skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I do believe it's going to replace every single person's job…

Some may try to make that so, but since LLMs perform badly with anything that has to be ground in facts and actual reality, the hype wave will die down soon enough. When the point of a job is to generate the most amount of bullshit as quickly as possible, LLMs will excel.
I think it’s worth calling out how easy and common it is for software engineers to casually dismiss software they didn’t write themselves. If I had a nickel for every time I’ve seen someone casually hand wave away a mountain of complexity I would be a rich man.
One thought experiment I always find myself having is that if this is the case, does it make any difference if the network is physically larger? Not necessarily more complex, just the distances signals have to travel is bigger, say planet sized instead of brain sized. Would this system be conscious but just with a slower tick rate? Faster time perception?
Noise/heat/electricity cost/not infesting pc with kernel level anticheat
> I think Raku is an interesting language and that people should check it out, to be clear

I agree :-)

> That doesn't mean I agree with every choice the Rakudo implementation has made

Indeed. Some of these choices have their roots in the late 1990's / early 2000's. Some of them make less sense now than they did then. FWIW, these are continuously evaluated by the current core team, to continue to improve Rakudo.
So it’s an e-ink tablet running Android with front lighting but without access to the Play store? I’m not clear what’s so revolutionary about that.
Corporate tax is a flat 21%, and that's on profit, not revenue. I don't believe Nvidia pays anything for "licenses" either. There's no way that overhead should make them unprofitable even at retail prices.
infinite mac and load the myst cd from their UI

http://infinitemac.org
Not to mention that MRIs represent a significant portion of a person's yearly allowable radiation dose. Not worth it to irradiate people without having a reason.

There's also a recent trend in some medical diagnostics of having a lighter touch, instead of running all the tests and potentially drawing the wrong conclusion from heaps of data.
Google search for "largest solar farms" or similar, but my bad - should have checked the date of the source.

The point I was trying to make, echoing Zuckerberg (who noted that power, not chips or data, is the constraining factor for further LLM scaling), is that power needs to be near to the data center, else the lead time and red tape will be even longer. If we're considering clean power then solar is an option, which limits datacenter location to where that is viable on this 1GW scale.

It's funny that you're the second person in this thread to assume that just because the data was wrong (out of date as it happens) it must have come from an LLM (which it didn't). I guess this is the world we are moving into, where all content is suspect of being AI generated and therefore suspect!
That thread is an interesting read. Predicting the future is hard.
I put up a landing page with a contact form for a potential product a year ago. Ran search ads on Google. Also got 99% spam.

Is Google Ads just completely broken or did I do something wrong?
A singular satellite which captures any amount of a star's energy is a Dyson swarm satellite.

Would millions or billions of them be better? Yes.
This is correct, but it's important to realize that compile time continues during runtime.

Julia's execution model is quite distinctive, and it does take a thorough understanding of how it plays out to get native-code speeds out of it.
It would be interesting if they let you review homes for sale this way.

There’s always one thing wrong with every house and half the time it’s a deal breaker.

You’d save so much time house shopping if you knew what the deal breaker was ahead of time.
iPad Pro 13" Teardown and Apple Pencil Pro Destruction
> Also, quite a few other advances are required before home appliance-sized fusion reactors become feasible. After all, the largest part of most fission plants has to do with generating power from steam, not so much the nuclear reaction itself.

RTGs are not very large, so the technology already exists.
> Is Google Ads just completely broken or did I do something wrong?

I'm not sure it's an *or* type of situation here
>I'm still curious what concrete things you mean that Julia is missing.

Basically everything not related to numerical analysis. The problem isn't that there isn't an option which does work, but that those options aren't fully developed and mature to actually use for a commercial project.

E.g. look at GUI libraries, the native ones are just wrappers around other libraries and poorly documented. There is a single web framework, but is that supported enough that you would bet your entire company on it being continually supported?

If you are doing anything which isn't related to numerical analysis, Julia isn't your first choice, it also isn't your second or third choice. And I think that is fine, clearly Julia wants to be a good at a particular thing and has achieved that.
Scene releases are in human-consumable formats.

Books as lines of text are not human-consumable (by reasonable humans).

There's a strong case for sharing this being fair use, even if distributing hundreds of thousands of ebooks would ordinarily violate copyright.

I don't know what OpenAI's training corpus is or how they got it, but in case anyone has forgotten, Google has its own license-free collection of scanned books. It had already run that through OCR (and probably periodically re-OCRs) to generate its google books indexes, so there is no copyright argument against Google's book-trained AI models (assuming they train on books).

An argument that Books4 is piracy is an argument for an oligopoly on good AI models.
This is the key to all of it for me

"Wasn't changing the road layout tantamount to admitting liability for the crash?"

