skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hn now clearly are swarmed by grandiose novice techs.

10 years ago, no such superficial assessment would appear on first page.

This set of words bear little substance and engineering facts.

> AWS/Azure provide very leaky abstractions (VMs, VPCs) on top of very old and badly designed protocols/systems (IP, Windows, Linux) .

AWS cannot be made parallel, they themselves are 2 gens

AWS gen1

Azure gcp gen 2

Gen1 is on vm, ecs ebs s3, for web2 era

Gen2 is on cluster computing which was enable by vm

The then "leaky abstraction" is the mandated abstraction at the time

And GPUs today is about 70s's CPU

For example, you don't have any form of abstracted runtime on GPU, it's like running dos system

It's more leaky than 00s ' vm
I'm not a lawyer but I think licenses like this have a potential to be very problematic. Even the termination clause of the GPL has turned out to be challenging and primarily is not an issue because it's being ignored / re-instantiated despite the license text. If a court however would ever rule on this, that might be problematic.

(Also the fact that this license was not written by a lawyer in itself seems … less than ideal)
So AI designing it's own chips. Now that is moving towards exponential growth. Like at the end of "Colossus" the movie.

Forget LLM's. What DeepMind is doing seems more like how an AI will rule, in the world. Building real world models, and applying game logic like winning.

LLM's will just be the text/voice interface to what DeepMind is building.
10-Minute Challenge: Hiroshige's 'Sudden Rain'
Hi, I'm a people. I want to buy games, deep down. I want to slap a cart into my console, press power and just have the game be ready to play. I don't want internet connectivity. I'll wait a year or two for the sequel if I enjoyed it enough. Maybe I'll trade it or sell it. Hell, if I really enjoyed it, I want to be able to hold onto it and play it like this well past its original production run.
New Research Shows Consciousness Connects to the Universe
Duplication of the same image with different captions about armed conflicts is a technique mainstream news likes too.
I don't know if it's the good kind of attention. It's pretty arguable that PETA adopting similar tactics has arguably slowed their cause more than helped.

In PETA's case, they suck all of the air out of the room from other animal welfare organizations. These public displays do not change minds so much as they drive donations. So they end up control a bigger share of a shrinking pot.

At least in PETA's case they can show examples of animal cruelty and make people aware about an issue. But I don't think there's a single person out there in the world who needs museums vandalized to learn about climate change.

Meanwhile, there are lots of examples of tactful organizations that do not get headline attention but get decent policy results.
I've re-upped the original article here:

Behind OpenAI's plan to make A.I. flow like electricity - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41663562

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> something truly incredible

That's one interesting way to say "government regulation".
The Manhattan project was a government project that was run like a startup.

If such a project happened today, academic scientists would be trying to figure out ways to bend their existing research to match the grants. Then it would take another 30 years before people started to ask why nothing has been delivered yet.
The stock market requires someone to fail for someone else to win, the moneys gotta come from somewhere. People who are poor, indignant, and suffering will just be more fodder for those who’ve already won.
"Not a good look": Google's ad tech monopoly defense widely criticized
The evidence I've been seeing is that progress with LLMs have already slowed down and that they're nowhere near good enough to replace programmers.

They can be useful tools ro be sure, but it seems more and more clear that they will not reach AGI.
I agree with you a million percent, so you're not alone in this. But we are very much the minority :(

It feels like people aren't interested in being creators. Just consumers. And that shows in how media and companies refer to people as consumers.

I wish there was a way to reverse this trend. It feels in many ways like a Plato's cave kind of situation.
More erratic and authoritarian compared to what time?

As recently as 1989, most of the world's currencies were tightly controlled and exchange rates were fixed. In many countries like the Soviet Union, you were not even allowed to bring local cash outside of the country at risk of high penalties. Sending an international wire transfer was a multi-day operation that probably involved telex messages and several phone calls.

Today you can send money instantly across the European continent in a single currency at essentially zero cost. The USA is also catching up and finally bringing their banks to the 21st century with Fedwire. Everybody has multiple credit cards and uses them for online shopping across the world. Any physical product you might imagine can be ordered from China with a one-click digital payment.

None of these improvements were thanks to Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency.
Data cassette tapes look like they could have held up to max 600 MB[0], but CDs came out at out of the gate in 1980s with 650 MB.

I guess in terms of storage I can't quite grasp why he thought that CD wouldn't take on. (Hindsight 50/50, of course.)

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_tape#Data_recording
Orca group near Chile tracked down, revealing newly discovered hunting skills
If you believe the EMH you shouldn't compare stocks to lottery tickets. It sounds like you just don't want to look too closely.

Let's try differently. What evidence would you require to conclude "EMH is false"?

