skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't see the BBC one on the front page at all, and it's currently well below the fold of the Science & Health section, despite being two days more recent than "plant with biggest genome found" (most of the rest is health science and generic "health content" like TV shows). There's even an article about SAR radar satellites above it, so it's not even the top space story today.

It's certainly false to say that it's not in the mainstream media, but I think it's also fair to say it's not exactly top of the bill.

For comparison, Chandrayaan-3 was below only Prigozhin's death last August (https://web.archive.org/web/20230823204015/https://www.bbc.c...) and the Chandrayaan programme has its own subcategory. To be fair that was the first Indian landing of any kind, so yes, a bit different.

Not sure Chandrayaan-3 made CCTV top bill either, though! (It was reported, under the Chinese translated name 月船3号, just I don't know how high up it was on the day).
What is kind of new is that hyperscalers sometimes get chips 1-2 years before the rest. If the new chip is 3x-4x faster that looks pretty unfair.
Good Practices for Ansible – GPA
What is the core metric for the CEA? Share value per quarter? Longterm company growth? How do we prevent growth hacking, where a ai just hacks the process to signal fitness https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitness_landscape?
> but part of that role is having someone to get rid of when the business isn't working out

Today we're replacing our CEO from an OpenAI agent to another OpenAI agent. We will also be appointing our newest OpenAI agent to the board as of today.
People use it to generate huge number of neuro covers on different genres for some memetic song which gets funnier with each new one. Obviously not possible without AI because who would care to record a Rockabilly or Cossack choir for a meme?

I would like an AI which can just take an existing song and make it better quality (several knobs), or put new lyrics.
What was the prompt? Did you explicitly ask for the racism?
In an equality sense, I guess it is democratizing, since everyone who uses it sounds the same.

But to me, there needs to be some small element of individualism. “Democratic” is partially about each person being able to share their own voice.

In that sense, it centralizes prose, since the user adopts the voice of OpenAI.
App Store in China: A "Good Business" for Fake Apps
Recently, there have been significant changes in the apple AppStore in China. According to the latest regulations, all apps available in China must be registered. The primary goal of this policy is to enhance supervision and ensure user safety. However, this policy has led to some unexpected problems, especially for foreign apps. Almost all the foreign app got their fake apps in the China store.
Pretty fun! I got stuck at level 26, my solution looks visually correct but the next button won't activate:

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I think the title is inaccurate (not OP's fault as it is same as title on YouTube). The video description is more accurate in saying "live keynote address ahead of COMPUTEX 2024."

This is a talk at National Taiwan University, not the Computex keynote. Lisa Su is the Computex keynote speaker.
This is why I refuse to buy hardware from software companies.

Facebook Portal, I’m looking at you.
> Sometimes, in the interest of efficiency, you only use half your horsepower.

Or, in this case, half your asspower.

I think the asspower unit of effort makes more sense than story points.
The CEO of a corporation is its top salesman.

Besides, if you believe it is just about making decisions, use ChatGPT to make trading decisions on your portfolio. Let us know how it goes!
And middle managers too.
To anybody who's still confused: start your url string with "http://".
7900X equivalent 9900X has 120W TDP as opposed to 170W. Is it that much more power efficient?
It took me a couple tries to parse as well. At first I thought "counting" was a verb, leading to the impression that a horseshoe crab had been taught to count and was now counting alongside New York's citizen scientists. I figured perhaps it had something to do with prior research on crab computing: https://phys.org/news/2012-04-scientists-crab-powered.html
But those form letters beginning with “Dear valued associate” just wouldn’t have the same personal touch if I knew they were generated by AI instead of someone who cares for me like we’re family.
Haha.. I had exactly the same issue. To be fair, the other port is a little hidden since it is also part of a proprietary docking station port.
IME, it's easier to fix the latter than the former, if only because there is a limit to how large the latter can be possibly become.

Small projects are easier to fix than large projects.
I wrote the lyrics. The original prompt is listed on the song's page though I tweaked it during extensions, changed the RNG for the latter parts of the song, there's lots of knobs and dials to tweak now.

