skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imo it feels more like 1-2 years away. Smaller 7B, 34B and 70B models are becoming a lot better, with more context length. Faster inference methods are coming out day by day. Better ways to quantize/distill models. All of that on top of chip advancements we saw a couple days ago with M4, Qualcomm/Googles arm chips...

I can't imagine more than 2 years for GPT4 level LLM on edge devices.

The question is, will ppl want GPT4 on the edge when GPT 6 is one request away?
He's backed by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, so probably a lot. At least these ventures might produce something real in the future, unlike Neom.
In case the author sees this, I enjoyed the nod to the Acme editor.
If you’re interested in going down one heck of a Saturday night rabbit hole, you should read into some of the water issues downstream of Alberta’s tar sands.

The short version is that it takes 2.4 barrels of fresh water to get one barrel of tar out of the ground. We’re still a long ways from being able to use that tar but that’s a different story.

The vast majority of that water is too polluted to put back into the Athabasca, so it gets stored in tailings ponds. These ponds are big enough to be seen from space. And water being water, the ponds leak constantly. So some massive companies that we have all heard of have been warned repeatedly about how tar sands contamination is being found at wells far off site. Related to this, communities along the Athabasca River are becoming hot beds of rare types of cancer.

When I read up on it, I conclude that we already have a proper disaster but it just doesn’t get reported. I believe it doesn’t get reported because it gets heavily politicized and so it’s hard to find data in the midst of the strongly felt beliefs. But if you’re interested in starting, I’d actually start at the Alberta Energy Regulator, specifically at their compliance dashboard.

https://www1.aer.ca/compliancedashboard/enforcement.html

The AER is a good place to start because they love O&G but despite that love, they still write very openly about how much damage the industry does to water.

If that’s not enough excitement, the Prairie Provinces Water Board (ppwb.ca) has a lot of excellent reading about conservation.

Edit - The Parliamentary Library of Canada would be a good stop too. As early as 2006, papers started being published indicating that 40% of Canadian wells were contaminated.
> idk it would have been cool to see commercial real estate replaced with locally owned spaces

But that's NOT what wework was.
Can't share, but can describe from my experience. It doesn't distract you. No sticky-jumpy headers, floating elements or popups, animate.css scroll spies, top scroll bars. Doesn't burn your hand. Doesn't require to scroll two pages to get to the matter. The font is regular, with a normal contrast compatible with auto-darkmode extensions and daylight. Standard spacing and layout. Also, it has no issues with scrolling (especially if it's a blog about UX) -- that makes it a pleasure to scroll through.

I'm absolutely serious, some blogs nail the above and win my attention.
> It's not really explaining anything though,

That's the problem. It lumps unexplained phenomena into a luminiferous aether 2.0. The most likely explanation is our model of gravity isn't yet good enough and so perhaps RelMOND is worth a look.
i find it curious they sell you a kit but the license doesn't allow usage - i'm curious how that would hold up in court....
I think they did understand that. They expected their home to appreciate at about the same rate as the apartments they wanted to downsize into. If, while retirement planning, their home was worth $300k and nearby acceptable condos were selling for $200k, then it's entirely reasonable (though in retrospect wrong) for them to look at the market and believe that this should mean that no matter how housing prices change they should always be able to sell their more-valuable house for a less-valuable condo.

What happened here isn't that they got blindsided by their home not appreciating fast enough to outstrip local condos, what appears to have happened is that the local housing market now values those condos higher than it does their detached home. That's a pretty fundamental cultural shift that I can't blame them for not predicting 20 years ago.
Canada does this. 100% of primary home profit is tax free, even if it’s in the millions.

They also don’t tax lottery winnings.

I’m not a huge fan of high taxes but it would seem to me not taxing either of groups makes and putting the burden on wage earners makes no sense at all.
Scott Galloway's TED talk seems relevant here.

