skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I worked at Google and occasionally did things for YT, but it was 2015 and before. I did look at their P&L, somewhat.

egress costs were enormous and YT was not profitable. I don't know if it is now, but I wouldn't be surprised to find it is. They sure have enough ads.

As several people say below, caching content around the world is key, so that not all requests are serviced in NoCal.
Where? His blog looks normal
Certainly still worth learning CNNs. Still unclear if ViT is better. And there's certainly enough for a full course on CNNs and a separate course on vision transformers.
I think there's practical value to knowing what would make a very complex AI system conscious in order to explicitly and intentionally avoid it - we want to create powerful artificial systems to do all the tasks that humans don't want to do, but there's no reason for those systems to have the capability to experience suffering by being 'enslaved' to do all these tasks; arguably consciousness isn't necessary nor useful for any of these tasks[1], and unless it turns out to be an unalienable side-effect of some critical mass of capability, we'd rather not have these systems be conscious.

[1] I can imagine a few roles with relationship-building where expressing consciousness could be useful, but IMHO for all of them faking consciousness would be far preferable than actually having it.
Wegovy is becoming too essential for its elite price
> But it's a lot less black and white than you seem to feel.

That's the problem. The concept of what is reasonable is too nebulous to rely on.

Also people are quite simply really dumb. You can make some innocuous statement like "others have found nasal rinses to be beneficial", and some idiot will get themselves hospitalized with a draining abscess in their face. It turns out that person decided their nasal rinse was going to be alternating eucalyptus oil and bone broth because someone on Facebook said that was the most healing, and they claim that you as their doctor said it was OK. The case gets escalated to you having to explain to the board that you didn't make any such claim, but because there is a record of you saying that nasal rinses can be beneficial, it can be at the discretion of a "reasonable person" if that skirted too close to their line of culpability for the injury that the person sustained.

The solution is to stick close to what is accepted medicine, and if people want to complain about establishment medicine, then let them. Doctors understand there is safety in the herd.
Admitting that I don't know the geology in Japan at all well...

At the Straits of Messina, the tunnel would be crossing an active rift zone ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siculo-Calabrian_rift ). That rift is the source of those big earthquakes - such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1908_Messina_earthquake - which was at the Straits, magnitude 7.1, and killed ~75k people. And for extra bonus fun - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_etna - is one of the world's most active volcanoes, part of that active rift zone, and less than 80km from the Straits.

(Vs. the geological maps I can find seem to show that the Seikan tunnel does not cross any sort of active fault.)
New Gemini's models Free Tier is not available in the EU
Stay closer, now they're putting heatsinks on controller chips of SSDs :D
My 15 year old videos with 30 views still load nearly instantly. It’s as close to hot as hot is
https://archive.ph/tc4Cp
YARA is on every Mac and about half of corporate laptops.
Interesting background. I worked twice in digital video, once ~2000-2001 (ancient history - early IP, ISDN, the dead-end of H.323, bonded GSM channels, etc.) and once ~2009-2010. The second episode was fascinating, we specialised in mobile video at a time when it was just appearing on the consumer market. Most of the global mobile device manufacturers were clients. It got to the point where they would build the hardware and we would get airdropped in to their R&D to make it work - they had no idea how performant the architecture was going to be, because they'd never tried it. We also built the server side, the billing architecture with revenue share, carrier billing support (only possible with device preloaded apps due to Google Play (then "Google Apps"?) store restrictions on third party payment mechanisms), etc.

Encoding, scaling and transcoding are relatively cheap for stored content, and relatively expensive if you want real or near-real time.

If you want DRM (digital rights management = ~ineffective copy protection) then you need to add a bit more overhead for that, both in terms of processing and latency. If you need multi-DRM (different DRM systems for different devices the consumer owns) and a good cross-device experience (like pause and resume across devices), it gets real hard real fast.

It helps to be targeting a standard platform, for example a modern widescreen TV with H.265 support and solid 4K decoding. Otherwise you need a different version for every resolution, a different version for every CODEC, a different version for every bitrate, etc. We had great experience adjusting bitrates and encoding parameters for different device categories, for example if you had a certain phone and you ran it at max spec it might look great but if you were looking to preserve battery and were running on battery save mode the decode would fail and you'd get choppy performance and stuttering audio. This sort of thing was rife then.

As a series of specialist video providers emerged, ~all the cloud providers went and added these services, basically 95% of which are frontends to ffmpeg and some internal cloud storage scheme or similar.

Finally, billing is hard. Users have an expectation of free content now.