Weird A.I. is the one who's ironically racist didn't you listen to the first half of the song geez (I consciously avoided slurs and ended with something utterly irredeemable to underline the joke).
The team that prides themselves on "we'll take a bit longer to get things right" usually winds up takes much, much longer... and still gets it wrong.

By that point, the fast team would be on their third iteration.
I think the essay is really speaking to a particular type of person, one whom is described in Tyler Cowen's book The Age of the Infovore: Succeeding in the Information Economy. This sort of person is probably reasonably common on HN (and that help explain the upvotes for the essay) but not super common in the broader and larger population.

The real kind of underlying question is about how to be most effective.
You can’t call this a solution until it worked. That’s the whole challenge, behaving like this is a huge gamble at best or simply pure egoism.
Sh, the academics have spoken.
i've definitely snagged the cable on a doorknob walking around the house, it's not great, i've been meaning to get one of those ipod armbands people used to wear at the gym to avoid the issue
Step 1 is to realize you're almost certainly not going to be the best in all of spacetime at a thing.

Step 2 is to realize you don't have to be - you can just be the best in a given bubble, centered on the here and now.

Step 3 is getting comfortable realizing you get to choose the size of that bubble, any time you want!
> Is your argument that they're somehow good for the people who don't have them?

Yes

> No. My belief is that progress is not "good" for the people who don't share in the benefits of that progress. Are you going to argue otherwise?

But people do share in them, even if they themselves don't get a new job and higher pay. The most obvious one is taxes - these new jobs create new taxes that go to the government to be spent on society.

Beyond that, isn't it better if your fellow citizen who was unemployed has a job now? Or if they switched from a lower paying job to a higher one? That's a societal benefit.

> No, but if a person suffers because they can't afford a new cancer drug and regards that as "bad", I'm not going to tell them they're wrong to make that judgement. Are you?

You missed my scenario. If a new drug comes out, is it bad that someone benefits when the people who didn't get the new drug (because it wasn't available) don't benefit?
I used a trading bot years ago on my crypto portfolio.

I lost a significant chunk of my portfolio because I turned it off when I thought it was being irrational.
That does seem like a joke, but these days the biggest tell for LLM use in writing is the author’s job involving “building with LLMs”.
I had some success trading a long/short stock portfolio, but on longer time periods than day trading (holding positions from few weeks to few months). The fun lasted almost 3 years. Then I shorted META from 300 to 100 and felt on top of the world, it was after shorting a bunch of other "covid success stories" like zoom, moderna, carvana, and making 50%+ return on each in a reasonnably concentrated portfolio. The rest of my portfolio was doing ok as well.

As META kept going down I kept adding to my position (meaning shorting more), and then it came back up. I ended up a loser on the position despite being up almost 70% at some point. I couldn't believe in a recovery for the company.

I then thought "never again" and started to trade options so that I would have a more disciplined, guaranteed stop loss. I lost more than 50% of my margin that year and another 50% 6 month later, so I was back below square 1 at the end of it all. We are talking small numbers (maybe losing 15k in total) but an amazing amount of time and energy spent doing all this which generated a lot of stress.
> It was glorified user research.

It doesn't sound like it was just that:

> The Safety Advisory Council's members include Dr. Sameer Hinduja, co-director of the Cyber Bullying Research Center, and Dr. T.L. Taylor, the co-founder and director of AnyKey, an organization that advocates for inclusion and diversity in video games and esports. There's also Emma Llansó, the director of the Free Expression Project for the Center for Democracy and Technology.
For those considering getting a drone license in Europe, this is free and official and applicable to whole EU https://learningzone.eurocontrol.int/ilp/pages/login.jsf?fac...
Surprisingly not that much to be excited about IMO. AMD isn't using TSMC's latest node and the CPUs only officially support DDR5 speeds up to 5600MHz (yes, I know that you can use faster RAM). The CPUs are also using the previous-gen graphics architecture, RDNA2.
That's not what c++ UB is.
They are mostly plain text, with dashes for the occasional list and a lot of deliberate indenting, so they are not "Markdown", which would slow down the note taking process too much.

