skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The teaching trend is very, very real. Public schools are in crisis due to the dual shocks of Covid and inflation (which came on top of years of underinvestment and declining quality of the work environment, so the whole thing was already teetering before that shove) and nobody’s even talking about spending what it’ll take to fix them. The low-COL-adjusted-comp areas are worst-hit, but a marked decline in quality is in store for the whole sector, largely due to staff shortages and an associated, unavoidable decline in average quality.
Brilliant. That wiki is quite something. Getting a real sense of the core of the language is within easy reach.
I don't really understand all the fuss about this particular paper. Nearly all papers on AI techniques are pretty much impossible to reproduce, due to details that the authors don't understand or are trying to cover up.

This is what you get if you make academic researchers compete for citation counts.

Pretraining seems to be an important aspect here, and it makes sense that such pretraining requires good examples, which unfortunately for the free lunch people, is not available to the public.

That's what you get when you let big companies do fundamental research. Would it be better if the companies did not publish anything about their research at all?

It all feels a bit unproductive to attack one another.
from the article:

> Growing plants on the ISS is a complex business, and Porterfield says a chief concern is that plant roots depend on gravity to draw water.

So while the radiation might be similar (I'm not sure), other variables are different.
Why we would expect academia to be different from anything else these days? Fraud is how you get ahead. It is how you gain competitive advantage. When everyone is cheating, the only way to win is to cheat smarter. Fraud is the end result of the dreams that motivate people to be better than they. are.
To answer the question, "Wait, why did my computer just do that!?", that pops up every time it does something unexpected.
The problem with the Moon is the 28 Earth day day/night cycle. It takes the Moon from blistering heat (~250F) to bone-chilling cold (-200F) so anything on the surface has both a cooling problem and a heating problem.

There's no atmosphere so the only way to get rid of heat is to irradiate it away into space or pump it away and do the same thing. Likewise, heating is a big problem and an energy waster as you're irradiating away heat.

Going underground just avoids the heating problem, the cooling problem and the radiation problem. It also avoids the issue of meteor impacts on the surface. Those craters came from somewhere.

Excavation is expensive but it depends on what you're working with. Is it loose? is it hard rock? I don't think we have good knowledge of the geology of the Moon because we'd have to go there and start drilling cores to find out. The presence of ancient lava probably means we'd be dealing with some hard stones too like basalt or granite. But that's just a guess.

Lava tubes, if sufficiently large, just solve so many of these problems.

It's just easier to collect power and produce the light you want to grow somethin gunderground.
Impressive stepladder.
Those rules and regulations only apply to consumer products, business/professional products are exempt. This product is obviously not a consumer product.
I use this one https://sptest.iamshowcase.com/

(Well, used : in luckily no longer in charge of an IdP with a bespoke SAML implementation so I don’t need to deal with this crap anymore!)
He's a Steve Jobs type C-level manager. The actual knowledge people are scientists such as Ilya Sutskever et al., many of whom left their company over the past year.

The question is whether LLMs are going to plateau. Either OpenAI and the tech industry system can keep progress going, or else more basic science is needed, in which case a government-project level of coordination is needed instead.
On AM5 you can do 6 M.2 drives without much difficulty, and with considerably better perf. Your motherboard will need to support x4/x4/x4/x4 bifurcation on the x16 slot, but you put 4 there [0], and then use the two on board x4 slots, one will use the CPU lanes and the other will be connected via the chipset.

[0] - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002991210833.html
Vastly under-estimating the magnitude of the task is how the crazy things get done.

Christopher Columbus wasn't unique in believing the world was round, he was rather unique in his vast under-estimation of the distance to Asia. The only reason he survived is dumb luck that the Americas were about where he thought Asia was. All of his doubters were correct that he would die before reaching Asia.

Of course, this way, way far down the list of reasons not to take Christopher Columbus as a role model.
Safety costs for nuclear plants in Japan now stand at 6T yen
A compiler is deterministic. An LLM is not.
You might as well ask a fortune teller instead of listening to what Musk has said
I had something like that nearly 10 years ago on my Android. I had to walk to my kitchen and scan a QR code on my fridge.

Really effective!

When I didn’t power off the phone.
To clarify what the parent is getting at: Moore's law is an observation about the density (and, really about the cost) of transistors. So it's about the fabrication process, not about the logic design.

