skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think most of the confusing experience comes from the way that Japanese limited express paper tickets used to work. If you rode a limited express (like Shinkansen or Narita Express), you'd have to buy two tickets: the basic fare ticket and the express surcharge ticket. The basic fare ticket would also cover your non-express connections, so this was quite convenient in Japan's complex transit system.

Japan still has that system in place, but the basic fare is usually replaced by your IC transit card or integrated into an eTicket (which contains both basic fare + express surcharge and is tied into your IC card).

So if you buy a ticket to NEX on the Ekinet app you'll be offered a ticketless option, but you probably wouldn't know that means you still need to tap your Suica in order to pay the basic fare.

Shinkansen trains are generally using eTickets, which would be even more confusing for visitors, but many visitors are using JR Pass which is completely outside the fare systems (but does need reserved seats).

Most of this complexity is inherent complexity, not accidental complexity that comes from bad software. The main issues I've seen with the software in question are: Lack of English version (Ekinet), Complex registration flow (SmartEX) and flaky authentication (Ekinet). This is not a great UX, but the apps don't feel worse than train operator apps in other countries. These are not tech companies.
The PC gaming industry is a perfect example of this. In the last 5-6 years I have had to install and use the following game stores:

* Epic's Launcher

* EA's Origin

* Ubisoft Connect

* Steam

* GOG

* Xbox Store

* Battle.net

I had a brief Gatcha game phase (before I realized how pay-to-advance it was) and that game had its own damn game-specific "launcher" as well.

Each one of these required creating an account, installs its own "overlay", background windows services, anti-cheat system (more background services!), has its own "social" system, and defaults to running at startup and minimizing (not quitting) when you click the window-close button unless you dig through the options.

Of course, each one of these games also has at least one type of currency unique to the game, which you can only convert in one direction, nor is there any way to move currency in the "store". Often that currency, and anything you bought with it, is locked to the particular platform on which it was purchased.

It's a complete mess, and nearly every single one of them is worse than Steam in terms of UX design and features.

Do we see any competition, resulting in lower prices, better terms of use for customers, or better quality software? Nope. Games are as expensive as ever, have even worse day-of-release bugs, more cheaters, and more microtransactions. Games are exclusive to one particular store either indefinitely or during the period after its release.

But according to Epic, why...if Epic can make its own app store for iOS, consumers will benefit! Bullshit. All that will happen is we'll have to install multiple app store apps on our phones, having each one collect data constantly about us...
Can't agree. This is like saying $popularApp will fail because they buy expensive hosting at AWS.

Rubbish they will fail because the product didn't fit the market, if they're successful they'll have money to buy servers and colo then drive down cost. If they succeed it will be in large part due to the fact they spent thier capital and more importantly time on code/engineers rather than servers.

Right now companies are searching for a use of AI that will add hundreds of billions to thier market cap. Once they find that they can make TPUs, right now only one thing matters; getting there first.
IME, this is how an enterprise-contender product should generally be built when it wants to touch many domains across the business. Starting with a reasonably rigorous access control model enables deeper business integration--and this is a product that, to be successful, can't live without that.
Link me?
Discussion [0] (29 points, 5 hours ago, 23 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40662803
But it has sort of happened on Windows with gaming. I’ve got games on Steam, GOG, MS Store, and Epic. It’s annoying and I very much preferred the state of things a decade ago when it was just Steam.

Android has curated a market of users who don’t buy apps. I don’t know that we can extrapolate their alt-store outcome to iOS where the buyers are.
Yes, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks the economics of it are a little bit broken. I will never join another start up as employee #1. I'd much rather come into a larger start up with a high cash comp + equity, than very low cash comp, worked to the bone.

The other thing no one talks about is founders tend not to dilute themselves, but often early employees are diluted heavily.
I don’t know Hicky, but Guy, Gerry and Hal are great human beings as well.
AgentUniverse: A LLM multi-agent framework
Just a tangent, fans are obssessed with certain artists, say, TSwift, because of their personality rather than pure voice and lyrics. That's why concerts are so fucking popular.
I think you've only experienced Linux on Intel/AMD, not Linux on ARM SOCs.
Works with rhel9 docker image and compiled binary link
> I can't build or run anything without approval by the Apple police

it’s wild that they advertise and promote it as something totally open where you can build and run anything you want
Nice work but I gotta provide my own OAI key? Why not just run one of the API demos at this point.
Japan stopped being relevant predominantly because the US diplomatically bullied Japan into making itself irrelevant. Japan used to be what China is now: a megasupplier, protected by an artificially cheap domestic currency.

