skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
mostly you'd be floating them on the oceans (ideally the currently-nutrient-depleted parts of the oceans that aren't teeming with algae), but yeah, that's roughly the limit for solar, and as you're approaching that limit, you need to be thinking about space-based solar power, nuclear power, geothermal power, etc. maybe when you're at 64× of current energy consumption, say

since 02000, total solar installed capacity has gone from a gigawatt to 1.6 terawatts (see https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ise/de/documents/p... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swanson%27s_law#/media/File:19...), which is roughly 10 doublings, one doubling every 2.3 years. but that's peak capacity, and 1.6 terawatts peak is only 220 gigawatts of actual production at a presumed capacity factor of 21% (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_by_country). that's 6 doublings away from world marketed energy consumption; adding the other 6 doublings to get to 64× gives you 12 doublings, and thus about 28 years before this starts to be a concern

probably we should think of this as a lower bound, though; adoption is likely to slow down as solar moves into application areas that are not already electrified or indeed yet done at all by humans, and the last 24 years have been, historically speaking, unusually peaceful
Perfect, localized search is the most annoying thing there is.
Seems like nowadays it's a sea of hyperbole with little nuggets of realism floating around.
It seems like you're saying that if we can't guarantee success then there is no point even trying.

If their assessment of the eventual significance of AI is correct like you say, then what would be your suggested course of action to minimize risk of harm?
If the percentage of earnings is capped (as it was in most agreements), it's far better than a loan-- worst/best case you pay the capped amount (like the loan amount); if you do worse than that best case, you pay proportionally less.

But trying to claw earnings from jobs that didn't relate to the school violates the letter and spirit of the agreement and shows the disproportionate power of the parties.
Linux had XRender and similar.
Fancy elaborating?
What a waste of an intelligence.

Pursuing artificial goal to solve a non existent problem to profit off meaningless hype around it.

World would have been better off if he made a decent alternative to k8s or invested his skills into curing cancer or at least protecting world from totalitarian governments and dangerous ideologies (if he wants to belong to vague generic cause).

You know, real problems, like the ones people used to solve back in the old days…
Will Google or Meta pop if they'll just remove all of that overnight? I doubt it.
Which security features are exclusive to enterprise?

Because any ol’ Surface ships as a secure core pc which utilizes virtualization for memory security etc:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/de...
> Too many people want to learn to code, not everyone can do it well.

People don't want to code. People want to make a living, and the people who exported their jobs overseas and gig-ized what was left told them to "learn to code."
Wait, so you compile a swift executable that’s callable from js? How would one distribute this client side in browser?

I’m not smart enough to understand this. I love swift, vapor and node individually, I don’t get it together
China can not win this race and I hate that this comment is going to be controversial among the circle of people that need to understand this the most. It is damn frightening that an authoritarian country is so close to number one in the race to the most powerful technology humanity has invented, and I resent people who push for open source AI for this reason alone. I don't want to live in a world where the first superintelligence is controlled by an entity that is threatened by the very idea of democracy.
> In the real world, a particle can be a lot of different things

I thought the idea that a particle is an excitation of a quantum field was broadly accepted.
Did you read the article? What I gathered from this article is this is precisely what Ilya is attempting to do.

Also we absolutely DO NOT know how to make a safe AI. This should be obvious from all the guides about how to remove the safeguards from ChatGPT.
I’m not sure good and evil are well enough defined to hope for this. A machine super intelligence would be unknowable to us. Gorillas vs Homo sapiens.
oh, yeah, i was thinking of places where you already have a reservoir suitable for hydroelectric production, not places where you have to build a dam
I don't know who is coming up with these names Safe Superintelligence Inc sounds just about what a villain in a Marvel movie will come up with so he can pretend to be the good guy.
Yeah so it seems we agree, Apple resorts to third party AI for some tasks.

"Apple Intelligence" is a strange marketing driven name because it implies to the tech naive that all AI in an iPhone is offline.

