skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can't simply assert that this is valuable, we have to analyze it properly. Mass simulation will happen if the expected value of the simulation exceeds the opportunity cost of, well, everything else we could do with these resources instead.

First, the expected value... it is, frankly, questionable. Certainly it's great in the best case scenario where we stumble upon a good system and then put it in application, but how likely is that? I can see several cases where the entire value would be sunk:

* You will need to run not just one, but many simulations. However, the same argument that implies the simulation will be slower than reality also implies that it will be bigger than reality. The problem isn't merely that this simulation won't occur in real time, it's also that it's going to be physically enormous. Even running a single one would be quite the undertaking.

* It is quite possible that an economic system would work very well at first, only to collapse 50 years later for a variety of difficult-to-foresee reasons. If the simulation runs too slowly, we may have to commit to a system before the simulation can demonstrate its collapse. Or wait centuries, but then the initial conditions may have diverged far too much for the experiment to translate.

* We're not even guaranteed to glean any important insights from such a simulation. Civilization is a chaotic system that involves a ton of smart agents who constantly come up with paradigm-shifting inventions or new ways to bend and manipulate the system. It won't take much time before all you're doing is explore some random alternate future, although it's slower than real time, so it's actually some random alternate past. It's not useless, but it's middling.

* And then you have to implement changes. Very sensitive to the current conditions, which change faster than the simulator can keep up with. Good luck.

As for the second part of the equation, the opportunity cost: likely humongous. Insofar that simulation hardware is a general purpose substrate, there is a mind-boggling number of uses for it. If you can simulate minds faster than real time, sure, that's useful. If not, it's unclear to me how a poor imitation of a real thing would even crack the top 10 of things you'd want to do with this hardware.

Sorry for all the text. I think the whole debate can be summarized like this: the simulation hypothesis makes sense if simulation is cheap, it falls apart if it isn't. And I don't think simulation is going to be cheap (unless it's quite crude and approximate, in which case it won't tell us much about reality.)
I got into a loop where it wouldn’t actually talk to me. It kept flip-flopping between “you’re persistent, I like that” and “you’re not giving up are you?” so I gave up.
Did anything come out of that?
We're talking about Elon Musk specifically here, I don't know where you saw an invitation to walk in and clutch your pearls, or where you read in my reply that I think Elon Musk is the only crazy asshole CEO out there.
It's certainly unsurprising that a representative of the profession that misdiagnosed my mother's hematoma as a tumor - while she was bleeding internally at a rate of 1 unit per hour - would lack in both reading comprehension and math skills.

I wish you luck, too. Keep murdering Americans at a rate of 240,000 annually due to your own mistakes while considering yourselves the good guys. NBC medical dramas will continue to carry water for you, so your public image will be forever untarnished as the Great American Heroes you were destined to be.
This simple solution does not help, unfortunately.

(This is how Facebook collects data on you even if you don’t have an account) https://www.vox.com/2018/4/20/17254312/facebook-shadow-profi...
While I think Google needs a better clear vision in many cases, god help us that the people who have screwed up every hardware launch for a decade now get to run the OS too.
One disconnect is that most employers are not personally the owners, and most owners do not actually own as much as the investors.

No surprise they do it the other way around when they don't have the collective talent to maximize value and have it result in growth.
Parent means it figuratively: you're majoring in the minors if your reason for not relying on services / others is the _possibility_ that one day they go away.
The idea that causality is impossible to observe goes back to Hume. Hume thought that people notice two events happening one after the other and infer causation. But, according to Hume, there is no way to prove casuation and our doing so is just a habit of the mind.
If the hackers phished the customers of the third-party and used their accounts to scrape the information in some way, would you consider that a security lapse on LSEG's part?
> I don't think any of the big tech leadsership actually beleive in that.

I think Altman actually believes that, but I'm not sure about any of the others.

Musk seems to flitter between extremes, "summoning the demon" isn't really compatible with suing OpenAI for failing to publish Lemegeton Clavicula Samaltmanis*.