No experience with real time stream economics, but saw the inside of LA's stadium video control center one day. Didn't look inexpensive, I'll tell you that much. Probably for events with multiple cameras you're mostly paying site fees, ie. reliable bandwidth, humans, mixing desk if required. For studio broadcast these costs will be reduced. Both will have a slight real time encoding tax vs. stored content. If you want to figure out how to do it cheaply, look at the porn industry.
> "You can have free speech as long as you only speak quietly in your own closet." The power to curate information or "amplify" it as you say is practically very hard to distinguish from censorship when you choose to show only things you agree with, or show only the worst straw men for the other side.

No platform owes you the right to amplify nonsense. The government can’t make you stop, but individual platforms or individuals themselves? They’re free to do whatever, just like you. Don’t like it? Start a Truth Social and go yell at your adoring fans all you want.

> Conspiring to suppress conspiracy theories sure won't make them stop. Being right and showing positive results to the contrary is what wins the day.

While that’s a cute thought, conspiracy theorists are exceptionally good at one thing: theorizing conspiracies. “Being right” doesn’t happen, ever, because any positive results can simply be walked back as “part of another conspiracy.”

The way you kill conspiracy theories is not amplifying them as truth. That’s it.
Bingo, YT has always been a loss leader for Google dominance. Only recently have they squeezed the ads knob to maybe generate a profit but I’d bet it’s nothing like the high margin AdWords cash cow.
It sure doesn’t feel free. YouTube has cranked the ads up so frickin’ high that I swear they’re quietly in panic mode about profitability.

Every month I notice the temperature of the pot is up a few degrees. This month it’s unskippable 15 second ads before most videos. Last month it was the first search result now being an ad. Before that it was how 5 second ads are now 7 seconds.

If I thought to write them all down I’d have a dozen more steps to share.

My kids now call it “the Bad YouTube” vs. YouTube Kids because the former is flooded with ads.
Both of these redirect to google for me. I suppose these are endpoints specific for google ads.

Is that your point? That is, do you mean that the website uses google's ads, which can collect user data and google might identify the website's users based on that?
Er, no… that’s literally just the truth. Science is not done as a public debate. That’s politics.

Science doesn’t “vote.”
There's literally an image of Anya pointing at Karpathy on this GitHub page.
Seeing Anya (the girl pointing at pictures), I'd guess the author is partial to Japanese culture. As their writing system does not have a concept of upper/lower case, he might just have determined that they are superfluous. Or he is simply an eccentric. Though I guess this is one of the things that some folks will not care and others getting hung up mightily.

I personally don't really mind that bit of capitalization that English does. German is much worse.
In North America, traditionally Calculus is where you learn how to use the techniques to solve problems, and analysis is where you actually learn how to prove that it all is true.

But I have to correct you on the history. Essentially none of the material in a modern analysis course is the same as in Cauchy's day. You identify integration as coming after. But Cauchy didn't have a definition of a limit, axioms for the real numbers, a construction of the real numbers, set theory, the modern idea of open and closed sets, and so on and so forth.
No, but it demonstrates they have at least $31 billion to make it all work.
It's not just a good idea; it's the law
"Cheap"

OpenAI loves to talk revenue but I'd like to hear more about their unit economics.
While the odds are low, it's not impossible... Many popular languages today started as passion projects
Anyone who says "bandwidth costs are not really that bad" should spend 2 minutes playing with the AWS cost calculator.

You would think the VMs are the expensive part, but no, egress is easily multiple times the cost of the compute.
You are indeed right. I'm not sure how to efficiently implement a median here though, because a single frame is around 120MB large already. I assume I could/should compute the median over only a few frames to limit memory consumption and feed the result into the moving (arithmetic) average?

I'm also not entirely sure if computing the average of the non-linear "raw" sensor data which is what I did so far is a good or a bad idea / how it interacts at the endpoints of the value range.
From personal experience, exposure does not lead to lasting immunity. Quite the opposite. I've had several intense exposure rashes that were debilitating, like not being able to walk properly for a week due to leg swelling. And I still get rashes from poison oak.

Maybe there's a bit of short term immunity from severe exposure. I've never tested that since the discomfort from an intense rash makes me avoid exposure like the plague for a few years.
The economics are simple:

> I know advertisements are a thing for YT, but is it enough?

Yes, it is -- virtually certainly. We can assume YouTube is profitable. It's not broken out directly in quarterly reports, but it doesn't make any sense that Google would still be running it after all these years (almost 20) if it weren't.

But obviously YouTube didn't start out as profitable. You need scale, which provides two things:

1) Marginal storage and streaming costs go down (Google is big enough to save huge amounts of money by running its own data centers, peering agreements, caching near customers, etc.)

2) More advertisers running more ads that can be targeted to more users whose preferences you know more about

So no, you can't run it profitably.

This is a classic example of a business that is only profitable at scale, that needs to lose a lot of money at first as it grows until it achieves scale. And it's not just scale on the traditional tech/users side, it's scale on the advertising side as well -- advertisers aren't going to bother running ads on your platform until you have enough users for them to care.

