skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Guess it's easy to talk this way as someone who isn't that rich, but if I'm at the point where I have 8 figures accessible, or 7 figures liquid and own all the important assets (house, car, kids' college funds in 523, etc), I don't particularly care what part of my income is being taxed past that point.

My goal isn't to make money for money's sake. Nor even leaving oodles of money to my kids. I'd metaphorically just spend my days strumming a guitar for the rest of my days. The economy is just a distraction from what I really care about.
Sure but that does not answer GP's question.
Plastic (depending) will become brittle and break into smaller and smaller pieces if buried. The problem of microplastics is kind of a breaking story. It doesn't look like a good thing for us.
"I love articles that tell me why something they can't know is something they like to guess at anyway."

HN is an excellent place to find hundreds of articles and comments predicting the future, i.e., something authors cannot know but like to guess at anyway, especially regarding the future capabilities and predicted use of "AI". There has been a steady stream of this gibberish pertaining to "AI" ever since the announcement of ChatGPT.

In a recent HN poll a majority of voters indicated they thought that "AI" was overhyped.

The parent comment is an yet another example of a comment that tells us something the commenter cannot know but wants to guess at anyway. For example,

"Artists will use AI to make some of it. The debate about whether or not its art will be part of the art."
Currently, the US is getting about 60% of steel recycled, and 80% of aluminum.
Nucor Steel, the biggest steel company in the US, runs mostly on recycled steel.
Their success came from figuring out how to make good sheet metal from recycled steel. Before that, recycled steel was mostly used to make rebar, which is low quality steel.

Here's a Nucor steel plant video.[1] Good overview of the process. Note that this is a spherical video and you can change the camera angle to look around. Seven categories of steel junk go in and are mixed depending on the desired product. The video is a bit vague about how the continuous caster works - that's partly proprietary technology. This particular plant is a joint venture with Yamato, but Nucor has other totally-owned plants.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjxJRaAItow
A big part of that problem was Javascript's terrible Date API, which was practically a carbon copy of the (equally terrible) java.util.Date. For no good reason, its Date.getYear() method returned the number of years since 1900.
A relationship that’s mutually beneficial needn’t be symmetric. Microsoft’s relationship is fairly commoditized - money and GPUs. OpenAI controls the IP that matters.

I’d note that the supplier of GPUs is Nvidia, who also offers cloud GPU services and doesn’t have a stake in the GCP, Azure, AWS behemoth battle. I’d actually see that as a more natural less middle man relationship.

The real value azure brings is enterprise compliance chops. However IMO aws bedrock seems to be a more successful enterprise integration point. But they’re all commodity products and don’t provide the value OpenAI provides to the relationships.
Oof.

Some things aren’t purely informational. You can’t summarize experiencing Harder Drive, you can only get a description of what happens in it. Actually watching Harder Drive actually is the point. You spend 30 minutes (lol I wish it was 40) watching something fun/funny and feel good while you’re doing it.
Me? No. My goals are fairly simple. Rent is just a distraction from that goal.
More generally: combustion, though there might be other options.

Boiling water, internal combustion (turbines or reciprocating engines), or external combustion (heating a boiler, and using the steam to drive turbines), would cover most of it. There might be some more exotic options of fuel cells, but those tend to be cost-prohibitive.

All combustion processes follow Carnot's laws, which limit fundamental efficiency.
I started using a shared note last week and my sister in law edited a grocery list at the same time I did

It duplicated the entire list on top of itself; I was laughing at how bad of a bug it was
Why are you downvoted? You're correct.

> There is no need to “comply with local laws”, because no such laws were passed.

This is the key point. A "fake news" law was proposed. Google even campaigned against it -- and this judge slapped them with arbitrary fines for "abuse of economic power", whatever that is. The law was ultimately rejected by our representatives. And this judge rammed the laws through anyway via "resolutions".

It makes no sense to talk about "laws" at this point. There are no laws here, only the whims of this judge. Whatever he writes on a piece of paper becomes law.
“Unlock this article”

Please stop linking to paywalls ffs.
I'm from Brazil and this judge is totally out of control. I agree that X needs to have a legal representative in Brazil, this is correct anywhere, but he threatened a fine of 200k and imprisonment to the person Musk appointed as representative if his stricture orders were not complied with. He threatened us to pay $9k in fines per day if we use VPN to access X. Unless you are part of the government base, it is difficult to find someone who approves of his actions.
archive.ps or whatever the domain is now.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, renting is considerably cheaper than buying at current home prices and interest rates. For example, I just moved into a two-bedroom apartment in San Ramon, roughly a 45 minute drive northeast of Silicon Valley without traffic, for $2720/mo in rent. By comparison, a Zillow search shows two-bedroom condos in San Ramon ranging from $559,000 to $875,000. With a 20% down payment of $111,800 on the $559,000 place, assuming excellent credit and an interest rate of 6.03%, the monthly bill for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, including taxes, insurance, and HOA dues, is estimated to be $4,077/mo, where there is a $651/mo HOA fee. It’s a big leap going from $2720/mo to $4077/mo, and this is for the absolute cheapest condo in town.