Edit: I have to make this edit because someone will point it out. YES I realize I didn't actually answer your question but the thing is this has been discussed ao thoroughly that I don't think i have anything new to add.
"Lara Asaro... gave testimony that Williams had confessed to her" I know very little about this kind of thing, but isn't this hearsay?
It's not true at all. Much like the claims that you have to use LLMs to keep up in programming: if that is true then you weren't a good programmer (or writer in this case) to begin with.
You are probably thinking of Worker RPC, which is ocap-based: https://blog.cloudflare.com/javascript-native-rpc/

At present output gates operate on the scope of a single worker, blocking the output from being sent. It's easy to imagine, though, that we extend things so if you are sending a message to another worker (including a Durable Object), the message is sent immediately, but the destination worker becomes subject to the same output gate. Haven't done it yet but would definitely like to!
Because those two texts are the two among literally thousands of scientific publications that have survived the test of time, which is exactly the point being made.

This might seem crazy to hear now, but when Maxwell first published A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field in 1865, no one cared, it received very little attention at the time.

It was decades later in 1888 with the work of Hertz that Maxwell's equations started to gain significance within the scientific community.
Making 8-Bit Music from Scratch at the Commodore 64 Basic Prompt
journals have zero incentives to care about any of this.
It's Time to Talk About America's Disorder Problem
Well, anything "can be viewed" in any way. That doesn't mean the view is correct or commonly used or accepted.

So criticizing the concept of vice on the grounds that "everything that's fun is a vice" is somewhat of a semantic strawman - you're criticizing the word by changing its meaning.
One of her last roles was in the fantastic BBC comedy "Detectorists" where she played the mother of Rachael Stirling, her daughter in real life.

There was definitely a big hole when series 2 came out without her.
I actually thought that digital timestamps would have been a great use-case for blockchains. They are publicly available and auditable. If you're working from hashes, you don't necessarily need to make the raw data public, just the hash. It is a use-case that has an intrinsic value to the data generator and the future auditor (so you could charge something for it). I know there was some work done on this, but I think it lost momentum due to trying to generate crypto as a value storage medium.
Good point. It really flies in the face of the First Sale Doctrine when a game company says "you buy the game" when it's just a license, because if you had bought the game, then the FSD would apply (gloriously) in so many ways.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual...
Good to know, but that spec sheet neatly demonstrates the efficiency challenges of dual-layer LCD. That's a 31" panel which burns up to 610 watts!
The impact of problem gambling on families can be devastating and we see it first hand in the financial counseling that we do. (Disclosure: I'm the founder of MoneyStack and we run GamFin.org)

Since many of you have commented about regulation, check out the SAFE Bet Act https://tonko.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=...

Also, the GRIT Act may bring much needed federal funding into the prevention and treatment system across the US. https://www.ncpgambling.org/advocacy/grit-act/
> Is there really a major use case for function traits?

Absolutely. They can be used for function overloading, and for manually creating closures from structs, which can be more ergonomic sometimes. Whether you want those features is another matter. The rust compiler supports them but doesn't expose them to stable rust.
Bad service is a sign of a better world
Not to mention what's China doing with its CO2 emissions: making laptops, phones, cheap toys for USA and Europe...
Forget about toys. Kids love big cardboard boxes. My nephews and nieces love them.

I’m middle aged but I remember building so many make believe things out of boxes. All I needed were markers, glue and paper. My parents couldn’t afford those mini cars so I built them myself. Out of boxes.

A big box could be a car. Or a fort. Or a castle. Or a boat.
Malcolm Gladwell Holds His Ideas Loosely. He Thinks You Should, Too
It seems convenient that the evidence to corroborate the claim can't be found yes?

I think you will also find that the publications of the 1800-1900s are quite well preserved.
Does not appear to be limited to men.
When I was about seven, my sister and I were taken on a special trip to see the Giant Pandas at the National Zoo in Washington, DC. The pandas were fine, but we were fascinated by the chipmunks running around everywhere.
Interesting read, especially considering his most recent post about widespread image and results manipulation for one author's papers being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41672599
So true, and this is a dilemma, right? People who build frameworks do so to make it easier for others to ship products. In the process of building the framework, they become better developers themselves. However, others now have to learn their abstractions, which distances them from the underlying concepts. This can make it harder for them to master the core skills needed to surpass the framework. I had that feeling when I learned Rails, only to realize it hid so much from me that I eventually had to drop it and try doing things from scratch.
Written by the same person, so kind of expected.
When the top player makes over $1M and 80% make nothing - how does that help with the point of sports.
North Korea has launched balloons into South Korea since late May
Cursor is much better than Copilot. Also, change it to use Claude, and then use the Inspector with ctrl-I
Acclaimed British actor Maggie Smith dies aged 89
I have travel entire Vietnam with people with kids. After seeing all the pagoda, park, cave, amusement park.. the best part of the travel for the kid was the pool at one hotel.
Or the SCTV skit about Michael McDonald backing seemingly everything at one point
Icelandair sent me a marketing email about cheap tickets to go there, I had a look around their website and I booked a holiday in Iceland... woah, advertising works!?!
The easiest 100 thousand trips per week (look at the three cities) out of the US's 7.7 billion trips per week? How is that meaningful?
I'm the founder of BeeBettor (YC S24). I've been working in this space for a while.

