skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See my sibling reply for a clarification; I'm asking on a tangent about whether oxygenation would be helpful in room-temperature oil extractions generally; not whether it'd be helpful in room-temperature oil extractions for culinary use (which... aren't a thing.)
I am personally asking, because after decades of tech hobbies, I have a bit of a self awareness to 'fun':

I wonder what the fun part was, to them.

There is something rewarding about learning. There is something rewarding about completing things. There is something rewarding about showing other people.

I have the issue that everything I make should be practical. Either net me profit so I can make lots of money. Or useful to society so I can reduce the world's pain and increase pleasure, maybe this is a selfish way to fame.

I still get all 3 of those rewards I previously mentioned, but there is something different going on when I'm doing something for profit/others. Its a different feeling, not better/worse, just different. Better in some ways, worse in others.
I'm seeing a lot of criticism suggesting that one company understanding safety won't help what other companies or countries do. This is very wrong.

Throughout history, measurement has always been the key to enforcement. The only reason the nuclear test ban treaty didn't ban underground tests was because it couldn't be monitored.

In the current landscape there is no formal understanding of what safety means or how it is achieved. There is no benchmark against which to evaluate ambitious orgs like OpenAI. Anything goes wrong? No one could've known better.

The mere existence of a formal understanding would enable governments and third parties to evaluate the safety of corporate and government AI programs.

It remains to be seen whether SSI is able to be such a benchmark. But outright dismissal of the effort ignores the reality of how enforcement works in the real world.
Then you'd need twice as many SSDs!
And it scales to multiple servers to accommodate traffic without your input. But essentially, yes.

Not to sound uncharitable but I’m confused by statements like the OPs who profess to not understanding what Lambda is… it’s not actually that complex!
Fair enough, and it's not worse than a lot of other product marketing messages about AI these days. But you can be intrinsically motivated by a problem without believing that other problems are somehow less important than yours.
I think the real ability that got lost is the ability to easily mix and match multiple logically separate things. Once upon a time, if you have some slightly dynamic material and you also wanted to add some PDFs from the technical writers, the webmaster would do it in five minutes. Want a video? Just add a file. Need a form? Fire up some PHP or whatever. Want a support contact or FAQ? No big deal.

Now even big companies outsource their PDF hosting and viewing to a third party, they outsource their FAQ and support contact to a different fancy startup, surveys and similar forms to to yet another company, and the list goes on. The all-in-one website seems to be dead.
Andrew Ng worked on facial recognition for a company with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party. He’s the absolute worst person to quote.
the thing about mentioning compensation numbers on HN is you will get tons of pissy/ressentiment-y replies
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It's open source if you're using language like a normal human being. If you're a bit of a pedant and wish everyone to adhere to definitions imposed from on high regardless of real-world usage, it's absolutely not open source.
If we manage to harness the ego energy transpiring from some people working on "AI" we should be halfway there!
I don't know how anyone who experienced how Ops worked at companies before AWS can say things like this. Is AWS right for everyone economically? No. It is an impressive automation of software operations, that has driven the industry forwards by leaps and bounds. Yes.
> In the current landscape there is no formal understanding of what safety means or how it is achieved. There is no benchmark against which to evaluate ambitious orgs like OpenAI. Anything goes wrong? No one could've known better.

We establish this regularly in the legal sphere, where people seek mediation for harms from systems they don't have liability and control for.
LLMs don't consume more energy when answering more complex questions.

They can. With speculative decoding (https://medium.com/ai-science/speculative-decoding-make-llm-...) there's a small fast model that makes the initial prediction for the next token, and a larger slower model that evaluates that prediction, accepts it if it agrees, and reruns it if not. So a "simple" prompt for which the small and large models give the same output will run faster and consume less energy than a "complex" prompt for which the models often disagree.
> big names

Big names where? Inside of openai? What does that even mean?

The only place you can get 400k cash base for senior is quantfi
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perfect sort of thing to say to get lots of upvotes, but absolutely false in my experience at both enterprise and bigtech
I think the main issue is that there's just not much money in it.

Let me explain. I don't have hard numbers on this, but I'd venture to guess that a vast, vast majority of funding/code-time-donations towards Linux is specifically for making server infrastructure more stable. Fortunately for the community, these changes get pushed upstream and also fortunately a lot of them end up also benefiting the desktop environment as well.

