skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was an enjoyable read, but the oldest ecosystems on Earth by far are the deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Many remain pristine and are quite possibly the origin of life on Earth.
Keep your kids inside and teach them to code.
Generally yes, but I wasn't only talking about compute costs. Mentally grokking H.264's features and inner workings is a lot easier than newer, better codecs.
Woah, we'll be bored and move on long before Fortran generics will become portable or supported by multiple compilers in 2034. Avant garde.
Maybe, though it could also be that locutus is a Latin word that essentially means "speak". Adds another layer of meaning to its use in Star Trek. :D
This is what banks are for. Real estate is essentially their bread and butter. It’s a physical, valuable asset that they can seize and auction off.

We’re also talking about houses (stand-alone units) rather than housing. These developers aren’t fronting the cost to build individual homes. That’s all covered by home owners (via a construction loan)
FWIW IIRC yts.mx began offering H.265 on standard resolution films about a year or two back.
The only constant in all your problems is you. Don't blame the LLM.
USA is deeply different. Looks like antigeneralizationism.
I live in Spain and I lived in Limerick and libraries are mostly similar, both university and municipal ones.
Happy to share. Two main hobbies are violin and homelab.
Isn't the "search" space infinite though and impossible to qualify "success"?

You can't just give LLMs infinite compute time and expect them to find answers for like "cure cancer". Even chess moves that seem finite and success quantifiable are an also infinite problem and the best engines take "shortcuts" in their "thinking". It's impossible to do for real world problems.
Ugg... that just made me think of the opposite case where you're looking for something and it feigns ignorance...[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD9YqdWwwdw
imo Honeycomb pioneered this, and its the right baseline. There are limitations to it of course, and certainly its been done before at BigCo's that can afford to build the tech, but its extremely powerful.

The main argument for metrics beyond traces is simply a technology implementation - its aggregation because you cant store the raw events. That doesnt mean though you need a new abstraction on those metrics. They're still just questions you're asking of the events in the system, and most systems are debuggable by aggregation data points of spans or other telemetry.

As for logs, they're important for some kinds of workloads, but for the majority of companies I dont think they're the best solution to the problem. You might need them for auditability, but its quite difficult to find a case where logs are the solution to debug a problem if you had span annotations.
How does this work again?

"Sign here that you are resigning"

"No thanks, you'll have to fire me if that's what you are trying to do"
I would say that is "cloud hosted", which is obviously very expensive compared to running on hardware you own (assuming you own a computer and a GPU). That was the comparison I was interested in, the fact that renting a computer is more expensive than the OpenAI API is not a surprising result.
Why would China want to sell it? I think they would rather shut it down than give up control.

It would be like Russia demanding the US to sell of Voice of America during the Cold War.
That's already true for every desktop application though. All third party programs can spy on all other programs and documents that user has available. This has been a seemingly criminally-overlooked shortcoming of desktop systems and this approach has fallen WAY behind current mobile security practices.
Having rich parents definitely makes dropping out a safer bet but I think the parents would still be opposed to it because they went to college and so did all of their rich friends.

> Then, if it's hard(er) to keep kids of wealthy people in school, does that mean that that process results in a generation of people that have inherited wealth and that are poorly educated?

Students with poor parents are still several times more likely to drop out (https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/pdf/Indicator_COJ/coe_coj_2...). I'm sure very very few dropouts did it to chase an opportunity (I haven't met anyone who did what I did). They did it because they couldn't handle the schoolwork or couldn't afford college anymore.
they also told them to completely stop, following up on their earlier ruling. which means they did not prevent genocide.
Yeah, he went working on wallst at some firm at 16 and never went to college, comes from an albanian immigrant family of little means (his dad was a janitor iirc).
It is a phrase, very serious and hard to enter. If someone is a fresh grad or someone with tons of experience wants exposure to a fast pace burn you out startup culture there is absolutely nothing like West Coast startups.
> We are, after all, in a world where the youth don't seem to understand file systems and folders [1] and rely on the search feature for everything. Recall could, if done properly, be a great user experience for such people.

I think this was done on purpose to disempower the user.
This is accounted for because the second equation looks at sequences of two moves and not just one. After a sequence of two moves there are two possibilities. Either the state has changed or it has not. This is reflected in the left and right side of the second equation.
Typing is the least interesting part of programming. And most of the other doing parts have been automated already (compiling, testing, deploying,…) Most of my days are mostly spent reading, thinking, and waiting.
I thought they were still no other browser engines available then WebKit (Safari)? You can only install other browsers, but they have to use Webkit under the hood. I think alternatives are now legally possible in the EU, but not a single browser developer has made theirs available that way because of the impossible restrictions around it.
Addressing needs to make ones life a little better is great, I only worry that it may lead to people not pursuing more organic/rewarding options in the future.
> For all we know, this is Russian in source

What is the source of this claim? I don't see it in NYT paper.