Practically speaking, though, maintaining Moore's law would have been economically prohibitive if circuit design and layout had not been automated.
Don’t get me wrong, there is some very cool and useful stuff there. I think it’s a bit disingenuous to even talk about AGI at this point though and when you look at the power requirements and the need for $7trillion in investment just to build chips, I really don’t know. Underdeliver and AI loses some of the hype again, and like the parent post said, it will be a long winter. Are gpts worth more than Apple, MS, Alphabet and Amazon all together?
> because Minix 3 has production deployments on the Intel (CS)ME

Is there actually an official Intel document which confirms this? So far I only saw claims by third parties. Do we know which version of Minix was used, and which parts of it?
What you are describing is a satellite.
Free banking is where banks are free to issue their own paper currency
> Wow, an actual open source language model (first of its kind

Apple research has previously released another example of a model with open training code, data, and weights, but their model was sized for running inference workloads on mobile devices.

However, Apple has a mobile device line of business and AMD has an enterprise AI accelerator line of business, so they are both doing work relevant to their bottom line.
Science is an anarchic enterprise. There is no "one scientific method", and anyone telling you there is has something to sell to you (likely academic careerism). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Method
I took my daughter to a Broadway Disney musical. We were almost late so I picked her up and ran multiple packed city blocks with her in my arms. I think that was her favorite part, including, which I don't remember, running in front of a tourist taking a picture of a spiderman sidewalk actor and yelling "sorry" as I passed. We also went to Disney and her favorite thing was actually just going on a ride she was nervous about and feeling good about how brave she was.
I'm working on that at the instant (I wrote this article). Sadly the samltest.id squatter wants at least $15k, super lame. dummyidp.com it is!
OpenAI Is Growing Fast and Burning Through Piles of Money
As far as I understand, the main issue for LLM inference is memory bandwidth and capacity. Tensor cores are already an ASIC for matmul, and they idle half the time waiting on memory.
Prior to AlphaChip, macro placement was done manually by human engineers in any production setting. Prior algorithmic methods especially struggled to manage congestion, resulting in chips that weren't manufacturable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iry-Hor
I'm not saying 5 successful unmanned missions are impossible in 2 years, but I think Elon may have slightly underestimated the difficulty of the task. There is a lot of stuff left to develop still and very little time to do it.

Elon is not great at estimating how long tasks will take. He originally promised that full self driving would be complete by 2018.
Martingale, baby!!!
> draw, write, compose

The primacy of these artforms is subjective, and there's no accounting for taste.
It’s a guess since they’re keep track of hours of contributions. Development services are services under that irs doc, afaik.
Advertising state lottery on TV is just a way for politicians to funnel money to their buddies in the marketing agency and TV. I guess they get some positive coverage for that or w/e. It's one of the most obvious signs of corruption imo. It happens in Poland as well and it's infuriating when you are a tax payer in that country.
Author here, I'm not aware of any IDE that can do this specific refactor
Related:

I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41645044
Typical leftist nonsense. I want to see the travellers living in The Hague who let themselves be harassed into forgoing their holidays.

Just a suggestion: perhaps a city council should busy itself with running the city, look after its infrastructure, grow the economy, provide great services.
But really, this isn't about overruling software, it's about overruling yourself.

Past self has implemented a mandate that future self get up at this time. Future self is a sleepy, lazy, point of sale that can't be trusted.

Sample size of 1. I used to "wake up" and turn off my alarm and have zero recollection of it. I got the most annoying mechanical clock and packed it in a box that I had to unpack before I could turn it off. It got louder as I removed the packaging. The prolonged activity in order to shut off the alarm is ultimately what helped me fully wake up.
OpenAI changes policy to allow military applications
> I don't understand why one-implementation language project would need RFCs

For multiple reasons. First, because it's not actually obvious from a PR what the overall design and big picture is. And second, because we want to decide about that design and big picture before someone does too much implementation work, lest that work need redoing because the design changed (or lest that work go to waste because we rejected the RFC).
FWIW back in the day, samltest.id was a dummy IDP, whereas sptest.iamshowcase.com is a dummy SP. You could hook these two up to each other and see the whole flow.
Same here. I adapted the file system to honor user quota, and changed the kernel to support priority process scheduling. We also needed to implemented a change in the memory management part... that ironically I cannot remember anymore.
There's nothing worse than having a roommate that sleeps through their alarm that can be heard every where with no escaping it.
So weak men make hard men? You're welcome.

How graciously the womenfolk leave us to our tragic autopoiesis.
Related:

EU privacy regulator fines Meta 91M euros over password storage https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41669912 - September 2024 (28 comments)
Oh man, if only it were that simple. A floorplanner has to guestimate what the P&R tools are going to do with the initial layout. That can be very hard to predict -- even if the floorplanner and P&R tool are from the same vendor.
Critical thinking = the ability to be skeptical, literally it is the ability to criticize.