I’d love to own my own place, but it’s extremely expensive in the San Francisco Bay Area. Personally the best I could hope for is commuting from an exurb like Tracy or Fairfield. However, while rents are very high here in the Bay Area, they are still considerably lower than mortgages for similar homes.
> OpenAI is outpacing its competitors largely due to the vast amount of data it can gather from free ChatGPT users

Every human has private experience, or tacit experience they never expressed in writing. It is our lived experience that was never recorded, and we carry around in our heads. But assisting 200M users can elicit a lot of that tacit knowledge from them. It is like the LLM is crawling its users for "dark knowledge".

LLMs in the chat room can also get feedback from the world. As they suggest ideas and humans try them out, then come back with the outcomes to iterate, the LLM collects valuable signals - did the idea work out or not? I think OpenAI serves 1B tasks per month and 2T interactive tokens. In a year they surpass the size of the original GPT-4 training set.

On the other hand, by putting trillions of tokens into human brains they create an outsized impact in the physical world as well, which percolates back months later in the next training set. A huge feedback loop, and experience flywheel.

I think the best assistant LLMs will create a network effect that will bring even more users to them, making them even smarter. That explains why they allow free access to their best model. They're playing a long game focused on data acquisition and model improvement.
It may be a horshoe (the poor need to manage every peeny, the hyper rich distort society to minmax their riches), but the American Dream died decades ago. You can't just follow some financial wellness workshop to "save money" when you can't barely pay rent as is. Hard works correlation with wealth has decreased dramatically, very quickly
> Brazil's constitution guarantees freedom of speech without censorship

That can't work in reality though. So at best it can only be a theoretical ideal, merely a guideline for practical legislation. Same way French constitution has equal rights for all citizen baked into its constitution for more than a century.
i will divert from the other and say that unless you experienced both it will be hard to say...

i am from latin america where families keep closer contact trough life and that is all i have experienced personally..

I think you would need to experience both to say what is better and even then it will change from person to person..

But i can say that it does come with its share of problems..
This tacitly assumes a pretty naive model of how these markets work. The dynamics of poor liquidity, dead equity, stock restrictions, intangible asset loss, etc materially change the outcomes you can expect. In many cases it may cost the government more than the revenue generated, and the counter-party as well. This doesn’t work like your retirement account. Similar types of scenarios historically created by civil litigation have had many adverse consequences to business in practice.

And property taxes are deductible in the US. I’m not sure where you got the impression they aren’t.
It was the Apple vs GEEP court case, where Apple literally used working devices in those containers to track where they were, even though they were "off" and not recycleable ;)

Apple does not allow recyclers to refurbish their devices, even when they are still fully functioning, by its written contract with the recycling companies.

After it got public and traction, Apple seemed to have just dropped the lawsuit, which was suing for 30M in damages (for 100.000 devices that were being tracked while being shipped and refurbished).

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/07/apple-g...

[2] https://thelogic.co/news/exclusive/apple-sues-ontario-electr...
This is the part that is most interesting to me. Sure, judge will eventually get his way but the secondary collateral damage to Brazil is going to be significant. I wonder if the judge had considered this in his ruling.
Kubernetes is bad for running anything at all, including databases.

(K8s is second-system effect and job security for sysadmins. From a technical point of view it causes more problems than it solves.)
So he did sue the advertisers.

And unless Musk has some extraordinary evidence it will be difficult to provide those advertisers colluded together to better themselves at the expense of other market participants. Especially when they aren't even in the same markets.

Also if you think this situation is akin to a cartel god knows what you think of IMDB or the Michelin guide.
This. Make problems ugly, any way you can.
This has been said about pretty much every subject. Writing your own Browsers, compilers, cryptography, etc. But at least for me even if nothing comes of it just knowing how it really works, What steps are involved are part of using things properly. Some people are perfectly happy using a black box, but without kowning how its made, how do we know the limits? How will the next generation of llms happen if nobody can get excited about the internal workings?
72% of Brazilians do not agree with the banning of X:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UleMSw8m3o
nice product. but prohibitively expensive. 60$ and even more concerning "Varies" price for actual use is pretty much no-go for this product.

if you are small startup this is too expensive, if you are big company, you might as well built it yourself. got to be cheaper!

UPD: typeform charge more but they provide hosting and analytics, very convenient for people who don't want/cant to code anything. this library is "bring your own backend, analytics, etc.", need coding too, but prices are nearly same ballpark. too expensive.
To me the voice thing was marketing hype, the utility is being multi-modal. It's a great office/creative/tech assistant.
Because X is not complying with the law in that country.