We act like road design is not a modifier on these crashes
“A computation is a temptation that must be resisted as long as possible.”
- J.P. Boyd.
> [removed]

https://web.archive.org/web/20240519104217/https://old.reddi...

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:a904e660355c49006b2e7d43893d31bf3c2be9cc&dn=libstc2.jsonl.zst&tr=udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce&tr=https://tracker1.ctix.cn:443/announce&tr=udp://open.demonii....

> More than 400,000 fiction and non-fiction book full-texts. Multiple languages, curated, deduplicated.

> More than 6,000,000 scholarly publications, magazines, and manuals full-texts. Multiple languages, curated, deduplicated.

> 150,000,000 metadata records
There are companies selling SLC SSDs (often using TLC or QLC flash but not using that mode) for industrial applications, for example Swissbit.
Beware: takes over the browser history rather than refreshing in-place
Geforce now has 1440p
How many books you can read and remember exactly as is, plus reproduce remix the text as is?

What's this number for an LLM?
It’s so frustrating that things are moving backwards like this; the old CDMA phones in America worked basically exactly like the proposed “iSim” tech for years, and it was horrible.

You had to grovel to your provider to provision your phone.
I am curious about which thoughts prompted you to submit this, Simone.

Note that social mobility does not simply, directly allow the factual-elite (in meritocracy) to enter the actual-elite (in government): the people who achieve positions are often those with the quality to "obtain jobs" - that is not the quality of "deserving jobs", of being good at them.
Ask HN: I'm trying to build a $1 project
The basic idea is:
if you're a struggling content creator/home business owner/digital shop owner, my project lets u host your multiple links in one place..

Q. Is this unique?
R. No.

Q. So what's your project USP gonna be?
- $1/Free (Pay What You Can model)
- No Ads. No Tracks.
- Host every link of yours in one place.
CRUCIAL
- Most important of all, I dont want to inject any google analytics to people's profiles, or any analytics for that matter coz yk data selling etc, so, No injected Analytics SDKs

Q. Whose your target audience?
R. Any struggling content creator or artist or a small business shop. Yo buddy, I got you.

What's the closest competitor you have?
Linktree is what comes to my mind, but I want to be on a very small scale because the business model doesnt allow to scale, so like a project around me and my digital/online friends.

Q. Why should I ever consider your over others?
This is a project that was incepted keeping in mind to help atleast 100 people in matter of a year, but also i intend to generate and compete with huge companies, if that ever happen.

I am certain the project will die out sooner, but I still want to offer this service maybe help a person out or 2.

So, I want to do that while helping struggling people so I have NOT ENFORCED any payments to use this system, if you do good and can afford $1 for a month, you get 24*7 of my service for that price.

Q. Who is this NOT for?
R. If you however have a following of greater than 100k, i would not recommend you chose to use something else coz this is only for small creators and upcoming small shops that cant do much digitally.

Q. How does it look like?
R. A list of links, with your unique shop name or handle, that you can simply share with others.

Q. Is this going to be succesfull?
R. IDK, you tell me..

---
Will launch within a few months.
Soft launch will be sooner with 100 users (i like calling 'people' instead of 'users' of my project)

Goals with this project.
100 happy people.

I have a discord too set up for people, so if you're interested in being first 100 even before the launch, please lmk.
I’m waiting for the day I can do real coding work on a tablet.

I’ve had this weird aversion to sitting at a desk for a couple years now. I’m thinking it’s burn out related.
Pointing out that at some points Joe Rogan might have been smeared unjustly by mainstream media does not in any way come close to absolving the crimes JR has committed against modern science by giving constant airtime to outright quacks. Anyone remotely interested in making sure proper science knowledge and education makes it out to gen pop should be completely against Rogan and everything he stands for. It only takes one to ruin your reputation. Rogan has aired hundreds. It’s even more dangerous than one might think because sometimes, like in some examples you reference, there is some legitimate medicine mixed in.
Thank you for building an writing about it, I have enjoyed reading about your progress over the years!
Doesn’t a Surface fit that requirement?
> Better superconductors means better magnets, which means cheaper fusion.

obviously that's untrue, since fusion for power use at the moment isn't "too expensive", it's "too hard". literally hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent and we're still not close.

I can't tell why there are so many uninformed posters on this topic on HN. is astroturfing by the nuclear/fossil fuel industry to delay doing the hard work to eliminate fossil fuel use? is it just that people read too much scifi as a kid and then didn't read any real science on the topic for thirty years?
Wait until you find out about libraries. Free books that humans are using to train the LLM’s in their heads.
For those who might think that NNTP does not scale, keep in mind that in its heyday Usenet was not the only NNTP network. There were countless niche NNTP servers not necessarily peering with Usenet. Some niche NNTP communities continue to thrive to this day.