> I also think that deep down a lot of the AI safety crowd love solving hard problems and stock options.

Probably at least one of these for any given person.

But that's why capitalism was ever a thing: money does motivate people.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lesser_Key_of_Solomon
IMO, Google Search is a dead product. Not immediately maybe, but at least for 90% of my work, it has been replaced by Bing CoPilot and similar solutions.

I don't go look for images anymore, I just create new ones with ComfyUI.
I don't query for Stackoverflow, I do code analysis with Starcoder.
I don't check for lyrics or similar, I just use vanilla chatgpt it.
There's a lot of people on that list!

LeCun is head of FAIR (FaceBook AI Research), which is a different internal organization than the GenAI group responsible for these Llama LLMs.
Microsoft's Xbox Has Taken over Sony's Playstation Sto
> His new home would cut into a mountainside just beneath an open space that taxpayers had bought for $64 million to fend off future development.

I think I am siding with the NIMBYs on this. If you have a pristine mountain side with no homes, don't ruin it with one new house.
Not the parent, but what bothers me is how the author tries to spin the idea of taking notes when you're new as something profound. He even gives it a catchy name "WTF Notebook". And the connection between creating a reputation of a fixer at the company, and taking notes with a WTF journal, is weak. I usually don't like to hate on articles like this and instead ignore them, but since you asked, it mostly sounds like bullshit to me.
I would substitute "may be" for "is" in your first sentence, but I've had similar thoughts. Gravity may be a force that acts in a way that is mathematically equivalent to having curved space. I think that may even be most likely. But I'm not sure it really matters.
Ingrown toenails basically don't happen in cultures where people don't wear shoes.

I suspect the cause is socks or shoes pushing against the skin at the end of the toe, causing it to grow incorrectly over many months.

An untrimmed nail pushes any sock/shoe away, solving the issue.
I'm a fellow Crohnie.

Crohn's disease is a long, exhausting disease. I hope we see a cure in our lifetime.
https://www.minitool.com/news/how-to-deactivate-windows-10-1...

slmgr /upk
slmgr /cpky

I was extra paranoid and make sure I copied the license key somewhere, etc. I can't remember if I had any small issues but I think it was pretty straight forward.

I recently had to turn on my old PC and even though it's unlicensed it still works is if it was "Pro" licensed.
I agree with the sentiment. I also heard of some books that say stupid things like humans have not yet reached the maximum of human evolution.

Of course we have not reached the end of our evolution. That will exist only when we are all extinct.

As for the direction... that is something else. Maybe we will evolve into higher intelligence, but as the Dick's story "The Golden man" or "Idiocracy" show, is the intelligence really the driving force of today?
California news nonprofit CalMatters acquires tech news nonprofit The Markup
"There's going to be some sick GenX/Millenial LAN parties once we hit retirement age." That's right didn't even think of that.

Yeah I think that's what I find concerning --> 'so they develop a misplaced zero-sum mentality, thinking these old people are somehow taking up their "slot"' because its such a me vs them. A lot of older people are pretty talented and have seen a lot more.
> Fortunately chocolate products have plenty of substitutes.

I don't understand - it's chocolate. That's like saying "coffee has substitutes" and yet none of them are coffee.

What substitutes are you thinking of? A chocolate bar without chocolate is not a chocolate bar...
It doesn't really suggest anything. Neither model will even close to saturation and all else equal, bigger models perform better in every way, including generalization.
Siri only works for a few specific apps, most of which are from Apple, and only on Apple hardware.

It's not meaningfully better than Google's walled garden, and the voice assistant is so hilariously bad that it reduces the functionality of the stuff that Siri is actually adequate at handling.
I don't support GP's claims, but you have to realize that you're "almost everyone" up until you build something very successful with lots of capital at stake, and then you definitely become "someone special" and have to think ahead about how the licenses of your models impact you.

