skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But you should find their self-direction capacity incredible

No, why would I?

Depending on what you mean by self-direction, that's either an evolved trait (with evolution rather than the mouse itself as the intelligence) for the bigger picture what-even-is-good, or it's fairly easy to replicate even for a much simpler AI.

The hard part has been getting them to be able to distinguish between different images, not this kind of thing.

> and their ability to instinctively behave in ways that help them survive and propagate themselves. There isn't a machine or algorithm on earth that can do the same,

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

> much less with the same minuscule energy resources that a mouse's brain and nervous system use to achieve all of that.

Is nice, but again, this is mixing up the intelligence of the animal with the intelligence of the evolutionary process which created that instance.

I as a human have no knowledge of the evolutionary process which lets me enjoy the flavour of coriander, and my understanding of the Krebs cycle is "something about vitamin C?" rather than anything functional, and while my body knows these things it is unconventionable to claim that my body knowing it means that I know it.
I think you might be being sarcastic, but here is the truth on the topic.

Orban and his government spent a huge amount of time and effort, making private communications LESS liberal and more difficult to speak freely.

https://www.hrw.org/report/2024/02/13/i-cant-do-my-job-journ...
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Most large metros land costs around 300-500k just for an empty lot. In chicago lots are often 400k while houses next door are 550k. Clearly the cost to build the house is not the issue here.
EXACTLY!!!

(Though I'd be happier with importSync() to identify the use of ESM packages.)
Honest question; is there anything in that summary you just posted that a normal human couldn't infer from just reading the title?
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A big part of the problem in the UK at least is we pay the same price for energy no matter where it is generated, but the grid doesn't have enough capacity to actually transport all the wind power from Scotland to the south.

They'll sort it out eventually.
The docs should be updated now. Thanks for catching this!
Use any of the free versions. There is no reason to download Java from Oracle.
Seems a bit dystopian
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But why do you want to break half of a working solution?
It’s pretty easy to show that while on one scatter plot questionnaire results of depressed people may tend to form a cluster of points, typical medication is only working in half of the cases, ergo if we add one more dimension than we could separate it into at least two clusters with probably widely different physical explanation.
You can use a speaker as a microphone, and vice versa.
There are flexible consumer energy tariffs based on the spot market + fee now. But although you even get negative prices, I was surprised that those tariffs are not economical for me. I have 2 heat pumps that are responsible for 75% of my energy consumption. I could optimize their working hours to low/negative hours by software and work with the thermal inertia of the house / water tank.
At the moment it is not worth the effort, a monthly floating tariff is more or less the same. Especially because the net fees are not based on the spot market and are 50% of the energy bill. This is a political failure.
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Indeed, this fits with the hypothesis. Neurotypicals prefer a statistical, Shannon Entropy like approach, which can handle random surprises. Autistic people, by overreacting to surprising inputs, may avoid surprise, and end up with the deterministic information processing style (Kolmogorov Complexity).

However, the predictive processing failure doesn't explain the savant skills or large rote memory, or detail orientation based on grids of units.
EU–US Data Privacy Framework? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU%E2%80%93US_Data_Privacy_Fra...
A very long article. I read a bit and it's interesting.

Would have preferred a much shorter version. Also, couldn't find the quadrants during my quick scrolling.
Still passes the "a machine that would survive a single day" test, and given machines run off electricity and we have PV already food isn't a big deal here.
Glad you mention potatoes too: they're FAR AND AWAY the most satiating food per calorie, based on a 1995 study https://www.thebodytransformationacademy.com/uploads/7/4/4/9...
Record retention laws are not the only exception. E.g. you can execute your Hausverbot right only if the person you refuse to serve cannot demand that you forget them. This position was already confirmed by German regulator at least once.
There is no veto right anymore. Most decisions are taken by simple majority. https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/council-eu/voting-system/