A lot of the points in the article are valid. I have two major issues with online sports betting (OSB) in the US.

1. Sports betting advertising before, during, and after games is horrendous. There is no way to watch sports without being bombarded. Obviously, this is a huge issue for problem gamblers. Sports become unwatchable.

2. Self-exclusion is impossible. There's 40+ sports betting apps available. There is no centralized body a person can say "hey don't let me bet anymore" and then be automatically restricted from betting across all apps. This is something I think we can help with in the near future.

So what can be done now? I don't think OSB is going to be redeclared illegal. I don't think that would be a good idea either. Millions of people have started sports betting. If it becomes illegal, it won't make them stop.

Happy to discuss this further. Email is in my profile.
Nestedly Recursive Functions
You have a point, IMHO, but it doesn't leave room for another group: Humanitarians who believe in human rights as fundamental. That is counter to nationalism (which says the 'nation' is fundemental - the nation being the nationalist powerbrokers); it assumes all have inalienable equal rights, regardless of where political borders are drawn.

Sometimes you need to get together and fight for human rights. But even as WWII was going on, Churchill, for example, was IIRC a harsh critic of nationalism.
> Gaining capital looks like buying an oven

Going from 20% of a first-world country's capital to 100% of our capital looks like upgrading your oven for most people. If had 20% of my current wealth, I'd still have an oven most likely, just not a very good one.
In this particular case, the person of interest published 800 widely cited papers. That seems like a considerable collapse.
The Internet Archive's Fight to Save Itself
I wonder if there are any studies on whether fraud increased after the Bayh-Dole Act. There's certainly fraud for prestige, that's pretty expected. But mixing in financial benefits increases the reward and brings administrators into play.
Physical pain is objective. Someone inflecting physical pain is evil unless it’s in self defense or common sense situations like a doctor performing surgery.
That sounds like it is loaded with a lot of "no true Scotsman" caveats including, perhaps, Scotland, which has crime like any other country.
Van Gogh used art to transform his misery, illness, and madness into scenes peace and beauty. If he were to paint gas plumes, then looking at those plumes would fill you with feelings of serenity.
Most recent working archive.org snapshot:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240303093209/https://www.nia.n...
Senses to AI is what senses are to us. Characterizing AI sensing as always surveilling just shows your hand, and hers.
> My only question is why aren't we holding Automattic to the same standard we are scrutinising WP Engine?

If I understand the situation correctly, Automattic has a commercial license for the WordPress trademark, while WP Engine does not.

> Is it really open source if

I am not even remotely a lawyer, but my understanding is the answer is a strict and emphatic "yes". Open source is about the copyright license, which is a license to use, transmit, and modify the software. WordPress uses a recognized open source license.

Everything in the ecosystem, such as a plugin registry, is completely separate to the notion of whether or not the core software is open source.

There are valid criticisms of the behavior here, but "is it really open source if ..." is not one of them.
This stuff happens in Computer Science too. Back around 2018 or so I was working on a problem that required graph matching (a relaxed/fuzzy version of the graph isomorphism problem) and was trying algorithms from many different papers.

Many of the algorithms I tried to implement didn't work at all, despite considerable effort to get them to behave. In one particularly egregious (and highly cited) example, the algorithm in the paper differed from the provided code on GitHub. I emailed the authors trying to figure out what was going wrong, and they tried to get funding from me for support.

My manager wanted me to right a literature review paper which skewered all of these bad papers, but I refused since I thought it would hurt my career. Ironically the algorithm that ended up working the best was from one of the more unknown papers, with few citations.
Japan has their own baseball league, Nippon Professional Baseball, I don't think they care about the MLB very much.
The three batches produced so far are 400 + 400 + 1000 = 1800 units.
It’s certainly been my experience with the technology.
I do work with "open data" on a near-obsessive basis and -- friends, please do not trust "open data" portals to reflect reality accurately. The datasets are often curated, categories changed during the ETL processes, rows missing, and things like that. For example, Chicago's "crimes" dataset intentionally doesn't include all homicides. Can't remember the exact dataset, but I once had a conversation with Chicago's head of open data who told me that they intentionally removed many rows because they were concerned that the public was going to misinterpret the results... but didn't make it clear that rows were missing. So I guess everybody gets the opportunity to misinterpret the results!

