skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without sounding too much like a Cathy Woods, I'm wondering if AI can be leveraged to help with all of the non-core aspects of creating new languages? For example, really why does every language really need a json parser, or http requests library. If one were to examine the machine code instructions involved in each, they would likely be rather similar after all. Writing all of that stuff is an enormous lift for the community. Tooling is similarly "undifferentiated heavy lifting" in a way. Also, moving existing code bases to new languages is still hard.

If there were better ways to achieve these things, there would be much less inertia in the language space.
I used to think I was a "core concept" kind of person, but later I realized I took that way too far and would refuse to do things outside of my comfort zone unless I felt like I truly understood everything ahead of time.

Nowadays I'm much more likely to just jump in and start working with examples directly, and I feel much more productive. It's partly a thing of trust: I just trust that the makers of high quality software have put in enough thought to make their interfaces easy to understand, for the common use cases, without digging too deep into the internals.

It frequently happens, of course, that I hit a roadblock where I do have to go deeper -- but that's only because there were 10 other things where I was successfully able to get by on surface impressions alone. So I find that even when I do dig in it's often time well spent.
> most physicians will agree that cannabis is fairly harmless in adults.

This isn’t a good argument. Cannabis is harmless in adults that it’s harmless in. However, there’s a percentage of the population that has strong, adverse reactions to cannabis. Some of these can be life altering, requiring treatment to correct or mitigate.

The problem with cannabis is you can’t predict if any single person will be susceptible to negative outcomes until they have that negative outcome.
Some interesting context on this work: 2 researchers were bullied to the point of leaving Google for Anthropic by a senior researcher (who has now been terminated himself): https://www.wired.com/story/google-brain-ai-researcher-fired...

They must feel vindicated by their work turning out to be so fruitful now.
> Climate change didn't start today, so it makes no sense to blame whoever happens to be today's top polluter as the culprits

Blame isn't helpful, period. Industrialised nations industrialised by polluting. But CO2 in the air is orders of magnitude more difficult to recover than carbon unburnt.

Most CO2 was emitted by the industrialised world. Most CO2 we can prevent from being emitted will come from India and China.

There is no good guy bad guy here, just places with a higher or lower return on action.
Gamma knife? Basically the entire field of radiotherapy?
TMS is magnetic, not EM (the coil generates a magnetic field, which induces localized currents in the body being treated)
IMO the near constant dismissive, negative, and / or non-constructive criticism is what devalues HN. Genuine curiosity, sharing of contextual and tangential experiences, and constructive criticism are what makes it great. At its best its only about technology because thats where many inquisitive types end up.

In this particular case, the spark it ignited in me and others was precisely that inquisitive nature - about eschewing the expected value in lifes activities and instead reaching for that inner genuine interest can turn many experienced upside down. Maybe in reaching too far, but that was my take away from it. If similar stories were reposted ad nauseum i doubt they would make the front page and thus for me at least i am unconcerned with its presence.
> $100 a ton is a round number close to estimates of what it costs to capture
> carbon from an oil refinery or coal burning power plant

That's a wildly optimistic number, and almost certainly too low for the carbon sources yoU're naming.
Equinor estimated over 600USD for gas burners at an LNG plant, under almost ideal conditions (existing nearby storage site, company with lots of experience):
https://industrydecarbonization.com/news/is-carbon-capture-a...
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> Pfff

Now I want a language named that.
> some challenges in sealing it

It's a 1 atm difference, so even adhesive tape stuck on the inside would do the trick. Unfortunately, I don't think there is much unexposed hull on the inside and I bet the crack is behind some equipment that isn't trivial to remove (or else it'd have been found years ago by some annoyed astronaut in their off-time).

Detecting from the outside is also complicated, as you'd need to release (and reattach) the thermal blankets to see the actual surface of the module.

Closing the hatch and stopping the use of that docking port seems to be the smart thing to do. Worst case scenario, repressurise, dock the Progress, unload, load it with trash, and close the hatch. I also don't think anyone is considering using this module to boost the station's altitude - I would't put any additional stresses on it anyway.
I believe it’s drinking age and breath limit thresholds thanks to MADD.
a true liberalist would argue that you can sell your kids, as long as they agreed to it
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Lots of cool stuff in this blog post. Impressive work on many fronts!

If I understand correctly, you will be running actual third party compute workloads/containers in hundreds of network interexchange locations.