Top-down government regulations are necessary to curb big tech's power because big tech has subverted the normal mechanisms of market competition that are supposed to make dictatorial control unprofitable. The question is whether or not Japan denying market access to Apple or Google will be a sufficient punishment to get companies to comply.
A computational linguist runs Renaissance Technologies [pdf]
I responded to their Craigslist ad via email detailing which parts of their stack I did and did not have experience with. For some parts of their stack I said I have never used this but I have used this similar thing.

Their first email response back to me was an offer which I accepted.
What can stop Google is building the wrong thing, or being so scared to launch anything that they smother their own fledgling products before they are born or before they can mature. Their product and finance and accounting teams should be tossed.
Can LLMs invent better ways to train LLMs?
That made it possible to give 10 years of updates. That's the main reason for me to want Android to base on ChromeOS, not the other way around.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/06/14/321816570/ho...
Wrote a comment a week or two ago on this you might be interested in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40580163

TL;DR: Google is consolidating behind the whims of the hardware org, which are orthogonal to OS' that can't ship (what ppl outside Google call Fuschsia), and here, OS' that can't sell premium 1st party hardware. The old platform org head left recently, combine that with the CEO's eagerness to display Efficiency™ and the lack of interest the CEO has in practical work, that means VP shuffle people around to keep constant/shrinking headcount and the CEO loves it.
Discussion [0] (111 points, yesterday, 60 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40651298
It’s too expensive. Every other option is several times cheaper. It’ll never get less expensive because the inherent risks necessitate the expense. These expenses are mostly related to having to plan, construct, and operate a plant with perfection, which costs more than other power generation which don’t have as catastrophic a risk profile. Unfortunately, even with modern reactor designs, the risk remains high, so the cost remains high.
for an electric car that could be a safety feature
Two differences in MCTS (or their MCTSr) from what you describe: First is that using just the self-eval as an authoritative score rather than a probability distribution increases the likelihood that a low-quality evaluation (a.k.a. an inaccurate evaluation) will throw off the entire search process. Second is that by using MCTS, a low-quality action (MCTSr -> solution) that doesn't turn out to be low-quality until several refinement rounds doesn't throw off the entire search, either, since the tree search can go back to the root and experiment with a different earlier branch.

A single rollout is the full process described in chapter 3. "The algorithm iterates through these stages until a termination condition T is met, including rollout constraints or maximum exploration depth"

I can't say as to why they didn't try using a bigger model than Llama 3 8B, or more rollouts.

[edit] counter-edit
Highest I could find is 6
Nah, just eyewash in an otherwise unneeded blog post that required rationale larger than "because Sundar loves Efficiency™, and this lets the new platform head consolidate things fully, so everyones happy."

They had to get ahead of rampant internal rumors that were leaking externally (c.f. comment of mine a couple weeks back https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40580163)
I’m sure it’s a hard problem, too bad taxpayers are the hook now instead of the corporations that took that unknown risk.
Exactly and they are still about 1/18ths as good at training llms as a H100.

Maybe they are less than 1/18ths the cost, so google technically have a marginally better unit cost but i doubt it when you consider the R&D cost. They are less bad at inference, but still much worse than even an A100.
LilyGo T5[0] has some different (smaller) sizes that seem quite good and cheap. They even have an option for battery and touch capabilities. And if eInk isn't required, they have some weirder types of devices with screens for tinkerers, like glasses and watches. Not Linux but ESP32, but I think in that form factor and performance it's preferable. Haven't tried them myself though, but they seem quite popular, my cursor has been hovering over the buy buttons for months. They usually don't come with case but there's a ton of 3d printable options and also some ready ones on Aliexpress.

[0] https://www.lilygo.cc/products/t5-4-7-inch-e-paper-v2-3
Polybius clearly lists 6 forms of government (3 better their evil twins).
They had those a long time ago. One of the few parts of their airplanes that was actually quite good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jklGQxAOoo8&t=9m45s
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Sounds like a great learning tool.

Not gonna fault people for learning, think the FUD is more so in the vein of being ignorant while working.

Yea, you dont really need to know how transistors work to code, but you didnt need that for 2 generations. Personally think (and hope), LLM code tools replace google and SO, more so than writing SW itself.

I got my start on a no-code visual editor. Hated it because the 5% of issues it couldn't handle took 80% of my time (with no way to actually do it in many cases). See LLM auto generation as the same, the problems that the tool dosent just solve will be your jobs, and you still need to know things for that.
Don’t forget that the US had Internet on mobile phones in the 90s/2000s too. It was called WAP.

However it was expensive as shit.

I’m glad that both WAP and i-mode failed and we got the real Internet though.
Absolutely not.