> but given false documents to get it sold on the open market bypassing some sanctions

It was sold in 2019, long before sanctions on titanium exports.
On that note, "7 minutes in Heaven" is in Munroe's "Computers may never outplay humans" category in https://xkcd.com/1002/ .

(as glass bead games are closely related to Calvinball, I'd be interested to see if that categorisation remains accurate or if we wind up in the world of https://xkcd.com/810/ )
I used to be from East Coast, those pocket protectors are not just for pens but snack storage.
This is cool, because it means that naming matches a sense of closeness. Someone living on the same street can live quite far away from me, but someone living in the same block is close. Christopher Alexander wrote about the advantage of small named units. You could organize a party for a block, but not for a street.
A game designer is just a type of product designer (the product, in this case, being a game).

If you don't understand the role of product design in making a successful product (and the difficulty involved in making correct product design decisions), that speaks only to your own inexperience.
We could of course use more willingness to sacrifice luxuries but "just stop releasing so much carbon" isn't the solution because emissions is just one part of the optimization problem. The entire global economy is the engine that will produce alternatives to fossil fuels despite it running on fossil fuels. There are obvious cases where carbon is worth emitting e.g. Concrete for a nuclear power plant, Diesel trucks to deliver solar panels, smelting steel for train tracks.

Barring turning everything off tomorrow at astronomical human cost, there is some optimal amount of emissions and if used effectively Carbon Capture/Storage (primarily point source) could shift the Pareto front in the right direction.
Search is almost certainly necessary, and I think the trillion dollar cluster maximalists probably need to talk to people who created superhuman chess engines that now can run on smartphones. Because one possibility is that someone figures out how to beat your trillion dollar cluster with a million dollar cluster, or 500k million dollar clusters.

On chess specifically, my takeaway is that the branching factor in chess never gets so high that a breadth-first approach is unworkable. The median branching factor (i.e. the number of legal moves) maxes out at around 40 but generally stays near 30. The most moves I have ever found in any position from a real game was 147, but at that point almost every move is checkmate anyways.

Creating superhuman go engines was a challenge for a long time because the branching factor is so much larger than chess.

Since MCTS is less thorough, it makes sense that a full search could find a weakness and exploit it. To me, the question is whether we can apply breadth-first approaches to larger games and situations, and I think the answer is clearly no. Unlike chess, the branching factor of real-world situations is orders of magnitude larger.

But also unlike chess, which is highly chaotic (small decisions matter a lot for future state), most small decisions don't matter. If you're flying from NYC to LA, it matters a lot if you drive or fly or walk. It mostly doesn't matter if you walk out the door starting with your left foot or your right. It mostly doesn't matter if you blink now or in two seconds.
No Chapel Hill?

I feel excluded. :-(
> What were the security problems?

I would argue there really weren't away, apart from the usual disaster/lack of security that desktop systems have.

It wasn't uploaded anywhere, so the only threat would be from programs that would run locally and steal it, which is already the same for any other (even third-party) program stealing your local files, which they have always been able to do.
Hadn't heard of Xfab. Very cool! By older nodes I meant like 28nm or 40nm. Looks like their smallest is currently 0.18 and that nodes been around since before I was even in school! It's definitely still useful for some applications, but not very competitive in my areas.
Reminds me of the Pepsi navy.
I worked in oil / gas on international projects for 10ish years.

I think the dollar will still be the de-facto reserve currency in 20 years, but it will be more as a medium of exchange rather than a true "reserve" currency for central banks. Central banks are buying gold like crazy.

Comparatively speaking, the dollar is pretty stable. But, the inflation genie is out of the bottle. The USA keeps deficit spending like there's no tomorrow, and is on an unsustainable path. If tax receipts don't increase, we will have to print our way to debt servicing.

Also, the western global hegemony is shifting. Many non aligned countries frankly don't care about the wests causes; they simply want cheap energy and to grow themselves out of poverty. The middle east is facilitating all this for southeast asia and the like.

TL;DR the dollar will remain, but it will be an intermediary exchange between currencies and not a real "reserve" store of wealth.
If I was a Third World country or a small eastern European country, I’d offer a quick route for Americans disillusion with their own country to gain citizenship for a $250,000 investment with a residency condition. They’d make billions.
There's also HyDE: https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.99/
My advice is work for a big company and put in your 40 and no more if possible. Ride that to retirement.
Or grind your ass off for a decade with minimal returns and possible ruin.

Yes, those are the ONLY two possible outcomes.

