skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree...

Just a note: we are NOT 10x slower than Python. I think a lot of people got the wrong message from this thread. HVM is actually quite fast already. It is just that, on this specific program, Python was doing no allocations, while HVM was allocating a lot.

If you compare programs that do the same allocation, HVM already outperforms not just Python but even compiled languages like Haskell/GHC, due to using all cores. See the Bitonic Sort example. And that's extremely relevant, because real world programs in high-level languages allocate a lot!

I think I made a huge mistake of using a "sum" example on the GUIDE, since it is actually one of the few specific programs where HVM will do poorly today.
I’m guessing the payment processors of Spotify are at least routing through KYC and basic control.

Tornado is flagrantly mixing with known offenders, and even indicated them as such in the UI.
Fusion reactors will probably never be economical.

It's the railgun problem: railguns let you trade complicated, unstable ammunition for cheap, stable slugs of metal. But the railgun imposes so much wear on its barrel, and the barrel itself is so much more expensive than in a traditional gun, that you've obliterated your cost savings.

Likewise, it's irrelevant if fusion reactors can provide infinite energy from a single gram of hydrogen, because the reactor housing itself will be an impossibly complex machine with an extremely low lifespan from dealing with the energies involved.

Is fusion possible? Probably. Will it ever be more economical than solar panels? Nope.
If you are on the level to think about building a Dyson sphere, you are probably also able to create solid matter from the star's energy itself and the other matter floating around the star system. At that point, it's more a question of how long it takes, then how you do it.
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This is the impression that I got from reading Wikipedia and quotes from his lawyer, so I wouldn't call it underreported.

Someone elsewhere in this thread linked me to a video where McBride explained that the top brass knew about actual war crimes (e.g. Ben Roberts-Smith,) and wanted to appear to be doing something, so they tasked McBride with prosecuting a scapegoat (whom McBride believed innocent) and that was what caused him to to start gathering and leaking documents.
Unicorns are made entirely with known biology. That doesn't mean funding a search for them is a good use of resources.

SETI is a valid research priority. There's plenty of less speculative signs we can look for.
First AI news anchor unveiled in China (2018)
"""China’s state news agency Xinhua this week introduced the newest members of its newsroom: AI anchors who will report “tirelessly” all day every day, from anywhere in the country.

Chinese viewers were greeted with a digital version of a regular Xinhua news anchor named Qiu Hao. The anchor, wearing a red tie and pin-striped suit, nods his head in emphasis, blinking and raising his eyebrows slightly.

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“Not only can I accompany you 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. I can be endlessly copied and present at different scenes to bring you the news,” he says.

Xinhua also presented an English-speaking AI, based on another presenter, who adds: “The development of the media industry calls for continuous innovation and deep integration with the international advanced technologies … I look forward to bringing you brand new news experiences.”

Developed by Xinhua and the Chinese search engine, Sogou, the anchors were developed through machine learning to simulate the voice, facial movements, and gestures of real-life broadcasters, to present a “a lifelike image instead of a cold robot,” according to Xinhua."""
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There's a good chance your smoker was technically illegal, if you didn't have 10 foot clearance around it with no "flammable objects" in it.

The NYPD doesn't generally enforce that law so much except in poor neighborhoods or if your landlord reports you.
The day to day problem will mainly exist because our computer systems are down.
This was a tremendous write-up. I appreciate the detail including your ingressd setup. I agree, though, that this is a pain. It's for this reason that we made Cloud Seeder [1] so you can have hands-free setup of your homelab and IPv6rs for painless ingress [2] </shameless>

[1] https://github.com/ipv6rslimited/cloudseeder

[2] https://ipv6.rs
I don't see the project. Just a sell page.
> AFAICT it is completely missing reinforcement learning

There's no RL in there, nor diffusion. There are many other very interesting papers that I think have lots more to offer — but I just have a master's degree here. I am not a phd let alone a distinguished researcher.
We (thus far) have not been able to send him to gaol because the civil standard of proof is on the balance of probabilities but the criminal standard is beyond a reasonable doubt. Ben Roberts-Smith has been shown to have committed war crimes on the balance of probabilities, but not beyond a reasonable doubt.

I think that the government would probably prefer he be locked up, since the current situation is the worst of both worlds: he is legally a war criminal, but remains embarrassingly free and unpunished by the criminal justice system.
> You said the disappearance of content was a feature, not a bug. If it is a feature it was designed.

It wasn’t designed, it’s just a very common metaphor about the perception of things rather than the way they came to life.
It means that we should embrace it instead of trying to fix it.

> You now speak about entropy, which one?