Great critical thinkers become lawyers, post modernist intellectuals, and other parts of the "talking" class of intellectuals. Unfortunately, it's far easier to talk shit than it is to build things. We've massively over-valued critical thinking over constructive thinking.

Most people want to dunk on science. Few people want to submit their own papers to conferences. Many people act like submitting papers is impossible for non-Ph.D's. We have a lack of constructive oriented thinking.
Nice thoughts. Since 1982 half my work has been in one of the fields loosely called AI and the other half more straight up software development. After mostly been doing deep learning and now LLM for almost ten years, I miss conventional software development.

When I was swimming this morning I thought of writing a RDF data store with partial SPARQL support in Racket or Common Lisp - basically trade a year of my time to do straight up design and coding, for something very few people would use.

I get very excited by shiny new things like advance voice interface for ChatGPT and NoteBookLM, both fine product ideas and implementations, but I also feel some general fatigue.
This is super cool! I wish I'd known about this.
Must be from Winnipeg or something
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens'_Commission_to_Invest...

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

"The Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI was an activist group operational in the US during the early 1970s. Their only known action was breaking into a two-man Media, Pennsylvania, office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and stealing over 1,000 classified documents. They then mailed these documents anonymously to several US newspapers to expose numerous illegal FBI operations which were infringing on the First Amendment rights of American citizens. Most news outlets initially refused to publish the information, saying it related to ongoing operations and that disclosure might have threatened the lives of agents or informants. However, The Washington Post, after affirming the veracity of the files which the Commission sent them, ran a front-page story on March 24, 1971, at which point other media organizations followed suit. "

""The complete collection of political documents ripped off from the F.B.I. office in Media, Pa., March 8, 1971" was published for the first time as the March 1972 issue of WIN Magazine, a journal associated with the War Resisters League. The documents revealed the COINTELPRO operation, and led to the Church Committee and the cessation of this operation by the FBI. Noam Chomsky has stated:"

"According to its analysis of the documents in this FBI office, 1 percent were devoted to organized crime, mostly gambling; 30 percent were "manuals, routine forms, and similar procedural matter"; 40 percent were devoted to political surveillance and the like, including two cases involving right-wing groups, ten concerning immigrants, and over 200 on left or liberal groups. Another 14 percent of the documents concerned draft resistance and "leaving the military without government permission." The remainder [about 15 percent] concerned bank robberies, murder, rape, and interstate theft."

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-- YOU CAN FLAG THIS ANY TIME YOU WANT BUT I WILL RE-POST IT HERE AS ME OR I'LL MAKE A NEW ACCOUNT TO DO SO. KARMA MEANS NOTHING TO ME.

-- YOU CANNOT STOP THE FREE FLOW OF INFORMATION, ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT HISTORY OF THE NATION WHICH HAS BEEN HIDDEN FROM US.

-- Sorry you glowies are so embarrassed! :-D Wait, no I'm not.

Cowards.
> Type #1: Tile-based (pure)

> Character movement is limited to tiles, so you can never stand halfway between two tiles.

[…]

> Examples: Prince of Persia

That is absolutely false. You can stand on any pixel in Prince of Persia. It’s when I find stupid errors like these that I start to question the entire article they appear in.
How often do people expect to compile open-source code and get _exactly_ the same binary as the distributed one? I've seen this kind of restriction only on decompilation projects e.g. the SM64 decompilation -- where they deliberately compare the hashes of original vs. compiled binaries, as a way to verify the decompilation is correct.

It's an unreasonable request with ordinary code, even more with ML where very few ones have access to the necessary hardware, and where in practice, it is not deterministic.
How is a fine of $100m USD calculated when there were no actual reported damages?

I'm not sympathetic to Meta making security mistakes, more curious how the punishment was decided, in lieu of causing any problems.

I wonder if it was a poorly thought out request log line or what.
$50 up front and $10/month...
When people think of radiation protection, they think of the magnetosphere. But they really need to be thinking of the atmosphere. There's a reason traveling on a plane gets you a higher dose of radiation and it's not a weaker magnetosphere.
Print media does it (and things worse than this) too:

https://pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analysis/national-press-b...

And under work-for-hire arrangements, putting your name on something that someone else wrote is not even necessarily incorrect, either. Not every case of reprinting stories in a newspaper is a big reputable newspaper printing a story by a big reputable news syndicate who is licensing the story to multiple customers.

