skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(I work at Oxide and helped review this RFD.)

There are always pros and cons to the choice to use something that already exists before making something new. Ultimately, it is our job as engineers to take a look at the tradeoffs and make the call.

I would agree that Oxide has taken the "so we should build it" choice more than other places I have ever worked. However, Oxide is a bigger swing than many of the places I have worked. And we have higher intentions of excellence than many places I have worked. I think both of these factors make it more likely to want to build your own thing: it is less often that something off the shelf does exactly what we need, and it is easier to provide something great if you have the ability to take control of it.

Furthermore, there's also some amount of bias in the stuff you hear about: people love to hear stories about some new shiny thing, but they don't want to hear about very meat and potatoes boring choices. So you're going to see the story on HN about us making a query language, but you're not going to hear the story about us using TypeScript on our frontend rather than say, some Rust + wasm thing, or about us choosing CockroachDB for the data plane. Until circumstances change and suddenly the Cockroach choice becomes interesting, which it did! So it's worth keeping that in mind as well.

Time will tell, but I can't think of an obvious place yet where we made the choice to build our own something and it clearly was the wrong decision in retrospect. And it has very often been clearly the right decision in retrospect. That's my own personal metric for "are we making good decisions over time?"
> they will manage to convince you the thing you like is actually bad, which doesn't benefit you

I'd argue that there is benefit to re-evaluating one's tastes based on new information. It's always good to think critically of the content you consume.

EDIT: Wow. Can't even post comments on a new account. Not gonna beg dang for approval in his e-mail so I guess that's it for me and anyone else who's privacy-aware.
Pasted the article into chatgpt (free version)
Prompt:
according to this text above, tell me the degree of insanity of this man's thinking process, expose all his flaws.

Chatgpt:
The text presents a highly optimistic view of the future shaped by AI and deep learning, but there are several areas where the reasoning might be seen as flawed or overly simplistic. Here are some points that could be critiqued:

Overconfidence in Technology: The author expresses a strong belief in the inevitability of AI advancement and its benefits, which may overlook the unpredictability of technological development and the potential for setbacks.

Underestimating Risks: While the potential for prosperity is emphasized, there’s insufficient attention given to the ethical, societal, and environmental risks associated with AI, such as bias, privacy concerns, and job displacement.

Assumption of Universal Benefit: The idea that AI will lead to shared prosperity ignores systemic inequalities that might prevent equitable access to AI technology, potentially leading to a wider wealth gap.

Neglect of Human Factors: The argument largely abstracts from human emotions, societal values, and the complexities of human behavior. The assumption that prosperity will automatically lead to happiness or fulfillment is problematic.

Simplistic Historical Comparisons: The comparison of current advancements to past technological revolutions (e.g., Industrial Age) may not account for the unique challenges posed by AI, such as rapid obsolescence and ethical dilemmas that previous technologies did not face.

Lack of Detailed Solutions: The text calls for action but offers little concrete guidance on how to navigate the complexities of AI’s integration into society, especially regarding labor market changes and ethical considerations.

Optimism Bias: The author’s perspective may be influenced by optimism bias, leading to a potentially unrealistic view of future outcomes without sufficient acknowledgment of the challenges.

Dependence on Infrastructure: While the author correctly identifies the need for infrastructure to support AI, there’s little discussion of the potential for that infrastructure to become a battleground for control, leading to conflicts rather than cooperation.

Diminished Role of Individuals: The portrayal of people relying heavily on AI teams may undermine the value of individual creativity and agency, potentially leading to a society overly dependent on technology.

By examining these points, one can argue that while the vision of a prosperous future powered by AI is compelling, it is essential to approach such ideas with a critical perspective, considering the broader implications and potential pitfalls.
Much of the worsening of Twitter is centered around them deciding what you should see in order to maximize outrage, engagement, revenue.

This means that in the replies to a tweet, for example, they can now rank highly all the spam and culture war bullshit that people have previously blocked.
My guess as to what OP means: postal mail, as in, mail me my bill. And then pay electronically through your bank, not the company’s online portal. At least that’s the way I do it.
I think it's quite easy to find anime that are better than the TV season of Evangelion, if you like it.
As an anime enthusiast, seeing this breakdown from a powerful VC is depressing. How about you go play your capitalism game somewhere else. I'm sure my dishwasher can be made even worse than it already is by adding AI features to it. Anime is great precisely because it's mainly driven by artists with a creative vision, not by hyenas scavenging for rotting meat.

Ew. I really hate this.

I'll go back to studying my WaniKani flash cards for the day and hope that I forget that I read this by the end of it.
I have a Bambu P1S, and I'm fairly sure the prints would look worse after sanding than before. I just use them all as they are, straight out of the printer, and they always look amazing.
> In this case, it's not; but even if it were, does that limit the ability of a text to explore interesting themes? Why?