Is that in line with what the people running these locations have in mind? Can you scale this? Aren't these locations often very power/cooling-constrained?
> Did this US transit agency, MTA, obtain permission from all EU citizens who traveled on the MTA

Not how jurisdiction works.
What I used to do back in the '80s and '90s, before internet music streaming was a thing and before our computers had enough disk space to store our music collections, was bring a CD case full of my CDs to work.

I'd put on a CD and go to work on something. Unlike a timer going off the CD finishing wasn't really an interruption, but I would be aware of it enough to decide if should just put on another CD and keep going (which I could do well enough on autopilot to do without losing focus) or if I was actually near a good point to take a break.

We did a lot of contract work writing firmware for hardware makers, and I was supposed to track how much time I spend on each project so we could bill appropriately. That fit in well with the CD system. I just had to put all the CDs I used while working on a given project into a pile for that project, and at the end of the day add up the runtimes of them all to get the time spent on that project.
BS governmental desperation to show any "result" (even if it is fake) is what brought us here. As scientist have to show more fake results to get more grants.

Removing the government from science could help, not the other way around.
The media hates Google.
I imagine they usually don't know. Some fraction of identities are real IDs taken advantage of by sanctioned entities. If you bank at all you knowingly accept some level of sanctioned entities, but often don't know what identity they operate.
Fair, I can get behind that reasoning
Kids usually love taking transit.
> Deader than disco.

The real question is whether the project is deader than HURD.
I have faith that the marketing department can spin this. "Why just BUY a game when you can get A LICENSE TO GAME. Show you friends how much of a badass you are with ALL YOUR GAME LICENSES"
Don’t forget The First Wives Club! RIP
A key skill for any scientist is to differentiate quality work and science that can be easily faked.

The Alzheimer's and Parkinson's fields are too easy to fake, and too difficult to replicate. The new ideas are only ~20 years old. Big pharma companies are understandably wary of published papers.

When people say "trust the science", they often refer to things like masks, and antibiotics, and vaccines. That science is hundreds of years old and have been replicated thousands of times.

TL;DR: Some science should absolutely be trusted, some shouldn't. It's not surprising that you can't make blanket statements on a superfield ranging from germ theory to cold fusion.
I wonder if the author has ever heard something called an IDE?
Intel dominated the CPU market for decades, so it's surprising to see them in their current position after being outpaced by AMD in just last several years. How did this happen?
I think that is more of consequence resulting from lower transaction costs, rather than an economic externality. That said, I understand the definitions of externality is changing in popular usage.
I wouldn't use opiates as an example of causing misery. The opium poppy, for thousands of years, was a miracle plant to every society that knew of it. It allows anybody to have access to pain relief. Yes it can be misused. However, ALL opiates are still derived from the opium poppy. The ability for personal or commercial production of opium was removed from everybody by the US influenced UN policy. The UN now declares that three countries in the world are allowed to grow opium poppies to produce opium. That legal opium supposedly is used to create all of the worlds needed supply of pharmaceutical opiates. Every other country that grows Papaver Somniferum and processes it to opium is a target for military action to reduce the supply of illegal opiates. You see, the recent history of opium is a bit like an opium dream itself. A small number of people decided opium is evil and who gets to produce opiates and if you aren't on the list you are their enemy. This policy has done nothing to stop "illegal" production and use of opiates and has made a small number of people unimaginably wealthy while also creating the environment for "illegal" cartels, AKA competition, to flourish. Bayer first sold heroin as a less addictive morphine after all. In the name of enforcing the "allowed producers" list an innumerable amount of people trying to make a living by producing opium were killed. If it looks like a cartel and behaves like a cartel it might be a cartel.

I don't even want to go into the proven CIA and FBI complicity in drug trafficking in the name of stopping "illegal" opiates or all the people in jail for using "illegal" opiates.

Sure, opiates cause suffering. Its just mostly at the hands of a supranational cartel that we are part of. We aren't even allowed to grow the same plant in the US for seeds that many nations eat as a staple food. However, the pharmaceutical companies are allowed to grow or buy opium from India, Turkey, and Australia and sell millions of derivative opiate pills around the world. But, me being able to grow a handful of plants to produce my own pain medicine or domestic commercial production is the height of evil.

If we were all allowed to produce opium personally or commercially we would effectively end the reasons for illegal opiate importers to exist, create jobs for our own people, and remove an immense amount of power from the UN and pharmaceutical companies. We would also remove the need for military adventurism in places like Afghanistan and Myanmar. As an aside, opium production in Afghanistan increased from 82,000ha to 233,000ha during US occupation, which I choose to believe was, mostly because we didn't care and the Taliban had been destroying opium crops.

https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/bulletin/bu...
There is lots of value to personal freedom. You are free to bet with your friends and play poker or whatever.