Windows does have a server presence obviously, but I think if you're using a Windows server, you're not going to drop it and replace it with ReactOS (even if it were less unstable); you'd probably move to Linux with .NET Core. I don't think any company is going to fund the development of ReactOS on server, or as any key part of infrastructure, and so the only thing that React has is consumer desktops.

I don't think there's a lot of funding going towards consumer products; I'm not saying it's zero, but even for Ubuntu and Canonical or Fedora and Redhad, I always kind of figured that the desktop OS's were effectively loss-leaders for commercial clients. I think the final nail on the coffin is Valve and Proton; for awhile Microsoft still basically had a monopoly on games, regular Wine was hit or miss, but Proton keeps getting better and better, to a point where I almost never have to worry about a game not working on my Steam box. Valve can continue to work on SteamOS specifically because they have funding in the form of people using their platform to buy games.

I was rooting for ReactOS for quite awhile, but nowadays I'm not really seeing the point of it. Linux driver support is actually pretty decent nowadays (particularly with AMD GPUs), it runs reasonably fast, and most applications have moved to web-based stuff anyway.
But it’s entirely susceptible to your wallet being hugged to death if someone decides to ddos you.
And that's assuming this votes solves issues of board independence and whther the negotiation was not at arm's length, and that the Delaware court is convinced of this.
Seems like is not another model company.
https://x.com/ssi/status/1803472825476587910
> If 2 black holes collide - they join together.

Presumably though some of the matter "escapes" as energy released during the merger, in the form of gravitational waves.
Instead your wallet gets ddos'd.
> Still ridiculous, though. Do doctors in Italy go to jail for giving false negative cancer diagnoses?

If there were strong indications of cancer and a doctor blatantly ignored it? An argument could be made that's negligence causing death.

Clearly some degree of negligence is absolutely criminal when people's lives are on the line. Maybe you don't agree where that line was drawn in this specific case, but that's not an argument that no such line exists.
and that soured you on altruism as a concept??

i find the way people reason nowadays baffling
Super intelligence is inevitable. We can only wish good hands get there first.

I'm glad Ilya is using his gift again. Hope for the best and success.
VC incentives are the real problem here. I was a mentor at another bootcamp and also the founder of a high-skill developer marketplace in 2017.

A valuation of $1B for this business is crazy. Investors were simply underwriting students paying for trade school, there's no tangible tech innovation. Like Theranos, WeWork, and FTX - it's the story of a darling founder who has to justify an unrealistic valuation in a frothy market. They're living in an echo chamber where fraudulent behavior goes unquestioned because everyone wants the upside.

Salaries are based on scarcity. High-skill software engineers were rare at one point, because there weren’t many of them with experience or training. Programs like Lambda School increased the number of people who know how to code while decreasing quality, resulting in fewer unfilled jobs and lower compensation. And again, where is the innovation? In the sketchy ISA?

There's a fine line between the “fake it till you make it” ethos in Silicon Valley and fraudulent behavior that materially hurts investors and consumers. He clearly crossed the line by publicly and repeatedly lying, but he was also incentivized and encouraged to build a hyper-scale business on the backs of people lacking expertise in the job marketplace.

I believe teaching people how to code is a good thing. But it's not a venture-scale business, and never should have been valued as such. A sketchy financial instrument doesn't equal innovation.
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Dinosaurs were only first discovered in 1824: https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/01/europe/megalosaurus-first-din...

It must have been an incredible discovery at the time.
I love his point and I love his exuberantly colorful tone.
Loans are a payment. These were a percentage of earnings. They are very different.
Yeah but their body is immensely larger, which I assume will require more neurons for basic biological duties. (yet another napkin theory)
Apparently less than half a percent of the worlds population knows how to code. All the software you use, and almost everything you've ever seen with modern technology are generated from this small subpopulation. Now, imagine if that number doubled to 1% of the worlds population. Theoretically there would be as much as twice as much software produced (although less certainly). Now imagine if that number was closer to the world literacy rate of 85%. You think the world wouldn't dramatically change when each and every person can take their given task, job, hobby, whatever, and create helpful software for themselves? I think it would be like The Jetsons.
I think "influencer" specifically implies someone who gets paid to shill for brands (or aspires to, once they build a following). You're not just "creating content", you're "influencing" public opinion.