In this case, it does. You can't have a show about a pedophile's redemption while simultaneously appealing to that demographic.

Let's not act like there's any consensus in the "scholarly literature" — if you could even call the writing of some guy with no credentials that.
> Used to sarcastically denote the predominant philosophy espoused by the Western economic elite, formally known as "neoliberalism". It combines ruthless capitalism by transnational corporations with a façade of socially-liberal politics.

> The ultimate end state of Globohomo is one in which all sexual, ethnic, racial and national identity is broken down, leaving the demoralized masses to work for $12 an hour in an Amazon warehouse while a small cadre of billionaires rule over them.
I am running 70B models on M2 Max with 96 GB of RAM and it works very well. As HW evolves, it will become a standard
Thats kinda the point.

It's atypical, yet it is abundantly clear that "poor" is closely mixed in with "rich".

Are you suggesting that the majority of other affluent boroughs in London and Greater London are exempt from containing Council Estates? Islington, Putney, Wimbledon, Chelsea...
This is a good point because “mental health condition” means “severe mental health condition”.

People that live in houses can have mild anxiety or treatable depression, people that do not all have schizoaffective disorder and capgras syndrome.

I agree on a skill disparity between us here. You have surpassed me by not only being able to read what is in the PDF, you are able to read things that aren’t in the PDF. For example on page 2 it says that stable housing is essential for ending homelessness and you have been able to extract additional meaning to conclude that it supports “harsh unpopular ‘hurt the poors’” policies.

Of course someone could simply begin with being in favor of harsh, unpopular “hurt the poors” measures and then work backwards and read validation of that where there is none. That is fine! There is nothing wrong with having beliefs, it is part of the human condition.

It is not uncommon to see a homeless person simply feel that life has not been harsh enough for them. There is no need to try to justify that feeling or invent a rationale in an attempt to enroll others into it, as this entire response is at its core disconnected from reason. The richness of the interiority of the human experience knows no bounds!
If that's an error, Wikipedia has it too:

> Haruhi Suzumiya (Japanese: 涼宮ハルヒ, Hepburn: Suzumiya Haruhi) is a Japanese light novel series written by Nagaru Tanigawa and illustrated by Noizi Ito.

Also:

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

But apparently there's a Manga version too?

Never read it. Is it any good?
I think of summaries as the text equivalent of averaging. Some high frequency stuff you don’t want to loose in that case are things like proper names, specific dates, etc. In the face of such signal, you don’t want to average it out to a “him” and a “Monday”.
From the nation’s capital: “You are outside of the United States and cannot participate. However, you can still watch the results!”

We know we don’t have representation, you don’t need to rub it in ;-)
Is there some cost rule of thumb to compare Nvidia, AMD, and Google TPU?
She does actually, and I'll take her word over yours.
Transistor count has consistently been increasing by about 10% a year over the last decade.
I wonder if they in-housed this or paid some external contractor obscene amounts of money for it?
Do you really want to bank on your utility to have their shit figured out so you don't pay the utility bill for your whole town? Even if you do entirely get it resolved, that seems like extra hassle when you could just... use a password manager.
Just buy a Bambu. You won't regret it. I bought one after ten years of printing on more OSS designs, and I wish I'd gotten one sooner.

If your hobby is 3D printing, get a Bambu. If it's 3D printers, get anything else.
This is an attack called "credential stuffing" and the OWASP page for it has multiple examples of it being used in the real world: https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Credential_stuffing .
Silicone sheets should also work well for this.
That does sound very familiar!
Why lines of code are a bad measure of developer productivity
+1 for BambuLab printers. I have an X1C and finally I can work with the printer, not work on the printer. Get an X1E if you have special materials you want to print and/or want an entirely hardwired connection to the printer from the network.
I think the vector I'd be more worried about here is that someone does a database dump of usernames & passwords, and then proceeds to use that data for credential stuffing. The hygenie of users being on average probably "not great", that would probably lead to subsequent compromise down the line, of things more valuable than the electric company's account.

But, IDK, if they're storing passwords in the clear — something so trivial to get right, and so obviously not best practice — I'd also be wondering if the user's bank account routing & account numbers aren't in that same database table…? I can imagine some damage from that.
Do you mean in TypeScript or in another language?

In TS the `Omit<T, K>` type can be used to remove stuff, and intersection can be used to add stuff
Can’t dissipate heat effectively in space
It's not really that much harder, as long as you know which dimensions you want to be variable from the start. Going back and changing everything after the fact is a massive pain.
HN mods are just as biased/arbitrary (and terrible) as the worst Reddit mods. The two companies are basically one-in-the-same as they are both deeply backed by MIT and thus the CIA/military intelligence apparatus.

Both HackerNews and Reddit are interested in shutting down conversation/information.
But that future is coming regardless if VCs bet on it or not.