A small closed network of just a few peers can service hundreds to thousands of participants. Social media architecture has accustomed users to having the whole world flooding their feed or inbox, when it need not be this way. This is why I like NNTP. The lack of overwhelming mass participation is a feature, not a bug.
I agree that fusion has been treated as a science project, but I take a different implication from that. The importance of the science has been overstated, when more mundane engineering considerations are likely more important. There's this pervasive idea that once the science is done, that once the plasma is contained well, we're golden and fusion will be a sure thing. This is very far from the truth.

Lawrence Lidsky pointed out back in the 1980s that there are serious arguments against DT fusion, even if you assume the physics isn't a problem at all. Just assuming you have a magic black box that can make DT go and you still need to capture the neutrons, and this simple sounding engineering problem makes DT fusion unattractive compared to alternatives, with volumetric power density at least an order of magnitude worse than fission reactors.

Subsequent experience bears this out. Even supposedly compact designs like ARC will still be a factor of 40 worse than PWRs by this metric. Note that better superconductors than the HTSs in ARC would not help, since the mass of ARC is dominated by the structural material needed to keep the magnets from flying apart. Any stronger magnetic field is ruled out by practical considerations of strength of this structure.

Maybe the limits can be relaxed somewhat if the reactor has thick liquid lithium as the first wall, so power/area can be increased (the liquid would be exposed directly to vacuum; at sufficiently modest temperature the vapor pressure of liquid lithium can be very low). Zap uses that approach, but notably Zap doesn't use external magnets (superconducting or otherwise); the magnetic field is generated by current flowing in the plasma. Zap doesn't cover all 4 pi steradians around the plasma with flowing metal though, so neutron load on exposed components may still limit their power density.
U.S. Fears Undersea Cables Are Vulnerable to Espionage from Chinese Repair Ships
This assumes we have the capability of uncovering those laws.
You could, if you'd emulate a 32b cpu on that 8-bitter.

The real limitation here is memory. Imho it says a lot about modern day software bloat that even an ancient 2.0 series kernel needs ~600KB (ROM/RAM combined). For what, really? That's already a lot of features & almost all hw drivers stripped from it, right? What's that remaining ~600KB code+data doing then?
Peter Hinssen –| The Never Normal [video]
The parent commenter didn’t say anything about civilian Russians.
Correction: I would* recommend you chose to use something else.
The statement made was the proposed idea was dead in the water as it involved:

> math that high school students usually don't have exposure to.

My response is that myself and significant numbers of other high school students took math at levels sufficient to talk about LLM's + AI.

It's not for all high school students, which is why sensible high school curriculums aren't monolithic.

FWiW I didn't attend a fancy private school, just a regular public high school in a semi remote (at the time) part of Australia.
There is no ionizing radiation in MRI. Only strong low-frequency magnetic fields.
Probably an Apple employee that hasn’t vested
I’ll be interested in seeing how this is different from the offerings from Onyx.
OK, perhaps we should go back to your first statement:

> If "AI" is actually intelligent, then it's no worse a threat than any living being known to man.

Combined with:

> I am putting aside emotional pressures and processes and only considering the results which are ultimately all that matters.

Imagine a super-intelligent being that can invent a biological agent that is incurable to current science, spreads rapidly through aerosols, and causes 100% guaranteed death if not cured. That superintelligence can furthermore list a recipe of this biological agent using household items that may be available to anyone who has contact with it, allowing an untrained individual to create the agent after receiving instructions from the super intelligent being. This being you would classify as "no worse a threat" than any living being known to man? Is that "putting aside emotional pressures and considering the results"?

Or are you saying that an intelligence, no matter how advanced, can never do the above?

A hypothetical magnitude difference of intelligence obviously poses a threat to us, what other explanation is there for the mass extinction of most animals after the Anthropocene started.
> Attendee? What year is it in your world?

Perhaps you're unaware that most public talks take place at conferences, which yes, still have attendees.

> (Also, time-limited is stupid for this case.)

Time-limited is perfectly fine policy for some cases. Maybe you have a different case in mind, but that wasn't specified in your scenario.

> This isn't an edge case - people pass out addresses expecting to be contacted by randoms all the time.

And? If you want to open yourself to a flood of possible spam, then create an address just for that and publish it. Nobody's stopping you.

> And, most contacts are second-order or further, so introductions aren't even possible because there's no common link

What does "second order" even mean if not "someone I know knows them"?

There's nothing stopping the use of public addresses, the point of the proposal is that most people don't need it, and the default public nature of email is what creates the security and spam nightmare that it is.
I self taught myself calculus at that age (11th grade), obviously had a hard time at first, and persevered by sampling a good half dozen different books till I found one that would make things click. These are my credentials for making the following recommendation:

Get the book Quick Calculus by Kleppner and Ramsey. Nothing else I used came close, for developing intuition about the concepts when they're fresh and new.