I was contrasting "stuff associated with causes costs more than it should" with "a lot of stuff costs less than it should because the cost ignores externalities"
Since sound levels differ with distance and environment, absolute levels are not all that meaningful without a detailed explanation of their measurement setup. A 10dB reduction roughly corresponds to something sounding about half as loud to human perception.
You'll get the same effect by just looking at the board and noting who has the brick production.
> That said, I'm not particularly sure Japanese politicians can handle those complicated matters efficiently.

It's not as if this law was actually written by the elected politicians, and furthermore, it's based on an EU law. Japan is only one of the many countries that are now using EU laws as a model for their own legislation for issues like privacy and antitrust law.
or perhaps it’s quite suitable
My friend (former MSFT principal engineer) is actually developing this idea as a startup. He has a MVP. If interested, I can connect you two. Email in profile.
Wouldn't that be renting a shovel vs selling a shovel?
The ability to sync data in the background with the screen off is one. For example, Google Photos and Spotify require the screen on and app open to sync, while the Apple apps sync anytime they need to.
and so is Meta: https://ai.meta.com/blog/next-generation-meta-training-infer...
That little chess piece totally looks like he’s ready to be the central character of a wordless stop-motion animation.
OpenAI isn't storing the requests, according to the announcements, so I presume they're not going to train on this data?
I probably should've defined "real value" more carefully. My framework here is basically the idea of technology as humanity's "skill tree," the total set of stuff we're able to do. Back when RCT (and Doom before that) were written, we genuinely weren't sure if such things could be created, and their creation represented a novel step forward. The vibe in software feels like we're long past the stage of doing things like that, like we're not even attempting to do things like that. I can only think of two things in recent history: whatever strand of AI culminated in ChatGPT, which is genuinely impressive, and Bitcoin, which ostensibly was created by one guy.
NVIDIA sells subscriptions...
Not op, but he is probably referring to the costs of building a nuclear power plant in the US which requires a lot of safety systems, concrete, approval process, etc.... the key is that a coal or gas fired power plant would have the same costs of the steam turbine system but the reactor part of the power plant is vastly more complex in terms of controls and safety compared to a gas or coal fired plant.

Long story short, because of the reduced complexity in powerplants using fossil fuels, they are inherently cheaper per kilowatt. And therefore the more complex nuclear power plant costs more to setup and takes longer... Thus increasing the overhead and therefore rate at which one must charge for the power to be economical
It's somewhat unusual for Google to open source and mainline this bit of functionality. Last time I heard, Google's internal production Linux kernel still has 9000+ patches[0] on top of vanilla Linux. And I'm still waiting for them to open source switchto[1].

[0]: https://lwn.net/Articles/871195/

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXuZi9aeGTw
Stopped reading when there was a long passage about the author instead of Nietzsche
So what your saying is your problem would have been solved if you just increased the number...
The natural world has evolved just as many ways to be miserable and sick and in mind shattering agony as ways to be alive. Perhaps many more. Don't forget that when you ask for your humility. You should also ask for a sense of cosmic horror for this hellish prison we find ourselves trying to claw out of.

If a God created the natural order, with its unending beauty and horror, then surely, on the balance of things, they were either more than a little sadistic and evil
... or they were purely insane.
> He explained Russia's stated motivation for invading Ukraine, that it felt threatened by NATO's continual eastward encroachment and breaking of promises not to do so.

That is a total nonsense that has been called as such by people who were in key positions of power in the USSR and pre-Putin Russia. Out of their irrational anti-american hatred, "intellectuals" like Chomsky choose to blatantly ignore when people like Gorbachev directly say that the sob story about NATO promising not to accept Eastern Europe into the organization is a myth that even theoretically isn't plausible and couldn't be true.
Much the same way you can have all the best gear and still fail - Google’s primary strength seems to be the DeepMind group. I’m not affiliated with Google, but IMHO the reason they will slowly die is because their engineering culture has taken a backseat due to their broken hiring practices.

Bad hiring practices aren’t exclusive to them, but from all accounts it seems like their internal focus is on optimizing ad revenue over everything else. I could be wrong or misinformed, but it seems to me like they are playing the finite game in the AI space (DeepMind group aside) while FAIR are playing the infinite game.

*meanwhile MSFT are simply trying to buy their way to relevance (e.g. OpenAI investments, etc) and carve out future revenues (Recall) and Jobs-less Apple is building their trademark walled-garden (AppleIntelligence?). Although the use of unified memory in Apple silicon poses some interesting possibilities for enabling the use of sizable models on consumer hardware.