I write copyrighted material all day, but since it is for hire, the person who has hired me owns the copyright to it, and puts their name on my work. And US law provides no right for me to be attributed.

I appreciate the criticism of CNN in this case, but I just don't think this is somehow an egregious outlier in the history of media practices.
I see your point, the success of this would have to align with a change in the broader academia to only cite research from insured researchers.

The "organic" way this would happen is if there was a shift so that journals with insured research are far more valuable than uninsured research. Or perhaps if companies started suing researchers for negligence and fraud and recuperate costs if they used research that was later proved to be fraud.

In the literary world, anyone can publish a book, but a book from o'reilly caries with it a different level of authority and diligence then a self published book or blog post.

So the shift would have to be that your career can't advance without publishing a bonded and insured paper.
> Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act
Regarding crypto, IC[0] for example is an incredible experiment to make decentralized cloud compute viable, using WASM runtimes. Lots of neat crypto projects like this. People forget the whole point was decentralization and trustless systems. While the grifters settled on centralized systems and gaslighting users, real crypto projects continue to explore the possibilities of decentralization.

With AI, I don't even know where to start. Have you used the internet recently? We have multimodal transformer models which can input and output images, video and text. We can create music and images using diffusion techniques. We have world-class text generation systems, which of course still need a lot of infrastructural support, but the viability is already being proven. We have cutting-edge translation tools which blow anything previous out the water. We have code generation and introspection tools, which work well enough to majorly augment my engineering workflow. We are developing ways to "speak" with your data, turning natural language into advance query, analysis and synthesis tasks. We have neural radiance fields. Lip syncing and voice translation tech to automate localization in powerful new ways.

And we have open models! Anyone can dive in, fine-tune a model and get viable results today. We can already start creating new pipelines today, so that we aren't wasting our time doing that once models get better at not hallucinating. The individuals and organizations who wait for this new technology to be perfectly reliable will get left in the dust by those who took the chance and did the pioneering work.

This is still barely scratching the surface. It seems like there's at least one ground-breaking paper a month, often more than that. It's certainly easier to bash these technologies and communities from afar, but that attitude will only hinder you in the future once the tech has caught up. What we have already created through experimentation just since 2015 is stuff that I grew up reading about in science fiction.

Could we hit an AI winter instead? Will decentralization ultimately be a dead end? Maybe. But it would be considerate to not bash those who are spending time and money to find out, and to not let grifters whom they cannot control co-opt the space and the narrative around it.

[0] https://internetcomputer.org/
Oh, yes. Repackaging and reframing of data - as mentioned in the OP article too - is a common practice for farming impact and article numbers too.

Why do novel research when you can just partner up with your friends, bring your data and combine with theirs for the umpteenth paper on the same thing, then wade into spamming down the submissions in every academic journal with impact in your field! If it published once in this journal, surely the 3rd recombination will too (and more often than not... it does.)
I think this comment comes across as slightly ignorant.

Many examples exist where a misguided belief in scientific 'facts' (usually a ropey hypothesis, with seemingly 'damning' evidence), or a straight up abuse of the scientific method, causes direct harm.

Suspicion is often based on facts or experience.

People have been infected with diseases without their knowledge.

People have been forced to undergo surgical procedures on the basis of spurious claims.

People have been burnt alive in buildings judged to be safe.

And look at Boeing.

No one has a problem with science itself per se. Everyone accepts the scientific method to be one of our greatest cultural achievements.

But whether one is "less bright", or super smart, we all know we as humans, are prone to mistakes, and are just as prone to bend the truth, to cover up those mistakes.

There's nothing plebeian about this form of suspicion. In fact, the scientific method relies on it (peer review).
focusing on efficiency is very depressing. Machines seek efficiency. Process can be efficient. Assembly lines are efficient. It's all about optimization and quickly focuses on trimming "waste" and packing as much as possible into the smallest space. It removes all that's amazing about human life.

I much prefer a focus on effectiveness (or impact or outcomes, or alternatives). It plays to human strengths, is far less prescriptive and is way more fun!

Some of the most effective actions are incredibly inefficient; sometimes inefficiency is a feature. I received a letter mail thank-you card from our CEO a few years ago. The card has an approx. value of zero dollars, but I know it took the CEO 5-10 mins to write a personal note and sign it, and that she did this dozens of times. The signal here is incredibly valuable! If she used a signing machine, or AI to record a deep fake message I would know or quickly learn, and the value would go negative - all for the sake of efficiency.