A couple things I like to mention:

I rent. Right now my house cash makes $2,600 after taxes by putting it in T-Bills. This effectively drops my rent to $1,300/mo vs buying and spending $3k/mo for mortgage, taxes, insurance, HOAs and maintenance. I'm happy to rent for now, especially as it seems houses have little room to appreciate further.

I think gen Z abandons SFH for lifestyle reasons. Kids are having less children and don't want the maintenance and responsibility of a SFH.
Steeper at the top: cognitive ability and earnings in Finland and Norway
You can change sudo into an alias that steals your sudo password and then does whatever else.

Not that it makes a huge difference in practice, IMO. The apps most users run (i.e. distro apps) are plenty trusty for normal threat models. Apps that run real untrusted code (web browser) have their own sandboxes. And people with more serious threat models can run qubes or tails or whatever
You’re definitely not wrong but I believe the idea is that with a growing population and expanding housing availability and differences in desirability based on a number of factors, you get a gradient effect where older houses have more value than new houses, but there are new houses for people who can’t afford those older homes which have increased in value to a point where few can afford it
what does CVP stand for? same thing as corporate development?
> Incentives seem lower than we all think?

The income for most criminals is a pittance. [1]

1. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-apr-24-oe-dubne...
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See also Tim Benzedrine in Bored of the Rings[0]

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bored_of_the_Rings
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Perhaps a book on the topic?

https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780307594754/page/26/mode/...

The lost battles : Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the artistic duel that defined the Renaissance
It’s not really a generational thing, my parents where worried about the housing market in the early nineties when they saw that people had it as an investment.

The problem is that no politician wants to solve it in a sustainable way because it would lead to their own biggest investment, that is also leveraged, would loose value. But we also have a pension system that relies on humans being more populous.

Politicians have all these perverse incentives. If we could get a more direct democracy it would solve a lot of problems.
So, given that I'm already aware that I almost certainly won't understand any answers to this question, can someone give me a idiot level baseline as to exactly what an AI chip is and how it would differ from a cpu/gpu?
When do you guys think that SoftBank will sell some of its 90% ownership of ARM? Don't they need cash to make these investments?
You can still watch TV without commercials on cable, it's been that way for over 20 years since we've had DVRs. It's streaming where the ads are now unskippable. (And based on a personalized profile they've built from collecting and buying data about you.)

The one thing I can't watch anymore is sports because the announcers read micro-ads during the game. Those can't be skipped like regular commercials.
Article has no info on what this "new calibration technique" is whatsoever. The linked paper has the following to say on what the calibration strategy is:

> [Abstract:] Here we present a calibration strategy to correct for the ionosphere in the decametre band. [End of abstract.] Get Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription 24,99 € / 30 days cancel any time

I wonder if that's why the article doesn't know either. Useful submission.

Edit: Per this banned post, <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40329535>, the technique is:

> First, instrumental effects are corrected by using 3C196 [a quasar] as a calibrator source. Next, differential Faraday rotation and phase corrections for first and third-order ionospheric effects were obtained for the whole field of view

Where do they get the phase corrections from though? Sounds like a rest of the owl, but then I'm just a lay person casually interested so I'm probably just missing something
one example of an "AI" chip might be Google's TPUs. in general it's about the optimization of calculations that are useful in the AI context.
Thanks! Certainly two entirely different visuals.
Id offer to physically help. But not hand over any money. Could even move smaller items in my small van. would take several trips however.
It's a joke (this isn't clear if you're not familiar with the publisher).
Sell family house for 500k, get apartment 250k, 250k to live off.

Sell family house for 1M, get apartment 500k, 500k to live off.

What am I missing?
I've been listening to the Kinks, what rhymes with global tree restoration potential?
#teamtrees and green walls don't scale.