Fallacy of the Excluded Middle much?
You’re confusing the Fed with Congress. The Fed controls monetary policy (via the benchmark rate, a blunt tool), Congress fiscal policy (a surgical tool). Because Congress is effectively failed governance to deliver for the citizenry is in no way a reason to drag the Fed, who is arguably executing effective monetary policy. Unemployment is very low, and price stability has almost been reached. The Fed is doing all that it can while remaining within its dual mandate.

Who controls healthcare policy? Congress. Who controls food supplements? Congress. Who controls the minimum federal wage? Congress. Who controls taxes (both rates and incentives)? Congress. Entitlements? Congress. If you want better governance, vote for competent representatives, although I understand this is out of the hands of most and we’re being held back by the emotional and unsophisticated who vote against their own interests (broad strokes, lots of nuance and caveats).

The Fed could’ve even offered FedAccounts, free demand deposit accounts at the Fed to eliminate the unbanked and apply downward pressure to fees at commercial banks. But a certain party recently passed legislation to prevent that. Hard to avoid politics when they are driving suboptimal outcomes at scale.
Our health database was being used in many states but one hospital reported error messages of "Invalid patient postcode" to our Client Support. C.L. couldn't duplicate the problem so I was sent to investigate, after checking that our same version was not giving the same errors. Long story --> Short; the operator inputting the postcode data was had been using `l' instead of '1'. The font in use made it difficult to detect the differences.
Is this your first time encountering an authoritarian regime? This would not be unexpected, surprising or out of the ordinary.
It's just a list of roles. On a one-man project they will all be done by the same person. But obviously as budget scales up you can also split up the roles more and more.
They don't build houses. They build "luxury" apartments so that they can rent them out at $3k/month a piece.
I feel like the switch from AVC (h.264) to HEVC (h.265) has already happened. It's used in 4k blu rays, most premium streaming services, and hardware support has been ubiquitous for at least 6 years.
But the topic is readability not viability. Pretty much all programming languages have some readability issues, dealing with them via coding conventions.

Nowadays we want our text editors to handle those conventions automatically, and be able to recover them even if we delete extra white space or line breaks.

I also discovered Forth 40 years ago. It looked viable to me. I recognized then that while it's interactive like BASIC, it's way faster. Also cleaner, because Forth functions are reentrant, usually not relying on global variables.
You save the actual file, not a bookmark. That also means you have the data always available, independent of whether or not you have internet access.

And you save it in in a tree-structured set of folders.

Like (say): Motor_vehicles -> ICE -> cars -> Mercedes_Benz -> C-Class -> Coupe -> 2002_W203

Videos, Music, photos, ebooks, etc,etc. They all can go on a "write-once, keep forever" archive-disk, that is backed-up daily using something like 'rsync' that only needs to track the changes in the archived materials.
https://glitchtip.com/ is an Open Source form of Sentry created after they went closed source, if you are interested in something like that.
You a free to make choices in a deterministic universe. It was just always going to be the choice you made.

Introducing randomness just eliminates that determanism, not the ability to choose.
In general the incoming power from the sun is so many orders of magnitude greater than the amount of power we usefully extract that it's hard to imagine it having any material impact on the biosphere.

The physical presence of solar cells and wind turbines is a different matter, but it's largely a local effect.
I think LinkedIn just tries to crack down on third party services, who sell people's data. But they will hardly succeed, those services will find some way to scrape data. It's just matter of time.

Reddit went extreme on that, cut the API access at all to crack down on AI providers who were trying to train their data on comments and posts posted by people.

I find it crazy how these services treat their users' data as their personal belongings.
"By necessity, large companies ultimately operate by documented process and this makes it hard for them to accomodate outside-normal needs unless such accomodation has been encoded in the process."

I would think it's just the opposite. Larger companies are more likely to have the resource to make accommodations and a process for handling accommodation requests.
I think the point is to incentivize development of (open) software and educational content for chip design and verification, while keeping costs low. Once people have the skills to do this, and there is enough demand, then it would make sense to allow manufacture of chips with better feature sizes.

Besides 130 nm is plenty good for a lot of industrial applications.
It's exactly as controversial as I think because I think it's as controversial as we have measured. https://survey2020.philpeople.org/survey/results/4838

Lay people are incoherent and childishly naive. I don't really care what they think.

> The Frankfurt cases showed that control over alternate possibilities is not necessary for responsibility.

This is a controversial claim. There are many popular counterarguments.
The grandparent poster may be talking about ATSC 3.0 which has been rolling out for a while. H.265 at a reported 28-36Mbps is nothing to sneeze at!
Have you experimented with it much? First I am hearing of it
Airlines have figured out that people suck at multitasking.
My dad was an airline pilot. To hear him talk he was surrounded by morons.

That said, at least with airplanes you have to put in the flight hours and they have to be documented. Most commercial pilots start off at very low pay doing puddle jumpers and regional jets. Military experience might give you a leg up because it shows you've spent a lot of hours going through a very regimented program.

