skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can anyone here argue with confidence (read: evidence) that this AI boom is, in fact, yielding real-life, non-superfluous evolutionary advantages to mankind in general? Judging from a primitive metric, I see no one around me benefiting from AI, nor the people closest to them. Considering the current scale and volume of investments in the field, I would expect that finding AI success stories from a random sample within metropolitan communities should be common by now. That seems not to be the case from my point of view. How can anyone argue that investing in AI indeed yields superior results over merely distributing all the resources diversely, when we have much stronger evidence of advantageous outcomes for other domains? I understand this looks like a false duality, but it may not be considering the established, narrow, and concentrated investment structures. Overall, software has a really flimsy connection to actual human necessities, being more of a vector than a need in itself. But AI seems to be all about itself for now. Recall, at least, that AI winters are about a steep decay in public confidence over the promised outcomes, rather than necessarily a decline in research progress and investments. So the more the investment rates outpace the actual outcomes, the higher the probability of it happening. Ironically, I revised this text with GPT, but this is as far as it’s been useful to me. It’s just marginally more useful than what we actually have, and substantially more expensive.
You can even see the discontinuity clearly in the linked article
>Because cause and effect need to be simple?

There's nothing simple about about government agencies and weather manipulating satellites though.

It seems like the reality is the exact opposite. Science is way too boring and simple for most people, and unlike conspiracy theories science doesn't absolve you of responsibility. Therefore those people will rather invent 500 pages of crackpot lore rather than take a high school chemistry or math class.
We should moderately increase the capital gains tax so that buybacks are less advantaged for investors than dividends. Probably would not change the rate of companies doing buybacks, but why encourage it when so many people don’t seem to like it (doesn’t bother me, but I’m not wedded to buybacks either).
This pattern appears frequently in just about all programming languages. I’ve written a lot of JS and Python, and a moderate amount of Elixir, and this pattern crops up quite often. Usually it’s a side effect of complex scopes with several layers of function calls.

Honestly I’m a little surprised you haven’t seen this pattern. The only times it wouldn’t be used are when people rename variables, which is frankly a practice I abhor.
From: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9B%B2%E3%81%BF%E6%96%87%E5...

> 渡辺和博の『金魂巻』で、「丸金」（㊎、金持ち）と「丸ビ」（ビ⃝、貧乏）が使用され、これは流行語大賞を受賞した。

They mean rich and poor
How much can you get from incubator or VC ... for free?
>The user that created that video is known to have preference for Tesla (based on Twitter posts and their YouTube is all about Tesla), the video may be biased.

You are really understating this. This account is one of the few accounts that Elon directly responds to on a regular basis on X.
Certainly not the (passive) shareholders.
You've gone down the wrong rabbit hole. Think less about secret military conspiracies and more about research like: https://www.seti.org/
Because Sundar is an awful leader. Or at least not the right leader for a company that needs to be innovative.
By that same token, HN should auto-remove links to ClosedAI and other tools (SD, MidJourney, etc) that generate output based on copyrighted material, with no attribution.
Does it work for nested maps?
I work in one of those. Straight from the beginning it’s been pretty standard 9-5 and decent salary. Slow and steady growth for half a decade and now it’s turning a profit.

But here are the things that are different:

* Nobody is earning millions here. The salary is roughly at market rate, if not slightly below.

* The funding is a parent-corporation sort of relationship that plays the long game and doesn’t expect to sell after 5 years. But it also means people are paid entirely in real money.

* We only hire as many as we need and not entire divisions to simultaneously re-invent deep learning, target the whole world, and bleed billions of investor dollars in the process.

Finally, this startup (well, scale-up I suppose) is European, and not US-based, and I think the whole unicorn-based way of running things is slightly foreign around here.

So is it a “startup” or just a business growing its customer base with a successful product?
They're good streamer games. The fun is in the reactions of the people playing them, not as much in the actual gameplay.
Not true when it comes to new tech. That's why anytime there's a new piece of tech there's a gold rush of new companies born. Internet, smart phones, social platforms, etc.
There is a huge range of profitability that would be incredible for a founder who owns all our the best majority of the company, but a failure for most VCs. I don't know VC finance enough to say where the upper limit is, but I'm pretty sure several million $ profit per year still is in that range.
I recently moved from a house without solar to one with a small ~7kW rooftop installation. Most important variables are similar: House size, electric usage patterns, location, and so on. I'm seeing a very small cost savings compared to my old house, maybe 10-15% at most. And I went from a consistently high monthly bill to a variable (but never zero) one, with an annoyingly giant "true up" cost mid-year. Given the economics, I would have never have chosen to install it if I didn't already have it. It would take decades for the investment to pay back.

