skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not the first person to think of that idea. The problem is how you can assign and reward workloads in a trustless way. Proof of work is easy to verify and you don't need to trust anyone. How would you do it for Folding@home or whatever?
I'd really like a WYSIWYG editor that's designed to produce HTML documents. Not for web pages, but for documents. HTML has great prose features, but it seems like there's nothing in between Microsoft Word and "now you're building a website".
Length of a General Archimedean Spiral
Hello, fellow alchemist. :^)
Assuming that miners are rational actors, the hash rate should settle at a point where the expenses to mine a block (energy, hardware depreciation, etc) equal the rewards (block reward and fees), so, if the price of BTC and the fees stay constant, halving the block reward should reduce energy waste.

Conversely, energy waste is proportional to, the BTC price.

Energy waste could also be reduced by instituting a global tax on Bitcoin mining. The cost to miners would remain the same (because it's still equal to the rewards), but a part of what would be spent on wasted energy is now spent on taxes instead. Unfortunately this is highly dependent on avoiding tax cheating.
In the very early days of llama2 at least it refused to write poetry on the basis that it was improper to do so
Vulnerabilities for AI and ML Applications Are Skyrocketing
> The atomic family of 2 adults and children is a very recent invention. The historical family is a bunch of people living under the same roof, working and doing for the whole family, from each according to their ability, for each according to their needs.

Somewhat true, but not relevant to the point at hand. The historical family was typically run in an autocratic fashion by the elders, without even a vague trace of democracy. For that matter, there are still plenty of places in the world where families are run that way.
The whole is better than the sum of the parts. You have nostradamus which predicts the future, fork bot which plays all playable presents, and the psychic friends network which rewrites the past. All under the watchful eye of the matrix.

There's something beautiful here and you honestly couldn't make it up.
I do believe there are many better proof systems available at the moment, and I thought its emissions would be higher than 0.2%. Though if fossil fuels account for the majority of global carbon emissions, and banks providing the majority of fossil fuel investments, banks should surely account for a much larger portion of global emissions.

There is an argument to be made that Bitcoin could end up producing more carbon emissions if it already produces this much with a much lower transaction capacity than most banking systems. However, systems like the Lightning Network <https://wiki2.org/en/Lightning_Network> build on top of Bitcoin by settling transactions before they ever reach the blockchain, slashing fees and bundling possibly hundreds or thousands of transactions into one, so the number of payments that actually occur could be much greater than it seems.
I don’t agree with him, but he seems to have put a lot of research into his belief system.
In retrospect, Redis Labs is about to learn a lesson that many have learned before.

Community willingness to maintain popular software under the old license means that attempting to make free non-free will result in a fork taking over.

As a prior example look at what happened a few years back when Oracle tried to make Hudson non-free. Now nobody has heard of Hudson, but everybody uses Jenkins. Which name was chosen for the sheer mockery value and reference to the then infamous https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLyOj_QD4a4.

There are people who think we need the legal protection of the GPL. But there are others who trust in community pressures to make the right thing happen.
I just got the keys to my new house yesterday, and it came with chickens. I already see they’re much smarter than I ever gave them credit for, and that they may even have different personalities.

I expect I’ll eat a lot less chicken in the future.
Scientists Fault Federal Response to Bird Flu Outbreaks on Dairy Farms
> our application was just ignored

The only way that would happen is a bug. YC always responds to applicants. Rejections usually aren't personalized because that can't scale—but not hearing back at all should never happen. If you want me to look into what might have happened there, I'd be willing to try if you email hn@ycombinator.com.

Congratulations on your success in any case!

(I'm breaking the rules by copying https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40092169 here, sorry but I want to make sure this is clear.)
Not at all, but it's a dominant view for a variety of reasons. A base concept is to keep money moving into other investments and discourage saving. I suspect the ongoing inflation rates will make this view less attractive in the future.
Maybe today it's more like 0.005%.
I was pretty unhappy with the self hosted offering. It’s neutered compared to the cloud, which was disappointing.
Once the big cloud providers start to charge extra for Redis over Valkey in a few months everybody will know.

Valkey just released their first stable version 3 days ago. So it might take another week or two until it's popular ;)
TL:DR; Cryptocurrency.
> "When I review code from more junior developers or even tenured developers, I find a tendency to either overengineer or overcomplicate solutions"

The article then launches into recommendations about requirements gathering and writing down your thoughts (functional specs anyone?) which kind-of sounds a little bit like the waterfall method to me. I believe the waterfall method has a bad reputation for overengineered and overcomplicated solutions. We have come full circle, again!

No matter the methodology there seems to be this behavior in the industry that as soon as some code does the job, regardless of how terrible it is, it must not be touched again and we must move on. Whether it was over-engineered because of bloated requirements gathering or because it was hacked into some sprint period the end result is the same.