The veto right was effectively removed once certain countries started abusing it.
Except in Hungary. Hungary is fucked. Solar was punished for years and just recently got promoted when Orban's friends and acquaintances got into the business. Wind turbines are still banned, while the technology gets better and better and nowadays pretty neat household setups could be installed. EU level regulations should be put in effect instead of state level ones to remove this kind of games.
Yes! I know of at least one instance where a farmer in Colorado is using them for seeding and pesticide spray.
They did in the '80s, after a run longer than the current revival. Sometimes things come in and out of fashion.
Orban is authoritarian. During his rule the freedom and democracy of Hungary have taken huge steps back and the country is no longer considered "free" by for example Freedom House.
XFree86 happened, it was an easy port to Linux and opened up a world of X11 software. The 'win' of Windows was not due to the adoption of X11 but due to the fact that it ran on all those clones out there while the Unix vendors were busily fighting their own turf wars - the 'Unix wars' [1]. Microsoft's underhanded tactics were another part of securing their 'victory', this was back in the time when manufacturers would loose their Windows licence if they dared to offer any alternative choice besides what MS had to offer. No Windows licence may not have been a problem for a company like Sun or Silicon Graphics but it did keep 'clones' vendors from straying.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_wars
It's not breaking fiduciary duty to the company if the company is wholly owned and in the interest of the owner. Or the transaction is in the interest of all the owners. It comes under transfer mispricing (transfer pricing manipulation) where transactions are not at arms length which it would not be if the same owner wholly owned both. It's not a highly policed area so it's legal insofar as people do usually get away with it. I think there will be crackdowns on it eventually, courts are more apt to pierce the corporate veil for solo-owned companies.

I think there are many changes coming down the pipeline as governments start running out of money. Capital gains tax normalization, capital gains tax treated as income every year instead of at a 'event' when you sell. An effective wealth tax by taxing a percentage of property value. Once those are in place I think they'll crack down on the creative use of corporations to minimize tax.
HN is not a help forum. But letting you know about this as an annoyance that exists in MacOS, for decades that apple refuses to use default browser preference.
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This was my thought but I suspect for rice farming its easier than wheeled based devices.

As you can imagine rice paddies are a bastard for wheels, because its muddy as fuck. Its not like its economical to put a cement pan underneath as some rice plants have >1m roots[1] so you can't treat it like watercress (thats a wild assertion, maybe you can)

Also, the banks that hold the water to make it a paddy are unlikely to be regular or load bearing. Moreover, the fields are not laid out with a road to link them all together.

So conventional tractor with thin wheels/floaters just won't work. And smaller vehicles are just impractically heavy or impossible to get into most fields.

As for the AI shit, I don't think there is acutally that much. It looks a lot like its just standard drone mapping/possible machine vision to detect the state of the crops/border of the field.

Would this scale up for western style large fields? no. but for small irregular terrace style fieldlets, it would

[1]https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1626/pps.3.281
Don't. Just...don't. I get cold emails, and send them straight to the spam folder. I just got a send follow-up (so, 3rd cold email) from a company. The only thing they have achieved is irritation. I will certainly avoid their products, if I come across them in the future.
The problem for aluminum or bitcoin is that the electricity from wind & solar, unlike geothermal, is variable. It will alter their economics to shutdown operations when it is cloudy and the wind stops blowing, etc. It really only works if they can have guaranteed access to power for some time frame and that will require a reversible form of energy storage (that's what a real battery is) or really good transmission. GPUs are hard to come by now so miners probably want power 24/7, but if power becomes the biggest constraint then it could make sense to have mining operations run idle for long stretches and use them as batteries.
Agreed. But at least I get to play with pneumatic tubes.

Hey, come to think of it, dystopian pneumatic tube world is the movie Brazil https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/
For all we know, intelligence services might have already had multiple successful attempts prior to xz so they just got complacent on that particular one.

The problem we have is you can’t prove the absence of something.
Plus, a placebo for dumb consumers who thing a bigger package means better or more. It reminds me of a story from when I worked in manufacturing process 20 years ago. A major vendor of sensors and control hardware was demoing a new line of sensors. The plant manager in talking with the vendor said, "These are great but I think they are too lite, people will pick them up and assume they are junk." When the vendor released the product line, they had added a weight to each by sticking a small piece of heavy metal in each one with the sole purpose of conveying weight to the customer.
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Probably a bad counter example but:

Abortion got reversed recently.
Hi! I'm the author.

You're right! The context that I was talking about was actually in the GIS space! Depending on what you're trying to do, it's not uncommon to have a single dataset that's 50TB large (think: 100-500m resolution global raster with daily data for 30 years)

And that's not even considering any memory overhead when performing operations on top of that data.

That type of stuff wouldn't fit into Postgres (we tried once, a long time ago), and usually, you might be trying to use multiple datasets simultaneously, so that data adds up pretty quickly!

It's my first post (and writing) ever, so I have room for improvement. Thanks for taking the time to read!
Technically you just described an M-series MacBook. Even if you don’t like the BSD-derived genuine certified UNIX that is macOS, they are also supported by OpenBSD and NetBSD. Work is also underway to add support for FreeBSD.

https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html

https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/apple/

https://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleSilicon
One of the main issue is sitting for extended periods of time with no physical activity whatsoever. This is one of the worst position for breathing (compared to laying down or standing up at least). Unless you're consciously reminding yourself to breathe normally you will default to shallow breathing.