That doesn’t mean that corporations should have the freedom to exploit society for profit while being a total net-negative. Enabling a vice in the name of "freedom" isn’t a virtue.

A little black market gambling is completely fine as long as the bookie is the one committing crimes and not their customers.
But this is really a societal/political issue: since we decided that economic capital is king and symbolic capital not that much… (This is really the story of the last four decades or so.)
You'll also need to have their agreement before you deorbit the Russian part. There is no way around that marriage (and it'd be better to make it work - space operations shouldn't be run by politicians anyway).
Absolutely! Markets evolve, see, for example, nobody was willing to pay on things like Siri, and now millions of folks are spending 25 USD/month on Siri+.

EDIT: sorry, just came from the future.
This is the thing it works both ways, it's really good at interpreting existing codebases too.

Could potentially mean just a change in time allocation/priority. As it's easier and faster to locate and potentially resolve issues later, it is less important for code to be consistent and perfectly documented.

Not fool proof and who knows how that could evolve, but just an alternative view.
One of these big names in the industry said we'll have AGI when it speaks it's own language. :P.
It depends on your precise definition of ASIC. The FPGA thing here would be analogous to an MSIC where m = model.

It's clearly different to build a chip for a specific model than what a TPU is.

Maybe we'll start seeing MSICs soon.
Some Go web dev notes
> IRS is a civil agency, referring anything more than fines to the DOJ.

Yes. The IRS doesn't make rules around what currency is legal or not.

> Since money is speech

No court has ever said this.

> If it has value and was traded - or not traded, it impacts "interstate commerce", and therefore is regulated as a good, it must have a tax levied on it

What are you talking about? Plenty of economic activity is untaxed.

> You are correct tho - "de novo", legal. Practically, its nearly treasonous - literally

Did you ignore the links provided in the top comment?
High-ranking officials (like presidents, kings, prime ministers) come in their own private jets, sometimes more than one. It's not like you can have 30 prime ministers coming on the same cheap airline plane.
There are many highly upvoted articles even today that are less of a tech story than this one.
Do hate the player. People are taught ethics for a reason: no set of rules and laws are sufficient to ensure integrity of the system. We rely on personal integrity. This is why we teach it to our children.
seems like meta and google jump thru a lot of hoops to maintain the sharade of e2e-privacy whereas with telegram you know upfront that everything goes to someone else's computer and call it a day
First thing my mind went to as well, I’m sure this is already being worked on, I think it would be more impactful than even this.
I really prefer making them, the rice will be more moist - the rice seems dry when i've bought them

I use a 1/2 seaweed sheet per ball - again better - crispier if stored well

our favourite fillings is either curry paste (that very concentrated stuff) or the purple flakes (i think they're called shiso)

these are one of our families favourite - they go quickly no matter how much we make
Note that FPV drones in Ukraine are not squad-level, there are separate drone units (at the very least 2 operators, at least 1 explosives guy because arming drones with makeshift explosives is not trivial and super risky, plus cover). Plus they are supplied literally on the back of a minivan in cardboard boxes because they only need to survive one way trip over a couple hundred km, the US needs to supply their units half a globe away.

US army drones are squad-level, have proper safing/arming, transportable, and shelf-stable. It's not scope creep, it's a very different doctrine and circumstances.
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I have a favour to ask.

I’ve been working for a while on Kalavai, a project to make distributed AI easy. There are brilliant tools out there to help AI hobbyists and devs on the software layer (shout out to vLLM and llamacpp amongst many others!) but it’s a jungle out there when it comes to procuring and managing the necessary hardware resources and orchestrating them. This has always led me to compromise on the size of the models I end up using (quantized versions, smaller models) to save cost or to play within the limits of my rig.

Today I am happy to share the first public version of our Kalavai client (totally free, forever), a CLI that helps you build an AI cluster from your everyday devices. Our first use case is distributed LLM deployment, and we hope to expand this with the help of the community.

Now, the favour!

I’d love for people interested in AI at scale (bigger than a single machine) to give it a go and provide honest feedback.

Do you share our motivation?

If you tried Kalavai, did you find it useful? What would you like it to do for you?