Boltzmann. A system where information is preserved forever through the arrangement of energy states is highly improbable, so regardless of individual moral choices and the effort it will fall apart by the laws of nature.
If you make a system that by design can't meet the legal requirements for preventing money laundering, that's not actually a good defense. It's the opposite.
Are there any businessses of any notable size that are using Facebook alone? Local businesses near me have plenty of info on Google Maps. The website if they have one is usually out of date, but calling them directly answers my questions.
Almost forgot about how Carmack is the one that will give the world AGI...Easy to take the eyes of the ball with all these OpenAI and Google distractions...
> red dwarf stars, which are much more active and shorter-lived than white dwarfs.

I was under the impression that red dwarfs are the longest-lived stars.
I already explained. Evidence. Looking for the unknown does not necessitate looking for a specific highly speculative technology that there is zero evidence for and zero reason to believe exists other than it's a cool idea.
This is a good thing. In an age of information overload, an Internet that never contracts sounds overwhelming.
There's Mathrioshka Brain https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrioshka_brain which uses the energy then and there for computation.
My contrarian take is that eventually k8s will be recognized as the overcomplication it is; and better methods of managing less than 10,000 VMs will be researched and used.
The technology for a Dyson sphere is primarily the technology for suspension bridges, solar farms, and intensive hydroponics (all well understood) + the technology for the ISS (well understood at this point). The only missing piece there is a fully sustainable (i.e. only energy input) life support system, which we have existence proofs for on Earth but haven't built to reliable engineering standards yet. If we have the material, we could start building it today and get designs that worked well quickly, even if we had to ship in life support maintenance alongside computer chips & pharmaceuticals.

The part we don't know how to do yet is getting the material. Building structures that large in space, the resources for it have to come from space, we cannot lift it off Earth. So we need to figure out how to mine asteroids, and maybe also how to mine Mercury. Either one would be sufficient at the start. Neither of those are a well-understood problem, let alone solved, so that's where you should invest resources if you're a billionaire looking to start a Dyson sphere and think SpaceX is on track for launch cost reduction.

I think in terms of science and engineering difficulty, it's a pretty even race as to which is more difficult between making fusion actually produce net useful energy and being able to mine & refine materials from an asteroid + build a sustainable life support system.

The reason fusion "seems easier" is because it is economically far more achievable, and there's a lot more political will behind it so it feels more possible.
At the same time MS & Co. try to force everyone in to the cloud.

So if MS Azure AD goes down everyone goes down too.
Yup, prerequisites is all you need. I can go through any course of study in a week as long as I'd mastered it before.
If it comes packaged with the constant barrage of ridicule and abuse from others for daring to be slightly wrong about something, nobody may as well talk at all.
I call this movement the operator tool.

Tools will no longer need operators as adding multi modality to tools will ensure we can actually have the operator interface on top of the tool.

Tuning the operator is where the playing field shifts to as operators which can translate fuzzy inputs to creative specs or workflows which can in turn be executed by the downstream engine.
Native UI for anything that requires polish. I’ve been through too many iterations of frameworks that promise everything and don’t deliver. You’re up and running faster, then soon after you’re patching the core libraries after an OS update to try to get the FPS closer to native, or match a system animation more closely. The time saving only exist if you never polish your UI.

Core logic can be shared. I use gomobile - mostly love it but 3mb overhead for runtime (so not for web). Kotlin multi platform looked good, but I found it missing pretty basic libraries (which exist for Kotlin Android, so no one is building multi platform equivalents). Rust with Mozilla’s language binding layer looks good but I haven’t tried it.
Fair. To be honest the space shuttle out of all animals it looks the most alike to an orca. So it seems a thing can look similar both to an orca and a space ship.
That is nothing..Sam Altman did it, on his way to this podcast... https://youtu.be/4gASfaRWe7s
I really hope that is the case too, but for now Kubernetes sucked all the oxygen out of the room for everything else :(
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Its important to only purchase organic Dyson spheres.
That is retrocomputing, not homelabbing. Look into the sub-$200 Intel N100 based systems with 16GB RAM.
Digital encryption was heavily restricted (at least in the US) until the 1990s. Its genesis during the Cold War likely played a part in that, which may be to your point.
Tornado Cash doesn't maintain accounts for those users. They are using Ethereum accounts created completely independently of Tornado Cash.

The contracts are permissionless. Any Ethereum account can call the "deposit" function. That same account can generate a zk-proof of the deposit. Any Ethereum account can withdraw, provided they have a proof of deposit.

The proof of deposit could be communicated in any number of ways that have nothing to do with Tornado Cash - mail, email, Signal, whatever.

If the account into which you are receiving a withdrawal doesn't have money to pay for the transaction, you can send your proof to a relayer who submits the transaction for a portion of the withdrawal amount. Because it's a zero-knowledge proof, the relayer does not know which account made the initial deposit.

