would fall squarely in the space of AI research that is the current state or the art.
No no no no no no no, please no. Under no circumstances is that OK.

If the enemy is in a group of civilians, you use the police, arrest them, put them for a trial and send to prison.

If the enemy is in a group of civilians, and your immediate action is to bomb them along with the civilians, then you don’t value the lives of those civilians. At best you don’t care whether those civilians are alive or dead, and at worst you actually want those civilians dead. In the former case, you are doing a war crime, a crime against humanity, in the latter case you are doing a genocide and using the enemy as an excuse or justification.

In any case, there are plenty of ways to get around that. Unless the mass casualty is the point.
Maybe a better question would be something similar to the following:

Is a Self-Organizing System -- Conscious?

Or perhaps an even better question (for research) might be something as follows:

If some Self-Organizing Systems are conscious and some are not -- then which are and why, and which are not -- and why not?

?

Also:

Is a Self-Organizing System -- the definition of Consciousness, or is Consciousness the definition of a Self-Organizing System?

That is, could one term be used to substitute the other with equal clarity, or are there differences, and if so, what, precisely?

Is a Self-Organizing System a superset of Consciousness, or is Consciousness a superset of a Self-Organizing System?

You know, the superset/subset relationship... if A is a superset of B, then B is a subset of A...

Or vice-versa, as the case may be...

Anyway, I think it's interesting that the concept of "Self-Organizing System" occurs with relatively high frequency and adjacency to the concept of "Consciousness".

Perhaps they will ultimately be proven to be the same thing, the same underlying phenomena...

And then again, perhaps not...

Whatever the case, I'm sure there will be some interesting and lively discussions about the subject in the future! :-) <g> :-)
An art collective Ship of Theseus-ed a bathroom sink from the MET
Personally while there are some task that's easier with multiple cursors, I have personally yet to find any use case where regexp replace in selections doesn't work as well.
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I agree that append() and removeLast() would be better names. But they don't exist as built-in functions in JavaScript. Therefore I need a mnemonic that makes it easy for me to remember what shift() and unshift() do.
None of these are as good as the Joeveo Temperfect in my opinion.

https://joeveo.com/pages/the-temperfect-mug

I've used one daily since 2015. It's excellent. Gets a coffee to the right drinking temp in moments then keeps it there. No charging pads, controls, etc. Just works. Best thing I've ever backed on Kickstarter.
Thanks for the recommendation, I downloaded it & started reading and yes it's a treasure trove.
I’ve been teaching mathematics for decades. Know how many students like the cool applications at the time they are taking the class? Very, very few. Usually, it’s later on in one’s journey through life that appreciation for the cool applications occur. At the time of taking the class doing cool applications inspires 1, pisses off 50 because it’s too hard, and leaves 49 rolling their yes.
I don't think this has as much to do with "paying for externalities" as it does with simply reducing demand by increasing price and netting some extra money for infrastructure as a side effect. Indeed, a large amount of the money is going to subway improvements.
I always liked Lockhart's Lament

https://maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/devlin/LockhartsLame...

It makes a very different point about teaching, or learning/discovering math, not writing about math.
are you willfully being obtuse to the behaviors of the social apps FB, Tiktok, Twit...er,X and the ilk? Games of course are trying to be addictive to get you to buy more IAP/lootbox/otherHandInPocket concepts.

it's like you think a device is only able to play games which is clearly ludicrous.
I always wondered if the trick was to assign absolute power to someone with a boring and benign fixation.

Yes, he'll be insatiable and remoreseless in his quest to rebuild his favourite class of steam locomotive, but aside from that, he brought us universal health care, free college, and world peace.
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Announcing to everyone around them that they were in a relationship.
Humans living with nature for 1000s of years is a bullshit comparison. Human population was less than 1-200 million for those thousands of years. Now it is 8+ billion. The largest cause is the Worlds economic system where we need population to keep growing so that demand keeps growing which results in supply growth and the cycle keeps going on getting bigger. I feel AI powered with cheap renewables like solar and wind is going to end this cycle the result could be non violent population decrease over time but because of how rapid the change will be and how fast it will take economic opportunity out of lot of people hands I think a huge war is more likely.
There's nothing wrong per se, it works as advertised. But as a result it's a somewhat redundant dependency.
Do airplanes need sleep because they fly like birds who also require sleep?
I had a great career for quite a while. I worked hard, achieved a lot, and got paid very well for it. However, I eventually realized I was working so hard out of insecurity. I needed constant achievement at work to feel ok with myself. With some personal growth and some therapy, I no longer need to achieve anything to feel ok with myself. I'm just happy with who I am.

It's put me in an interesting spot. I can't work hard in a corporate job like I used to. The driver just isn't there anymore. It kind of killed my career. I took a few years off work to reset. I've recently started working on my own business as well as some consulting. I'm making way less money than I used to but I'm happier, more relaxed, and I feel like I'm using my time towards things I actually care about. Not sure where this is going career wise but I am hopeful.
I had a friend tell me about Onavo in ~2015. I wont delve into what he told me, but at the time I had the "move fast and break things" spirit and thought it was a pretty cool tool that they had figured out to get competitive information. He never showed me anything, but allegedly they could even see what features were being used in other apps.

But I don't think this is something he made up, it's been discussed on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16381812

>I wonder if it's be possible to make a social networking startup, optimise solely for Onavo metrics, and get bought out by Facebook.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16373339

>The Onavo VPN service from Facebook is disguised as a protection mechanism but tracks the user for the benefit of Facebook.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14971839

>The database stems from Facebook’s 2013 acquisition of a Tel Aviv-based startup, Onavo, which had built an app that secures users’ privacy by routing their traffic through private servers. The app gives Facebook an unusually detailed look at what users collectively do on their phones, these people say.