Whether the law is right or not is irrelevant. You either comply or leave.
> What model training is doing is building up a semantic space of vectors from which astronomically large numbers of true facts and ideas can be derived during inference. I mean like a number of facts larger than the number of molecules in the known universe. A googolplex more facts than the sum of all of humanity has ever "thought".

If you've ever downloaded a model to play with locally, you may have noticed that it does not in fact contain more bits than there are atoms in the universe.
>Thinking "speeding" and "driving like a complete maniac" means driving 1 mile over the speed limit in an artificially low speed limit zone is about the least charitable way of interpreting that statement.

I have no idea how you came up with the hypothetical of the speed limits, and then went further to assume I'm making the argument that driving 1MPH over the limit was a good example. That's a ridiculous approach to this conversation.

>Again, I can't tell whether you're trying to be snarky. Being a better driver (however it's defined) might not fix your car when it gets into a crash, but I don't think anyone doubts that a professional driver is going to be able to avoid more accidents than the 90 year old granny that only drives every sunday to go to church, when put in the same situations.

But your example wasn't a professional driver, it was just someone who thinks they are a better driver. You were talking about people who were underestimating risks... how would that apply to a professional driver?
I understand why the state of affairs is, the point is that it's pathetic. Google, an AI hardware manufacturer[0], has to eat a direct competitors not in substantial margins in order to offer their customers, external and internal, a viable product.

[0]and supposed software powerhouse.
“It closed its office in Brazil earlier this month, saying its representative had been threatened with arrest if she did not comply with orders it described as "censorship" - as well as illegal under Brazilian law.

Justice Moraes had ordered that X accounts accused of spreading disinformation - many supporters of the former right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro - must be blocked while they are under investigation.

He said the company's legal representatives would be held liable if any accounts were reactivated.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y3rnl5qv3o.amp

They wanted Musk to appoint a legal representative so they could throw them in jail.
I’m pretty sure that’s the CIA’s job. Isn’t it because Brazil doesn’t have free speech so they have absurd “hate speech” laws similar to the ones that are backfiring in Scotland right now?
Thats dreadful, but 80k is a blip in terms of the billions collected per year. As mentioned, this would barely be 2 full time salaries, and more likely it's a small team spending part of their time redesigning it.

Sad part is the US would have spent millions on a "consultant" who would barely do any work and instead be a yes man to accept accountability for some admin who just wanted to play political theater for a promotion in another campus. That's where Atlus shrugs.
It's not a non sequitur, it's the only context in which your comment could ever make sense. Even then, most likely is objectively wrong.
Man isn't that just so freaking cool. Matter comes together forms some kind of mechanical system to produce new materials which come together and form a new system and so on. Some how a few principles which all matter follows gets reproduced again and again at higher and higher scales.

Is there a fun/good read on astronomy?
Wireshark :) - https://trywireshark.com

It’s a departure from software for me. From the site:

Wireshark is a patent pending wiring system which lets experts and novices complete projects faster and at a lower cost with professional results every time. It's designed to be usable by anyone as a modern alternative to traditional wiring methods. Wireshark can be used for high and low voltage wires and ensures projects are up to electrical code.
¡ The Rust and Cargo ecosystem is so BROKEN [video]
> No one wants Instagram for Twitter

It has about 200M MAU. So a lot of people clearly do want it.
Is it that work expands to fill the time allocated, or is it that the time allocated isn’t enough for completion because it was decided by people who have no idea what they’re talking about?
There may be, but now you are assuming energy is what is needed and not the hydrogen itself. Hydrogen is used in lots of industrial processes and is really hard to store in bulk.
It's partisan/political because Musk is partisan/political. And it's not just Musk.

We've been living in a fantasy land of "no political affiliation" in the tech world for decades, and now that the age of the hyper-rich has come once again, they are realizing the benefits of using the power they wield to shape the worlds they live in.

So now in the early stages of this century's great fight, we'll see our beloved tech giants join the political fray in full force, dragging their follower armies along for the ride.

And it works, too. Just look at the comments here.
Those are 10x heavier with associated energy and travel issues. Plastic is the best of no perfect options.
I personally despise it, but at least it's a cute gesture of love (I hope...) for a billionaire living in SF. Probably one of the more human gestures from Zuck.
You're right. I thought I corrected it, but I guess I only had the thought.
Wow sounds totalitarian. Maybe it’s for the best that Musk disassociates with Brazil.
I don’t understand the license here https://github.com/blocksmd/blocksmd?tab=License-1-ov-file#r...

It says Business Source License 1.1 which basically means I’m free to use as long as I don’t use it to build a competitive offering. Fair enough.