The whole system is private and permissionless. I don't know what Tornado Cash could do other than simply indicating that a known bad actor made a deposit.
The one flutter website I have come across is an absolute piece of garbage. Completely destroys the ability to modify or even inspect the HTML source. See for yourself

https://sunrisetv.ch/de/vod/1/details/vod/crid:~~2F~~2Fog.li...
True. And does anyone talk bad about the two Google founders? They are pretty much invisible multi-billionaires now. That is a major accomplishment!
Sports forums too. I find that user stickiness there is pretty good because the Reddit sports subs are simply too large, and have an Eternal September/zero-friction problem, as joining it is a click away.

However, if you managed to find the forum on a search engine and took the trouble to sign up for an account, you are more likely to abide by the general vibe of the place, rather than Redditize it with shallow, meme-y comments that reliably get a lot of upvotes.
Perhaps they are stock options and leaving without signing would make them evaporate, but signing turns them back into long-lasting options?
In relation to English, sure. But above compares Dutch to German, and they are both Germanic languages, and I think utilize compound words heavily. Looking at sibling comments, maybe those numbers are exaggerated.
> initially it had a 1 in 9 chance of failure, later missions getting to 1 in 90

Interesting. I didn't know that it improved so much during the project lifetime. Was it due to a few single changes or a bunch of tiny improvements moving the needle only in aggregate by that much?
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I'm Dutch, I live in Germany. The language and grammar are different enough that I struggle with German.

Well, it's another language... there is always going to be a learning curve, especially beyond a certain age. My wife is German and picked up Dutch pretty quickly. Vice versa, I lived in Germany for five years and even though I barely put in any effort (and we speak Dutch at home), I found German fairly easy to pick up.

There's also the notion that the Dutch grammar has been changed quite a bit over the years and used to resemble German a lot more.

That's certainly true for case marking (with which Dutch often struggle with when speaking German), but again in terms of word order, grammatical gender, etc. they are still very similar and certainly more similar than Engish and Dutch are.

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English is much easier than German for most Dutch people for various reasons, including: more years of English education (starting during primary education, being mandatory up to VWO 6); subtitled movies; continuous exposure to English through media, internet, etc. The generation of my grandparents were often much better at German than English, they had a lot more exposure to German radio/television, travel was much less international, so they'd usually go to Germany, Belgium, or France when going abroad, etc.
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Same in Hungarian, they are usually written as a single word if the components together create a specific meaning or form a distinct conceptual unit, which is distinct from the individual meanings of the words.

For instance, "autógyár" (car factory) is a compound word made up of "autó" (car) and "gyár" (factory).

I suspect the reasoning is the same for Dutch.
I've been wondering what are the good papers about long context-related research. They listed a handful of papers about that on page 9. Is this a good reading list? They don't say this is what they do.
Yes: https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/03e3de416...
Probably did not see him as a future billionaire.
> The only service being run is a web client and relayers to permissionless smart contracts. I believe these are/were being run by a foundation.

They didn't build a service because it's "just" a web client and relayers is an interesting take but sadly, very stupid.
I love forums. I've kept the DIY Book Scanner forum online since... 2009? Recently (last two years) these damn AI scrapers have killed PHPBB over and over again. They got me kicked off my shared web hosting plan by abusing search and other forum features.

I upgraded to VPS for $500. The other admin spent 15-20 hours fixing/troubleshooting/transferring. And you know what? At the end of all this, I paid to give my data to these jerks, to keep it online for them to harvest. The forums are dead quiet.

Now I think, Discord is fine. They'll just sell the data to AI companies directly, the burden won't fall on me.
> What I wrote about is not GC. The other comments about reference counting also unfortunately completely miss the point I made.

I know. I mentioned the GC because of another comment and because reference counting and GCs are the two usual general ways (that I know of) for automating memory management. That's what I had in mind.

Unless I'm misunderstanding, arena allocators are most useful for categories of objects with similar lifetimes and are not in the fully automated category. Because if I have multiple arena allocators, I still have to manually assign an allocator when creating an object and also deal with the lifetimes of the allocators themselves.

Easier than allocating/deallocating individual objects in main memory with malloc, true, and probably more efficient, but still not fully automated, so in my mind they have different use cases.

But it's possible that I haven't really understood them, so if I'm mistaken about their use, please don't leave me in the dark.
If that makes me look like a junior wannabe, I think I can take it. Even the people who know their stuff had some point when they didn't..
The are two salient differences here:

1) You are a thinking adult - or a thoughtful teenager :) - and therefore you understand copyright law well enough to take responsibility for copyright law, and in particular you are capable of having standing in legal matters. AI is not, but it is quite capable of creating infringing code (eg GNU stuff) that human reviewers wouldn't even know was infringing. So it is much better for any honest and competent organization to ban commercial LLMs entirely. (I am fine with in-house solutions with 100% validated training data...but those aren't very good yet, are they?)

