skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Big tech" "distracted world" "existential risk of AI" "top scientist" - Title is all bull.
I find Google worse every day. The latest thing I noticed is a ton of AI generated sites at the top that "summarize" things. Mostly the same format. Except they're usually wrong in many ways. One site kept saying Llama 3 is a Mixture of Experts model despite it not being one.
USAF unveils photos of new B-21 stealth bomber
We are getting a forward pass time of ~100ms on Meta's original Llama2 70B (float16, batch size 8) PyTorch implementation on 8xA100. Those results are very underwhelming in terms of fully utilizing the GPU flops. If we are doing something wrong, let me know.

The vllm implementation is much faster, I think 50ms or better on either 4 or 8 A100s, forget the exact number.
Thalamic contributions to the state and contents of consciousness
Losts of ways to stay connected.

Go out to lunch with my Mom every Tuesday. I don't take her; we take other people. Invite whatever grandkids are in town; invite friends or other relatives. We choose the place, make the plan, go out. Sometimes just her and me, but more often several of us.

Some weeks, the only thing she does to leave her village. She's in an assisted-living place, they take care of everything but still getting out is huge.
Holmes 2
Time marches onwards and people adapt, but that doesn't mean things are getting better.
You can use this same line of reasoning to avoid using Clojure entirely.
LuaRT will work on older versions.
Latest UI feature (themes, HighDPI) won't work. But any feedback on older versions is welcome
This is my thesis:

> Fundamentally, gaining sexual gratification from a source is build on top of some form of parasocial relationship

How it's done doesn't matter, when that's the underlying core.
There are many voices in the industry arguing against soft deletes. Mostly coming from a very Chesterton's Fence perspective.

For some examples https://www.metabase.com/learn/analytics/data-model-mistakes...

https://www.cultured.systems/2024/04/24/Soft-delete/

https://brandur.org/soft-deletion

Many more can easily be found.
>Andrew Hunter, assistant secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics... explained this is the first aircraft that is more digital than not, which contributes to the program meeting requirements.
Despotic regimes absolutely do not want every citizen to be a Von Neumann.

State-sponsored designer babies of the future will be bred for obedience, not intelligence.
Nah, bribe a NYTimes writer at the beginning of your niches trajectory into the mainstream. That's how they did it in my niche and still making a half million a year almost a decade later.

For reference the shocked SEO writer who found the site, but these guys never figure out just how it was done.

https://x.com/paulk139/status/1550532282288508929

Why build something that takes work at all in this environment?
Moseley and Marks "Out of the tar pit" is a nice essay / paper.

Ousterhout's "A Philosophy of Software Design" goes along the same vein, not an essay but a short book.

Both of these agree on something that I really relate with: the main thing to keep in mind in a software project is complexity.

Managing complexity to reduce cognitive load on programmers is something I always have in mind, it works not only within a codebase, but also across codebases that talk to each other through APIs, and even across software teams when considering their boundaries and modes of communication.
Some years ago "offline-first" was a thing:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170720174332/http://hood.ie/in...

Primarily based on PouchDB/CouchDB. Now the site redirects to RxDB. https://rxdb.info/

There's still a site by that name but it is essentially dead I guess:

https://offlinefirst.org/
> On and on it went, spontaneous, astonishing.

It'd only be astonishing if it was real. But since it's an AI specifically conditioned/prompted to do that it's the least surprising thing ever.

You can also read a trashy novel in the park or just watch porn in public with the volume on full blast, but why would you want to?

Then again, who am I to get in the way of natural selection?
- It gets closed as wontfix. Google never hires a human to do a job well, if AI/ML can do the same job badly
Germany now has so much solar power that its electricity prices are super low
Not great by modern standards... The standard ESP32 supports 802.11n, but only 2.4 GHz (not 5). So theoretical rates maybe up to 40-50 Mbps. In tests that I have seen people do on ESP32 they have reported practical speeds of 5-10 Mbps. Which is basically just in the typical range for Full HD video.

The ESP32-C6 has WiFi 6 support and 5 GHz, so theoretically that can be order of magnitude faster. But it might have completely different hardware and require separate reverse engineering. And practical speeds will still be limited compared to dedicated WiFi hardware.
Yeah but that's not nearly as fun!
The frontend is just an eventually consistent node in a distributed system. Fullstack means you have a basic understanding of how the entire system works which is invaluable.
But it means it happens. So you can either weaponize it or get steam rolled by it.
Calling it a minefield doesn't go far enough. Atrocity seems closer. Even if they're promising protections now, how long do you think it will take before they realize that profits are greater than privacy for this feature too?
Exactly. And if that is managed, perhaps the codebase can be further adapted on the future to actually open hardware.
It still seems like a different use case to me, but maybe I'm wrong there.