It's also pretty strongly a "winner-takes-all" network effects situation, where video publishers want to put up their videos where the viewers are, and viewers want to visit the site where all the content is. So if you wanted to create a YT competitor, I don't know how you'd convince content creators to post their videos to your site in addition to YT, or how to convince consumers to watch said videos on your site instead of YT.
Yeah, agree, and age must not be the problem
Hm.

Well, I see dangers at every level. Partly because I see a whole bunch of people saying "the real danger of AI is…" and then finishing that sentence in a different way than the others.

So:

> - scammers are having the time of their lives, and their capabilities are only going to get better and easier

Yup. This is one reason why I am frustrated with all the people who keep asking for downloadable models and who criticise OpenAI for not doing that. If it's a private model, you've at least got some control over the system, some ability to see who is doing what and perhaps making your own automation to stop it or to prosecute the wrongdoers.

If the weights are downloadable, you're giving this ability away and pretending you're not responsible for the result.

If OpenAI and Facebook both get sued out of existence due to their models allowing this, the OpenAI models go offline, the Facebook models remain circulating forever.

> - people are actively getting dumber as they trust the hallucinated outputs blindly

Roll to disbelieve. People have been saying this about every new tech at least since Socrates was moping about the invention of writing.

> - regular communication is starting to break down because you can't trust that people aren't just copy/pasting some AI bullshit in lieu of an actual discussion

Yup. Been accused of that myself, here.

I'm fairly sure it's improved the content of r/HFY though. I think I can recognise the stories which are AI generated from having played around with it (and been unsatisfied with the results), but I remember how much worse it was before.

> - I've already seen AI girlfriend products which doesn't strike much confidence in our ongoing future as a species considering the numbers I've seen on some of them

I think the bigger problem is two older AIs, specifically (1) whatever Match.com uses to pair people in their dating apps and how much worse this seems to be than the original (pre-Match.com) OkCupid, and (2) everything Facebook does.

Both make real human connection much harder than endless swiping, it's just that the former is swiping sideways and the latter swiping vertically, but both make para-social relationships out of people we should be genuinely connected to.

> "Oh but UBI!", an AI sycophant will shout, as if saying the magic incantation changes the reality of the real world somehow.

I… think we need that, in step with AI making people unemployable, even if only to avoid a riot, but I'd agree UBI isn't going to fix any of the other problems you're worried about.
We're kind of failing by making AI that automates the things humans want to do.
You probably get worse at cranking out code, yeah. Familiarizing yourself with large codebases, learning new ones, etc.

I assume you become a worse mid-level developer, but maybe a better senior dev or manager because you can tell mid-level devs what pitfalls to avoid, and know how to navigate political systems better.

I want to avoid the conclusion frankly too because I'm in my late 30s. But every intense intellectual or creative pursuit seems to peak in your youth and early adulthood -- look at composers, mathematicians, scientists, etc. People make their big individual contributions while still young.
But they are tiny 480p files yeah?
>I personally don't really mind that bit of capitalization that English does. German is much worse.

You misspelled 'better'.
My home connection uploads at 681mbit/s (just did the test over wifi) for 40 euros/months.
At that price, I'd get 13tbit/s for 800k euros.

It's a bit surprising that you were not getting significantly better prices than individuals.
> it’s particularly important to explore these discussions as dispassionately as possible if you regard materialism as the only theory of mind that has any scientific credibility or validity

You're making it sound like I'm about to watch a proverbial Giorgio Tsoukalos make bold claims on pure speculation.
The overwhelming majority of "legitimate" video streaming sites operate on a client-server model, which allows videos to be watched in web browsers, and on mobile devices (which don't generally do well in P2P as they find uploading difficult).

And generally torrent-based streamers don't hire financial analysts :)
One thing I've noticed as I've reached my late 30s is I'm less hungry to learn new things, and I used to be very intellectually driven. I'm increasingly tired of keeping up with everything and proving myself.

I think if you can stay hungry then you can stay good for longer. But maybe it's partly motivation, and partly raw ability. Maybe they're somewhat linked.
There's currently no reason to assume that we're more than a complex biological computer - while it's indeed interesting to explain how subjective experience and qualia arise, it's certainly plausible that this can arise as emergent behavior once a specific type of computer is doing a specific type of computation, and we 'just' need to study that complex computation.

Unless we obtain any evidence whatsoever that this can't be the case, Occam's razor would suggest that this is the hypothesis to explore, without looking for new physics or other unlikely assumptions.
besides, chatgpt can only do that because of tips like this...
AFAIK there is progress and most of the BRICS+ are very interested in replacing the dollar. It will be replacement for SWIFT too.