Virtually nobody sits 8+ hours a day reading books, writing letter, sewing or cutting veggies
I agree, I noticed that as well. It's funny how the whole world moved away from simple text pages because they seemed old fashioned, only for them really to be better than what they replaced.

It reminds me a bit of https://thebestmotherfucking.website/
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Surely correctness is the most important thing? Anyone can produce an incorrect state diagram.
and nvidia has the need for compute in general behind it, which i dont see going away anytime soon
I am retired now so nothing I do now will be of help to anyone.

However:

When I was working I would get up each day at 5:00am do an hour on my exercise bike.

Shower, have a quick breakfast, leave home at 6:30am to make it to work for 9:00am

The most important thing for me was when I got home from working with chaotic and mentally ill clients all day, was to sit outside my home for 30-60 minutes before I walked to my front door.

My thinking here was that this alone time was a time for reflection, to cleanse my soul and unburden myself of the contamination projected onto me by clients I had worked with all day.

You do not want to take that home to your family.

I think everyone should consider doing this regardless of what profession you work in.

Work should always be left at work. It has no place at home
Yes, it could. It may even surpass the dotcom bubble in size.

But AI hype in 2024 is not even close to dotcom hype in early 2000.

During the dotcom bubble, companies IPOed with no revenue and no profit. In 2024, OpenAI is probably at $2 - $3 billion in revenue right now. All the companies benefiting the most from AI are established companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia, TSMC. We haven't had any pure AI companies IPO with no revenue in 2024 as far as I know. Heck, I'm not even sure if there is an AI company that IPOed in 2024.

I think AI hype is in the 1996 equivalent of hype - not 1999.

We're at the baby steps of the LLM revolution. There are so many things I want an LLM to do but it hasn't been done yet. I want Slack to be integrated with an LLM so I can ask it business logic discussions that I can't find using its search engine. I want Outlook to summarize long email chains that I just got cc'ed into. I want an powerful but private LLM to ingest all my digital data so it takes into account all those things before doing things for me or answering my requests.
A while ago I tested the image recognition skills of GPT-4o, Claude 3, and Gemini using a random street plan diagram I happened to have in my downloads folder (https://i.imgur.com/9WZpK0L.png). It's a top-down CAD rendering showing the planned renovation of a street in my neighborhood in Tampere, Finland. I uploaded the image and simply asked each model "What can you tell me about the attached picture?"

GPT-4o's answer was excellent and highly detailed, recognizing essentially all the relevant aspects of the image [GPT4o]. Claude 3 Sonnet was correct on a general level, but its answer was much less detailed and showed more uncertainty in the form of "A or B" sentences [CL3]. Gemini's answer was, well, hilariously wrong [GEM].

I just tried this with Claude 3.5 Sonnet and it did very well. Its answer was still not as detailed as GPT-4o's, but it did ask me if I want it to elaborate on any aspect of the image [CL35].

I think this was an interesting experiment because street plan CAD diagrams probably aren't very common in the training data of these models.

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[GPT4o] https://gist.github.com/jdahlstrom/844bda8ac76a5c3248c863d20...

[CL3] https://gist.github.com/jdahlstrom/ecccf31c8305f82519f27af53...

[GEM] https://gist.github.com/jdahlstrom/2e12a966c0d603a7b1446ba08...

[CL35] https://gist.github.com/jdahlstrom/60ca9352630934bec6e2f4e37...
“Like it or not”

I’m pretty sure this is a feature that can be turned off, right?

You don’t even need an Apple ID to use a Mac. You don’t need to enable Siri at all. The list goes on.

I think a lot of people will use these features because the benefits are attractive.
> I'd argue we've been better each time around at creating a larger fraction of resilient governments.

Looking at the state of a lot of ex-USSR countries, I'd say this is not correct. Quite a few of them ended up as dictatorships. If anything, I would argue the immediate post-WWII was an apex of democratic creation that we are unlikely to match any time soon.
Ah, so I won't just have all of private conversations monitored for no reason at birth, oh wait, but what about those 40 cameras that are on every residential street owned by Amazon and Google?
How far behind is AMD?

https://www.reuters.com/technology/amd-launches-new-ai-chips...
> But give it 5-10 years, or maybe less, and that will seem silly. People will be using LLMs for focused use cases and making sure they help the end users. You will be evaluated with a higher standard - of what you actually accomplish with your products.

This day cannot come fast enough in my opinion. Hype is tiring and ultimately detrimental in the long term (more disappointment than fulfilled wishes), in terms of opportunity cost of what could have been invested in instead.