Of course random individuals don't care much about the licenses on their personal AI projects. But if you intend to grow something significant, you better read the label from the start.
If you’re measured on number of users, why would you remove lots of them?
That cleanup was done in a small company, where it took just 1-2 hours. I was in full control because I out-argued others for my CSS styles cleanup, that they didn't like. In my current place, I bet this will take couple of days if you really try hard and care and nobody is against. I think, in big organizations, either there are somebody against this, or people stop caring that much to push these changes.
> The market is big enough for Google to create hardware AND other companies to create hardware.

You obviously didn't read the comment you're replying to. No one is challenging that.

Having the same TEAM in charge of the OS and in-house hardware is an entirely different story.

It's a conflict of interest because the person Samsung is talking to to have a feature implemented into the OS baseline may be the same person in charge of defining the competitive featureset for the next Google hardware.

Now this person knows that the product he and his team is designing will compete with a yet-to-be-announced Samsung-product with a new feature.

So his interest to support a licensee being successful with his product is in conflict with his interest to create a more successful competing product.

And even if he isn't, for SAMSUNG just the potential of this situation to happen can be enough to NOT cooperate with this team and scale back communications with the Android team as a whole.
When people say that they usually mean that the EU does not treat these issues as they think they rather should. Which is a matter of policy rather than comprehension naturally: all the things above are rather pedestrian concepts.
That is because money can cross lines on political maps but police jurisdictions often do not.

Also, criminals can hide, but bank accounts are always maintained at the bank.
Can you elaborate on this? Why this is awesome and what it achieves?
> the reusable part is actually up to 98-99%

Reminder: they still throw away the second stage, but they do retrieve some of the fairings. It's high, but not that high.
How does this finding compare with those from this simulated video of the moon forming?

"Collision May Have Formed the Moon in Mere Hours, Simulations Reveal" https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/collision-may-have-formed-...
https://youtu.be/kRlhlCWplqk

And this, from the moon:

"Scientists discover huge, heat-emitting blob on the far side of the moon" (2023)
https://www.livescience.com/space/the-moon/scientists-discov...

"Remote detection of a lunar granitic batholith at Compton–Belkovich" [from a dormant volcano] (2023)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06183-5
This isn't anything new.

In fact, SEO strategies relied on these tactics for as long as I can remember.
> is the intelligence really the driving force of today?

Yes, certainly. More than anything intelligence differentiates us as a species.
> Firebase offer subscription models to database changes, but falls short when dealing with complex queries involving joins or group-bys.

Firebase is the only tool here I'm familiar with, and this makes sense to me. It's real time data "for dummies", where you don't have to worry about the internals.

They can guarantee that simple gets return events quickly, but if you're asking for complex queries, you actually have to engineer the tradeoffs.

Like, what happens if you are frequently writing to 2 tables, and are subscribed to a view that joins both?
It's a euphemism that you don't have to accept if you find polymer cups ridiculous.
Use index finger to control slide shows for Windows
https://www.relativityspace.com/terran-r
Would you then say that in general Open Source doesn't matter for almost everyone? Most people running Linux aren't serving 700 million customers or operating military killbots with it after all.
There's also a buried lede:

Hiroshi, who's been an Android lead since before it shipped, is no longer leading Android.

When Jony Ive and Scott Forstall and the other big Apple execs left, that was news. Hiroshi may not have Jony's profile, but it's still a major change in how Android is governed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi_Lockheimer
> What happens when child becomes an adult? They own all their stuff from before, the parents do not keep it.

I think that parents basically "gift" their adult children their old things. At 17 years and 364 days a parent can take everything their child "owns" and burn it/throw it in a wood chipper with zero legal issues (concerning specifically the destruction of property anyway, burning/chipping some things will get you in trouble), however once the adult child has been informally gifted their old "belongings" there's no take backs without legal repercussions.