I am surprised that this accusation is at all controversial.
Almost nothing is that simple.
You don't, but then your position is worthless and you have convinced no one that what you claim is true. Right now, I'm treating you very closely to being a liar.
Of course, all you have to do is get several billion dollars in funding and hope Boeing doesn't use its vast resources to poach your engineers.

Boeing is not going to be disrupted any more than TSMC or ASML will be disrupted. Planes are too complex and too expensive to manufacture correctly.
Why were people predicting this? What were the indicators?
Not a employment lawyer but sounds like this could border on constructive dismissal perhaps in combination with other RTO policies.
Yes append() and prepend() would be much better names than push() and unshift().

IF JavaScript had them as built-ins it would be great, then I wouldn't need to look for mnemonics for shift() and unshift() :-)

But, I googled "prepend" and guess what: google replied

"Although it sounds correct, prepend is not an English word. It was created to sound like the opposite of "append," which means to add to the end. The correct English word is "prefix".

A slight problem with that is that "prefix" is more often used as a noun than as a verb, I think.
When it comes to housing the problem is land in an area where you get jobs. Hopefully remote work will spread that out more fairly.

> I don't make anywhere near ($250k a month btw)

Is this a typo? 250K/mo is filthy rich money.
Absolutely. White-collar crime destroys lives.
I really wish someone would use one of these chips to make computer-controlled SDR radio. Basically, USB-C port on one side and antenna connector on the other.

There are lots of interesting things that could do on VHF/UHF bands with computer radio. Good example is APRS repeater. Or packet data. Receive can be done with SDR but transmit requires a radio that use audio that is flaky. I would love full I/Q but FM data would be fine.
I think social media and so on has caused a bit of a shift of focus to 'inner space'.

Older sci-fi especially seems to often just be 20th century society with teleporters, or the united nations, at galactic level, and so on.

But we are now living in a sci-fi era, where it's clear the real issues are around culture itself, and only a small percentage of sci-fi deals with that, and often not well.

Sci-fi purports to reflect our current society and illuminate aspects of possible societies, but I'd say in some ways it has been overtaken by reality.

Sure we can't FTL to Vega minor, or whatever. But if we could, should we? Who should get to go anyway? What would they do there? What are the implications for the rest of society? What about if they have children? Etc, etc.
As somebody who works in a mathy subarea of computer science, oh man, I agree. My heart always falls when I need a result and it turns out the original paper is some terse typewritten notice from the 70s whose first sentence is a definition with a bunch of proper nouns and whose main theorem is given at the most general possible level with no applications at all.

I have talked with math people about why this is, and responses are some combination of

a) being concise and being elegant are the same, same for maximum generality/abstraction

b) the people who should read the paper don't need things explained

c) I am afraid that some smart egotistical professor whose opinion I value for some reason will call me soft if I add extra handholding material

(Nobody has ever really said c, but my sense is it's true. Academic writing has a lot of imitation of style to prove you're part of the in-group.)
That analogy really cracked me up since we have no idea what it's like to be a tree either.
> Like most neoliberal institutions

I stopped reading here. I thought it was an article not a political flame presenting opinions as facts
The slow death of Twitter is measured in disasters like the Baltimore collapse
Hay for cattle consumes nearly half the water drawn from Colorado River, study
I wish Mojo or any other other languages for intensive data processing and HPC would consider techniques proposed by MPL with its novel Automatic Management of Parallelism. It won distinguished paper award in POPL 2024 and ACM SIGPLAN dissertation award 2023 by proposing these two main things [1],[2]:

a) Provably efficient parallel garbage collection based on disentanglement

b) Provably efficient automatic granularity control

[1] MaPLe (MPL):

https://github.com/MPLLang/mpl

[2] Automatic Parallelism Management:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3632880
I'm just helping you to realize these problems are in fact solvable and the wild disaster predictions aren't exactly productive.
Well the only thing that protects the top 1% wealth is the poorer people that will continuously be affected by this. By poorer people I mean police and all of the delicate systems that enables police to exist.

Without law enforcement, there is absolutely no way these people could hang on to their wealth.
Instead of "scientists are calling for the moon to be better protected from development," it could have been titled: "scientists say they deserve first dibs on developing the lunar surface."
Aren't you just generating crumbs at two locations now? The kitchen bench and cupboard? Possibly the floor too due to moving the toaster?
This exact thought crossed my mind when my friend took their Tesla Model X to Lake Tahoe. As soon as the gull wing doors opened all the snow from the top of the car fell straight down into the cabin. Oh right. Tesla Model X was probably designed by someone who don't regularly experience snow...
> So here Facebook acknowledges that an app that sends messages needs write permission, not read.

I guess the feature at issue here is that you could actually hold a conversation with a Facebook friend inside of Netflix or Spotify which does indeed necessitate the ability to read back messages from the other user.

Whether it was wise to allow that instead of the kind of sharing systems we use today in 2024 is another question.
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White-collar crime destroys lives. Look outside your bubble.
The CUDA lock-in is over played. Tensorflow, Pytorch and any large framework supports multiple hardware including Google TPUs. Any company making significant investment will steer some of that towards hardware support in the software they need.
Well to take the other side, I was a kid. The way that you would discover things, bookstores were a part of that.

But I don't have to discover things now. I get exactly what I want. There's no underground.

The things I would have had to seek out now get delivered by Amazon.

That world is over.

Is the new world better?

For purposes of finding books, oh hell yeah.
You can really get more efficient by cutting fat — until the next winter comes when it is needed. In a simpler society, leaders that proposed something like that once they were at least thrown out of the village. Today they get a golden parachute and are sent off to the next host to bleed dry.