My recommendation is this: Don't discourage people from refactoring code that already works. Good code will survive refactoring or even rewrites.
So there's a lot I could say about fetal development, but I won't even bother, because this argument fails at a much simpler level:

Torture and death are very different things.
adding basic context is not editorializing and nothing should be considered "common knowledge" considering how vast and complex the whole domain of technology etc
I think his point is that these are important questions which science can't speak to.
Related:

The Curse of Monkey Island

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40088751
They definitely have different personalities, in my experience. Personalities that will suggest names, even.
One of the most inspiring and influential people I've read. Many of the ideas he expressed are more commonplace as of the last five or ten years though—embodied cognition and autopoiesis are part of the conceptual underpinning of all sorts of modern perspectives and movements.

Less often recommended, this book shaped a lot of my thinking: https://www.amazon.com/Tree-Knowledge-Biological-Roots-Under...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19562864/#:~:text=Well%2Dpla....

It's been the position of the ADA for the past 10+ years that humans are not obligate carnivores.
I listen to Lex relatively often. I think he often has enough specialized knowledge to keep up at least somewhat with guests. His most recent interview of the Egyptian comedian (not a funny interview) on Palestine was really profound, as in one of the best podcasts I’ve ever listened to.

Early on I got really fed up with him when I discovered him. Like his first interview with mark zuckerberg where he asks him multiple times to basically say his life is worthless, his huge simping to Elon musks, asking empty questions repeatedly, and being jealous of Mr Beast.

But yeah for whatever reason lately I’ve dug his podcast a lot. Those less good interviews were from a couple years ago. Though I wish he didn’t obsess so much about twitter
> Wasn't your question about how independent the data is?

No. My original (top) comment was about how the number of training tokens required per parameter slowly declines as models become larger. dzdt suggested it could be because the independence of training points declines as the dataset size grows. I said it could be, but I'm not sure how one would go about proving it, given how little we know about the inner working of giant models. Makes sense?

Otherwise, I agree with everything you wrote!
Shorter words mean less time with your mouth open which means less chance for the flies to get in.
Hard to say why you would hold bitcoin. If I were to guess, it sounds like you live in an area that has had a safe currency for a long time and the prospects for your currency look good in the future. Otherwise, you would have a different view or at least understand why.
Given some weak assumptions, it can be proven that Bitcoin can't beat the performance of S&P 500 in a long enough time horizon.

The gist of it is this: Bitcoin can't perpetually grow faster than world wealth. If we assume, say, 3% inflation-adjusted growth in world wealth, it means that Bitcoin cannot perpetually make more than 3% annually. Stocks, bonds, real-estate don't have this constraint because they pay cash to investors.

At some point in the future, Bitcoin will be down over the last decade while S&P 500 will be up significantly. Bitcoin holders will start to think - wait, why am I holding Bitcoin instead of S&P 500?

Edit: Hacker News says I'm posting too fast so I can't reply to comments below.
ii is also good.
I think the closest thing I'm aware of is last.fm.
> the company

Where in my comment did I say anything about the company? GP was referring to making specific coworkers feel uncomfortable on the basis of ethnic identity

If you think your politics take precedence over having a workplace where people can be productive without feeling under threat, consider freelance work

If you disagree with your employer on such a fundamental level, maybe consider a different employer? If you leaving isn't enough to make them change their mind, what more will this degree of protesting accomplish?
This argument is however not on solid ground.

It's not OK to cause pain and suffering to a creature capable of intelligence and emotions just because it's less intelligent than an arbitrary, conveniently chosen threshold.
In the article and linked NY [0] and Cambridge [1] declarations, no definition os "consciousness" was asserted. While hardly definitive, Wikipedia [2] claims "Opinions differ about what exactly needs to be studied or even considered consciousness."

Some would argue that what is commonly considered consciousness is a relatively recent phenomena in humans, the mind being a necessary but not sufficient condition. "The theory posits that the human mind once operated in a state in which cognitive functions were divided between one part of the brain which appears to be "speaking", and a second part which listens and obeys—a bicameral mind, and that the breakdown of this division gave rise to consciousness in humans."[3]

0. https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/nydeclaration/declaration

1. https://fcmconference.org/img/CambridgeDeclarationOnConsciou...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameral_mentality
In the 1950s, average size of new homes was about 1200 square feet. In 2000, it was more than 2400 square feet and held one less person (iirc: 4.5 VS 3.5 people).

We are building 1950s suburban homes on steroids in a post-baby-boom world where average household size has shrunk.

There are a lot of problems with this.
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Veganism has always been about reduction of suffering, if a vegan is on a desert island they'll eat animals to survive.

If plants are sentient that doesn't change much for veganism.
We have a saying at Launch School: habits over enthusiasm. I've noticed that wanting it isn't enough. Desire is fine but what the real key is a commitment to studying. I think we're saying the same thing with different phrases.