I've had them in Notational Velocity, first as .txt files, then in the program's DB, since 2006, stored as .txt files in a "Notes" folder before that, and as a pile of "stickies" before that (not sure about the exact name but my default color was always light grey).

I don't synchronize them between machines because I only use one. I don't have them under version control because version control is not backup. I don't have them on a USB drive because they are not relevant when I don't use my computer. I don't use a hierarchy because it doesn't work well with informal notes. I only use tagging very lightly because the effort is not as rewarding as those old Lifehackers posts made you believe. And I back them up like the rest, though not as seriously as I should.

NV's search and general UX are awesome so whatever information I want to get out of those decades of notes is always a few keystrokes away.

(FWIW, the latest release of Notational Velocity was 13 years ago and still works like a charm after 11 major OS releases.)
I appreciated this writeup. Thanks.
15% IPC boost is mildly disappointing.

It will be significantly slower in ST than M4, and even more so against the M4 Pro/Max.
That 170W TDP was chasing the benchmark crown. The 7950X lost <5% MT perf when run at 120W.
> Doing a quick search shows that it's from a memory plot in "Atomic Habits" by James Clear.

The post I linked predates Atomic Habits by 10 years :)
While the argument is absurd, that doesn’t make it useless. At a cursory glance, anything is replaceable on the same basis that anything else is replaceable by AI. This argument may help correct some common and deep misconceptions.
> if I want to be covered by my insurance

But insurance networks aren't a requirement of free markets. So your argument that in today's system (only one form of a free market for healthcare) proves free markets don't work is ignoring alternatives.

It sounds like you actually would have plenty of physicians to choose from, just like when you buy food.
Being a critic / writing critique for a newspaper is one of the very original ways to create content fluff, a hundred years before social media was ever invented.

It's always much easier to be a critic than to actually do the work - and in this article all the person does is be a critic
It's because x86 chips are no longer leading in the client. ARM chips are. Specifically, Apple chips. Though Qualcomm has huge potential leapfrog AMD/Intel chips in a few generations too.
This feels overblow and taken out of context. When he says he discourages 1-on-1s it doesn't mean there aren't any private conversations.

This is the equivalent of I discourage weekly meetings. (hint: they should be done as required)
Funny to see how people getting ignored when they post their AI song. Personally against the movement because it’s basically killing the music culture.
I think that's where short-sighted financial gain leads AMD to. Where's the money? -- datacenter. So let's focus the good stuff on datacenter exclusivelly. What about "the rest" (gamers, hobbist, students)? There's no money there, let's give theme crap RDNA that we make sure can't be used for any real work; just pretent we're catering for their needs.

I think their "consumer GPU" did so bad recently that AMD could just as well, you know, simply liquidate the "consumer GPU" division and stop pretending.

I'm in the "consumer GPU" market myself; what AMD GPU do I buy today? -- Radeon Pro VII, launched in 2020 and the best AMD consumer GPU I can find today.

It's such a divide. I could optimize my software for such powerful GPUs as the Mi300 line.. but why do that, given that probably I won't even see one such GPU in my lifetime.
Hybrid Heterogeneous Clusters Can Lower Energy Use of LLM Inference Workloads
bunch of people tried it and returned it, apple didn't really say anything and kept shipping OS updates

developers are developing but it's a small clique

i don't think it's regarded as a commercial flop because there's bound to be a gen 2, hopefully by then there are some apps in the app store

but i agree with your characterization that they got away with a flubbed release
A current LLM certainly could do a much better job of running Twitter than its current CEO.
> the new global superpower?

China has rather deftly avoided the dumb "global" conflicts the US has needlessly boondoggled itself in over the past 3 decades. I think they've mostly sidestepped this question. For now.
"Progress", sure. What you actually mean is "we got a lot of free money to build things with". Its easy to like the EU if you are in one of those countries that gets way more out then you have to put in.
The argument “because doomsayers were wrong a lot in the past anyone predicting a society collapse is wrong” is a really weak argument.

