skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>30 miles down is 2-3 times the Mohorovicic discontinuity between crust and mantle; 30 miles up you're above the ozone layer and the air is too thin to breathe. That's the quantity being discussed.

Again, I'm aware of how large the moon is.

>It stays right where it is: orbiting earth.

Huh? You just asked if I understood how large the moon was, and then came to the conclusion the only thing that would happen should the moon not be there is that it would stay where it is? It would completely change the tilt of the earth, tides, etc. Do you think the spreading cloud of moon dust would have the same gravitational pull as the moon in one piece?

>Electricity is a red herring; consider all power of all kinds combined. 500 years ago, let's assume that meant just human muscles even though windmills and watermills existed and animal muscle was also used, just to maximise the difference.

It's very much not a red herring, and you can't have it both ways. If you're basing it on "human power" then you're going to need to calculate today's human power as well because there are endless manual labor jobs that humans still persist at today.

>or 4016 years if I assume another 384.17 increase in the rate of human power consumption: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=1.543×10%5E6+average+Gr...

Except power hasn't increased linearly over time, which I assume you know and at this point are just arguing for the sake of argument.

In 1900 the total yearly power consumption of humanity was 12TW. In 2022 it was 178,899TW, an increase of 14,908x in 100 years. Assuming a 384.17 increase is a great way to make some very flawed assumptions look good. But it doesn't reflect reality.

https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption
I am not sure where you got that number from but I will assume you got it from a well sourced study or what have you.

Assuming your number is accurate, that is still a minority of the country. They are large enough to have _some_ influence by virtue of being concentrated in certain regions to elect idiots like MTG and Matt Gaetz but not large enough to represent majority viewpoint of the country. I will grant you that they are a big enough base to cause some problems such as the grid lock we see in congress right now.

Bringing it back to the original topic, these right wing gun toting idiots aren't the root cause (I'm not even sure you can point to one root cause, its a complex problem...) of our very real policing problems but they certainly aren't helping.
Phishing campaigns barely do any good if they are well-prepared and accompanied with good communication in a company environment. Employees need to be aware of phishing tests and have to have a way of reaching out to those who conduct them. If you run phishing tests, employees need to be able to verify if what they have received is indeed part of a simulation or a real phishing mail. At the end of the day, phishing trainings just tell you who is already good at identifying suspicious emails. The training effect is negligible.

Without the support infrastructure of internal company communication, phishing your customers most likely leads to more confusion and open support tickets.
It is very clear that being a voice artist as a career is soon dead. Current AI is almost good enough, all you need is a single company doing good tooling around it (e.g. telling the model what parts to emphasize and what tone to use) and you replaced an expensive human with an extremely cheap AI.
Would love to see the sources if you have the time to share them.
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Sure but reaching success may be considered better at a younger age than 60, especially if you’re someone who would want to dedicate more time to other parts of their life ie children.
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This experience is exactly what I wanted to hear about. I'm working on building up enough runway to make sure I'm not homeless but I wasn't sure if there would be long term effects to my earning potential. If you don't mind me asking, what kind of roles did you take when you re-entered the corporate world?
The original Flood story? Written 18th BC
This shouldn't be done directly from the bank but as a third party that is supported by the bank and a bunch of other companies concerned about this.

That way the bank doesn't have to worry about any legal or good will issues from doing this.
> The US warned anybody who wanted to listen (not many) that Russia was about to attack Ukraine.

I had a Ukrainian model over February 21st, 2022 and I had mentioned it, she was very dismissive about the idea of invasion, and I gave a quizzical look because I wasn't sure if this was a coping mechanism, a real belief, her playing devil's advocate, or just a cultural way of responding - you know how some cultures or individuals have toxic positivity like ingrained in all their responses.

To me, it was obvious, like short position, prediction-market level of obvious. 0 days to expiration options contracts obvious. I saw the buildup on the border, the chatter, what Biden was saying, how Republicans politicized it based on nothing.

But I still think about her reaction, like in the future how I would respond. It seems pointless to have a differing worldview than people, and that leaves me with either complete inaction or just financial bets. I like "betting on my beliefs" as that's rewarded decently, and I'm fine with things not panning out like I predicted.

Just seems more natural to have discussions and seek a shared understanding of reality. But that seems pointless nowadays.
Do they still teach home economics in school?
Thanks for the work on this!

I automated my site's robots.txt[0] by scraping your site. It would be extra nice if darkvisitor.com exposed a plain text version or JSON representation of the list.