Agree that ISAs can be useful. But it's a tool that can be used to harm or help. Elevating it beyond a financial tool to some sort of educational breakthrough was a disservice, imo.

We agree on the value of community colleges. I wish they were better funded and more people worked to drive CC graduates to six-figure jobs.
You not liking my answer != me dancing around the question. If you can't glean my position on this by now there's nothing more to be had from this conversation.
> but of the founders I've seen speak, all of them had a certain charm. Granted, there's a bias where people with these personalities put themselves out to be seen.

Correct, and also, people change over time as they learn and become more comfortable in a role. The difference in some founders' confidence even between the start and end of a YC batch (only 3 months) can be striking. That isn't true of everyone, of course, and it's fine if it's not.
Here, a second time, I point to this measured exchange of gravitational waves for photonic waves. If photons come from gravity, can photons end as gravity; and then do they have an infinite lifetime?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40090332
I've been recently happily using Chrome with the Clear Skies extension
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/clear-skies/jkiagen...

makes youtube usable.

For every other website, use Firefox and the uBlock Origin addon.
Just curious. If someone asked you whether you wanted to exist or not, before coming here? Would you have chosen being born?
“We” will be fine no matter what. The future will still have Mormons and Muslims and evangelical Christians. Whether it has secular humanists or not isn’t our problem.
Yep. One might consider how it only takes an evolutionary moment for the veil of ignorance to be lifted slightly higher.
Magnesium Depletion Score and Metabolic Syndrome in US Adults
I could've sworn there was a cap, like apply and be rejected three times and that's it or something, but I can't find that now - is that not the case? Just could be quite significant to people considering 'just apply' advice quite last minute over this weekend is all :)
Here's one: what causes even smart people to hallucinate when practising epistemology, non-binary logic, and set theory (or not, as the case may be), as well demonstrated throughout this thread?

Here's my guess: the same thing that causes them to not be able to juggle: a lack of practice (and in the case of philosophy: a teacher who isn't also hallucinating).

As for why I consider such things important: I believe they are intimately related to why humans are continuously involved in wars and various other sub-optimal activities, which are easily[1] explained away with stories.

As for teachers, Graham Priest seems to be quite sharp:

https://youtu.be/ZGOMmGK4eeY?si=t0fmGJ3sA3iGN47T

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Priest

[1] Like taking candy from babies.
Computer chips do not need to use energy useful to humans, BTC and also deep learning algos just to name a few.

Sam Altman should go to Saudis and plug GPUs directly as petroleum gets out of the ground, and then transfer the trained bits to any country he likes. Blockchain mining was a favorite for Icelanders who have in excess geothermal energy.

Energy is expensive or not cheap, only on places in the world in which it is not abundant. Factories of robots (see Jeff Bezos), or computers mining numbers, or computers training statistics can be located anywhere we like.

Also BTC is a blockchain, which support less than 1.000.000 tps, so not very useful.

As soon as we want to put identities on a blockchain, thousands of identities per person or even millions, legal agreements hundreds and thousands per person every day, property transactions in the magnitude of a grain of sand, millions of property transactions per person every day, then 2 transactions per second on the whole blockchain does not cut it.
Yeah it is fair to say it depends on the choices someone has. If I can stick USD into a high interest savings account though it seems like a much safer way to keep value.
It’s not possible for a cpu to be as efficient at inference as a gpu. The underlying physics to make that happen is just fundamentally not there if you look at the estimates for energy necessary for data movement. The only way to make CPUs viable again is by colocating them with DRAM and eliminating the memory bus. And even then you’re going to need specialized cores with systolic arrays
No Datadome Javascript:

https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=4564807928239&w=tWGsx0XSNa...
> Can't be taken away from you / frozen.

Then explain why the US government has confiscated so much of it.
Here is the YC rejection letter for my startup

> "... we felt this was unlikely to be a unicorn, even though it might have a solid chance of reaching 10-100M in valuation."
Wait til you hear what the Germans call a cellphone.
Indeed. Do yourself a favor and don't watch any of the videos of him on youtube. That razor sharp wit combined with spontaneous humor will make you really mad at cancer.
Same reason they all attach pronomins next to their name: ingroup signaling.
Yeah that is fair, it depends on the options available to someone.
Is this a joke? Of course they’re conscious. Jeez.
"Most people" is carrying a lot of weight there and really just characterizes some of the people who participate in a very specific culture that's quite new and anything but universal.

Most people around the world haven't really internalized the pointedly modern idea of "conciousness" in the first place and some people around the world and even in distintcly modern cultures don't find it a very fruitful way of making sense of their own experience, understanding it comceptually (as you might define a foreign word) but not engaging with it experientially (as you might in speaking a word). It's just a belief, a recently invented one, and one that only bears fruit alongside a constellation of other associated beliefs.

