skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that's like half of computing.. every new tool the world inflicts on you, configured in Jojo's Awesome Configuration Language, with some arbitrary made up grammar punctuated by Tourette outbursts of special character line-noise.

That, or YAML, then a tool to template and generate the YAML, and then a stack of tools wrapped around that, ad infinitum.

A little learning is the cost of not having to write the thing yourself. On the other hand, hell is the non-composable tower of babel that is computing. Total employment by exponentially compounding incidental complexity.
Disruptive Startups of 2024
Longest common subsequence can be solved in at most quadratic time via dynamic programming.
> I'm going to have to talk about my goals with a trainer next week, I don't think I'm going to come completely clean that a fox sent me.

Oh man this sentence killed me, literally lol'ed.
Did not expect to see this here, but spot on.
Google AI will be better and more popular than the rest before they shut it down.
Well, this FT based article[0] speculates more companies, with "companies in talks" and "according to several people with knowledge of the matter"... but doesn't back it up with anyone on the record. It's certainly interesting, but no more concrete than last week's coverage.. until January apparently: "The consortium is planning to announce as early as January that it has reached agreements with a number of tech groups"

[0]: (2 points, 4 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42489067
I've got a collection of Robert Frost's works and I have my kids recite some of the poems out loud. This is one of the more popular, along with "the road not taken", "the lockless door" and "acquainted with the night".

It's a great thing to do; they get to flex their memory, work on enunciating, and experience the pleasure of poetry (best done by reading out loud). Frost's works are well-tuned to it. They speak about nature, which is easy for everyone to understand. And a lot of them have nice soft sounds and pleasant rhythms.

Also, The Road Not Taken is probably the most well-known american poem ever, so it's good to be acquainted with it.
> I could creatively express myself by wiring up a camera and filming a public place, no?

Certainly. My layperson view is it would depend on intent. If you were to use trafficcamphotobooth.com to take a selfie on 14th Street, I think the fact that you went out in front of a particular surveillance cam and hit the save button would count as a copyrighted photo even tho the camera belongs to some other entity and was going to take the photo with or without you.

(Edited) Edit: going back to remind myself of the basics, creative expression is not the basis for copyright, but "original works of authorsbip', although '''The Supreme Court has said that, to be creative, a work must have a “spark” and “modicum” of creativity.''' - this in the case determining that phonebooks are merely collections of facts and therefore not protected works.

https://www.copyright.gov/what-is-copyright/
Don't install it if you don't want it. I for one would very much like to run Linux on the "luxury" Apple products. Nobody is forcing you though.
I worked front line technical support at a web hosting company in the early 2010s. We were told to just immediately shut down any site when receiving a DMCA takedown request. We were barely paid above minimum wage, and received no training on how to handle legal requests like this - the rule was just "shut the site down".
Donations are not the same as lobbying, especially within the context of a campaign or inaugural committee. Obviously the motivation is to curry favor / build influence.
This is just some guy's top 50 favorite movies. And if you'd gone just one year further, to 1995, you'd have gotten Heat, Braveheart, Casino, 12 Monkeys, The Usual Suspects, and Toy Story. The Basketball Diaries doesn't hold up, at all, but Apollo 13 was great.

(I will stick up for Heat, but my god, the shoulder pads).
That MatMul performance is fairly shocking. To be that much below theoretical maximum on what should be a fairly low overhead operation.

I would at least hope that they know where the speed is going, but the issue of torch.matmul and F.Linear using different libraries with different performance suggests that they don't even know which code they are running, let alone where the slow bits in that code are.
How do I get a low skill high pay job? That sounds awesome.
It's very short, so you can just read it and see how dumb it is.
The Singularity is caused by AI being able to design better AI. There's probably some AI startup trying to work on this at the moment, but I don't think any of the big boys are working on how to get an LLM to design a better LLM.

I still like the analogy of this being a really smart lawn mower, and we're expecting it to suddenly be able to do the laundry because it gets so smart at mowing the lawn.

I think LLMs are going to get smarter over the next few generations, but each generation will be less of a leap than the previous one, while the cost gets exponentially higher. In a few generations it just won't make economic sense to train a new generation.

Meanwhile, the economic impact of LLMs in business and government will cause massive shifts - yet more income shifting from labour to capital - and we will be too busy dealing with that as a society to be able to work on AGI properly.
France's most powerful nuclear reactor connected to grid after 17-year build
Flamanville 3 European Pressurized Reactor

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

https://www.gem.wiki/Flamanville_nuclear_power_plant
I am working at an AI company that is not OpenAI. We have found ways to modularize training so we can test on narrower sets before training is "completely done". That said, I am sure there are plenty of ways others are innovating to solve the long training time problem.
> It's not long enough to be a London telephone number, and, today, I think London numbers start with 020.

I used to work with telephony until 2011. While I worked in Sweden, I am sure this applies for UK, too.