I don't mind a search algorithm including a summary as long as its true to the original, but I really don't want any generated content that's trying to predict how someone would answer my question. If LLMs end up replacing most of the use of tools like Google Search we really have moved past the discovery problem and don't necessarily want to find or see the original (human authored) content at all.
LuaRT is open source, maybe someone will make a MacOS port
> During the summer, Nordics are already at solar capacity with electricity prices often dropping negative.

I expect air conditioning to remedy this. It's already July-in-May here in Hellsinki.
The example is a means of wrongful execution (sanction of private execution of those seen as politically undesirable by the leadership of the State.)
What bothers me about this use case is that AI will generate the most generic middle-of-the-road illustration that adds no insight or value to the prompt. I’d get a better kick if he just wrote a description like “I can only imagine them debugging this while sitting beside a room-sized mainframe with a plethora of wires and bulbs”
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God bless Murica
A Guide to Feedback for New Developers
Methane? Ammonia? Hydrogen? Molten salt? Sand battery?

What are the options for dwellings of various sizes for the unusual situation at extreme north latitudes ?
I do and I'm quite pleased with it.
> own cost estimates for operating existing nuclear reactors (Ie zero profit, and excluding all costs associated with construction, risk, and decommissioning) is ~€57.8/MWh.

You are 100% incorrect. This is "the complete production cost of France’s existing nuclear fleet". And yes, I put that in quotes because it is a direct quote from the article you cite to claim the opposite. It's in the first sentence, difficult to miss. Furthermore, this is an estimate for the future total cost between 2026-2040.

And 5.7 Cents / kWh total cost for dispatchable, reliable and CO₂ free energy is very good.

Which is why France is investing heavily in nuclear again.

> Curtailment

"Nuclear power in France has a total capacity factor of around 77%, which is low compared to nuclear power plants in other countries due to load following."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France

So 77%, not the 50% you wrote. And they are increasing the share of other electricity sources therefore lowering the total share of nuclear (which was overbuilt during the time of the Messmer Plan). So curtailment of nuclear will decrease and capacity factors can only go up from the 77% they have.

Unless you give priority to variable renewables. Which you can do, but it's a stupid idea.

Given that, 80% total seems entirely realistic for France, and for the new plants they can go higher than that. Curtail the older plants that are already paid off. However, the key point is that this is a choice they can make. With variable renewables, you get average capacity factors in the 20-30% range, if you're lucky, and you do not get to choose.

Anyway, even at the completely unrealistic 50% you assume, the cost would be around 6-7 cents per kWh, which still seems fine given retail electricity prices of around 25 cents / kWh in France and above 35 cent / kWh in Germany. And of course it is nowhere near the 20+ cents anti-nuclear lobbyists claim with no evidence whatsoever.

> Thus the 40-50 year lifespan, roughly when a replacement costs less than maintenance.

Sorry, the actual experts on this + the owners of the plants disagree with your off-the-cuff speculation, and they are extending the lifetime even of their existing plants to 80 years and possibly beyond.
FWIW, the EU and ENTSO-E are quite aware of deficiencies in transfer capacity and are working on it.
This is far fetched. It’s a very thoughtful article.
There's no money in it. It's expensive in both compute and storage to provide the tool, and they want most users to just be mindlessly consuming the front page or popular subreddits.
Make your website talk to your customers
Alarmingly, 1990 is 34 years ago. Though I still think of it as 20-30 as well.
I’ve been saying for two years now that curated directories are poised to make a comeback on the web. It just needs a critical mass of curators.

I think this is why those awesome-$tech lists are so popular.
Google thinks they're untouchable. That's why they serve up so many ads that most adblockers can't keep up. That's why they've done very little to combat bad actors who manipulate google search results. That's why they think they can toss half-baked AI out there.

AI could be something that helps prevent google bombing. AI could be something that lets them serve up one or two ads per page and get a similar number of click-throughs.

Google's lunch is spread out on a picnic blanket, just waiting for someone to come along and eat it.
Methane doesn't make sense off grid, either. It's a gas and requires pipes to distribute efficiently. If you want to go off grid best to go up the chain a bit to propane or kerosene.

The 3rd world is much better off switching to solar. With an induction hob you can probably get away with 1000 Wh / day. A 200W panel, a 1000Wh battery, a 1500W inverter and a 1500W hob would cost around $500 and last 20 years. It can also keep a cell phone charged or used for refigeration instead or ...

