skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TSMC shade aside, I think Altman is keenly aware that AI is still too capital intensive for short-to-medium term viability and I think his hope to was to probe the semiconductor industry's willingness to build-out more fabs to drive the costs down substantially. I suspect Altman was being bluntly honest with them about the economics of AI rather than enthusiastically telling them they should immediately build 37 fabs because surely that's super easy.

Blackwell cabinets are $3M each and have significant power requirements and thus you'd likely need to be selling your products at $100/month/seat to turn a slim profit.
Yeah. I think there must be a balance between let the cyber hippies watch trees grow and needle service for addicts. I don’t even think legalizing weed is aging well.
Same here. I've never cared about expensive clothes. I've probably spent less than $500 on all my clothes for the last 5 years.

On the other hand I've spent at least $30K on computers and camera gear the last 10 years and bought a car for $65,000 last year.
Yeah opium was also easily available in China once and it played a large part in their lost century.
If the adversary discovers the book that your spy is using - through any trivial surveillance method - then all communication which that spy has participated in, and will participate in, just got compromised.

Part of the appeal of a real one-time pad is that no previous communications can be deciphered again, even by the agents themselves.
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Gift link of the NYT source: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/business/openai-plan-elec...
> we have some of the smartest, best paid people on the planet incentivized to use every bit of data they can to hack your evolutionary biology...

It's such a waste of a generation's talent. I think about this from time to time.

What problems could we be solving? How much further would the cutting edge of innovation be? It's kind of depressing.
This seems so strange to me it's like people just figured out check fraud is a thing. Honestly I hope a lot of people go to jail for this kind of stuff because it is obviously stupid it's not a hack it's theft. Banks also deserves some sort of punishment as well because mobile deposits or ATM deposits should have their funds availability based upon the person's credit score. Because if the funds are made available immediately the bank is giving out an unsecured loan until the check clears.
royal blood is one of them ideas even worse than the notion of race
again, not contradictory. have good core concepts, combine with good entry corridors. good concept with entry blocked by obtusity and esoterics is not a product ready for consumption.

i didn’t see the authors suggest that good concepts are unimportant.
>They've managed to bring in the worst parts of modern society without the good parts

IMHO That's the spontaneous action and unless curated carefully it happens everywhere. It's the spontaneous way because all the bad things about the Western culture are about getting rich or happy quick. I'm sure the outer civilizations also desire to get rich or happy quick and that's why they end up trying when exposed to the Western ways but unlike those cultures the west is very good at oiling the machine to run very productively. Maybe its something about being an industrialized high throughput individualistic culture, I don't know.
Hey just wanted to say that I've been using this for the past week since I saw your post on Reddit and it's honestly been a joy to use and subjectively it feels like it's reduced the friction I usually feel when architecting app state.

I always used valtio prior to this and while it's good I always disliked having to use react-query separately and never got around to just creating something reusable. activeQuery is great.

Only minor feedback would be that sometimes the ExcludeMethods type seems to interfere with the expected type on other components and so I have to map or use "as ActualType".

Thanks for sharing this, I'm definitely reaching for this first on my projects.
You can do so via several methods.

* Voting - You can select candidates for public service who will author or approve legislation that directs your taxes to projects you support.

* Lobbying - You can try to convince public servants and other public officials to enact legislation and/or regulations that directs your taxes to projects you support.

* Campaigning - You can try to convince other voters to vote for candidates for public service who will author or approve legislation that directs your taxes to projects you support.

* Lawsuit - You can try to convince one or more federal judges to interpret existing laws in such a way that your taxes are directed to projects you support.

* Run for office - You can place yourself on the ballot and promise your constituents to vote for legislation that directs your taxes to projects you support.
In plain englidh, take X and turn it to liquid shit, and profit. Even to the point of selling it short. Maybe that is the point.
When companies have a privacy policy that says “we will spy on you and sell your information to whoever will pay us for it”, and then they do exactly that, that’s one thing. That’s the Google Experience™.

When companies have a privacy policy that says they won’t do that, and then they do, that’s an entirely different thing. They lied, and that puts them in legal jeopardy. It also hurts their bottom line.

Is it possible Apple is sneakily spying on you and selling your info to third parties in secret illegal deals? Sure, I guess? But I don’t think it’s super likely.
I also find “known incorrect” examples to be useful, for analogous reasons.

But the worst is when there is no good and thorough description of the conceptual model and of how the concrete examples relate to it, because then the system remains a black box you can’t properly reason about, regardless of how many hands-on tutorials and cookbook examples you’ve seen.
Yes it’s true today, depending on what is your writing is the foundation of.

It doesn’t matter that my writing is more considered, more accurate and of a higher quality when my coworkers are all openly using AI to perform five times the work I am and producing outcomes that are “good enough” because good enough is quite enough for a larger majority than many likely realise.
> why are you using Oracle for video games? what's wrong with you?