Sounds about as logical as a guy falling from the 30th floor, repeating at each floor “so far, so good”.
LLMs might as well end up being very good at selling stuff
Redefinition of information to fit the thesis.

Ironically vapid.
People on reddit.com/r/localllama build even more expensive rigs sometimes. Everyone wants to run llama3 70B and eventually the 405B version.
Mmmh, the salesmanship and leadership/inspiration component are a key part of what makes a good CEO.

Strategic thinking is another.

Not entirely sure how an LLM will fit the bill other than their propensity to lie through their teeth (hallucination) which does indeed put them up there with the best CEOs.

I'm having a hard time picturing an LLM rallying up the troops at an all-hand.
One of the upcoming Nova-C flights to the moon is scheduled to carry CADRE, a small "swarm" of networked rovers. If you are registered to vote in the USA, perhaps consider asking your members of Congress to not cut funding to the project.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-network-of-small-moon-bo...
The C128 was commercially successful, the C264 was the stink.
I lived in Pamplona, Spain for a year, back before my Spanish was particularly good. It was a pretty amazing place, with all its narrow cobbled alleys and small shops.

They had a particular style of bread in a few of the shops, kind of a rustic baguette with pointy ends, that I never could find the name of. I'd always have to point and say "that one", which always felt awkward. Worse, my Spanish wasn't yet good enough to even ask what it was called in a way they'd understand.

So imagine my good fortune one morning when I pointed at it in my favorite bread shop and the man picked it up and said "Pan de Ayer".

Pan de Ayer! Finally, I had a name for it. "Ayer!", I said with a big grin. I love Ayer bread. It's my favorite. Please give me a bar of Pan de Ayer.

The man did seem a bit taken aback by my enthusiasm for this particular style of bread, as did the other customer in the shop. But he rang me up after ensuring that it was in fact what I wanted. I held it up, made some yummy noises, said one more "Ayer", and walked out.

I made it maybe 50 yards up the road before I remembered where I'd heard that word.

We lived there another 9 months, and I don't think I ever went back to that shop.
Are you talking about a real sailboat, or one of those tiny things that boy scouts use in small lakes that one person can easily pick up and carry?
Some of the bigger previous discussions:

2019:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21050501

2018:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18753358

2017:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14041367
This is a good point. While the subjective definition of beauty may vary wildly from person to person, what value is there in noticing that diffusion models have a specific and narrow set of traits that they output given that prompt? Surely we can all agree on what is ugly because the people that created the labeling pairs to train stable diffusion have done the work of establishing objective truth for us
But if people see boobs, aren't Visa and MasterCard going to get offended?
* I learned Scheme after Perl and JavaScript. I strongly advise that this is the wrong order. One should learn C (or C++, if you must), then an assembler, then a Lisp, then everything else. There’s no point trying to be prescriptive about the rest, but trust me on those three; however you got started - and I got started with BBC BASIC, Acorn BCPL, 6502, and Modula-2, if you can believe it - however it goes, make sure C, assembler and Lisps are in your toolbox, you acquire super powers of mechanical sympathy for the remainder of your career. NB: for the purposes of this recommendation, JavaScript is not a Lisp (Lou Reed once called it “Lisp in drag”)

* I kicked Bono in the shin at a Pearl Jam concert a couple of decades ago and never apologised. Still feel bad about it.
I have used a magic 8 ball to assist in project planning.
Same, I need the exact music I want, tailored exactly to my tastes, all the time. I don’t want to waste time listening to others perspectives or ideas.
Surely homelessness also predates Tesla, what is the actual point you are trying to make?
Whoever made this doesn't understand why people create and listen to music.