The installation is unfortunately also grid-dependent, so it's useless when the power goes out.
The same happened in both my home countries: US and Sweden.
Here is what aurora does to Morse code https://youtube.com/shorts/TKm0VHL5Qc8?si=P3HDDpkao-ir-jJ1
Why don't make it reliably expire at that date, with precision (less than a day of) tolerances?
And this year's Turing Award goes to [video]
From my understanding, buybacks return money to investors, who are free to plow that cash into something else that "creates value". It's not like Google is the only place that knows how to use that money effectively.
Probably not that wild - we may live in different bubbles.
Does it need to become a giant though? If I don't sell large portions to investors, I'd be thrilled with something that makes in profit roughly what a good tech salary pays.
Do you think they included that category in the analysis of bachelor's ROI, which is what you are doing, comparing it to their results for bachelor's.

Like sure, a professional degree in dentistry probably does have a better average return than a 4 year degree in engineering, but that isn't the comparison they made.
Long story short: Yes.

China has a vested interest in attaining parity RISC-V chips to divest American-reliant x86 chips from Intel and AMD and western-reliant ARM chips from ARM and friends.

As an aside, if China can then table the turns and flood the market with cutthroat cheap RISC-V chips forcing out x86 and ARM just like they've done with home appliances, solar panels, EVs, and more, they would then command the microprocessor industry of the world and thus everything reliant on it.
The robber barons are specifically examples of people considered not to be fulfilling their social responsibilities. The idea that business are only responsible to make money is the new concept, not that people were acting only to make money previously. It was seen as a bad thing, now its a deflection for bad behavior.
That's a rabbit hole in itself too (I did mention going from a top school professorship to a military project though, so if the latter is a wrong rabbit hole at least one gets into a lucrative position).

I just think, if one wants to research Aliens, and if such projects DO exist (that's a huge IIIIIIF), then it's better than any other kind of job out there.
Although I'm completely against their political view, our whole country is bleeding and helping the south go through it. There's no poetic justice in tragedy.
to be honest I don't know why showbiz bought Chuck e cheese and didn't keep showbiz Rockabilly explosion was way more appealing IMHO
My daughter sending me a car emoji has nothing to do with emotional context.
I think the article is painting an overly positive view of the situation, without looking into anymore than a surface level causality

How many of these new businesses are started because it's the only way to make ends meet?

How many of these businesses actually have a sustainable plan? AI can do some cool things, but I think the market is oversaturated by apps that are nothing more than a skin over ChatGPT

I'm predicting that most of these businesses will have closed again in five years and there'll be a sudden "unexpected" rise in unemployment by then
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I actually doubt. Those projects would be so guarded that one has to prove that one's father and mother are loyal too -- yeah that probably means it's a lot easier to get into if your parents are from the military too.

After all some people in the government are efficient.
Got it - I misunderstood the short code sample, I thought the 2nd half of the tuple was a literal instead of a variable. Makes sense.
I won't miss Chuck e, but rock a fire.... that's my child hood right there
I make sure to tell all homeless people, “just start a business bro”

/s
I wouldn’t expect to find any “empty” spacetime deformations, since by their very nature they would attract matter. I would however expect more gravity than the presently observable matter could explain.

I wonder if that can explain some of the large scale filament type structures we see.
I'm getting a bit off topic here but regarding the pseudo-archaeology that's popular on YouTube: Graham Hancock (who had a 10 part Netflix series called Ancient Apocalypse about an advanced global civilization during/before the last glacial maximum) recently appeared on Joe Rogan's podcast alongside Flint Dibble who is an archaeologist that does public communication on YouTube.

At least according to my own YouTube bubble it seems we are in a pretty big moment for pseudo-archaeology! Here's an informal discussion about it from Stefan Milo who I highly recommend for anyone intereated in prehistory: https://youtu.be/rWugM4XRPuc?si=EkO5PEAKRAIYYRJD

I have seen another good quality video summarising the debate on the podcast but annoyingly I cannot remember it to share, maybe someone else can share a fun resource (unfortunately the Joe Rogan podcast is way too long for me to actually listen to)!
5980HS is a laptop chip, it is more fair to compare it to M1 and maybe M1 pro.

While M1 Max can be used in laptops, the benchmarks I've seen have been for the mini/imac where it doesn't have power and thermal limitations of a laptop.