Because my previous project used it. It's an example. There are plenty of others. And I think this sort of attitude is unfair towards people like me who genuinely want to preserve video games, but are concerned that an ideological battle is going to negatively affect the industry.

> Licensed audio is licensed in such a way that once a copy is sold the license allows the use of that copy in perpetuity.

Licensed audio can be licensed in such a way. GTA being a great example of something that doesn't have perpetual licenses to their music.

> Coming up with a different, non-tech problem as a counter-point to a whole discussion exclusively about a tech problem is not as smart as you think it is

> no, that's unmitigated nonsense. Just your first paragraph showed you have no idea what you're talking about, but now you're just stringing words together.

In three paragraphs, you've attacked me three times, when there's no need to have done. If you can't have civil discourse, I'm not interested in discussing this with you.
I think OAI and especially sama as its CEO are crossing the point of being significant in their own right, and as old talent moves out of OAI we may start to hear increasingly crazy stuff coming from them. They're just becoming brands to put over the machinations of some VCs, hyperscalers and big techs.
I should point out that the SLOG only caches synchronous writes, which are written twice with ZFS.

Also, the L2ARC is great, but does still have RAM overhead. There are also useful tunables. I had a workload on a RAM limited machine where directory walking was common, but data reads were fairly random and a L2ARC configured for metadata only speed it up by a large amount.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply! I am aware of and like that essay some, but I am not trying to be rhetorical here, and certainly not trying to flatten the situation to just be some Dawkins-esque asshole and tell everyone they are wrong.

I am not saying "this is religion, you should be an atheist," I respect the force of this whole thing in people's minds too much. Rather, we should consider seriously how to navigate a future where this is all at play, even if its only in our heads and slide decks. I am not saying "lol, you believe in a god," I am genuinely saying, "kill your god without mercy, it is the only way you and all of us will find some happiness, inspiration, and love."
I think the limitation here is more with the process nodes then with the GPU architecture
The problem is not "computers," it's intelligence itself. We still don't know how even the simplest neurons actually work, nor the simplest brains. And we're barely any closer to scientific definitions of "intelligence," "consciousness," etc than we were in the 1800s. There are many decades of experiments left to do, regardless of how fancy computers might be. I suspect it will take centuries before we make dog-level AI because it will take centuries to understand how dogs are able to reason.
Hot take- VHS has terrible quality, I just watched some old animated tapes from my childhood and they look bad. Thank goodness for DVD remasters.
What does the printer do if reset to factory defaults, maybe through a long power outage?

I had a similar no gateway and static IP trick (it was a lazy short term move) for a Windows VM and I found Windows ran the network fixer without my input at some point and had reset DHCP so it could get those updates!
Here is an example : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41670144
The biggest lie in all of LLMs is that they’ll work out of the box and you don’t need to take time to learn them.

I find Copilot autocomplete invaluable as a productivity boost, but that’s because I’ve now spent over two years learning how to best use it!

“And it's much more difficult for me to explain the solution in English than in code--I basically already have the code in my head, now I'm going through a translation step to turn it into English.”

If that’s the case, don’t prompt them in English. Prompt them in code (or pseudo-code) and get them to turn that into code that’s more likely to be finished and working.

I do that all the time: many of my LLM prompts are the signature of a function or a half-written piece of code where I add “finish this” at the end.

Here’s an example, where I had started manually writing a bunch of code and suddenly realized that it was probably enough context for the LLM to finish the job… which it did: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Apr/8/files-to-prompt/#buildi...
All of these require maintenance, and mostly it's been a treadmill just applying updates to React codebases. Complex tools are brittle and often only makes sense at the original source.
Show HN: I lost my job and started working on a sci-fi adventure game
After losing my job, I decided to channel my energy into creating my own sci-fi adventure game. While I’ve previously released a VR game, I’ve been working as a regular software developer for the past few years.

The game, Star Mission: Remote Sectors, is a first-person exploration and survival experience set on an uncharted alien planet. Players use superhuman abilities like telekinesis to uncover anomalies, navigate environmental hazards, and survive in hostile conditions.

A big inspiration for the game was classic sci-fi movies and the optimistic vision of Star Trek.

The journey has been challenging but incredibly rewarding, and I’d love to share the project with the HN community. I've recently released a demo and would appreciate any feedback or thoughts!
I tested Llama 3.2 on my MacBook, and it runs impressively fast. I plan to look more deeply into its capabilities and have some specific use cases in mind for further testing. Fine-tuning could be improved, and better integration with AI stacks like RAG would be helpful. Overall, it's a solid model with great potential! https://x.com/mustafaergisi/status/1839647877498278311
I disagree. This only encourages companies not to disclose such issues.
But the knowledgeable intellectuals seem to like it.
Yeah, it might be me. I learned microcontrollers by learning assembly, gdb, as, ld, then gradually switched to C, wrote my own "library", then slowly learned about vendor library and gradually replaced by code with proper approach.