OTOH, a propane burner might cost $20, but then you'll be spending $10/month on propane, and are super vulnerable to being cut off from your source.
A number of quant firms are among the largest global consumers of commercial LLMs

The only area you absolutely can’t use LLMs is in sub ms latency
I can see stuff with my eyes closed while facing a bright light or in a dark room or with eyes open in a dark sky area. Some of it is floaters but there are other effects, not exactly matching the descriptions on wikipedia but it could be the same things.
So many non-AI article illustrations are just Alegria anyway.
Maybe not this specific risk, but a few real risks IMO jump top-of-mind: early movers use "safety" to build a regulatory moat; the inevitable blurring between private and public data, and information ownership; further extreme polarization by feeding acceptable, authoritative-sounding misinformation to <everybody>
Does Provenance Build Trust?
This is only my opinion, but it seems to me Near had a number of mental things going on and it wasn't the "bullying" that pushed them over the edge. I think it had been a number of things snowballing for a decade or more (as seen in the depression post, etc). Of course, people talking about you on the internet constantly wouldn't help the situation at all.
Yes. That saying probably[1] started life with the quote from TS Elliot, who said

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different."

The composer Igor Stravinsky "took" that and changed it to “A good composer does not imitate; he steals.” and after that quote was further changed in the LaTex documentation (believe it or not), Steve Jobs took it and changed it to be Pablo Picasso saying "Lesser artists copy, great artists steal".

It doesn't seem there's any evidence of Picasso saying it although Steve Jobs said a lot that Picasso said it.

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/
Quote from Yann about why Super intelligent AI wouldn't take over the humanity:

> Yes. The idea is that the machine has objectives that it needs to satisfy, and it cannot produce anything that does not satisfy those objectives. Those objectives might include guardrails to prevent dangerous things or whatever. That’s how you make an AI system safe.

How can he be so confident that we would be able to develop proper guardrails?

To me, it seems like it would just require 1 mistake for the guardrails to break. Whether by bad actors or by accident.

---

To me approaching this in terms of game theory sense, I don't see how Superintelligent AI wouldn't completely take over control.

To maximise success of any goal the first thing this AI would have to do is gain control over humanity and make sure it can't be disabled because biggest threat to not achieving any goal is being shut down.

And if there's multiple Superintelligent AIs, the one who would win is the one with least guardrails. And militaries of different countries would surely want to be first to it.

So once it is actually technologically feasible, there's going to be massive rush to it, including profit and military goals.
What version of RTF uses actually Apple, somebody knows it?
Are you thinking something like Plan9 instances, cloud-in-a-box style, or something else?
This is definitely true. I have a friend that runs a corporation that does a significant amount of manufacturing in China. His company is known for extremely high Quality.

He has told me that he does need to hire a lot of folks to ride herd on production; more than in other places, though (he has had many places that run his production).

If he does that, he finds they do an excellent job.
For the use case we're discussing here, of terminating an entire service, the soft delete would typically be needed only at some high level, such as on the access list for the service. The impact on performance, etc. should be minimal.
See my comment above. People say that Picasso said that (because Steve Jobs used to quote it as from Picasso) but there's no evidence he said that. It seems it was actually TS Elliot originally and then that was "stolen" by Igor Stravinsky, who was unquestionably a great artist but was saying it about Anton von Webern.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/
He is a physicist and probably understands very little about how ML works. I really don’t understand how people think an LLM will provision all of its own resources in such a way to gain unlimited power
It's a submarine piece from the Seoul AI Safety Summit which the UK and South Korea co-hosted.
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I don't fully disagree, but this might be subjective.

For me as a full stack developer working with small teams/startup, I actually don't consider myself full stack. I just want to be able to do whatever it takes to make a product and ship features. Does it need a websocket server? I'll learn how to do that. Does it need advanced client side caching? I can do that, etc.

To some extent "product development" is both art and engineering. In the engineering side, you can think of html and CSS and http and testing as different things requiring a multidisciplinary team.. but if you think just in terms of "building the thing", I like to feel that I can get it done with whatever technology needed. That's why I got into programming in the first place. Not to write code and be an "engineer", but to make the computer do cool things.

AI does expand the capabilities of someone that wants to get things done. I have written in languages that I don't have experience with, and recently was exploring a neo4j db with cypher queries written with ChatGPT (I have only MongoDB experience), something that would've taken me hours to learn.

Still, having experts in specific areas in a team can be very helpful (both to get technically difficult things done but also to have others learn from them).

I just don't want to be 1 part of a team specializing in my limited domain, where I start to care more about the technical part than the actual value delivered or user experience..

I think what might cause me to burnout is too much specializing, too much bureaucracy, people telling me I can't do this, we need to hire a staff level person to this thing etc..
Barring it being a joke, the first question is unhelpful and likely a jerk move. Everyone makes mistakes sometimes.