When in fact "Apple Intelligence" is just the name for some of the AI functionalities in Apple devices. Some functionalities will still send data to ChatGPT and perhaps other third party providers in the future.

But Apple gets to advertise "Apple Intelligence" as privacy conscious, offline, personal AI and still be technically correct. Classic.
Yeah. This article is a combination of an interesting story with a really unfortunate insertion of POV that sends up red flags for trustworthiness.

My favorite example is when he's talking about Lambda not registering with the state:

> Austen claimed the school had made an honest mistake, and the company lawyer, who he claimed told them that since all the classes were online, it didn't need approval. Sure.

And that's it. "Sure". He just smugly dismisses the claim without presenting any actual evidence to establish that that's what happened. This approach only works as journalism if the reader doesn't need to be convinced, but if they don't need to be convinced, why read the story in the first place?
> A factory making billions to its owner doesn't improve the revenues, wealth or standard of living of more than 1 person... A factory producing luxury Louis Vuitton handbags... is irrelevant to the living conditions of the workers

> Come on, this is Econ 101 and basic logic.

You griping about luxury goods on principle isn't "Econ 101" or "basic logic".

You can look at basically any material metric you like (cars owned, house size, etc.) and Americans come out ahead. Nominal GDP numbers are kind of nonsense, but they're directionally the same nonsense everywhere, so they actually work OK as an international comparison.
Thats hardly untenable. Most computers draw a lot more watts where you wouldn't miss 1.2W imo. Even these "low watt" computers are drawing like 5-7 watts at idle and once you do anything on them its a lot more than that.
Higher education works fine in other countries, where it is heavily subsidized by the government.

But, I guess, for many people in the US - they want any solution other than that.
thank you!

yes, it's server-side with htmx at the moment. anything client-side that has a build process is entirely out of scope as i think that's a major source of complexity.

i'm considering embracing alpine.js for when htmx is not enough, just need to make sure the alpine directives are type-safe.

i think it's exciting what astro, hono or fresh are doing with islands of interactivity but plainweb tries to be even more minimalistic.
They were definitely mechanical. The ones in the lab I worked in were not nice though.
advancements around parameter efficient fine tuning came from internet randoms because big cos don’t care about PEFT
Node’s a server-side thing, so I don’t think you’d distribute these in the browser.
no, it's immensely more ethnically and culturally diverse than europe, regardless of where you draw the borders between states
I gave a talk on Vannevar Bush & innovation at a 'pop-up city' just two weeks ago:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11rXfniJtbvzAgSMv2Wpx...

He really transformed US innovation. Some good, some questionable, and some stories probably yet to be told. Hope you enjoy. I'm working on uploading the video of the talk here over the next couple of days. If any questions I'll try to field them here.
Making Dade's Camouflaged Laptop from the Movie Hackers [video] (2021)
Nobody deserves to have violence inflicted upon them for temporarily colouring a rock.
You've been through all the stuff like setting max device power for the NVMe drives and similar yeah?

https://nvmexpress.org/resource/technology-power-features/
interesting thing about bush was that his computing background was heavily analog, to the point that the digital switch eventually left him out of the action:

> Bush gradually drifted into the backwaters of science and technology. The rise of digital computing passed him by: an analog man to the end, he underrated the possibilities of digital technology. He did, however, make one contribution to the field. His “memex”—an idea for a machine that could store and connect information and thus work as an artificial aid to memory—later inspired others to create a version in digital form: hypertext. Wikipedia entries, with their hyperlinks taking readers ever deeper and wider, would likely have pleased Bush despite their digital form.

https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-rise-and...

that's one thing that strikes me about the memex: it's very analog and, to me, that makes it seem like less of a direct line to the modern notions of hypertext, at least on first glance
There are multiple reasons that Japan is better than Mississippi, but "Japan is actually materially wealthier" is not one of them.
This is great.
I will keep my eye on it.
I really want non unix like operating system start to offer alternatives.
but would that stave off an impending recession?
Just to shamelessly plug one of my old projects, I did something like this at a German industrial engineering firm - they wanted us to rewrite a huge base of old tests written in TCL into C#.