Overall it seems like “big-tech” is by-and-large uninspired and asleep at the wheel save specific teams like those led by Lecun, Hassabis, etc. not sure where that leaves OpenAI now that Karpathy is gone.
and deceptive if not inaccurate. Meta's Model Cards specifically call out that they were trained on publicly available datasets and NOT any Meta user data.

For example: https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3/blob/main/MODEL_CARD.md
Replace "Mushroom" with insects, fish, bacteria, and viruses, and many other branches of the network-of-life. Inventorying our Earth is far from done.
A lot of foraged mushrooms are just chock full of bugs and the ones that aren't are usually full of bug feces. I like hunting for them but I stick to cultivated for eating.
Are you mixing up primary key with clustered key?

Primary Key serves to uniquely identify the row. This is used to reference the tow in other tables. (So the Invoice table contains the Primary Key value for the customer.)

The Clustered key describes the physical sort order on the disk. Clustering on your most common search improves performance for that search. Searching on other criteria becomes equally slow.

So, it's really common to search through invoices by date. So a date key is ideal for a clustered index on that table. Looking up all invoices for a date range is faster than all invoices by, say, customer.

Clustering the customer or employee table by date though isn't great, I don't want to often see my employees on take-on order.

We teach Primary Keys at Uni, but in my era anyway they didn't put the same emphasis on selecting a correct clustered key. So I feel like people tend to assume the Primary Key is also the clustered key.
I think Google understands perfectly that current AI is great at increasing the revenue produced by selling ads. Limitations are irrelevant if they have no impact on selling more ads. It takes a long time for the cycle of brand destruction to impact reported revenue.
I'm sure the data being handed over to ChatGPT will be far more valuable. Why get paid once when they can get a steady stream of data that they can exploit over and over again for the rest of our lives?
Yes, oil is a limited resource. US became recently the largest oil producer in the world (source: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61545) and the additional output comes from the Permian basin only.

Texas became the 8th larger economy thanks to the increasing oil production (larger than Russia or Canada). But Texas should invest that money (like Norway or UAE does) as it won't last for ever. When oil is gone (or too expensive to extract) people will leave Texas, and Texas will be a wasteland with orphan wells everywhere polluting underground water.

In general, it would be wise for US to get an exit plan, for when oil would not be so easy to extract (yes it is more difficult now, but the oil price is still high enough). Oil price can be counter intuitive as it is the main fuel of the world economy. So, if the production declines, the price can go up, but not too much. At some point, economies would shutdown, and the demand would fall sharply. Only the countries that would be out of oil (i.e. using electricity from nuclear, solar, wind, hydro) would continue to be humming. The other countries would enter in chaos, unrest and war. Which would generate economical migrations and more chaos.

Again countries should plan for peak fossil fuel, and even if they are lucky to have some oil underground, they should plan to massively transform their economy to electricity and transition the production from fossil to more sustainable production like nuclear, solar, wind and hydro.
What is vanilla Linux though?

If you're talking about something like Ubuntu, there's a tonne of work that goes into making sure it works with ..say.. a random three year old laptop with all the binary blobs in place.

Try getting something like wifi or Bluetooth working on some weird ARM dev board and suddenly there's no vanilla Linux unless you're willing to write device drivers.
I disagree that they face significant risk, personally. But perhaps i'm just too much of a pessimist. To me, there is a safety trail involving everyone on the road, with no ability to opt-out.

The corporation will yield net profits from this, and the people will suffer the losses from this. That seems close enough to the idiom, in my view. But i'm no expert.
>the radio in an iPhone can almost certainly be made to operate outside of licensed/compliant limits by tweaking the software. Should they be forced to allow that but still held accountable when their device is noncompliant?

I can see an argument for this. Nothing forced Apple to design their hardware this way: they could have built licensing/compliance limits into the hardware itself. But they didn't want to do that because they wanted to use the same HW for all markets, and different governments have different rules about which frequency bands are allowed. Of course, this then brings up the question: if they did make slightly different HW per-market (perhaps with 1-time fuses), what happens when someone brings their iPhone from one country to another and they've modified it to ignore any new region restrictions (Apple could still use SW to force new restrictions, though they can't allow anything new because of the HW restrictions) and it's broadcasting on an unallowed band?
"Consumer video cards"? Meta's not building their clusters out of 3090s.

They're using advanced cards meant for data centers and machine learning -- almost effectively "custom silicon"
That's likely due to contractual obligations with Google and the use of well-supported AMD/Intel hardware and BSP. Linux hardware / device architecture makes this difficult on Arm and the many silicon BSP providers and that's what the stable Kernel Module Interface that Android imposes helps with.
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The only thing more bullshit than 99% of CRM implementations is not having one when you start to outgrow Excel.