What are your painpoints when it comes to using large LLMs?
Model architecture changes fast. Maybe it will slow down.
> Would I have been more successful

What are you talking about? You _are_ successful. You're not a fraud
like all those other tossers.
The YC company that wanted to sell fake survey results (yes they really had a launch HN with that idea) will surely be the first to sell fake science results next. YC disrupting sciences
Lease is pretty similar to rent in my mind — you're getting a product for either a fixed period or for as long as you keep making regular payments, neither of which applies here.
> that is more of consequence resulting from lower transaction costs, rather than an economic externality

An externality is "an indirect cost or benefit to an uninvolved third party that arises as an effect of another party's (or parties') activity" [1]. If Visa reduced its fees, the merchant's additional profit is an externality.

> understand the definitions of externality is changing in popular usage

Third-party economic consequences have always been the definition [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality

[2] https://www.jstor.org/stable/26617802
Where is Eliezer Masliah from?
About a decade ago Dogecoin made a big push to get online and offline business to accept it. Making a block every minute was quite beneficial for that, and the price used to be somewhat stable. Today nobody pays in Dogecoin. Lots of companies that used to except Bitcoin/Litecoin/Dogecoin stopped doing so because off lack out demand.

The issue isn't that crypto currencies can't be used as currency, it's more that they don't get used as currency outside niche use cases because they don't have a good USP. Most countries have decent enough currencies and payment systems
> social prestige and respect

This one is the showstopper. No matter what you do with rules and regulations, if people aren't impressed by it at a watercooler conversation, or when chatting at a cocktail party at a conference, or when showing a politician around in your lab then nothing else matters.

How prestigious something is is not a lever you control.
Yes we do: amble. Noun - a walk at a slow, relaxed pace, especially for pleasure:
"a peaceful riverside amble"
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Here’s a deterrent:

1) revoke all of their academic accreditations and degrees

2) put them on a public “do not publish” list permanently banning them from being named on any paper in a journal
When I first read about AlphaChip yesterday, my first question was how it compares to other optimization algorithms such as genetic algorithms or simulated annealing. Thank you for confirming that my questions are valid.
That site is, and always has been, full of hot takes and sensationalism which are often out-of-context or misleading. Regardless of viewpoint. And most evidence shows it is a top target for intentional disinformation attacks by institutionally-sponsored troll farms. It is very easy for people to end way down the rabbit holes of an echo chamber on that site and find themselves exposed to niche accounts that don't receive any fact checking or counterarguments.
And being a docking module, I'd guess it'd be near the docking port structure (although all Russian modules are connected via docking ports, rather than berthing ones).
This is specifically about something that is very addictive. Moderation was never a likely outcome.
That is quite confident.
An AGI can presumably control a robot at least as well as a human operator can. The hardware side of robotics is already good enough that we could leverage this to rapidly increase industrial output. Including, of course, producing more AGI-controlled robots. So it may well be the case that robot production, rather than chip production, becomes the bottleneck on output growth, but such growth will still be extremely fast and will still drive demand for far more computing capacity than we're producing today.
I'm curious what percentage of false convictions are caused by LEO and DA omitting or destroying evidence.

I suspect, ignorantly, that it's north of 70%. If anyone should be getting the death penalty, it should be those that abuse power granted to them by the people.
When everything is a commodity (nothing runs outside of the market economy), the incentives are skewed to this type of behavior.

'Hate' the player' and 'hate' the game.

Some things shouldn't be part of the market economy - education, health and food.
> Speeding on the highway and jaywalking

Are both illegal, because of the risk they pose.
I used to joke that life actually started on Venus and we were the backup planet.
> What's the opposite of a tautology? Because this headline is it.

I think "oxymoron"? Close, at least.
(2014)

Here's the giant thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7949995
I predict it will get even worse than that, in the next couple of decades I expect any document or work that has a substantial reward associated with it, either financially or in terms of career advancement or a grade for critical course work in one's major, or penalty such as indictment or conviction, to be backed by a time stamped stack of developing documentation, drafts, revisions, with these time stamp validated against a trusted custodial clock and a seed random string marking the start of work, recorded in some immutable public form.

Accompanying to finish document will be a hash of all of these works along with their associated timestamps, originals of can be verified if necessary to prove a custodial chain of development over a plausible period of time and across multiple iterations of the development of the work - a kind of signed time-lapse slideshow of its genesis from blank page to finished product as if it had a mandatory and global "track changes" flag enabled from the very beginning - by which the entire process can be proved an original human-collaborated work and not an insta-generated AI fiction.
You are clearly deeply disconnected from the actual practice of research.

The best you can really say is that the statistics chops of most researchers is lacking and that someone researching say caterpillars is likely to not really understand the maths behind the tests they're performing. It's not an ideal solution by any means but universities are starting to hire stats and cs department grads to handle that part.