It was supposed to take 6 months for 12 people.

Using an AST parser I wrote a program in two weeks, that converted like half the tests flawlessly, with about another third needing minor massaging, and the rest having to be done by hand (I could've done better, by handling more corner cases, but I kinda gave up once I hit diminishing returns ).

Although it helped a bunch that most tests were brain dead simple.

Reaction was mixed - the newly appointed manager was kinda fuming that his first project's glory was stolen from him by an Assi, and the guys under him missed out on half a year of leisuirely work.

I left a month after that, but what I heard is that they decided to pretend that my solution didn't exist on the management level, and the devs just ended up manually copypasting the output of my tool, and did a days planned work in 20 minutes, with the whole thing taking 6 months as planned.
I've got a few .com domains from namecheap. My telephone spam quotient is very, very low.
News at eleven: devs use tech for utterly inappropriate purposes just because it happens to be cool at the moment.
"Just a Concoction of Nonsense": The Oral History of "A Fish Called Wanda"
Yeah, we don’t disagree on that. It just seems that for end users prudish app stores are the only option for procuring apps.
You mean PPUs or smoke and mirrors compensation. RSUs are actually worth something.
History rewriting has been going on for awhile now. No need for LLM and "malicious actors to seed disinformation and hate-fueled narratives".
True, an auto-regressive LLM can't 'want' or 'like' anything.

The key to a safe AGI is to add a human-loving emotion to it.

We already RHLF models to steer them, but just like with System 2 thinking, this needs to be a dedicated module rather then part of the same next-token forward pass.
I think a harmful AI simply emerges from asking an AI to optimize for some set of seemingly reasonable business goals, only to find it does great harm in the process. Most companies would then enable such behavior by hiding the damage from the press to protect investors rather than temporarily suspending business and admitting the issue.
Cool! They used my bench-fio and fio-plot tool for the 3D graph :-) [0]

What the 3D graph (also) shows is how poorly SSDs actually perform in single-threaded, low queue depth situations. Many enterprise or datacenter grade SSDs often perform much better and consistently on this front than the average consumer SSD.

[0] https://github.com/louwrentius/fio-plot
Just wondering, do you know of a better alternative? I've pretty much only bought Anker recently because they haven't failed me yet. Trying to determine what is quality online now is very difficult.
WHO report reveals major health disparities between European teens
Those proprietary just use compression. RDP is genially invented, passing messages/calls efficiently. X also has a ton of messages, but compressing them is not sufficient
> 1. Write programs that you think are cool

> 2. Learn about data structures and algorithms and complexity and software organization.

> 3. Write programs that you think are cool. But since you know more, you can write more cool programs.

Hegel :-)
I think the honest view (and you can scoff at it) is that winning the SI race basically wins you the enforcement race for free
But they say they will never produce a better model than what is available in the market.
We don't know if WiFi can be turned off but it comes by default
I used to be an Informatica ETL dev, briefly. I laugh at the description of it as a low-code solution, as we used it as a simple frontend for staggering amounts of hand-coded SQL. I'm not sure I ever used Informatica as it was intended.
> Our only place to speak freely will be with our family and friends in person, and they will be encouraged to inform on you.

We'll be carrying listening devices on us and meeting within earshot of smart assistants, smart TVs, ring cameras, game consoles, cars, and anything else they decide to shove microphones into. Our devices are so convenient that they will inform on us so that we won't even have to inform on each other.
> every. single. kid. Has their face glued to their phone every. single. day. It’s depressing.

Maybe for you. Sincerely, Meta, Apple, Microsoft and Google. /s
Here are my interpretations:

* If you drive safely, then you can save someone's life by avoiding a crash.