Can't imagine learning this stuff from the vendor code examples. I wouldn't understand a thing.

This approach works for me, but only when documentation is extensive. When vendor suggests "copy this example and tinker with code until it works the way you want", this approach just throws me off and I absolutely lose any will to learn. Examples are very important, but not as starting point.
Interesting find, serious question: does it matter?
Yes.

Every new GPU generation delivers more performance/W than the previous generation (mostly due to semiconductor process improvements) But the competition to have the fastest chip means that total power usage keeps growing.

Power efficient chips just doesn't generate headlines the same way.
Your argument seems to be that the majority of the world are the weak being sacrificed but are too ignorant to realize it. I wholeheartedly disagree with this theory.
Rather than a PDF reader, how about a PDF sanitizer? I've heard of Dangerzone [1][2], though I've never used it.

[1] https://github.com/freedomofpress/dangerzone

[2] https://dangerzone.rocks/
> and that seems highly likely to continue for the next few (at least)

Why? Text training data is already exhausted.
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Old Character AI
Yes I’d be disturbed if my news source was run by Forbes Marketplace. But it would explain a lot.
Think "return-oriented programming" and "gadgets". Hidden somewhere in
the book is the message you want to send expressible by a series of
jumps within the text.
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If the second parameter isn't supposed to be there I'd just make another PR removing it.

If we use commit ancestry to determine logical dependence then this "revert the bug commit" thing won't work unless the bug just so happens to be in the very last commit.
I upgraded my son from Scratch to Snap! (https://snap.berkeley.edu/). Snap has a much higher ceiling, including collections, first-class code pieces, higher-order functions etc. It pretty openly describes itself as a "Scheme disguised as Scratch" :-)

A pragmatic pedagogical thing I love with Snap! is the ease of creating custom blocks, including macros / custom "C-shaped" control structures. If you have some time, this allows you to "scaffold" helpers that will allow him to create interesting stuff while focusing on things you want him to learn and hiding issues you don't.

* Example: I wanted to teach rendering a custom costume with e.g. health bar or text label. My son is already familiar with Snap!'s turtle-drawing primitives that can render lines & text but there was an impedance mismatch — you draw on the screen, and it does support snapshotting all current drawings to create a costume, but using that involves some careful save-and-restore of much global state (e.g. pen color). I built him a "draw costume" block that takes a body of turtle-drawing commands and affects only current character's costume.
If you ask me, Snap! should have had similar API built-in; but what's more important it was easy for me to add one that looks and feels as-if it was builtin. This way I can decide what I want to teach ("you can compute how you appear") and what is incidental complexity.
> To clarify my analogy, GenAI is definitely a "problem" rather than a particular solution, and as such I expect it to have longevity.

Hrm, I'm not sure that's true. "An 'AI' that can answer questions" is a problem, but IMO it's not at all clear that LLMs, with their inherent tendency to make shit up, are an appropriate solution to that problem.

Like, there have been previous non-LLM chatbots (there was a small bubble based on them a while back, in which, for a few months, everyone was claiming to be adding chat to their things; it kind of came to a shuddering halt with Microsoft Tay). It seems slightly peculiar to assume that LLMs are the ultimate answer to the problem, especially as they are not actually very good at it (in some ways, they're worse than the old-gen).
Memory Loss Isn't the Only Sign of Dementia
Look into “industrial” or “commercial” displays. Many of them are the traditional dumb display, but they may not have the refresh rate or other features you want in a consumer device.
Propaganda source
From the linked article:

"Vanilla OS also checks for system updates weekly, by default. Users can change this to daily, weekly, or never if they choose. To minimize any impact on the user experience, the updater considers factors such as system load, battery level, and network connection before applying system updates. With the core operating system and applications set for automatic updates, Vanilla OS aims to relieve users of the often tedious task of keeping all packages updated."

As long as the update process actually works, I think that's a good balance - weekly by default, but can be disabled.
You can’t protect yourself from psychological manipulation that’s unavoidable unless you glue your eyes shut.

Let ads and content feeds exist, but make it illegal for them to be casually viewed by anybody who hasn’t given explicit consent to be exposed to deceit and manipulation. I’m dead serious. It’s a sham that you can cannot drive on public roads without viewing billboards, or get to municipal service announcements without traversing twitter or FB.
You are not protecting yourself. You are existing within a lifeway and culture where legible and illegible/intangible/unspoken agreements create a context that allows you to believe you are able to protect yourself. Meanwhile, a swirl of beliefs and ideology insulate you from unpredictability, choice, and chaos.
Also there’s really not that many systems on the page, some were not actually launched, or were proprietary. So old idea or not, it kinda looks like any contributions in this area would be worthwhile.
They’re not suggesting you use SqLite for your primary database but rather separate databases for caching and job queues. It allows you to drop redis as a dependency.
So many haters in here hahah I think it's a cool project and was a creative blog post. Reminds me of the early days of the web.