First things first.. we need soil. Good soil requires large herds of free animals (not CAFOs). We need this. Not for meat agriculture, but for soil and ecological management.

https://blog.ted.com/fighting-the-growing-deserts-with-lives... (video, 2013)
Give up on the ponzi scheme?
Actually you have. It is called token ring. Except it is painful to support and we all hate it. Strangely the same philosophy get you Ethernet … ether does not exist. We just do not 100% sure about delivery. And strangely in those days to think this work. And ip as well.
If SoftBank sells shares owned by SoftBank, it is SoftBank that gets the money, not ARM. If ARM needs money (e.g., to fund the development of AI chips) it can create additional shares (in ARM) and sell those.
We are talking about megastructures taking millenia to be build, requiring more resources than the ones that can be found in a single solar system, and that probably requires materials that may not be possible at all.

And they are an answer for a problem that we, with our limited knowledge, can think of. They may be the wrong answer for civilizations that should be far more advanced than us to be able try to do something like that.

But taking an idea similar to the Three Body Problem one. What your civilization should do if within a reasonable distance you find a Dyson sphere already built or in process of building, specially if it is far outside your technological capabilities, and knowing that if they require a Dyson Sphere then that civilization is actively expansive? Doing something to harm that may be a reasonable course of action, and it may not require very advanced technology (like sending an accelerating device that don't need to slow down).
When Social Security was first passed into law it was sold to the public as a sort of compulsory annuity, not a means of mass wealth redistribution.
This whole site reads like LLM-generated garbage. The domain was registered a week ago, yet it has random pages dated 2022: https://www.geekynews.org/0222blog

And… that page is plagiarized from https://www.ihg.com/crowneplaza/hotels/us/en/dublin/dblbl/ho...

This looks to be a mix of stolen/plagiarized copy and LLM-regurgitated crap.
Students I knew who had him as a lecturer referred to it (derisively) as Martin’s Completely Perfect Language.
There is noting wrong and it is probably better to use 'xattr -d -r' since an .app file is just a directory structure.
> ELI5 mv^2/2

Imagine a car is moving at a speed of 10 m/s. The driver hits the brakes. How much distance does it need to stop?

The main idea is that brakes have a constant force, and the change in speed is always constant. Let's say they reduce the speed in 1 m/s each second.

The first second the car travels 10 m and the new speed is 9 m/s.

The second second the car travels 9 m and the new speed is 8 m/s.

The third second the car travels 8 m and the new speed is 7 m/s.

...

The ninth second the car travels 2 m and the new speed is 1 m/s.

The tenth second the car travels 1 m and the new speed is 0 m/s.

So the total distance until it stops is 10+9+8+7+6+5+4+3+2+1. If you make a pile of bloks and you put first 10, then 9 over them, then 8 over them, .... you get a nice triange. The base is 10 and the heigh is 10, so the total number of blocks is 10*10/2. [1] [2]

So the car needs 10*10/2 m to stop. You can repeat the calculation with other initial speeds, and the result is V*V/2.

I'm not sure if it's intuitive, but the energy is proportional to the distance to stop.

Another posibility is to throw a toy car verticaly, and calculate how hight it goes. It's the same calculation. The maximal height is V*V/2. I think it's easier to imagine that energy is proportional to maximal height.

[1] If you actually count them, the result is 55 insted of 50, more details in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss_sum , but 10*10/2 is a good aproximation.

[2] If you split the time in half seconds and use smaller and smaller blocks, and then use calculus, you get 10*10/2.
That's opting into a 401k, essentially. Employers often match employee contributions to some amount. But it's not compulsory nor is it universally available. IRAs are, however.
The earliest Intel chips (8086) had an extra add-on to do floating point math in hardware, instead of software (8087). There’s a lot of “AI” workloads that include a lot of matrix multiplication, which the Google TPU and the Nvidia tensor cores implement in hardware instead of software.
Whether or not our citizens should have the right to do something seems rarely related to whether the UK government sticks its noses in our business to make sure we aren't.
I highly recommend Adam Curtis’s documentaries for anyone who has not watched.
We're the government. We're here to help deregulate and throw consumers to the wolves of surprise billing. - Enron & Reaganomics
How can they not? Did MS spin custom ARM parts with inference acceleration? And Apple has "neural processing" on their parts. And Qualcomm says the elite X is built for AI...