I'm not defending the article and agree with you that it's despicable, but the only thing successful VC firms know how to do is to bet on companies that will make them money. It's clear that a future where AI companions exist is coming, and it will be a huge industry, so it's only logical that they would latch on to it and promote it in the only way they know how.

As for AI companions themselves, sure. They will be addicting and harmful, but technology is already that. Yet loneliness is a worldwide epidemic, and I reckon that AI has the potential to also improve the quality of life for many people. This in turn will lead us to even lower birth rates, but that seems inescapable as well. The next 50 years will be interesting, to say the least.
Universal approximation doesn't mean we've got (or ever will) algorithms to learn good enough models for any problem and the resources to run them, just that those models conceptually exist.
I JUST realized this wasn’t the post that he partnered on! Ha. I suppose that’s the recency bis at work.
> Not at all!

Well give them a reason to overcome that inertia (like Brexit and its regulatory mismatches) and they flee. New Financial's estimate is 10% of the sector has gone, mostly to Dublin, Frankfurt and Paris. And there's definitely a cost-driven pull towards the north of the UK too. Insurance more than banking has diversified.

But that's slightly beside the point that, these are rich companies, and a few rich people. London is not Monaco, Geneva. Just 2% of London's population are liquid-millionaires (vs 35%, 15%). Other UK cities can probably beat it millionaires per capita if that's what's important.

As soon as you look at median salaries, London does attract a premium, but £5k does not offset the insane costs.
A common pattern is light novel -> manga adaptation -> anime adaptation. From the first few release dates on the sidebar of the main page, it looks like this one followed that pattern (with lots of spinoffs and sequels).
> People obsessed with optimization should not be involved in public policy.

I mean, they should. It would be cool if we could optimize public policy. Optimize means make as effective as possible, right? They should just not be so laser-focused on one metric that they're blind to the side effects created by optimizing for it.
It takes two parties for a transaction to work. Basically, you're railing against free markets and the free exchange of ideas/money/work/etc.
I've been a major fan of anime for decades. Including starting to study Japanese at age 50 (not recommended).

I could care less about the game spinoffs, or the vtubers, but I do hope we can get beyond the current plot trend of "living in an imaginary world with my smartphone, where I pretend to be dwarf listening to Irish jigg music".

There are so many awesome anime: Heike Monogatari, House of Five Leaves, Angolmois - Genkou Kassenki (depicting the Mongol invasion of Japan in the 1200s).

Sadly, anime for addults is not currently a factor in that blossoming industry described in the article.
The issue with the “cost of switching” line of reasoning is that it’s not possible to offer the services that AWS, GCP, Azure do, without having a high cost of switching.

As a baseline, moving production workloads that run entirely on VPS or physical servers between datacenters is already a very high cost/high effort task.

Anything you do to make the architecture more complicated is going to increase those costs.

All AWS (and co) did was offer a platform for building complicated architectures. The market response was overwhelmingly positive, and entire new engineering disciplines sprung up around managing and building these new complicated architectures.

Migrating them is typically rather difficult and high cost, but everybody knew this from the beginning, and this is what the customers want. The PaaS providers could maybe do something here or there to make it easier, but there’s nothing they can do to address the fundamental problem.
I believe they're suggesting the people storing the plaintext passwords. Who else would it be?
My grad school research was with an NIH neuroscience lab studying low-level sensory processing that offered a fascinating perspective on what's really going on there! At least for the first few levels above the sense receptors in simpler animal models.

To oversimplify, you can interpret gamma-frequency activity as chunking up temporal sensory inputs into windows. The specific dynamics between excitatory and inhibitory populations in a region of the brain create a gating mechanism where only a fraction of the most stimulated excitatory neurons are able to fire, and therefore pass along a signal downstream, before broadly-tuned inhibitory feedback silences the whole population and the next gamma cycle begins. Information is transmitted deeper into the brain based on the population-level patterns of excitatory activity per brief gamma window, rather than being a simple rate encoding over longer periods of time.

Again, this is an oversimplification, not entirely correct, fails to take other activity into account etc etc, but I'm sharing it as an example of an extant model of brain activity that not only doesn't average out high-frequency dynamics, but explicitly relies on them in a complex nonlinear fashion to model neural activity at the population level at high temporal frequency in a natural way. And it's not completely abstract, you can relate it to observed population firing patterns in, e.g., insect olfactory processing, now the we have the hardware to make accurate high-frequency population recordings.
any differences from nango or supaglue?
Any ideas how much that 1TB NAND chip costs? Significantly less than Apples $500 premium for the 1TB SKU I'm sure, but how much less exactly?
Cloudflare is just one of many products blocking unwanted network traffic. They're the biggest, for sure, but hardly the only one. If Cloudflare disappeared tomorrow, another would pop up instantly.