My dad was fortunate to get in the industry right before it became an option for the masses rather than luxury and business. It was high paying, glamorous job.
Apparently Google acquired Jibe and offers it as a cloud solution to carrier OEMs to implement RCS.

https://www.gsma.com/get-involved/gsma-membership/gsma_orgs/...

https://techcrunch.com/2015/09/30/google-acquires-jibe-mobil...

https://android.googleblog.com/2015/09/committing-to-rcs-lat...

https://jibe.google.com/jibe-platform/

https://www.sicurezzaegiustizia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/...

> RCS uses a set of standard internet protocols like Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)[1] to establish a connection between two clients through a central messaging server. This connection is then used to exchange the messages using Message Session Relay Protocol (MSRP)[2]. In some RCS deployments this server is hosted by the carrier, and in other deployments the server is hosted by Jibe Mobile from Google.

> In situations where the two clients are not on the same carrier network, they’re connected through multiple servers—one from each carrier. The connection between the RCS client app and the carrier’s messaging server is encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS). Server to server communications are also encrypted.

How end-to-end encryption in Google Messages provides more security

https://support.google.com/messages/answer/10262381

Google Messages end-to-end encryption technical paper

https://www.gstatic.com/messages/papers/messages_e2ee.pdf

Data security for RCS Business Messaging (RBM)

https://developers.google.com/business-communications/rcs-bu...
Yesterday I complained that telepathy is defined solely as a negative, which means that it essentially can't exist because if it is ever found, it will be real, and as such, will have mechanisms and limitations and real characteristics, and therefore it can't be "real telepathy". Because the definition is intrinsically built on negation.

def isItTelepathy(anything):
return False

A lot of obfuscatory words are thrown at the definition, but it's what it amounts to.

Or, more fairly, this is not the only definition but it's a very popular one.

Free will has a similar problem. The definition a lot of people want to use is a negative one. It can't involve any predictable process. It can't involve any seen process. And so on. Well, when you feed a definition like the above into logic, you get some pretty broken answers.

Some people do give definitions that can be turned into real answers, but you can detect someone operating on the completely-negative definition by the way they get upset, sometimes even in a moralistic way, at the idea that you might have said something meaningful and insist on pushing their total-negation definition at you again.

There's an interesting conversation to be had on the matter in potentia but it requires so much effort sidelining the people who become offended if you actually proffer a definition and hold to it and perform actual logic on it that it's hardly worth it. So we pretty much get nowhere because we are essentially not allowed by about 80% of the people trying to have the conversation to have a concrete definition at all, not even for a moment, not even "for the sake of argument".
Shame as a tool to reduce traffic fatalities
I argue that a more effective measure would be to use the onboard data services in modern cars to calculate the $ cost of speeding! Sure, you CAN drive 85 MPH, but if you drove 70 you are saving $/hour driving.
That info seems a little out of date. The utility of h.265 at resolutions below 1080p can be questionable, but everything these days is 1080p or 4k.

Hardware support has also been ubiquitous for a while now. iPhones have had it since 2016. I usually "move on" to the next codec for my encodes once I run out of hardware that doesn't support it, and that happened for me with h.265 in 2019. My iPad, laptop, and Shield TV are still holding me back from bothering with AV1. Though with how slow it is, I might stick with h.265 anyways.
They are correct, though.
<< The written word has absolutely always been dangerous. This idea is captured succinctly in the expression "The pen is mightier than the sword."; ideas are dangerous to those with power, that is why freedom of expression is so important.

One feels there is something of a contradiction in this sentence that may be difficult to reconcile. If the freedom of expression is so important, restricting it should be the last thing we do and not the default mode.

<< Turning that into an actual sentence, with intent behind it would be a crime in many jurisdictions, and that is one of the most simple, contrived examples.

I have mild problem with the example as it goes into the area of illegality vs immorality. Right now, we are discussing llms not producing outputs that are not illegal, but deemed wrong ( too biased, too offensive or whatnot -- but not illegal ). Your example does not follow that qualification.

<< Speech, especially inciting speech, is a form of violence,

No. Words are words. Actions are actions. The moment you start mucking around those definitions, you are asking yourself for trouble you may not have thought through. Also, for the purposes of demonstration only, jump off a bridge. Did you jump off a bridge? No? If not, why not.

<< it's important to for societies to find ways to hold the demagogues that rile people into harmful action accountable.

Whatever happened to being held accountable for actually doing things?
As Taleb would say, “Fooled by randomness”
Inkdown is an open source Markdown reading, editing, and sharing tool
I don’t really care in corporate settings. I don’t like to bring personal stuff on my work machine anyway. Most of the time the only thing I keep is a picture for setting up my profiles. I have my personal computer or my phone nearby when I want to do these stuff.
If we disagree on this there can be no fruitful exchange.