How does one escape this?
Aluminum and bitcoin are not the only two products that are possible ...
I was a bit surprised by the macos/linux speed differential here:

> The difference in macOS and Linux speed is actually the difference in clang and gcc speed. The LLVM clang compiler is doing better optimizations for x86 processors here.

I know GCC has been getting much, much more aggressive as of late, but there have been some complaints that it is now much, much less safe (checks intended for security getting optimized away, e.g.).

I wonder if you were to go back to 5 years ago, if you'd see the linux code was generally safer than the speedy osx llvm code...
Right, maybe it can improve the productivity of companies that are operating below the mean.
It already is one.

Just like those here are old enough to remember the Cisco stock price and Intel's stock price in the 1990 when the internet was hyped up.

It is unsustainable and insiders will start or already have been taking profits out to derisk and anticipate any outside market forces that will correct these prices such as; for example: A declaration of war and an invasion.

This will be no different. Even the Nvidia CEO is taking out profits. Soon employees will do the same (and are already doing so), then Pelosi will do that ahead of the event.
Yes.

If one of the AI companies use their windfall investment funds wisely they'd invest in getting fusion power working, something that small scale crypto power wasters don't have the organisation for.

That is, in fact, the only thing I can figure out what Sam Altman needs $7 trillion for.

At least then when it bursts we'd have something to show. And he'd get some place in history.
This is well reasoned, and certainly happens, but I definitely think there’s strong evidence that there are, in fact, true believers. Yudkowsky and Hinton for one, but in general the shape of the trend is “rich engineers leave big companies because of ethical issues”. As you can probably guess, that is not a wise economic decision for the individual!
It's not about unseating. When NVDAs revenues are so concentrated from just a few customers, it only takes one to slow down and NVDAs multiple will contract.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/single-customer-made-19-nvidi...
It is not that big of a deal, you can write

import {} from "some/package"

And then go back with working autocompletion
You have no idea what youre talking about
> spacetime curvature is way higher than we think.

You mean way weirder.

Remember 1/r^2 does not work quite right for, e.g. mercury.
Well done! I'm curious why are you so dependant to Supabase ??
You don't really need the insane taxes part, just an insistence that the plants are not allowed to emit halogens in the flue gas.

The halogens are completely recoverable by bubbling them through an alkali mixture, doesn't matter what earth metals are used (some combination of sodium and calcium is cheapest), this will result in salts.

You want to be a bit more careful about some metals, so that you don't have to precipitate them out of the salts to render them nontoxic. There are ways to preferentially bind the metals even in the gas phase, but it's best not to burn them to begin with, which isn't that hard because metals aren't found in high quantities in plastics to begin with, especially not the bad ones like cadmium and lead.

Other than that, plastics are economically useful, but burying them is just delaying their release into the environment, which is not great. So burn them, and stop pretending they're useful for anything but fuel at the end of their service life. Pretty simple.
Everyday youtube feels more and more like an extortion.

By the way, I wonder if that kind of geo-discrimination would be legal in the eu.
Yes.

Even the company I work for, which makes and sells ERP software, literally changed its main domain from .com domain to .ai
Hell no I don’t abide by laws of the PRC.

If they had all the things I’d ever said in my life time they’d probably execute me. I speak my mind all the time. That’s what terrifies me though, because in 20 years time they could be running the show. So why would I want to make it so easy for them to know everything I have ever said, why would I want that data stored about me.
I'd say it's exactly the opposite. Neither require() or import require an async code structure. The biggest reason I avoid ESM like a plague is that many of my projects are not, and do not need to be, async. Adding import() is a huge hassle because it is async.

Adding an importSync() function would be a perfect solution.
The bar for AI investment is also incredibly low right now. People are throwing crazy amounts of money at everything. It would be incredibly surprising if there isn't a massive investment bubble right now that pops in a year or so. That's true even if the underlying technology is the real deal and is going to be transformative. Probably even _more_ likely if AI is real, in fact, because if it's bullshit, the bubble won't have time to get very large before people stop investing in it. All you need is a few big pay days to keep it going.
> After like 2 decades of screaming at clouds, I think it's more that most people don't care about the value of privacy.

I think you've betrayed your own argument, because talking with people would have been more effective than screaming at clouds, to use your metaphor.

Just because you're putting something out there doesn't mean anyone else is receiving it. And if they're not receiving it, you can't judge whether or not they care.
You will know it’s a bubble when people stop asking whether it’s a bubble
Why? Because it's wrong? If it were correct, wouldn't it be useful?
Grid operators are aware, transmission and storage take time to build, and will always be behind renewables deployments due to the deployment time delta.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40720682

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40720183 (thread)