Don't forget. Russia is in charge of BRICS+ for 2024...
Somewhat unrelated, but a beautiful tool for extracting screenshots from video: MoviePrint

https://www.movieprint.org/ & https://github.com/fakob/MoviePrint_v004/
Hey all. Perhaps it was my fault to lead with a provocative question. What I was hoping to spark was interesting explorations of the data.

For example:

- No popular programming language has ever been created by someone under 20.

- Ken Iverson created J at 70!

- Aaronsw created a pre-cursor to Markdown at age 16.

If you didn't notice the link, there is an interactive version: https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/4ait6/1/
Carnivore is a fanatical right-wing, male diet, right?
- "Tritium is only necessary because the magnetic confinement is poor."

Startup hype notwithstanding, the other fusion reactions are only incremental improvements over D-T, in terms of emitting less neutron radiation. From the standpoint of radiation protection it's all utterly moot—you'll never have a fusion reactor in a "rice-maker" to "power homes and vehicles". The amounts of radiation are absurdly extreme, and of an exotic kind that's really, really, unshieldable. (Infamously, the whole point [0] of the neutron bomb was a Cold-War tactical antitank weapon. Something that heavy steel tanks, envisioned to be in a nuclear land war in the Fulda Gap or whereever, would have no chance of surviving—not even with all the efforts the superpowers threw at the military challenge).

A sobering fact for those unfamiliar with nuclear physics. The point of less-neutronic nuclear fusion reactions isn't to render them mild enough not to disintegrate humans. It's to make them mild enough to not disintegrate steel [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_bomb#Use

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys3735
Have you considered adding something like ccache to your compiler to speed up your CI?
Self-driving startup Cruise went from sizzling startup to cautionary tale
The bit before it mentions it being designed for high-end workstations and servers, i.e. not PCs, but I do agree that it seems to imply Intel never used it at all, rather than rather the standard wasn't used in PCs (Intel or otherwise).
> By changing orientation they can control the speed/direction in which they slow down.

I apologize for not communicating clearly but that is the impossible part.

It will only work if the interstellar wind is, to borrow nautical terms, "in irons" or "running" (in line with either from ahead or behind the direction of travel) and that is impossible to either know, predict, or assume. From all other directions there are lateral forces that are impossible to overcome.

For example, if you are in a sailboat following another sailboat in calm waters with consistent wind and the lead sailboat slows down or the trailing puts out more sail to speed up to narrow a gap, one of the two will fall out of the line of travel due to lateral forces and will be forced to apply rudder to compensate. These things have no rudders.

The same thing happens to airplanes. If they increase or decrease drag either altitude or speed (or both) changes and control inputs are needed maintain position.

There is no ocean of water or air in space in which to steer.

I suppose if we launch and preposition several hundred billion space weather stations along the route in advance, we will understand the forces involved and be able to set the swarm components off on the trajectory needed so that the drag plan will work.
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It is not actually at all clear that the tenant has lower financial risk. If, after being evicted, you fail to find housing, it is very easy to become homeless, and that is a terrible financial prospect for the tenant, as the US is really not set up to support homeless folks. Essentially every service you could want requires an address, and homeless shelters have terribly restrictive policies like separation of couples, pet bans, etc.
Rarely I think - taller women generally have a harder time finding a partner.
Doesn't have to be one :)
Some may. Some won't. Most will have no idea who they were.
Au contraire, it works very well in many domains of engineering (source: I use it all the time). I suspect you may be viewing the general approach through a narrow lens of one particularly demanding requirement (targeting "absolute security"), and comparing an existing approach with input costs that are often considered high or unrealistic (eg. specialist manual configuration).

For example, if the target system is a software system, and the baseline is "no extra security", then running a full codebase coverage test battery across software with network activity monitoring, computation monitoring, memory monitoring, kernel API monitoring, filesystem monitoring, etc. is going to get you a really strong profile of what isn't used to reduce the effective attack surface. This can be done at multiple levels: system API restriction, filesystem restriction, resource restriction, firewalling, VLAN segmentation, intrusion detection system ruleset generation, etc. This is awesome versus manual config, as it is free, precise, adapts with upgrades once plugged in to CI/CD, and requires zero specialist humans... who often function to perform similar processes in an iterative fashion on a best-effort basis.
Human meaning won't go out the door.

It's just we will no longer be able to differentiate it from machine generated content.

Machine generated content will become more superior and more prolific such that it will cheapen human meaning.

You'll find people will begin clinging onto the last vestiges of human created things like real painted art or vintage sculptures like they do vinyl records and non-digital books: An exercise in irrationality in attempt to reverse a war already lost.

Perhaps that is what will save human meaning in the end. Self delusion. We will deliberately ignore superior and better content and tell ourselves that human works are and always will be the best. That's a little of what's happening in this thread already.