Besides, the cheapest M1 Max laptop is $1000 more expensive than the most expensive 5980HS laptop :(
This is what people said about nuclear power as it stopped being an exponential rise in the mid-1970s. As a power source becomes built it more places, its externalities generally get more regulated. Happened with coal (acid rain, air pollution) and nuclear (Browns ferry fire, TMI, Salem atws), happening now with wind and solar (land use, intermittency)
Boredom. It’s not like anyone cares about comments anyhow. Voices lost to the wind.
> I've poured 1200 hours of Factorio. Building stuff is fun.

Recently I thought “man, this new God of War is the longest game ever”, until I saw that I had only logged 16 hours in the game over 4 months.
No. Employee value and customer money can only contribute to a system once investor money and entrepreneurship construct that system.

“Merely started in the right time and place to meet demand” is something of an understatement. Try it sometime before you gloat about how easy it must be versus the employment end of the business.
Depending on who you ask, a "9 to 5 normal job" is sacrificing family and freedom. Women in particular hate this diverging life path because they can't have both career and marriage/kids, but everyone both men and women ultimately have to find a compromise that works for them.

You can't have your cake and eat it too.
To the pubic: AGI will solve humanity's problems.

To investors: AGI will let corporations fire all of their employees.
> Is this why the US administration sees the Risc-5 architecture as a potential threat?

> and now finally it can have that thanks to an open architecture that's not monopolized by a single player

It's a threat because there's a lot of shady things going on behind the scenes. E.g. with x86 there was Via who fronted for China to make x86 chips. With ARM there was the whole ARM China fiasco and then the same group moving on to RISC-V.

It's not so simple.
Edit: disregard the comment.

Sadly enough, independently wealthy people are virtually the only ones who could actually publish consistently and thus possibly earn something out of the whole endeavour — under the assumption that any single book by an unknown / non-celebrity author has equal probability of being a hit.

Reality seems to be that most books are failures, publishers prefer celebrities as that reduces marketing costs, and they prefer established audiences.

This is a good read on the topic: https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books
[I am the one who wrote that tweet thread]. fwiw, a lot of the questions that are being raised in this thread have been answered in this talk I gave for Google/Deepmind LLM reasoning seminar a few days back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGXhFa3gzBs (Also, the preprint paper on the CoT study with all the prompts etc is available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04776 )
>We need a Galileo and Kepler of AI.

Let's imagine a modern day Galileo discover a new revolutionary algorithm that gives the same results for 1000x less compute.

How would he transform this competitive advantage into some money without revealing the secret sauce ? Today's he will be in competition with people spending $10^8 to train. Even with the 10^3 cost reduction it's out of range for most people. And then he has to build a business around while keeping making sure his secret techniques don't leak.

VCs and CEOs are just playing the controlling the business game, raising barrier to make sure they stay in control. Incremental advancements are great for them, because they get to stay in the lead while reducing the possibility that a revolutionary advancement comes to shuffle their game.

Renaissance Technologies could maintain an edge over the whole stock market for plenty of years.
AI-controlled company will probably be able too, but you won't hear about them.
Your point cannot be echoed loud enough on discussions of college prices and debt forgiveness. Instead, the too responses on such articles are always someone ranting about the lunacy of putting yourself $115k in the hole for a Bachelor+Master’s of Social Work only to manage a Home Depot followed by someone else pointing out that people graduating with that much debt are almost all physicians (plus a few lawyers).

Dropouts, by definition, do not have the degree to earn that salary bump. Those who go on about rule of law and the sanctity of contracts or whatever are willfully blind to the point that forgiven or not, those loans to the dropouts aren’t getting repaid.

Heck, you can even see the same thing to a lesser degree for students who do graduate but with a 2.3 GPA (especially if it’s a field that de facto requires a Master’s).
Is there a small writeup available somewhere about this? I like the idea.
To fight climate change, the US needs renewable energy, and fast. Ironically, we already have it, the US has 947 GW of renewable generation capacity that is not hooked up to the grid [1]. To put that number into perspective, the US currently has 1.16 TW of generation capacity in total [2]. We could nearly double our generation capacity today if we could just hook it up.

Unfortunately it takes 10 years to build new transmission lines in the US [3]. Changes are going to need to be made to the process, which may include giving more responsibility and agency to FERC to oversee the review process.

[1] https://emp.lbl.gov/utility-scale-solar

[2] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-...

[3] https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2022/10/permitting-americ...
Fair enough, I get it if you're doing 50 on a heavy bike (like an e-bike). I also agree that it provider easier activation, I've just never felt the need for that. Not in all of my years riding rim or coaster brakes have I ever felt it was too difficult to activate the brake. I've also only rarely (in my 20 years of bike riding) lubricated the wire. Most people get their bikes serviced, and they'll oil your wire too.