[0] https://tbeseda.com/blog/automating-my-robots-txt-to-block-a...
thanks. I want to see more devs like me. I call it - owners mindset.
To be a bit of a downer, but also not sugar-coat it, I'd assume there's a higher chance of death from taking a big risk and losing than there is from driving your car on regular roads also.

I don't know of any examples of founders specifically, but it's very common with gamblers/traders.
Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years
To be clear, by "in a hundred years" I don't mean that with current technology it'd take the sail a hundred years to get there, I mean that by improving the tech for a hundred years with an extrasolar destination in mind, we'd be able to send a probe that arrives there on human timescales. Currently there have only been low-orbit tests of solar sails, they need much more development to go interstellar, but not so much that it's completely infeasible to achieve in the near-ish future. Since we don't have much reason to want a closeup of planets in other star systems yet, we don't really put much effort into the associated propulsion technologies. But the detection of nearby life would change that by giving us a destination, similar to how the Moon and Mars give us a sort of 'ladder' of destinations for directing our development of space technology.

Say we find that single-celled life is very common, then, considering our lack of detection of multi-cellular life, we'd have reason to put more effort into understanding the conditions which led to the emergence of multicellular life on Earth, since by the only statistics we would have, that must be a significant filter on the development of life. By having data on the environment they evolved in, we could understand our own evolution (eg if that planet is much younger than Earth, it could serve as a picture of what early Earth might have been like, if it's similarly old, we could try to understand what went differently on Earth). We could also figure out if they might be based on similar chemistry etc, all of which would feed into our understanding of the origins of life on Earth.

Detecting intelligent life would have a different, more 'philosophical' effect, even if we couldn't interact with them. The galaxy is theoretically colonizable over millions of years. The technology to do so is probably only thousands of years away for us. But, since the galaxy has existed for billions of years, and has been hospitable to life for at least 4 billion years, it is unreasonable to assume that much of that intelligent life won't have been around for millions of years longer than ourselves. In which case, why aren't they already everywhere? It'd have to be some sort of nearly fundamental limitation all intelligent life runs into, in which case it'd also affect what we as a species can aspire to achieve. The more intelligent life we find, the more unsurmountable the limitation becomes.
For public companies you don't need a heuristic, as the balance sheet is included in quarterly earnings reports.
did they have the right to use all thier data?

/s
[Layer] Normalization constrains huge vectors representing tokens (input fragments) to positions on a unit ball (I think), and the attention mechanism operates by rotating the unconstrained ones based on the sum of their angles relative to all the others.

I only skimmed the paper but believe the point here is that there are relatively simple functions hiding in or recoverable from the bigger network which specifically address certain categories of relationships between concepts.

Since it would, in theory, be possible to optimize such functions more directly if they are possible to isolate, could this enable advances in the way such models are trained? Absolutely.

After all, one of the best criticisms of “modern” AI is the notion we’re just mixing around a soup of linear algebra. Allowing some sense of modularity (reductionism) could make them less of a black box and more of a component driven approach (in the lagging concept space and not just the leading layer space)
In fact, Go is one of the better tools for the job given its ability to easily spin up network connections.
> I’m in a mild panic about my future career despite knowing I’m capable. I may end up using my CPA to switch back into accounting for the time being

Having started my career in the shadow of the dotcom bust, I can say that this is exactly what most technical workers did. I started my career outside of tech and most of my grad school classmates were people trying to find a new career outside of software.

Many of the people I knew in this situation who were truly passionate about software ended up eventually returning, but quite a few others found the alternate career more satisfying in the long run.

The problem right now is that nobody else has really abandoned their tech career, still too early with too much money on the line. This means the signal to noise ratio for hiring is abysmal. If this keeps on long enough that software is no longer cool (and more importantly, not as high paying), it will be easier to reenter the industry.

Till then the only people that won't be struggling to find work are people with good networks and/or really standout backgrounds.
This has nothing to do with the scientific method informing our parenting choices.
One could say the author has done a masterful job of making their art self-selects its own intended audience :)
Yep. Current employer is doing the same. Team member goes into the office 3 days a week, and all our calls are now very noisy with other people in the background. There's only two of us in this location so all our team meetings are video calls anyways. What point is there to going back in at all in that situation?!
The classic study of patient H.M., who had his hippocampus removed, showed that the hippocampus isn't where memories are stored long-term https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC497229/ (this was one of the first studies to discover the role of the hippocampus in memory). H.M. was still able to recall memories from before the surgery, and numerous animal and human studies have demonstrated this too.