There is no standard in phone number lengths, you can have all sorts of prefixed series, so for example if the area code is "1", then the number 0 could be routed to a destination.

So 04410 is theoretically valid.

Back then we even had 3-digit short form numbers (like 911) that we had to specifically deal with each phone operator for keeping.

It was used for pricey phone dating.
Def one of the top, but I have to think _The Road Not Taken_ is more famous.
I did not find it to be terribly dumb, simple though it was.
It might be because Lisa has been so outstandingly effective at making AMD competitive across multiple product lines against bigger competitors and this feels to some people like an oversight that AMD could easily solve. I suspect the current situation with ML software at AMD is a consequence of a very focused company and not an easy fix without sacrificing something else.

I don't think many people can keep track of who's running Intel let alone have hope that with a little work they can deliver reasonable substitutes for NVIDIA's products.
Well in the real world you would have all the coupon codes, amounts, and any other special behavior driven by entries in a database. It would never be in code. So the code would either be checking the database on every call, or loading the current valid coupons into some kind of resident app memory (and keeping them up-to-date somehow), depending on the platform.

So I'm not going to think about how different coupon codes would change the code complexity until I see what a real-world implementation with database-driven coupon codes looks like.

Testing is a whole other animal. It could be that a DiscountService interface works best from a testing perspective. But within the scope of the post, a DiscountService interface with different implementations for Shipping and Retail Price certainly isn't less complex than the original code.
I love the 'nick handle' I've seen used on some of the socials discussing these events over the past two or three days: The Adjuster.

It's just so ... right.
yeah, one major problem with rail based transport, including monorails, is that you can't bank that heavily because there will be normal situations where the train goes into a curve slower than the max design speed.

Self-tilting trains exist, but are expensive, and hard to maintain.
paid article... go with your ads somewhere else
Continents are not objective reality, they are semi-arbitrary groupings vaguely correlated with geography, culture, etc.

If British people don’t feel like they’re part of “the Continent”, there’s little objective reason to say they are.
As someone receiving a notice you have no idea if it's legitimate or from a AOL account someone made 15 minutes ago, the threat of it being perjury doesn't work when there's no authentication whatsoever of who sent it. Unless the DMCA is signed by Zaphod Beeblebrox the receiver has no choice but to assume it's legitimate.
You can decompile class files into java files, so OP’s question makes sense. Same with C#.
FT is fairly reliable - it's moreso a leak than "speculation".

And this is fairly significant news, especially the addition of ScaleAI, OpenAI, and SpaceX in this consortium as leadership at all 3 have bad blood between each other and Founders Fund.

The Register "article" is just a rehash of Palantir and Andruil's press release.

> doesn't back it up with anyone on the record

Because a source is leaking and doesn't want to be attributed.

Ime, it's probably one of the consortium members themselves who leaked this (probably to gauge sentiment).

You should absolutely be cautious about sources, but FT is fairly reliable and has an incentive to not leak unreliable or inaccurate information.
I’ve always expected that the slumlords are the ultimate recipients for minimum wage hikes. Would be interested in seeing the correlation between minimum wage and studio apartment rents. When the housing markets are constrained, the landlords are able to extract every penny from the workers.
sure, but once it's trained there isn't a running maintenance cost
Tokens don't need to be text either, you can move to higher level "take_action" semantics where "stream back 1 character to session#117" as every single function call. Training cheap models that can do things in the real world is going to change a huge amount of present capabilities over the next 10 years
"Best year ever!" "Sorry, we can't do raises this year."

Who is getting all the money?
Seems consistent with what I would expect. Trying to memory hole all of this bad PR is very much how they normally operate. For example United has tried really hard to bury all mention of the incredibly damaging breach of change healthcare, which is a subsidiary. Over 100 million Americans had their private medical details leaked. All united has done is offer some basic credit monitoring. They won’t even tell you what data specifically got leaked and refuse to cooperate with such requests.
Has anyone else noticed Reddit being taken over by shills/bot/trolls
with very little help by mods in the last year? Blocking tons of perp accounts is tiresome but really the only way to use it now. Will it eventually become some really odd platform where 90% of the posts/accounts are shills/bots/trolls shitposting narratives devoid of any critical thought? That does seem to be where it is currently headed.
is that public domain though?
That’s like half of CRUD. damn.
Not sure if you're affiliated with patlynk, but after entering some details I get matched to 724 studies, the first of which wasn't in the nation I said I was in, and the next few of which didn't give any info on how to enroll. Best info I got was their mailing address. Frankly until the UX improves I'm advising against anyone signing up.
This movie explains complex ideas in exceptionally good way.