Early in the internet era, advertisers realized that personal testimony (e.g. from online forums) is trusted more than advertisements. So of course the obvious step was to make advertisements that look like personal testimony.
Half the advancements around Stable Diffusion (Controlnet etc.) came from internet randoms wanting better anime waifus
> The only place you can get 400k cash base for senior is quantfi

confident yet wrong

not only can you get that much at AI companies, netflix will also pay that much all cash - and that’s fully public info
As others have pointed out, it's the business incentives that create unsafe AI, and this doesn't solve that. Social media recommendation algorithms are already incredibly unsafe for society and young people (girls in particular [1]).

When negative externalities exist, government should create regulation that appropriately accounts for that cost.

I understand there's a bit of a paradigm shift and new attack vectors with LLMs etc. but the premise is the same imo.

[1] https://nypost.com/2024/06/16/us-news/preteen-instagram-infl...
> OSINT is also absolutely a thing in Cyber

First time I see "cyber" used as a noun. Is that short for "cyberspace", i.e. the internet, or is it something else?
I think it will. The estimates part I meant just this one for 2024 - the way I read it was, they are speculating that low prices will cause more to be sold. May or may not happen, but the long term trend is clear. Especially now with batteries joining the party to soak up excess electricity. The world of energy will be night and day compared to today in 2030.
Has anyone managed to send them an email to the address on that page without it bouncing? Their spam filter seems very aggressive.
NearlyFreeSpeech.NET is good for this. Their main tier - "production" sites - are very inexpensive and the admins take care of OS and server-software updates. They have another tier - "non-production" sites - that are even cheaper and can be perfectly sufficient for a personal homepage. The admins maintain these servers as well but they might do beta testing on them.

The environment is fully hackable and has PHP, SSH, SFTP, MariaDB, dominant languages like Perl and Python, obscure languages like Haskell and Lisp, etc etc.
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That’s a trade off many businesses are very happy to make! Spike in traffic = spike in sales. For an actual DDOS there’s always WAF firewalling.

I have to admit I don’t get the lambda hate. You don’t have to use them but there is a valid use case for them.
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That's related, but it's not my point. Saying "decision-makers miss details in 100-page reports" makes it sound like the report is merely too thorough, and the inspectors did too good a job.

My point is the report's summary could have said "This bridge will fall down within 3 years" instead of obscuring the with vague, watered-down jargon like "structurally deficient"
> Greetings from Germany, we know that stuff.

Maybe you're painting internal feelings on this then?
Looks like kind of yes and no, but thanks, I do see that just commercial on bottom with residential on top but all masonry isn't what people are talking about as "5-over-1", but I still think provides some design precedent.

> The name derives from the maximum permissible five floors of combustible construction (Type III or Type V) over a fire-resistive Type I podium of one floor for "5-over-1" or two floors for "5-over-2", as defined in the United States-based International Building Code (IBC) Section 510.2.[1][4] Some sources instead attribute the name to the wood framing of the upper construction; the International Building Code uses "Type V" to refer to non-fireproof structures, including those framed with dimensional lumber

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-over-1
Hmm, perhaps. These days you can still get 30-50% from the EU but essentially only if it’s part of TEN-T or maybe some Green Deal related project.

The core network of major roads in Finland can be kept in a good shape, the issue is largely the thousands of kms of secondary and tertiary roads in the middle of nowhere that have too little traffic to be any sort of a maintenance priority, or to be eligible for EU funding. But you can’t really help it in a country that’s as sparsely populated as Finland outside major urban areas.
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I usually have to tweak my home rackmount equipment over IPMI to set the fan settings to idle when temps are low instead of 24/7/365 jet engine mode which the local university datacenter seems to prefer. I imagine running the fans full blast all the time results in slightly more reliable performance and reliability, but I don't have the luxury of a soundproof HVAC controlled room to lock everything away in, so the lower noise at lower utilization matters to me. This trade-off definitely happens all over the place in enterprise gear.
Lambda has its places, but I've noticed devs consistently using it for things where it doesn't make any goddamn sense. Like processing messages from a Kafka consumer, the function is running 24/7. People think it's a container or something.
That was probably his whole name. The IBM Fellow Mohan sometimes adds an initial “C” to avoid this kind of confusion (“C Mohan”)

Also see
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-... , for example item 20

Even in Europe, surnames weren’t that common until a fashion for or wave of surname assignments spread from the mid 19th century into the 1920s.
Are you the author? What is the tech stack? Do you have some interesting anecdote like the recipe with the greatest variation and the recipe with the smallest variation?
ISAs are equity in the student's future performance, up to a cap. This can result in paying a huge premium for relatively small amount of effort (a $30k cap for 6 months of online class is comparable to a semester at uni), but with 2 key advantages: a money-back-guarantee and accessibility.