The hippocampus connects to most of the cortex, and there is an entire research area looking into hippocampal replay and how it facilitates consolidation, but there definitely isn't a singular place where memories are stored in the brain long-term.
Thanks, it looks like what I had been hoping for is called a "spider excavator".
Early versions of unix included a crypt utility based on simulating an Enigma machine. It's funny to look at old man pages and see the warnings change from

Methods of attack on such machines are known, but not widely; moreover the amount of work required is likely to be large.

to

Methods of attack on such machines are widely known, thus crypt provides minimal security.
The two are inherently incompatible to me. I don't understand how you can hold those positions.

To me, being against AI is pretty much 'evil'. You support humans existing in a barbaric existence like animals, suffering. I support laws to criminalize people hampering it like they are doing in Japan.

I literally will fight against people like you.
No and yes. I wouldn't want my bank to do that to me because it's too paternalistic. At the same time, we recently had these at work. I didn't fall for it, but I'm surprised I wasn't immediately suspicious from the sense of urgency it created. Telling people what to look out for is one thing, but unless we train for things, we often don't know what to do in the moment.
Dark patterns are basically phishing so some of them probably already do it.
Is anyone actually using those WSEs in anger yet? They're on their third generation now, but as far as I can tell the discussion of each generation consists of "Cerebras announces new giant chip" and then radio silence until they announce the next giant chip.
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This article has two authors.

One author is chairman of TSMC.

The other author is Chief Scientist of TSMC.

This is important to note because they clearly know some stuff and we should listen.
Last years I worked for a SJ-headquartered public company with spectacular compensation. While I was still there they stopped hiring in CA and the gossip was about TX. But on my team new roles were opened in Europe instead (surprisingly, not Eastern). The layoffs were concentrated in the Bay Area too. I heard that since then they started looking for even cheaper locations.

I have recently seen large American companies where managers/team leads are full-time employees while their teams are mostly contractors from LatAm. And even those managers are not on PST. They advertise "W2 contract-to-hire" roles here in the US though.
Yep, I wonder how many of these stories it's going to take for people to learn that if the data is not on your physical metal, inside of your physical property, it's not yours.
I didn't even knew they have community forums. Looking at the main homepage (openai.com), the only external links I can find are to chatgpt and their docs hosted on platform.openai.com. The other links lead to their socials, github and soundcloud (of all places).

Maybe I'm not looking thoroughly enough, so I may be wrong, tho!
Apparently that wasn’t the trigger.

She seemingly then followed it up with something like “It’s k**ing people” (sic) - and then she was arrested.

Still seems like a mass amount of overreach to call it a CyberCrime though.
Pay per usage seams fair, but its usually a regressive tax.

Joe Schmoe who needs to drive for his work or small business shelling out 15 bucks per day hits different than Joe Apple not even noticing this expense while driving from the jewelry too the theater.
Seems too low.
Nancy beats the market because tech beats the market
> 62 times the cores of an H100.. 900,000.

More than that arguably. CUDA cores are more like SIMD lanes than CPU cores like cerebras's usage of 'core'. Since they have 4 wide tensor ops on cerebras, there's arguably 3.6M CUDA equivalent cores.
Yeah I guess they mean one independent variable and one dependent variable

It rarely matters because if you had 2 dependent variables, you can just express that as 2 equations, so you might as well assume there's exactly 1 dependent and then only discuss the number of independent variables.
I dunno if this interests you, but you actually have influence over the formatting of https://github.com/someengineering/fix-cf/blob/main/fix-role... via .gitattributes communicating to GH that it's actually yaml: https://github.com/github-linguist/linguist/blob/master/docs...
Wow I didn't scroll down far enough.

The gang is back together (Liebeck and Rawdon) and they even threw in Kroo for good measure. This has all the heavy hitters gathered under the same roof.
There's also the idea of things spiraling down a drain. In there, no action is imparted on the drain by the things. The object of the sentence refers to the location it is taking place.
The fundamental operation done by the transformer, softmax(Q.K^T).V, is essentially a KV-store lookup.

The Query is dotted with the Key, then you take the softmax to pick mostly one winning Key (the Key closest to the Query basically), and then use the corresponding Value.

That is really, really close to a KV lookup, except it's a little soft (i.e. can hit multiple Keys), and it can be optimized using gradient descent style methods to find the suitable QKV mappings.
> its better they get hacked by my good-guys than actual criminals

Yeah but they are not mutually exclusive.
I actually think having the device become unusable, if not under the user’s control, is terrible from an environmental stand point, as the device is useless and has to be scraped.

It would be much better if instead of locking everyone out of the device, it instead gets wiped after some conditions are met. This way your data isn’t compromised and the device can be used by other parties.