But it changes to AGPL-3.0 on 2028-07-01, what? Basically now I need to open source my entire stack that has any connection to the form? Why would you change it to a more restrictive license (for anyone not looking to build a competitive offering) after a few years?

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Unrelated, I find the DSL increasingly unwieldy as you get to more advanced features (especially styling). Might want to consider offering a JSX/TSX alternative for more advanced use cases.
Death Appears to Be Reversible
You raise some good points and it’s clear that it’s not a simple problem. However, I disagree with the idea of trusting the state to decide what is “good” or “bad” speech, and censoring it without transparency. This could lead to very bad patterns that can over time kill a democracy. I agree that corporations are not great either, but at least there’s competition there, and more checks and balances.
Crimes like calling the current president a condemned criminal. Which he once was. I watched them arrest him, and I watched multiple judges condemn him. Then these judges erased his crimes due to some technicality and made him innocent again, and we're all supposed to just magically unring the bells and wash our memories of these facts, or be censored.

Crimes like calling the current president a friend of dictators. Which he is. This guy rolled out the red carpet for the Venezuelan dictator months after he was elected. He also defended his recent "reelection".

Crimes like calling the current president a communist/socialist. Which he is. He literally calls himself one. I even have videos.

It's all "fake news" according to the judges.
> or fall victim to the reversal curse (e.g., LLMs trained on "A is B" often struggle to deduce "B is A").

But should "Joe is human" logically imply that "human is Joe"?
Sure. Kind of late doing this after a year and a half, don't you think? Maybe Morales did it so it doesn't happen again, but it will anyway on another platform that isn't banned yet.
AI is growing faster than companies can secure it, warn industry leaders
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0008c5c/raiders-of-th...
Same. I don’t interact with any of my inner circle on social media and find it odd to see spouses talking to each other in non-private Facebook comments.
strangely there is no “eating” emoji, depicting a person actively consuming a food or beverage. Why is this, when it is perhaps one of the few nearly universal human behaviors
The "reasoning" is an emergent property that no one understands yet. Yes we do all the training only to try to predict the next word (i.e. train to do word prediction), yet with enough training data, then at some scale (GPT 3.5ish) the embedding vectors in semantic space begin to build a geometric scaffolding in into the weights, for lack of a better way to phrase it.

If you know about facts like (Vector(man) minus Vector(woman) equals Vector(king) minus Vector(queen)), that's an indication that this "scaffolding" is taking shape. It means the "concept of gender" has a "direction" in the roughly 4,000 dimensional vector "space". This vector behaves geometrically, so that vectors behave in vector space as if it was a geometric space of sorts (there are directions and distances), even though there's no true space coordinates, just logical "directions". Mankind doesn't quite yet understand the "Geometry of Logic". LLMs prove we don't. I think it's a new math field to be invented.

As far as the actual number of "facts" contained in an LLM, I think you have to consider something that's a function of the number of bits in an entire model, and ask how many "states" can that store, as a rough approximation from an entropy standpoint. But these aren't pure facts. They're reasoning. I guess you can call reasoning something like "fuzzy facts", so there's a bit of uncertainty to each one of them. LLMs don't store facts, they store fuzzy reasoning. But I call it "factual" when an LLM fixes a bug in my code, or correctly states some piece of knowledge.
That’s a random sampling with a tiny group of people. You might as well do an internet poll on a very directed channel.
The value in this clip is in entertaining you. The delivery is a major part of it. I agree that too much information is delivered (poorly) via video these days, but this is not an example of that. It would also be silly (I think) to prefer a condensed summary instead of actually watching your favorite show on Netflix.
thank you for the great story
reminds me of another great mathematician
harvard Phd in math
youngest ever professor, UC berkeley
decided to leave it all behind and live innawoods like this man
oh and he also mailed bombs to people involved with tech (this man's equivalent to the military)
and he would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for that meddling sister in law! I guess he wanted to have his cake and eat it too.
I think a big sticking point is chat isn't UX, unless of course 10 years from now we're all actually living in the movie Her...

Rebuilding existing apps with AI as a first class citizen seems like the name of the game right now
Removing Apple's AI Watermark [video]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27269066
No, I would actually expect that the phone would attempt higher power when connectivity is spotty. That is a feature, not a bug.
You can do that to a degree as charitable contributions are a tax write off.
Minor correction: maintaining the lifestyle of billionaire coastal developers and their clientele will be much much more expensive. The poors will continue to be encouraged to eat shit and die as per usual.
I don't think this should be downvoted. For overweight people, the benefits of these drugs exceed the risks of side effects, but for healthy people there may be no benefits.
You need to slow the hiring process significantly to slightly decrease the chances of getting burned. When you are trying to scale up this is very painful. Hence, the common discussion about the problems that occur in a company experiencing rapid growth.