The problem isn't Cloudflare, it's that the internet is filled with ill-willed bots, and those bots seem to have infected your network or your ISPs network as well.

If ISPs did a better job taking action against infected IoT crap and spam farms, you wouldn't need to click so many CAPTCHAs.

Without Cloudflare, you'd just see a page saying "blocked because of supicious network activity" or nothing at all or a redirect shock site if the site admin is feeling particularly spicy. If anything, Cloudflare CAPTCHAs are doing you a service by being a cheap and effective alternative to mass IP range blocks.
HHGG-style, like how our planet was summarized as "Mostly Harmless", your comment is a pithy summary of CEOs: "necessary evil".
> but C# can never take a such change because it would be massively breaking

Out of interest, why?
More capacity and faster.
This is a black and white perspective, while the world happens to be quite nuanced.
You are underestimating the sheer amount of Anime produced every year. You probably get as much variety in a single year as a decade of western animation.
this is not true. https://wiki.bambulab.com/en/knowledge-sharing/enable-lan-mo...
It's a spectrum though, and anime studios are on the very upper end.
I agree with you and I know a lot of other people do too but are afraid to speak up in support. Really sick of the arbitrary censorship on this site.
Sorry, I distinguish here an AI agent that basically automate the visual lookup and scraping to feed into LLMs by big tech.
I don't see any problem with the first one tbh.
I'm writing up a how-to about colocating using one of those Pi colocation offers. Glad to see colocation get some more attention!
Back when airline status was based on number of segments this would have been a useful tool if you could find the lowest cost route on a single airline group. For example "find the most number of segments at the lowest cost per segment using only One World flights"
I'm not convinced, and neither is Sam Altman himself [0]. Also, if that projection holds, and that's a big if, the purported breakthrough would cost 10^6 times as much as GPT-4 took to train. That's over 100 million dollars [1] times a million. That adds up to over 100 trillion dollars, in the ballpark of four times the GDP of the whole of United States.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/openai-ceo-sam-altman-the-age-of...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-4#Training
WoT was very much not well received by fans, mainly because it is so disrespectful to the source material that you would think the showrunner actively hates it. You asked for specifics, so:

* Rand and Egwene's relationship going from "they like each other but are kind of hesitant" to "sneaking away to have sex in the woods". Not only is this completely unnecessary, it's completely at odds with the moral values of Two Rivers culture for them to be doing that.

* Perrin being married (WTF), and then killing his wife by accident (WTF squared). In the books Perrin is very careful to not accidentally hurt people as he is conscious of his strength.

* In general, trying to change the Two Rivers to have the diversity of modern day NYC. A region so far off the beaten path that even their de jure queen doesn't remember they exist is simply not going to have a broad selection of races. This isn't as big of a sin as the character changes, but it's also completely free to have this bit of worldbuilding via character casting. There is no good reason whatsoever to give it up.

* Generally changing relationships in ways that just aren't supported by the books. Like, Siuan and Moiraine aren't in a sexual relationship at that point in the story so it's idiotic to depict them as such.

* Trying to act as though the Dragon could be any of the Emond's Field kids is against the very metaphysical foundations of the WoT universe. The Dragon could only be a boy, and Moiraine would know this damn well. And while we're at it, Moiraine had no idea that there were ta'veren in the Two Rivers at all, certainly not more than one, unlike what the show claims.

* Aging up Min severely and making her a Darkfriend. Just WTF.

* At one point Nynaeve heals death, which is again completely impossible in this universe.

* The damane costumes... so bad it's laughable. What on earth were they thinking? How could they get it so wrong? How you go from collars (in the books) to ball gags in the show is utterly beyond my ability to even imagine.

Those are the main things I can think of, and that's just season 1. I didn't even bother trying to hate read about season 2 after how bad season 1 was, but from what I heard it wasn't better (like apparently Rand bangs Lanfear, which he absolutely would never do). I understand that adaptations need to change things. But the changes they made to WoT aren't necessary, and often make the story worse than what Jordan wrote.

It all shows a grave disrespect for the source material, contrary to the staff's claims that they love the books so much (bullshit). As far as I can tell, Rafe didn't want to do an adaptation of Jordan's story, he wanted to tell his own story. Which is fine, but then tell your own fucking story, don't take a massive dump all over someone else's work which many people love.
She wrote a "part 2" just today https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/09/23/colo/
I cannot get AMD ROCm running on my debian 12 system which is what I think is causing Ollama to use CPU instead of GPU. So I guess there is still a long way to go.
Crypto scammers hack OpenAI's press account on X
AFAICT You are able to remap the 'Globe' key to another key, say CAPSLOCK.

But you can't remap the key combinations assigned to the new Tiling feature!
This is a misunderstanding. The CS agent has access to a plaintext (security question) password that can be used under special circumstances. It must be readable to function.
No Windows build
That's just nonsense and is not based on fact at all.