With a fixed-cost tuition program, students who can't afford to pay don't go. This prices out students who would benefit from the program. There is also no recourse if you can't get a job from uni. How do u know if the teachers instructed you properly? Imagine paying $20k for the wrong instruction. Yikes.

The only time an ISA works against the student's favor is when the schools go after students who got a job working in something unrelated (which Lambda appears to have done a lot of) or students who were super successful, because they overpay for the instruction. The latter isn't that bad given the risk-free nature of the ISA, and the former can be resolved with legal action and regulation (which is what's happening).

That's just my $0.02, although I was a Lambda Grad who did the ISA and didn't have any issues.

Another piece of anec-data: I had a non-CS degree coming into Lambda, which definitely helped me during recruitment time. I think that had I gone into a CS program, I would have done fine and possibly even landed a better gig than I got after Lambda, but I didn't want to shell out $50k over 2 years on the chance of that happening, so I was happy to take the ISA. 5 years post-grad, I'm making 4x what I was making pre-Lambda, and my ISA was paid off after 2 years, but as is true with most things: your mileage may vary.
Vue is great too. I decided to use Vue at my previous job and I think the devs are still happy with it. I am more sure they implement new features with vuex though.

But when it’s time to take a decision, I personally go with React these days.
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But small countries have a hard time withstanding attacks of big undemocratic countries. Hence treaties and federations.
Or alternatively a lot of energy is wasted answering simple questions.

The whole point of the transformer is to take words and iteratively, layer by layer, use the context to refine their meaning. The vector you get out is a better representation of the true meaning of the token. I’d argue that’s loosely akin to ‘understanding’.

The fact that the transformer architecture can memorize text is far more surprising to me than the idea that it might understand tokens.
Did the article talk about his golf swing, or did the article mention that a sockpuppet account that he used to spy on his disgruntled students linked to a video of his golf swing that he also linked to on his twitter account, proving it was him?

> Not really necessary.

Define "necessary." Is it necessary to write articles at all?
>Which, of course, is impossible and ridiculous, and compromises the privacy of whatever message happens to match, but isn't mass, centralized scanning.

...Which set of boxes are you drawing? Because I see the box around all covered entities as a whole, and in the architecture diagram, regardless of whether the software is deployed in a decentralized way, it is toward a goal that is indistinguishable from centralized scanning by or on behalf of the State.
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The problem of commit latency bottlenecking global throughput seems to be a matter of treating the device as a black box that must be quiesced as a unit. If the NVMe device presented multiple namespaces to the operating system, and if other unnecessary abstractions like the filesystem are discarded, then the database can make progress on one namespace while blocked on another, even within a single host.
If this could "damage history" then we're way overdue putting the stones into a safe indoor storage facility.
It will be an area of active research, but it remains to be seen if it is overall beneficial.

Custom architecture components break the homogeneity that enables the massive parallelism.

There may be an approach similar to some FPGAs where there are a few things that are commonly needed that might be implemented specifically to avoid constructing them out of generalisable parts. The calculation is quite different though because hardware has more fixed limits and being fixed once manufactured means a great deal more forethought has to take place. Software models, being more flexible can avoid the extra thinking by adding a few million parameters.

One possibility is KANs which can also provide a calculable expression. I could see a fancy convolution KAN being converted into an expression and then applied across an entire input.

I feel like maybe in the future there may be a compiler that can make custom GPU code for specific pathways.

In the short term it might be useful if there is some found formula that requires many layers that can be calculated earlier with a custom expression and fed directly into a higher layer enabling the information to be more broadly used.
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Percentage of earnings is just equity. They're different, but not ethically. Slavery would be forcibly taking 100% of an individual's equity, but given that ISAs are both optional and a minor percentage (Lambda's was 18% when I went thru), the comparison is unreasonable.