Seems like there are 2 plays here, there is inference training and then there is the end user inference acceleration. I expect they'll avoid the training side in gen1 but make some standard instruction additions that will become available on all ARM parts in the next couple years.
I don’t really get this attitude. Sydney harbour is beautiful because it’s green.
Life imitates art: the ending of Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956):

https://youtu.be/8J3dbXEBjOA?si=wZ0yK7iPuSAAC84r
I think downsizing was always part of the original calculus.

The advice I’ve always heard was get a starter house, once you’ve got enough invested and more income upgrade, eventually downgrading to a bungalow which helps pay for your end of life.

However, bungalows are going for way more than other house types because of all the simultaneous demand.
You're not missing anything. There's a subset of HN that sees greedy real estate speculators everywhere, even in a simple elderly couple with a simple retirement plan that involved owning exactly one home.
Ah! ok - that makes sense. Thank you. So it would be a specialised chip with a load of hardcoded functions, kind of like an ASIC?
Want an easier way to update your Embedded Linux device?
Dark matter is more of an observation than a theory. The gravitational motions of galaxies doesn't really make sense without it (and with dark matter + General Relativity, it fits perfectly, so we have good reason to believe it exists).

There are a few different theories on what dark matter is; there's axions, supersymmetry (from string theory), cold dark matter and more.
- Low ping

- AWP

- Young reflexes

- Fearlessness

- Not following the crowds, but anticipating where the crowds will be

- Skywalking https://youtu.be/WCoxpSIc-js

;)
The article said SoftBank was going to invest $64 billion in this? After ARM develops the AI chips they are going to spin that department out into a separate company, with SoftBank making the investment in it.

Right now ARM is worth >50% more than SoftBank itself. It seems odd that they are still holding 90%, and also committing so much cash for future investments.
This should have been handled the same way Mozilla handles Firefox. KeepAssXC developers, file for trademark protection and then send a cease and desist to Debian legal.

If they want to misrepresent your application to Debian users, they'll have to do it under a different name or not at all.
i used it through work so idk how the landlord side of things works

isn't it like AirBnB but for offices? isn't that good? like obviously there are complaints about AirBnB and stuff but it let your average person list their spaces
Interesting. My brother had a very similar experience with an ASUS laptop when doing a RMA several months ago, in Europe. It seems that it's systemic.
Lotto winners I can see. Given that it’s a government scheme and they are already making a hefty profit, tax on top seems like double dipping.
But it's charge would be negated, since charge is one of the parameters, no? Not sure it affects anything tho.
In money laundering there is generally a problem of too much money and a chain of people too dangerous to say no to. This leads to stupid mistakes like this.
I thought a project on GitHub reached 100k stars… I need to touch more grass.
There are studies showing positive health outcomes for ASD on a gluten free diet, as well as for epilepsy and schizophrenia. Here [1] is a comment with some links, the featured article might also be interesting.

I have a lot of food allergies and a restaurant in Maryland that specializes in restricted diets pointed some of the research out to me. You can find scores of families with ASD children who have found dietary interventions to be beneficial.

The studies I have seen talk about something called exorphins, it sounded like people with ASD's bodies treat gluten like an opiate.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39194978
GPT4 has been a lot more useful to me than most normal people I interact with.
I think a simple touché would've been enough, you both made valid points.
I (not a physicist) had the impression that it was mostly discarded too. This article from 2022 seems to contradict that: https://theconversation.com/dark-matter-our-review-suggests-...