* If you save a driving trip (and instead walk/bike/transit/stay-home), you will have a life of safety.
Rocket company develops catapult to launch satellites into space
A little feedback: When I click "Notify me" on the front page, it takes me a sign-in form. I enter my email and a random password (since I don't have account yet), and then it tells me I don't have an account yet. I click "Sign Up" at the top and am taken to an account creation page. I then remember that all I wanted to do was sign up for the announcements email list, not create an account yet. why am I jumping through all these hoops? I quit and move on to the next HN article.

"Notify me" implies to the user they just need to give their email address and you'll email them with updates and announcements. They may not be ready to create an account yet, verify their email, all that rigamarole, so don't force them through that workflow just yet. When someone wants to give you their email address, for free, and get email updates from you, make it as simple and frictionless as possible for them to do that.
Walla Walla University (formerly college). Really annoying because there's a relatively much better known WWU on the other side of the state. Your ordering would have been a better choice when it renamed.
> Our singular focus means no distraction by management overhead or product cycles, and our business model means safety, security, and progress are all insulated from short-term commercial pressures.

This tells me enough about why sama was fired, and why Ilya left.
I used to use the WinAPi directly and then MFC.
Behind closed doors?
That PR department probably did some hefty overtime to rebrand datacentres as AI factories… what the actual fuck.
It seems like everyone (gen-z/millenials) uses this these days. Pretty cool app and features, makes organizing and attending events super fun.
liquid cooled ?
I'm sorry, but if you are unable to understand the basics of calculus and discrete math, then you should not be in a Computer Science program (with emphasis on the "science" part). CS isn't just programming - it's the theory of how computers work and math is an integral part of that. Just because you don't use it every day in the job itself doesn't mean that the information is useless.
It's very difficult to get traction here with a waiting list. Wait until you have lanunched and post again.
Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy
Absolutely no idea how to use the app either. It wanted me to type an s word? So I typed store and hit enter, it gave me the definition of store. Very very confusing workflow.

Also absolutely clueless how this relates to a LLM.
I think it’s clear we are at least at the remotely resembling intelligence stage… idk seems to me like lots of people in denial.
just because people do it does not mean the TOS permits it

I recall reading it in the TOS, but it seems they have since made things more vague, per some community forum docs, most of which also say it's generally not a great idea regardless
We changed the URL to that from https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/06/slack-automatic-test-conv... . Thanks!
I'm sure they're counting the carbon released when using the petroleum products, right?
Optane is neat tech, but it's also dead tech.
I don't understand why they don't enforce dumpsters like any other big city. Then again if there is perpetual incompetence in nyc, it probably means corrupted parties and individuals benefit from the situation somehow.
At its core, this is designed to destroy any ability to communicate by intentionally distorting reflected appraisal. See my post why that's a bad idea.
Why can't you make money with a user-friendly platform for hosting community groups?

People are used to paying nominal transaction fees for commerce transactions. Pro versions of group facilitation, messaging, and ticketing is also a thing.

The problem is just cost. These post IPO companies grew massively with sales and support teams. It's very likely much easier to get to scale nowadays. Remove the sales teams and find ways to grow on the cheap. "can't make money" isn't right, it's managing costs to turn a profit inline with the current state of things.
I share the same feelings, directionally, as the author --- though I don't believe DoorDash was somehow bad for the world, but:

Lambda School was on-par with an average code bootcamp. Students got a taste of programming, but when it came to getting hired, neither the training nor credentials held a candle to a college degree

Give. Me. A. Fucking. Break.

Lambda seems to have been real bad in the aggregate, but I'm wary of people leveraging that scary story as a vector for restoring college credentialism. Plenty of esteemed colleges have comparable track records, and deserve comparable stories.

Let's skip the math, physics, and other code-free classes give you a foundational understanding of computers [...]