2) I am a broken record on this, but the biggest problem with the "stochastic parrots" analogy is that transformer ANNs are dramatically dumber than parrots, or any other jawed vertebrate (I am not sure about lampreys). As applied to code generation: when I first tested ChatGPT-3.5, I was shocked to discover it was plagiarizing hundreds of lines of F#, verbatim, including from my own GitHub. Obviously that's outrageous in terms of OpenAI's ethics. But it is also amazing how dumb the AI is! Imagine a human programmer who is highly proficient in Python, and pretty good at Haskell, yet despite reading every public F# project in GitHub it can't solve intermediate F# problems without shameless copying.

It is a completely misleading comparison to say that humans reading source code is anything like transformers learning patterns in text. The most depressing thing about the current AI bubble is watching tech folks devalue human intelligence - especially since the primary motivation is excusing the failures of a computer which is less intelligent than a single honeybee.
> There are just way too many cheaper and more efficient storage methods for electricity like pumped hydro and battery storage.

Pumped hydro is cheaper and more efficient. But AFAIK there isn't much potential for new capacity in areas where it'd be needed.
Batteries are more efficient. But cheaper per kWh stored for 6 months than power-to-gas-to-turbine? I don't think so.
At say USD 500 per kWh battery, 1 GWh would cost USD 500 MM.
But seasonal storage is likelier in the TWh magnitude. 500 billion then.

550 MW electrolyzers (* 0.5 a * gas turbine efficiency 0.4 = ~ 1 TWh electricity), methanation plants, 2.5 TWh salt caverns and say 5 GW gas turbine plants to store 1 TWh for the 6 months that have less solar+wind than the other 6 would cost a lot less than 500 billion I assume.

> .. ammonia is more useful as an agrochemical than as an energy storage medium.

I think this will change.
You don't transport/consume the petawatts of the world's deserts via HVDC to somewhere to 100 % immediately use them. You'll ship them in the form of some molecule. Which could well be ammonia.

> With regards to seasonal storage, it isn't as big of an issue as you would think.

The combination of PV/wind isn't perfect though. The more of it there is, the larger the storage needed to flatten the seasonal fluctuations.

It comes down to whether one assumes that either (A) electricity demand will adapt to some seasonal pattern (meaning that economic activity might fluctuate in synchrony) or (B) that economic activity will drive deployment of technology such that electricity consumption can be mostly even throughout the year.

I'd guess B is more likely.
s/gathering/harvesting/, maybe?

I'm guessing it's more like making a living space in the sphere itself or somewhere nearby and using the energy there (maybe exporting some percentage to Earth).

Because if we're able to build the sphere itself, we probably would already know some way to cool it down in space so it doesn't burn itself, wasting all the money that went to its construction.
“The wavelength of light from a radiating body is determined entirely by the temperature of that body and for any temperature we're likely to see, that means infrared radiation.“

IR metamaterials change this, you can alter matter at the nanoscale and completely change it’s black body .
Thanks for elaborating! I'm a retired grunt and tech is just a hobby for me. I host my own Gitea with the same challenges, but to me looking up cron patterns etc. is the norm, not the exception, so I don't think much about it.
So every time I have a 1/10th chance to find some useful information on some subreddit, I should pay 3$ for that same chance?
It is not really a speculative technology. A Dyson Swarm is doable within our existing technological base. If we are capable of building an artificial satellite, we can build a dyson swarm.
It is too bad he didn't follow up on "we give control to foreign clouds" with "we need European data sovereignty, our governments need to choose local cloud providers".

Because they exist. I work for one.

The cloud is just someone else's computer. But if that someone else is your neighbor, they may be motivated by the same things as you, and can contribute helpfully to your goals.
Love this characterization of brutalism.
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How long until Monero is given the same untouchable status as Tornado Cash?

I can’t fathom what’s wrong with Tornado Cash when I can have the same privacy with real cash. Just because my transaction is on the internet, I shouldn’t be forced to de-anonymize
> What am I missing?

The scale.

The reason to build a Dyson Sphere (or Swarm) is that you want all (or at least a large fraction) of the energy output of a star. To "build decentralized fusion reactors" that can provide the same scale of energy is even less practical than building a shell around a star and would require far more materials! Also, fusion is really simple when the ignition energy is provided for free by the gravitational compression of something the size of a star, and not so simple when you're trying to get it started on a small scale using any other form of energy for ignition. The bottom line is we don't really know if small-scale, controlled, net-energy-positive fusion is possible at all, but if it is it has a lot of overhead costs... you then have to deal with ignition energy, containment, etc. You're trying to make a mini-star and keep it tame. The physics are not favorable to this, they are favorable to star-sized stars, where gravity and fusion energy pressure can balance each other for millions of years.