Once they have mastered that, any good book will do. James Stewart's is fantastic but so big and thick you may need to use it as a resource to intelligently select appropriate readings and problems from as they go, rather than just start at page 1 and assign every problem. But the main thing is to really get the basics of what a derivative and integral and limit are from the getgo, and nothing I tried compare to Quick Calculus for that.

Using this Julia book or some other similar book to select exercises based on your appropriate judgment from it to supplement Stewart would also be very cool if your student has an interest in programming. Let them complete then in python if they like, python should be fine. I recall implementing a numerical integrator and a symbolic differentiator in python at the same age, as a way of consolidating my knowledge of calculus, and found both to be very valuable and fun exercises. Symbolic differentiation seemed like magic especially, but it was just a matter of parsing and then continually adding rules for each rule I learned in math.
SSD prices fluctuate a lot. I recently bought 4TB SSDs for 209eu but they are more expensive now (SNV2S/4000G, QLC though)
At least not a unproven generalization.
Raising the temperature is probably a close analog to psychedelics.
Have you considered Spotlight or some equivalent software? They are excellent for these kind of conversions and searches.
Ok, I hear a lot of 'AI is a superset of ML' definitions, and yes, that's historically true, but today AI is shorthand for LLM's and others (image generation, embedding, DL-based time series). I'd draw the line at systems using emergent phenomena that aren't realistically reducible to understandable rules.

Should we say 'this uses AI' for a Prolog/expert system/A*/symbolic reasoning/planning/optimization system today? Idunno; I had scruples even about calling classical and Bayesian statistical models 'machine learning,' reserving that for models prioritizing computational properties over probabilistic interpretation.
There were several instances were I saw an interesting tool for manipulating SSDs and SD cards only available from strange Russian websites. This one at least has an English UI ... A lot of research seems concentrated there and I wonder why it did not catch the same level of interest in the west.
thanks for the insight paul. :D
> You want to be able to edit or delete content, either your own, or, if you are a moderator, other content which turned out to be illegal later (which already implies content moderation before allowing content to be published).

Or you accept the fact that what you write is a permanent record. (Local admins can delete messages from their servers if there is a problem with the content.)

That being said, there are Control messages (RFC 5536 § 3.2.3), and one of the things that they can do is cancel an article (RFC 5537 § 5.3). You'd probably want to authenticate the cancel messages of course:

* http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ftp.isc.org/pub/pgpcontrol/READ...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_message

Worth noting that you can't force servers to honour the cancel messages and delete the article on their local storage.
I would be remiss if I didn't mention Steve Grand. He's been chasing this dream for many, many years. If you remember Creatures, it was his first attempt at artificial life. Sadly the computing capabilities in 1991 weren't enough to achieve anything remotely like consciousness, but he did an admirable job of simulating a simple lifeform with a basic adaptive / reactive neural network. It also has a simple biology / biochemistry to work with the brain. (Incidentally, the Creatures community is alive and well if anybody wants to check that out: https://creatures.wiki/Discord )

Steve is working on a new project, Grandroids, that hopes to imbibe creatures with imagination and forward planning. Exciting stuff! (https://creatures.wiki/Grandroids)
Legitimately made me lol. Thank you for being the rational one. When topics of the mind come up even people who are normally smart and rational can turn into quacks.
Yes, glad I eventually clicked on it!
This seems so obvious to me. How the hell do traffic engineers earn their PEs if they don’t grasp this? Or are they not engineers at all (but perhaps should be)?
Is anyone else here old enough for this comment section to trigger nostalgia for alt.rec.science-fiction.science?
My friend picked up a 3.84 TB Kingston SEDC600M with 7 PB of write endurance on sale for $180 a couple of months ago. That same place now sells them for around $360. Definitely an original drive. Maybe you just have to be on the lookout for one for when they go on sale.
Unfortunately the article is paywalled
"Deflated" Behind the Scenes (OpenAI Sora with live-action footage) [video]
The lack of laws around this right now are so damaging. A negligent homeowner can unknowingly be growing a nursery of invasive plants that are putting out tens of thousands of seeds to the surrounding area every year, not to mention direct spreading by tubers and creeping vines into neighboring properties. As a result, all neighbors of that property have to pay an endless recurring maintenance cost to prevent invasives taking hold in their yards.

Without some kind of enforcement, there's little hope of getting invasive species populations under control, because it only takes one incompetent and/or negligent property owner to make the issue way harder for everyone else.
Rapidly increasing production of SUVs/Trucks threatens global climate targets
Having lived in SF before Uber, I firmly believe their success was accelerated by just how bad taxis in SF were. Sometimes I would call dispatch and hear interminable muzak (really, tens of minutes with nobody picking up). But that was at least better than getting through but then never actually having a cab arrive. Never experienced a worse taxi system. The sus black cars that randomly solicited rides were almost appealing in that environment.

I still don't think Uber was a good outcome, even if it was better in many ways.