FOIA is the better alternative because it gives you the original, pre-cleaned data. Open data is a lie.
They had a multi-chip consumer flagship for the next rdna4, but it was reportedly having lots of problems.

I do think games have a lot more vary needs than most AI - which primarily need to crunch matrixes - so I'm a little sympathetic to a jump to many-chip failing. You also burn power on chip to chip interconnect, try as we might to ever optimize this down.

> Which is the worst timing because desktop GPU sales are increasingly used for AI.

Well, the good news is RDNA4 is the last consumer chips. Good news because they are merging RDNA with CDNA (compute/ai) to make a new UDNA (unified), which all next next gen chips will be.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-announce...
I think you're focusing on superficial stuff. As long as it works correctly, I don't care what color de website is.
Well, this is about Pierre Bourdieu, and he had a few things to say about academia, as in Homo Academicus.

And I'm not sure what example could illustrate the problem with the lopsided valuation of economic capital and the general devaluation of symbolic capital (as compared to pre-1980s, we have since undergone a social revolution of considerable dimensions, which is also why there isn't an easy fix) better than this one.
I wish I could find the source now where Barsky was very patiently trying to explain to some right wing podcast bro exactly WHY Bezmenov was full of shit because it was fairly definitive for any person with even a basic understanding of intelligence but I assure you it really wasn’t a “both sides” kind of issue.
I'm not a researcher or academic, but when I think of roughly how long it takes me to do meaningful deep work and produce a project of any significance, I'm struck by the fact that his 800 papers isn't a red flag? Even if you allocate ~3 months per paper, that's over 200 years of work. Is it common for academics to produce research papers in a matter of days?

From the article:
Masliah appeared an ideal selection. The physician and neuropathologist conducted research at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) for decades, and his drive, curiosity, and productivity propelled him into the top ranks of scholars on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. His roughly 800 research papers, many on how those conditions damage synapses, the junctions between neurons, have made him one of the most cited scientists in his field.
It certainly looks like the criticism at the end of the rebuttal that DeepMind has abandoned their EDA efforts is a bit stale in this context.
I'm willing to bet that if you tried Rails, it probably wasn’t a good fit for you.
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I use generative AI every day.
A software tester tired of AI? Not surprising given that this is like the first job which AI will replace.
> Maybe they are worried they won't be able to get the hatch open again if they can't equalize the pressure again?

Well note that they currently keep the hatch to the docking port closed unless they're using it, so that presumably mitigates some of the risk (assuming the leak is confined to that location). Not using the whole Zvezda module itself would be more or less impossible from my understanding.

If they decided to stop using that dock port at all then I think that complicates planning and makes everything overall riskier, so while it wouldn't be a disaster to do there's still risk you have to weigh.
I'm often reminded of the rationalist liturgy:

A well-armed society is a polite society.

IIRC from Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. The just so story is when the govt's monopoly on violence is devolved to individuals, people will police themselves.

We now know empirically that a well-armed society is certainly not polite.
Recent and related: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr54myyy671o.

Also related. Others?

Ceefax Simulator - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40095657 - April 2024 (102 comments)

BBC Archive 1983: Downloading Software via Radio and Ceefax - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38351869 - Nov 2023 (1 comment)

Ceefax from an old Raspberry Pi - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29047592 - Oct 2021 (26 comments)

We See Facts: The BBC’s Ceefax Teletext Service - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18172532 - Oct 2018 (26 comments)

How Teletext and Ceefax are coming back from the dead - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12246592 - Aug 2016 (64 comments)

Ceefax Final Broadcast: 'Goodbye, cruel world.' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4690257 - Oct 2012 (36 comments)

Ceefax: The early days - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4687417 - Oct 2012 (6 comments)

Ceefax service to end after 38 years on BBC - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4687316 - Oct 2012 (14 comments)

Ceefax - A love letter - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3856928 - April 2012 (37 comments)
he can be as hypocritical as he wants; it's his platform
It's useful for political and media purposes. Some might call it climate propaganda, such as when Al Gore claiming (based on what we was told by top climate scientists) that the arctic would be ice free in 5 years. It's used to make a point and to shock people. It does not appear that any of those same type of doomsday predictions (Gretta, etc.) ever came true. They really do a disservice to the underlining, and very important, issue.

Instead of trying to scare people with future predictions of doom, talk about what is happening right now, today, and what will continue to happen. Educate, stop trying to shock and manipulate.