Ignore these insufferable know-it-all haters on Hacker News. These people are the worst! Some aren't even real people.

The ones that are bots are probably HN itself because https://greenwich-for-chrome.replit.app/ is a threat. This is the coolest part IMO, has Twitter or HN like potential.
This is pure gold, and still works on the internet to get the specs for PLA tanks:

> If she wants to know something specific, but doesn’t want people to notice her asking questions, she should simply make incorrect statements while in the company of experts. Her companions will correct her, especially if they’re men.
I thought online sports gambling was predatory and then I heard about this little fact:

If you win a lot, they'll effectively kick you off the platform, or make it non-economical to "play" by reducing your max bet sizes down to $1.

Even more diabolical, and clear evidence this shit should be outlawed completely: if you lose a lot, they will increase your maximum bet size
We can't hold back the world because of some lazy UI Devs, I can't believe we still facing scaling issues in 2024!

My solution, under Linux, I get laptop screens with 2X scaling, i.e. 2.8K and 3.2K for larger laptops.
The US has -- if anything -- too much food. If someone is starving in America, it's 100% due to them having no interest in acquiring the free food that is widely available almost everywhere.
Well, that probably happens to some extent, but I am quite confident that some smaller shops will just say "Hey make an app that works 50% of the time and that's good enough." then fire half of the staff.

Oh, not just smaller shops, I have many issues with Android and other Google products -- from bugs to things that just don't work that have existed for decades, and there is no action on those over the years. Surely Google has the resources? Right? riiight?

This is a human problem, not a technology problem.
If Meta makes those new AR glasses real it makes up for the Metaverse branding.
Indeed.It's a nice effort...but specially for these two organizations, is a bit like taking a sinking ship and before it disappears underwater...Deciding to set it on fire...:-)
Fun show but hardly anything realistic (other than russia having spies that work the long game pretending to be normal citizens)
So?

Every news site has advertising sections

https://www.cnn.com/cnn-underscored/about

"Content is created by CNN Underscored’s team of editors who work independently from the CNN newsroom. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn a commission."
The online sports platforms will reduce your max bet size to $1 if you win too much.

Should be outlawed and any politician who's advocating otherwise should be (at least) journalistically investigated.

It is so unfathomably antisocial that there is effectively no morally sound reason to advocate for its proliferation.
I love AI, I use it every single day and wouldn't consider myself a luddite, but... oh, boy... I hate the people that is too bullish on it. Not the people that is working to make the AI happen (although I have my __suspicious people radar__ pointing to __run__ every single time I see Sam Altman face anywhere), but the people that hypes it to ground, the "e/acc" people.
I feel like the crypto-bros just moved from the "all-might decentralized coin god" hype to the "all might tech-god that for sure will be available soon". Looks like a cult or religion is forming around the singularity, and, if I hype it now, it will be generous to me when it takes the control. Oh, and if you don't hype then you're a neo-luddite/doomer and I will look up on you with disdain, as you are a mere peasant.
Also, the get-rich-quick schemes forming around the idea that anyone can have a "1-person-1-billion-dollar" company with just AI, not realizing when anyone can replicate your product then it won't have any value anymore: "ChatGPT just made me this website to help classify if an image is a hot-dog or not! I'll be rich selling it to Nathan's - Oh, what's that? Nathan's just asked ChatGPT to create a hot-dog classifier for them?!"
Not that the other vocal side is not as bad: "AI is useless", "It's not true intelligence", "AI will kill us all", "AI will make everyone unemployed in 6 months!"... But the AI tech-bros side can be more annoying in my personal experience (I'm sure the opposite is true for others too).
All those people are tiring, and making AI tiring for some too... But the tech is fun and will keep evolving and present, rather we are tired of it or not.
I can recommend the french show "Le Bureau des Legends". It's written with the help of various consultants from the intelligence community and tries to be as realistic as possible, with most actual spies in the show being regular university students, office workers, psychologists, or even cafeteria staff. It's a fantastic show, although not very hollywood, so don't expect explosions or shootouts.
We still use couchdb & pouchdb only for syncing data for our salesmen app.

It's an offline first PWA (Salesman need to make an order even if offline).

And pouchdb make it easier because we don't have to care about indexeddb, leveldb or whatever of users browser's db.

So its a single codebase for serving web, ios and android.

Its great for sync but less then good for other uses
Only if you think scaling is the solution to AGI, which it almost certainly is not