I think disc brakes are technophilia in almost all cases.
I’ve trained tokenizers on medium-sized datasets (+5GB of text, although that could be considered small or large depending on who you ask) and have always found training quite fast. As in, it takes a couple minutes.

Maybe if we’re talking terabytes it might not scale as well but so far in my experience training tokenizers has never been an issue. It’s training models that takes ages.
I'm 44 of they match a FNAF horror themed dave and busters I'm gonna be all over that... I'm not really a FNAF .. per se... or player but the movie was okay..I liked the Nicholas Cage one similar to it better...

but I like creepy things...
Abandoned Blogs
I think you do - you organized a business venture and assumed the risk for it.

I've founded or co-founded two venture funded startups and two self-funded businesses, and I consider them equally entrepreneurial.

The ISP, while we didn't take external funding, was definitely a startup. I don't put the cryptocurrency crap in the startup bin because I deliberately chose not to grow it to have employees beyond the three founders, even though it was the most profitable of all of the ventures. Weird that.
I think people usually start out wanting to use the same corpus for their tokenizer and for the LLM, but after training the tokenizer and while testing the LLM they discover that parts of the corpus are useless garbage (no offense to SolidGoldMagikarp's efforts on the counting subreddit) so those get excluded from further training, but at this point the tokenizer has become part of the API and replacing it with a new version would break other things, so the superfluous tokens stay in the tokenizer vocabulary.
IIRC ads are only on public channels, where e2e does not make sense
This was informative. One thing I think it glosses over is that cosine similarity becomes remarkably more effective (is only effective?) in vector spaces with large dimensionality: hundreds at least (maybe more? I'm not up-to-date).
Maybe they will finally stop moving buttons around meaninglessly in Android. I can't believe someone looked at the Alarm UX and thought "Stop" vs "Snooze" was easier than "Dismiss" vs "Snooze". Or that they should swap the sides of share and flip buttons on the Camera.
Why can’t those skills be taught in K–12? None of them sound advanced enough to require university education.
I never said it was your problem. That was the whole point of my post. It’s a problem for people that don’t want to waste eight hours a day, that want those hours to be meaningful and work with other motivated people.
C++, it was an in house engine to make everything fit in memory on PS3. Removing fragmentation gave ~10% of usable memory back.
Supply and demand is a concept for when there are buyers and sellers. There is no short term feedback loop for a legal system that gets too bureaucratic/corrupt. That ends up only being visible on a years and decades long scale when the whole country becomes less productive and less trustworthy on the global scale and is outcompeted by other nations with less bureaucracy/corruption.

For example, one might say excess lawyers (either as lawyers or political figures or judges) contribute to excessive liability, which then results in everyone spending extra to cover their ass or simply not taking risks, the consequences of which are only visible in the long term. But supply and demand won’t fix this issue in a sufficiently timely manner.
New US energy production since 2000s heavily leans fossil/shale (crude + lng), both ~doubled in past 20 years. Issue is, much of new extracted fossil energy is being exported. US generating more dirty energy than ever, it's just being consumed abroad, not in US.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/images/2021.05.06/chart2.s...

Recent studies on LNG infra leaks show it's potentially no better to much worse than coal in terms of emissions. Meanwhile at least PRC is replacing old dirty coal plants with cleaner coal plants. And they stopped exporting coal overcapacity - stopped building coal plants abroad, vs US propping up global crude/lng use. And will continue to until shale fields run dry. TLDR is US produces a lot excess dirty energy already, it simply prioritizing exporting that dirty energy due to geopolitics than consuming it domestically.
Staging Environments
It's cool to build something, but for practicality how's this going to beat texting each other on the phones you already have in your pockets?

Second, unless you have speech recognition, you will still have to look away to type a new message.

Third, this won't be real eye contact (because your friend will be looking at the badge, not at your face), but rather the fake eye contact us neurodivergent people have to use to mask and make neurotypicals feel comfortable. Not everyone actually likes constant eye contact even among neurotypical people, it's quite intense.

But building something is still cool ;)
The dump was added in 2014 fyi.
> lost technology, lost civilization

Are you saying there’s not ancient technology or civilization that’s lost to us? That seems extremely unlikely to me.

The name “scientists against myths” makes me wary of this channel. They clearly have an agenda, and I as a laymen have no way to identify when they’re letting that agenda cloud their judgment.

As a laymen I can at least evaluate the trustworthiness of other humans, and framing the debate as “science vs myth” when history is rife with examples of myths later being explained by science sets off alarm bells.
That says more about the browser and github than the language.

Nothing wrong with a large file. The editor should be able to help you navigate and see the file without the size being a concern at all.