Things do get more complicated with things the child bought with their own money... I'm guessing the law would be more willing to accept that those things should belong to the child, but even if a 15 year old kid buys an xbox with their own money I doubt the cops would arrest the kid's parents for smashing it with a bat.
His other posts are like that too. He could avoid writing these superficial posts if he read a few books first.
Forecasting the Future: Advancements in Large Meteorological Models
EDPB: 'Consent or Pay' models should offer real choice
Just curious, is there a rundown of new features? Also can we opt in if we're already a stripe atlas customer?
Can you say more about the weird vibes bit?
But why do they want what they want, and how much agency is there really anyway ?
Modern advertising is very sub-conscious activity.
As others have pointed out, the coincidence is temporary. It used to be that the moon's apparent size was significantly larger than the sun's, so you could get a total eclipse but you wouldn't see a full corona ring, when the moon's apparent diameter was twice to three times the sun's. Eventually the moon will look smaller and total eclipses will no longer occur. We live at the right time.
Call me cynical, but it was the only way not to be outplayed by OpenAI and to compete with Google, etc.
This isn't "exposing" anything. It's promoting link spam techniques.
Related:

Geologists reject declaration of Anthropocene epoch

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/22/geologists-r...
You don't think the wealthy using their money to silence the press is a problem in a functioning democracy? How odd.
Only if you're traveling fast relative to walking speed. You can still generally navigate by direction in the area, and it looks like it covers such a large area that in EG a 5 mile by 5 mile area you could still reliably set your declination and navigate with minimal error. The field lines seem to change direction in an arc the size of South Africa, for example. But it just means that if you're westerly or easterly in South Africa you need to be very cautious to set the declination on your compass and not assume it varies little, like you can in the Pacific Northwest.
The original article was about lower-income "countries". I pointing out it's also in the US. So yeah, pretty much everywhere. Unless you have data to prove otherwise, you're wrong.
> I'd be calibrated like we're seeing in Ukraine

This isn't the 1950's, and a proxy war with China now would be nothing like the Korean war.

It would be nothing like a proxy war with Russia either. China has an order of magnitude more people, and the amount of trade between the U.S. and China is stupendous. If that trade were to abruptly stop, the whole world would be plunged into a depression deeper and longer than anything the world has ever seen. Tens of millions would die, just from the economic dislocations alone.

Calibrated. Please don't try to minimize, contextualize, or legitimize any kind of war with China. We'd have to invent a new word, because "disastrous" or "cataclysmic" would even begin to describe it.

God forbid anything like what is happening in Ukraine ever happens anywhere in the world again. We are 1/4 through the 21st Century for chrissakes there's no reason we can't resolve these things by negotiation. Its time for the human race to grow up.
I guess you could artifically limit the training data (e.g. by removing languages, categories) and see if the utility of extra tokens drops off as a result.
I don’t like most thing FB/Meta does. But, I must admit they are the only big tech sharing so much openly. Other big tech should take Meta as an example here.

I thought I’d never say this : good job Zuck on AI!
>I recently got a new Pixel phone and Google's much hyped new AI features just seem so... gimmicky

Not just that, but their biggest crime is that almost none of those fancy AI features Google paraded at the Pixel launch even actually run on-device but need to be sent to their cloud for processing, despite all the gloating about their new Tensor 3 chip's AI capabilities being the most important (since that chip sucks at CPU and GPU benchmarks compared to Apple and Qualcomm). Also, their Tensor 3 can't even run Google's smallest LLM. Absolutely embarrassing.

They REALLY need to unify the HW and SW development efforts to create a coherent and functional product, instead of designing them separately bazaar style then jerry rigging them together like some underfunded start-up making products for Kickstarter.
I asked Brave today how to merge many VCF contact card files into a single file on macOS, and it gave me a simple command to do it.
The best part is it gives you context so you can visit sources to get into more details.
The emerging trend of vector databases
A Thousand Suns: an original sci-fi anthology series
When I work with new hires, or I'm working in an area a teammate is unfamiliar with, I will often have them sit with me to watch and ask questions of me. I always encourage them to bring in a notebook and take notes for anything that they might have difficulty remembering, or may need more clarification on at a future time. So far, I've found that every new hire or teammate that decides not to bring a notebook and write anything down, never lasts for long. I'm happy to answer questions and help when I'm able to, but when I start getting the same questions we've already covered multiple times, and I've already told them to write it down and they don't, my confidence in their skills starts to dwindle.