It's an interesting tech demo, but as an actual product that lives in the world, it's dystopian af.
I’ll happily take over the golfing and drinking duties for a fraction of the price.
Well when the company does a wrong doing, ai can’t be jailed !! Some one has to be the fall guy !!
“Experts argue” could easily be replaced with AI. After all, you can always find an “expert” to argue whatever opinion you have, as long as it’s not too ridiculous (and sometimes even when it’s too ridiculous).
Anti-bullying is "DEI humanities" now? DEI humanities is a single noun? The Woke Right is ruining my comments sections.
What are you even talking about? Is weird AI an LLM or it’s just a racist song you wrote as an alter ego?
There are calorie dense foods that are nutrition poor foods, and vice versa. In living things, it's not about energy only, the contents that help keep the body processing and regulating matter by a lot.
The quality of calories matters a lot too.
There has to be someone to make the final call and take responsibility. The AI and AI provider won’t do it.
Get some new material, seen this one before
The RX 7900s are pretty good. You get 24GB of RAM in a consumer GPU. If you're interested in GenAI that's a good offering for your "gamers, students, hobbyists" category.

And they announced a workstation version with 48GB: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Radeon-PRO-W7900-Dual-Slot
I mean it's the price of 2 * Apple Mac Pro's. It isn't exactly unheard of.

Just a few weeks ago I spoke to someone who shelled out $10k for running LLM's locally. I've seen more expensive builds as well.
IMO the best part of the foot client/server setup is not lower memory usage, but faster terminal opening time. Starting alacritty is kinda slow. Maybe not a second, but noticeable. Starting foot standalone is definitely faster. Opening a foot window via an already running server is near instant.
The enormity of MS's Windows Phone shutdown mistake is becoming clear in AI era
You are watering everything except for top 40 pixels. You need to water everything except for top 50 pixels.
> The CPUs are also using the previous-gen graphics architecture, RDNA2

Faster GPU is reserved for APUs. These graphics are just here for basic support.
This is yet another of those articles that would never be written if an editor just said “take ten minutes and consider the implications.”

- Somebody owns the company. If you replace the CEO with “AI” then whoever controls the AI is now the CEO in the minds of the owner(s).

- A real CEO would resign if he were constantly undermined and ignored by the people whom he works for. In the case of AI, it’s safe to disrespect it.

- Imagine a CEO who is capable of micromanaging everyone and does it just as badly as a human, but 100 times more often.

- A CEO must be able to take responsibility for his actions. An AI cannot be responsible, under the law. No one can “work for” an AI. Labor law isn’t set up that way.

- It is not immoral to manipulate an AI. It’s called being tech savvy. For instance, I know from my research that I can get an LLM to change its mind quite often by asking “are you sure?”

- Since AI has all the biases of people, and will act on those biases foolishly and reliably, an AI CEO will spur a new boom of labor litigation.

- No decision in business is primarily “data-driven.” And even if we would like them to be, we never have the data we need.

- One of the key purposes of management is to deal with conflicts, disputes, disruptions. How could those be handled by an AI that has no ability to be responsible and will not be respected by anyone? I don’t want my beef with a dev adjudicated in a vending machine.
The joke is that, as an AI, it can't help but spout a bunch of racist nonsense, also that the song is explicitly political when none of Weird Al's songs are.
It is a painful admission, but in this world there are many people who are close to their families, close to their staff, keep a great house... and know technology better than you and have more impactful jobs that you and do more to improve the world and made more money than you and are loved (or at least needed) by more people than you.

There is nothing wrong with that. But it is a fallacy to expect that by some cosmic balance, it's impossible for anyone to best you along all meaningful categories.

It's probably easier to reason about this in the other direction (which is kinder on our egos): Do you believe that there is some individual on this planet who reads less than you, is lazy compared to you, treats their family and friends worse than you, contributes less to the world than you... and where at the end of the day, there's not any axis where they exceed you?
Yeah I've seen this a lot too.

I've also seen the reverse - perhaps more. People need advice but don't want to share their code because they are embarrassed by it. They wrote it thinking "no one will ever see this".

By contrast I sell code, so I know it'll be seen by lots of people, so I tend to spend time making sure style is consistent, things are well named, and so on. But equally, to me, it's just code. Feel free to comment on it - there's always room for improvement.
I’d wager it’s because most LLMs are trained on Internet data which can be very American-centric