It doesn't mention the Bullet Cluster though.
or maybe your successful coworkers and your close relative have two completely distinct conditions that don’t actually exist along a continuum
Here ARC refers to Art Renewal Center, I think.
From the article, it seems that needing to drive all over is a big deal, unlike a more close-knit community. I'm 75 and moved from a suburb where I could walk to the corner store and even a nice lake (walking is great for seniors) to the boondocks.

Divorce and home sale.

Now, the downtown (tourist trap) is 12 miles away, and all the stores I really like are 50 miles away. The driving is a bit much. I am very much liking the prospect of less driving, neighbors who aren't preppers, and less than the 3 feet of front stairs. I'm still strong and can lug a table saw up the stairs, but why ... like that 40 pound cooler with my shopping?

Community becomes more important. You want some friends nearby, as well as shopping, and medical facilities. I'm 50 miles from the V.A. medical center and ophthalmologist. Handy is dandy.

There's a small place for sale near my daughter's for a mere $680K, with many miles of walking trails, so I don't really need the gym and pool, which come with a HOA fee of over $500/month. Close-packed condos, so lose the workshop, and worry if I am going to go to war over the small grand piano. (I have a Roland keyboard from my married days with a shift-worker partner, but it ain't the same, even if I upgrade it when I can't keep repairing it. )

Working on the cure ... Everyone's wants and needs are different, except for basics. Out of concern, the family bought me an Apple Watch, mainly for the emergency calling.
China's Dead-End Economy Is Bad News for Everyone
I’ve read so much through the years on this, and I feel like it’s our Emperor’s Clothes - people pretend to understand, but does anyone actually understand this magic? Like not theoretically-superficially but in practice, or am I just too dumb to see the King’s new attire?
About 15 years ago my dad accidentally carried a pocket knife in his carry-on for about half a dozen different business trips before the TSA found it (he had used the same bag for a camping trip a month or two before). That it took so long to find destroyed what little trust we already had that the TSA was any more than security theater.
I’m also big on Asrock and I don’t understand how it’s not a more popular manufacturer
Well that’s now a different claim.

When I was growing up in the suburbs of NYC, everyone’s grandparents moved to Florida. That’s further away than Chicago.
Where can we fund more information about this?
South Africa has extreme ethnic-based socioeconomic inequality. Most all white and some black people live in home-sized fortresses rather than solve the underlying problems.
Not only that.

He was intellectual honest and technically exceptional.
The recourse is impeachment.
The article says, "Mass production . . . is slated to commence in the fall of 2025. Once a mass-production system is established, the AI chip business could be spun off and placed under SoftBank."

Again, if ARM needs money, ARM needs to sell something ARM owns or to take out a loan. SoftBank's selling something SoftBank owns does not by itself increase ARM's cash even a little. (A company can create new shares in itself at any time, so one of the things ARM can sell is newly-created shares in ARM. As soon as ARM creates new ARM shares, SoftBank's ownership share in ARM goes down from 90% to less than 90% unless SoftBank buys some of those new shares.)
> gravity is still fairly strong about 6000km from the centre

Sounds like the centre is what creates gravity. But there's weightlessness at the Earth center. It's the sum gravity force of all Earth particles that creates total gravity.
What Happens to the Developers When AI Can Code?
Why do you admire Wiles so much?
Really? It's literally money won through a game. It would seem taxing it heavily makes more sense than telling someone working 40 hours a week at $15/hr they should be paying taxes instead.
> ...devil you know is better...

Yes. Losing 15% of your income to jump into an even more unpleasant environment would suck.

Your current job doesn't sound all that bad. Wait for a 10% bump before switching.
thanks for the reply!

i agree that there will always be things to dislike in any company. agile is ramping up hard in the company i work for and guess everyone's adapting in his or her own way..

the lower-salary job is less invested in standups/sprints and the like, and smaller overall, so i think there'd be less micro-management, but again, working 200 hours overtime a year (that's 1.5~ months extra) just to get back to the previous paycheque is a tough call.