Yes, let's, please. Programmers in the main connect form fields to SQL columns. Calc II is a hazing ritual that supports an elite credential structure, not foundational knowledge for the practice.

In reality, one iOS instructor had just graduated from a competing boot camp before getting hired, having never spent a day in the industry. The head of the data science program was Austen's brother, Ryan, whose only experience was another bootcamp and internship.

Again: real bad. Lambda: not good. But the author knows full well who teaches a lot of university courses, and that's not a great story either.
CGI can definitely scale infinitely!! It's stateless.

PHP can scale to all of Facebook's front ends, and so can CGI. Because they are stateless.

Same with FastCGI. FastCGI just lets you reuse the process, so you don't have the "cold start" every time

> CGI had the original "cold start problem"

It's just that nobody has implemented a cloud that uses the CGI or FastCGI interfaces.

I quoted this same article in a blog post yesterday:

Comments on Scripting, CGI, and FastCGI - https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2024/06/cgi.html
+1 for the article's link to the "CADT Model" https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
What does your cost for internet have to do with the files you download?
Slightly off-topic but CedarDB is extremely exciting. It's the commercialization of the widely cited Umbra research DBMS [0] that has been in the works for several years, which benchmarks faster than DuckDB for OLAP [1] whilst simultaneously being really strong for transactional workloads. Also discussed recently here [2].

[0] https://umbra-db.com/

[1] https://cedardb.com/blog/ode_to_postgres/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40241150
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40730156
If superintelligence can be achieved, I'm pessimistic about the safe part.

- Sandboxing an intelligence greater than your own seems like an impossible task as the superintelligence could potentially come up with completely novel attack vectors the designers never thought of. Even if the SSI's only interface to the outside world is an air gapped text-based terminal in an underground bunker, it might use advanced psychological manipulation to compromise the people it is interacting with. Also the movie Transcendence comes to mind, where the superintelligence makes some new physics discoveries and ends up doing things that to us are indistinguishable from magic.

- Any kind of evolutionary component in its process of creation or operation would likely give favor to expansionary traits that can be quite dangerous to other species such as humans.

- If it somehow mimics human thought processes but at highly accelerated speeds, I'd expect dangerous ideas to surface. I cannot really imagine a 10k year simulation of humans living on planet earth that does not end in nuclear war or a similar disaster.
imagine the hubris and arrogance of trying to control a “superintelligence” when you can’t even control human intelligence
The one I hear about most often is account portability. Your Mastodon account is on a specific server whereas the AT protocol account is owned by the user. You can move it wherever you want. It helps protected you from being banned or from losing your account if your server is shut down.

Somebody archived a thread that discusses some of the motivation for AT:

https://fedimeister.onyxbits.de/topics/thread-archive-about-...
Word in town is [1] openai "plans" to let employees sell "some" equity through a "tender process" which ex-employees are excluded from; and also that openai can "claw back" vested equity, and has used the threat of doing so in the past to pressure people into signing sketchy legal documents.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/11/openai-insider-stock-sales-a...
thankfully this account has plenty of credibility and i have no ties to lambda whatsoever. tinfoil hat off. i can want more empathy while not absolving the guy of guilt.
Hint: let’s assume that you want to get the value stored at a specific memory address.
Took a risk hiring out of App academy once. Guy had gone through hundreds of interviews and just bombed on all of them. I know why, he just sucked at interviews and exudes a Morty's dad kind of vibe. Perfectly fine programmer, it turned out.
You wouldn't run this in the browser. On the frontend, this would be useful for Electron apps (which run an embedded Chromium for the UI and a local node server for business logic and interfacing with the operating system) on MacOS. On the backend, this might be useful if you have a node-based API and want to share some Swift code between your iOS frontend and node backend.
Ignorant. Where will the future not junior ones come from.
Sorry I missed it. How does this work?
Perhaps your second premise isn't true...?
On the O key, PEEK became GEEK.