In contrast, the ones that use the time wisely, and take notes end up getting fast tracked to architecting systems on their own (with my oversight and code reviews). Those are the teammates that I love to work with, the ones hungry for knowledge and aren't afraid to make mistakes (assuming they aren't hiding them). I'd say I get almost as much knowledge out of mentoring as the new new hires do from learning new techniques and technology. It can be extremely rewarding.
Of course you need to manage and it might not be the most fun thing. Same here.

But if you have one person, and you spend 15 minutes a day guiding them and giving them tasks, then they have 7-8 hours to do productive work.

And finding the right people can be hard, but when you finally find the right one it is worth it.

If you wanna talk about it find a time https://martinbaun.com/book
Dnsmasq is amazing. I spend quite the amount of time learning its config when hacking DD-WRTs.

One thing that always bothered me is how hard it is to set Dnsmasq to do SLAAC but no RDNS.

You see, if you set

enable-ra

[0], it defaults to using link-local address of the machine as the rDNS server.

You can set another one by setting

dhcp-option=option6:dns-server,[2001:4860:4860::8844]

If you don't enable DHCPv6 that entry is used as the rdns entry.

BUT...

That means that if you read through this there is no easy way to prevent a DNS address from being distributed, and it is quite common to want to do that. One of the reasons is that I want my clients to use IPv4 so I can track them, but still allow them to use SLAAC (and thus privacy protections) to talk to the outside world. But if they use SLAAC to talk to my DNS, I get WAY too many addresses in there.

The trick is to set:

dhcp-option=option6:dns-server

an empty value... Not sure if you can add the comma or not.

I could only find 1 reference online: https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/20...

I firmly believe that this design choice has made it as such that no commercially available, customer router has support for SLAAC without rDNS.

[0] https://dnsmasq.org/docs/dnsmasq-man.html#:~:text=By%20defau....
Apparatchik pretext setting.
What functioning democracy? Would love to know so I can move there.
100%. It was the only real play they had.
If it was Wikipedia doing this, sure, assume the best.
Be careful, if you defeat wabi-sabi, next you'll have to face a boss fight with wu wei.
Ah the root cause is found. If you don't want your seething anger to continue to consume you into adulthood it would be best for you to seek extensive therapy.

It's unfortunate how well-adjusted adults on HN seem to be increasingly outnumbered by angry children from reddit.
Quite good, low latency, felt very natural! I did eventually get a secret code. :) Nice demo to get people trying it in a playful way.
I'm going to push it bit further but since we are talking about Apple [0], it could be named: Eris.

[0] ΤΗΙ ΚΑΛΛΙΣΤΗΙ
There’s a trillion dollars waiting for whoever can figure out how to put a terabyte of VRAM on a GPU.
From your link:

> A 2020 Bank Policy Institute study found that American SARs elicited a response from law enforcement in a median of 4% of reports, and that a tiny subset of those responses resulted in arrest and conviction, suggesting that 90% to 95% of SARs reports were false positives of unlawful activity.[5]

Anecdotally, I've heard of many people having issues with this system.

I find the claim that "it would do quantifiable harm to the prosecution of financial crimes globally" technically true (it is quantifiable), but to be overall exaggerated as to its actual harm.
To build, you need permitting. To get a permit, you need permission from the municipality. If the neighbors believe they will be adversely affected by the new building, they may petition the municipality to reject the new building or make them alter the plan, at which point it becomes a political issue, not a private home life issue.
This is exactly correct. The software should be adapted to the usage patterns of the users, not for developer ergonomics. If the two happen to align, that's great, but it's a rarity.