There are plenty of cases where the device isn’t stolen this affects, such as someone dying, or an employee not removing their Apple ID when handing back in work equipment.

Apple gains by having the device become unusable, as it is taken out of circulation.
Belugas create facial displays by changing the shape of their melons
> That wouldn't be a 'random idiot'; it would be the story's beta-reader, and someone the document is shared with.

The System(TM) doesn't know what a "beta-reader" is, and will react the same way to any random idiot's report. You're pretending that Google somehow responds to categories that neither Google's policies, Google's automated systems, nor probably many of Google's employees and agents, even know or care about.

Not that a "beta-reader" can't also be an idiot anyway.

> Also- if it's true, then...

You seem to be relying on the idea that Google might have been legally required to act against child pornography, so the "it" that would have to be true would be that the text was in fact child pornography.

As far as I can find, US child pornography laws don't mention or apply to pure text. Even if the unsubstantiated rumor you're spreading were true, then the unsubstantiated claim underlying it still could not possibly be true.

Any automated system or set of procedures that acts on the impossible supposition that a pure text document could even possibly be "child pornography" under those laws is automatically wrong.

... and the more credible claim is that the suspension was for "sexually explicit content", not "illegal child pornography", or the ever-popular "illegal obscenity", or illegal anything. That's a purely voluntary choice by Google. And even if that weren't true in this case, it is definitely true in many, many others.

> what else was google supposed to do here?

For the legal side, notice that text can never be "child pornography" in the US, and have it actually read for violations of any other law you're worried about by somebody who's actually qualified to evaluate its legal status and actually taking the time to do so.

For the "completely voluntarily chosen Google policy" side, which is the one that actually seems to be at stake here, hold off on doing anything until the material has been reviewed by a human who actually understands the issues, actually has authority to make meaningful decisions, and has the time and motivation to do so. Also, don't adopt pointless, silly policies.

Of course, commercial incentives assure that Google won't do any of that. And neither will any other provider of a similar cloud service.

So what every single user should do is get the hell off of all of those services. That would be a good idea even if policies weren't silly and if policy enforcement weren't hair-trigger, error-prone, capricious garbage, but it's especially important because this and other stories give every reason to believe that they are. On all of them.

That applies even if there is no commercially viable approach to handling these issues correctly. If a service can't be offered in any reasonable way, then that service should not be offered, or at least should not be used. "What are they supposed to do?" isn't a valid reason to use an unreliable, dangerous service.

... and the "story" is that many, many people are in fact using dangerous systems and should be moving off of them.
The customers who don't need phishing training - the ones who recognize what you are doing - will be understanding at best, and slightly annoyed at worst.

The customers who need phishing training are going to become more confused. Since some of the phishing emails now come from the bank, they are going to have a harder time than ever figuring out which emails are legitimate.

Offer free guides and classes to help your customers learn to remain safe. Do not include phishing tests that erode trust and confuse your most vulnerable customers.
For crane geeks, that _is_ pretty exciting. :)
Now train a gpt based on the data :D
IMO teaching people about passkeys and making the onboarding experience as easy as possible would be many times more effective at actually preventing phishing.
that's also found in the military, as a "brevet rank"
Seems low for what prosecutors consider "one of the biggest financial frauds in U.S. history."

https://www.reuters.com/technology/sam-bankman-fried-be-sent...
I don't know if it's possible to make this map to scale, but it's hard to read right now.
If your answer is binary, that's true, but quoting the post,

'Fortran is not immune to [memory errors], though it is less vulnerable than pointer-based languages. Fortran does have a restricted form of pointers, but for most applications, allocatable arrays provide a flexible and memory safe alternative. Unlike pointer arrays, allocatable arrays cannot leak memory or leave dangling references.'
If we had a strong professional media, you could possibly pitch it as proactive training for high risk customers. Unfortunately, the quality of journalism has declined dramatically over the next decade. Now, it’s a coin toss whether you could even convince a major publication that you weren’t in fact phishing your own customers.

A headline like “ABC Bank admits to phishing its customers” would most likely be the end of ABC Bank.
One place I worked would use real, legitimate companies for their phishing attempts.

That annoyed me to no end.

Literally the email domain, address, company, etc would match something in real life (I checked).

Is that phishing or just being a dick?
Avoiding killing male chicks by sexing eggs before they hatch
MLCommons provides MLPerf which is a series of benchmarks anyone can run and compare results. For devices like the BeagleY-AI the "edge" category provides a series of various benchmarks to run covering things like object detection, speech recognition, and now smaller LLM's.

https://mlcommons.org/benchmarks/inference-edge/