When it comes to actually navigating the world, most people don't orient themselves through such an abstract, intellectual lens let alone that specific one. They raise, eat, and sacrifice animals; they apply violence to other humans; etc etc -- or actively refrain from these things -- without thinking in terms of consciousness at all and often without thinking in terms of any comparably intellectualized rubric.

The way we treat animals and humans and fish and birds and forests and mountains and rivers is just an expression of culture. Cultures change over time and trade practices and beliefs with each other along the way, but there are nearly as many cultures as there are families in the world and to treat everyone like they do and should be part of your own, and that their failure to do so makes them morally detestable (rather than culturally alien), is extremely narrow minded and exclusionary.

In a pluralist, diverse society, like many of us live in, that kind of thinking often engenders strife, division, and eventually violence -- which I'm going to guess is something you don't want to add to the world.
This doesn't really make sense. Bitcoin is deflationary but the market cap has no ceiling, it's just based on what people are currently willing to pay for a coin.
Neither, use prosemirror.
I don’t use any adblocker.

Ads are good! They often show me things I want to buy.
> He also implied that a non-expert could not possibly understand atmospheric processes well enough to calculate the effects of solar radiation which Callendar had asserted was being absorbed in greater quantities by increased CO2 in the atmosphere.

Sounds like he posted his findings to HN.
a hard truth I agree with. but so very easy to out-of-sight-out-of-mind x_X ugh
I don't think so, partly because the total reward + fees was only 5-6x that of a typical block and partly because almost all blocks are now mined by pools that share block rewards among their members usually based on hash rate, so one would have to be in the pool that mined the block as well. Also the fact that GPUs are less efficient than using specific mining hardware/ASICs for most Proof of Work cryptocurrencies.
Reduction of suffering is part of Temple Grandin's work:

Grandin also developed an objective, numerical scoring system for assessing animal welfare at slaughtering plants. The use of this scoring system resulted in significant improvements in animal stunning and handling during slaughter. This work is described in "Objective scoring of animal handling and stunning practices in slaughter plants"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin
That not just a llama specific thing most llama do it. I've had that with openAI and gemini too.
It just seems like their way to virtue signal while covering their ass legally.
No, GPUs are literally millions of times less power performant than equivalent ASICs for sha256 mining. In the GPU days, mining was talked about in terms of megahashes per second, and ASIC miners these days are talked about in terms of terrahashes per second.
Maybe, it could also just be professional immaturity. It seems more written by a college student than a seasoned journalist.
CoMI felt to me like a game made by Monkey Island fans, rather than coming from an original place. I don't mean that it's a fangame, but that SoMI 1 and 2 had been out long enough that people had played them, gone into the industry, and worked on CoMI with an idea of "what a Monkey Island game 'should' be like". When I played it I felt there were a lot of structural similarities to previous games (let's do insult swordfighting again) and obligatory call-outs (like Stan).
WebAssembly Spin 2.4: Internal Service Chaining / OpenTelemetry / MQTT
The problem is extrinsic motivators (which includes group validation), not money specifically. Extrinsic motivators destroy intrinsic motivation, even when the recipient is highly motivated. I remember reading about a study in Alfie Kohn’s “Punished by Rewards” which describes kindergartners losing interest in coloring (!) after being offered a reward for coloring.
>We both know that it's zoning laws that prohibit land that currently contains a single family home from containing any structure with a larger number of housing units.

Yes, but what about cartels and other stuff? Zoning does not mean there is a cartel nor does it mean you cannot build apartments.

> Buying or selling existing units doesn't increase supply.

Sure, but you said it's illegal to get into the market so I was curious what law you had in mind, as an upright citizen I wanted to report a crime, as I understand you don't know what law you had been referencing when making the previous statement?
A lot of younger folks probably never heard of XFree86 or OpenOffice.org. In a few years Terraform and now Redis might end up just like them.
There's a difference between "selling to governments" and "selling to governments who are actively committing genocide".
Given false assumptions, anything can be proven.
Is something like the razer naga unsuitable?

From what I understand there are many gaming mice with multiple programmable buttons. The razer naga has a 12 programmable buttons which is probably used mostly in RTS games like starcraft.

https://www.google.com/search?q=razer+naga
We raised chickens when I was a kid. They had a pretty good life, plenty of room to roam plus I fed them every day. When their time came, we gave them a quick painless death. No regrets
What is it like to be a trolley ?

(I had misremembered the author of that original quote, but then :

> Daniel Dennett, while sharply disagreeing on some points, acknowledged Nagel's paper ["What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"] as "the most widely cited and influential thought experiment about consciousness.")
You'd need multiple verifications with the same (or similar) result ... but that isn't trustless since Sybil attacks would still be possible. ... and proof of work tends to be the solution to Sybil attacks.