The second question seems like the type of feedback that would usually be fine. People's skills and knowledge don't always overlap. What is crazy complex for A may not be for B and what is crazy complex for B may not be for A! And that doesn't have to have anything do with A or B being smarter. A might not know SQL and B might not know pandas. But sometimes it really does make sense to move some code from SQL to pandas or vice-versa (assume for the moment that both SQL and pandas are already in the tech stack). Some people find it simple to write in object oriented style and others in a functional style. What makes more sense to do is not always obvious. So the question could be a good one. If the suggestion is bad, explain why it's bad. If the suggestion is good, maybe consider if it's worth doing at current point. If it's somewhere in the middle or there's no time, acknowledge and move on.
0db is an interface for Xr0, so it's the same thing essentially.
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> I have learned more from a years’s use of chatGPT than from two decades of googling

I simply don’t believe you. The human mind can only take in information so fast.
I'm also getting access denied when trying to go to any of the following videos

```

1. Screw the pan head small screw into the case so that the outside is the head

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2. Take one parallel pin, insert it into the groove of the box part from below, and push it up until you hear a "click". This will fix the pin

[IMG_8527 2.mp4](https://prod-files-secure.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/4494a4ec-b486-4dc3-9a15-71da1266a6d7/b03a7857-ea55-4bec-bf9e-41bb4ed30708/IMG_8527_2.mp4)

3. Insert the other parallel pin into the hole of the latch part and push it into the hole of the lid part. Also insert it until you hear a "click"

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```
The search engine is one of my most visited websites daily, and it's the gateway to other websites. It makes perfect sense to pay for it if the quality is superior to its alternatives, which I find to be true.

If you haven't already tried it, they have a decent starter plan that you can use to check if it's useful for you.
I did do the rest: Meta hasn't paid that fine.

Since that fine was imposed, they used that private data to improve their algorithms with, amongst other things, AI technology designed to addict your children to Facebook Reels, which is like TikTok, but with a bigger budget for training and inference.

In that year, their market cap doubled from 600 billion to 1.2 trillion.

I'm sure that fine of 0.1% of their market cap -- that they haven't paid -- is discouraging them from earning the next trillion dollars using the same kind of data.
Precisely, before you delete a customer account, you disable its access to the system. This is a scream test.

Once you've gone through some time and due diligence you can contemplate actually deleting the customer data and account.
Off-topic; Sparcstation 5! I have 40 of them and 15 E450s, all working. Such lovely machines. Unbreakable.
FWIW, you're solving the bug by fiat, and that doesn't work. Surely analogs to all those protections are already in place. But a firm and obvious requirement of a software system that is capable of deleting data the ability to delete data. And if it can do it you can write a bug that short-circuits any architectural protection you put in place. Which is the definition of a bug.

Basically I don't see this as helpful. This is just a form of the "I would never have written this bug" postmortem response. And yeah, you would. We all would. And do.
there is an entire generation conditioned to call any group chat or instance a “server” and the pedant in me absolutely wants to scream every time I hear it

I believe the origin, however, was to help it clearly and directly compete with teamspeak or mumble at the time it launched. You would actually have to invest in some sort of hosted server for your group, so the name made sense as a way to help people visualize how discord worked. It’s definitely a relic at this point though.
Impact of the gut microbiome composition on social decision-making
I'd summarize it as prompting for input, finetuning for output.

RAG is a far better option for making a model work with your data/information.

Finetuning is better for making it output in a language, style, data format, programming language, etc.
it's a known issue https://github.com/golang/go/issues/31866
Just got a new job. The guys I work with are twenty-something jocks, straight laced, professional, powerlifting, disciplined, knowledgeable jocks. If anyone is still hanging onto the nerd stereotype, it wouldn't last long here. Some went to prep school and played polo. Some look like Calvin Klein commercials.

The professional class is thoroughly embedded in programming circles.

But still, about half of us are keyboard-programming stereotypical nerds and I love them too.
As the world is eaten by software, we need more "developers", and that need only gets met by opening the gates wider. (until of course developers get eaten by AI and we once again only need the experts and gatekeepers)
These are a list of fines, not fine payments.

The latter is a much less impressive list, which is why it isn't publicised.

I'll take back what I said if you can find that list, and there is even one billion dollars in it in total.
Comments work just fine, but the domain news.ycombinator.com is blocked by default so a user with enough karma needs to click 'vouch' first. (blocked because it's open used for tests or mistake submissions).
This was a stupid product to begin with. It solved a non-existent problem and had to... pair to your phone to work anyways which begs the question... why not literally just use the spotify app on your phone?
Documenting My DNS Records
And moved fast and broke things anyway, which is also typical of SV entitlement.
"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity."
Pop!_OS hasn't been released since over 2 years - has development been abandoned ?
Googler, opinions are my own. I know nothing about this space.

I would hope the Go team collaborated with GCP and Drive, as hosting malicious files is something Google has to deal with all the time. This isn't much different from other endpoints Google already allows people to put random data on.
The Elmer's Glue Pizza Error Is More Than You Think