It scared me immensely, though I was aware of all provided arguments before.
I think that the mantra-like effect of the last two lines plus the mention of unfulfilled promises suggests a certain “call of the void” from the wintery scene. So I think there’s a lurking darkness to the poem behind the surface story of entrancing natural beauty on the way to some engagement. (But I’m not sure if that was Frost’s actual intent.)
Starbucks replaced CEO Laxman Narasimhan (considered to be too accomodating of Starbucks workers' organizing efforts by Starbucks founder Howard Schultz and activist investors) with Brian Niccol (who previously fought against organizing efforts at Chipotle).

https://x.com/RBReich/status/1828187954290008180

https://x.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1823356710372934004

https://sbworkersunited.org/
Sounds like they need further instruction
Can a corporation CLAIM civil damages over their CEOs murder ? I'd think that would be his "estate" perhaps ? (Far from being a lawyer)
It's not contradictory. It can happen over a decade and still be a dramatically sloped S curve with tremendous change happening in a relatively short time.
I think that is a pretty safe assumption from Google. People die trying to leave Sydney.
There is a difference between online interactions and in person interactions. There just is. I cannot be convinced otherwise.
We have it, it’s called Cyc

But it is far behind the breadth of LLMs
You want to configure it so it has a timeout. Take turns. That’s how locks work.

The only difference between SQLite and Postgres write locking is the granularity.
Wow, thank you for sharing your experience and feelings, that was a very interesting read. I sympathize for the paranoia – did you somehow had nice feelings from this experience, regardless of how insanely stressful it was?
This comment isn't false but it's very naive.
What we’ve done is change who makes the decision for how to spend a certain amount of money from wealthy investors to fast food workers, right? The thing is, we know that fast food workers are generally not doing too well financially. A surprisingly large portion even need to draw on government assistance like food stamps to get by. Like most poor Americans, we can also expect them to be in a degree of debt. If you give these people a bit more money, you reduce strain on taxpayer-funded assistance, you pay off debts, and you get the added bonus of increasing the quality of life for some people. What I need you to do is explain to me what you expect to gain by having wealthy people invest the money used to achieve these ends. Call me a cynic, but I don’t personally expect the same good to come of it.
> Why would Apple, Google, or any of the EU Phone OS developers bother creating a new feature that they will immediately be forced to allow everyone to use?

Because new hardware/interoperability features are an opportunity to sell more hardware. Apple still gets to make and sell accessories, their product just has to compete on the merits with other products in the segment. People will keep buying Airpods even if Sony's can hand-off between Apple hardware because Airpods are a great product that can stand on their own.
> And what's stopping gamblers from bypassing online restrictions (VPNs, cryptocurrencies, etc)?

You ban financial institutions from facilitating illegal transactions and treat use of cryptocurrency to attempt to bypass restrictions as money laundering. In any case there's a large difference between "download the ESPN betting app" being advertised during games and "use a VPN to send monero to sportsbetting.ru" being info you can find from a dedicated scene. You don't really have to enforce things war-on-drugs style to keep it out of the mainstream/prevent major corporations from pushing it.

My understanding is that online gambling starting growing a lot more after legalization (and subsequent mass advertising), not the other way around. Disney has an official betting app now. Public schools push it on students.
I agree they’re not especially big in terms of profit. However, that doesn’t mean they are not evil. These companies increase profit margin by denying coverage. They try really hard to pretend like they are providing a particular service level and will happily collect your money with that expectation. And then, at a later point, they deny coverage, often in a fraudulent way, in order to create their higher margin. To me the low profit margin is therefore not really relevant. If they provided the product that everyone expects that they are paying for, their margin would be lower and that is exactly what should happen.
Probably the fact that police released the footage to the media would be enough to remove copyright. Just a guess.
OK, I think we've met at a middle ground here. I understand your viewpoint.

The only partial response I have is that, if you had a list of all the problems facing such a country, you might understand why a full country-wide malaria vaccine can't bubble up (but I can't speak particulars). The kinds of orgs I'm referring to have a massive triage problem to tackle with those countries, and targeted investment is always with the goal of "teaching them to fish". You can read their reports and impact statements online with a little research.
Linux didn't stop being innovative and it's the most interoperable OS there is. No Apple excuses are accepted.
Sharing between processes? Absolutely. Machines? No.

For example, LAMP stack applications could swap the M for SQlite (and I think it would have been better historically if they did).
The idea of the singularity presumes that running the AGI is either free or trivially cheap compared to what it can do, so we are fine expending compute to let the AGI improve itself. That may eventually be true, but it's unlikely to be true for the first generation of AGI.

The first AGI will be a research project that's completely uneconomical to run for actual tasks because humans will just be orders of magnitude cheaper. Over time humans will improve it and make it cheaper, until we reach some tipping point where letting the AGI improve itself is more cost effective than paying humans to do it
I'd expect a enemy state's ability to get information out of a system would in fact be correlated with insider's desires to chat about what they did at work. Find some bloke who is a bit lonely, a bit talkative and has good security access, send out a hot woman with an unexpected interest in military specifications. I'm no spymaster but that seems like something a spy agency could manage. Might be able to grab a stickynote with a few key passwords on it to sweeten the operation.
Sure. But this work is done, and can be reused by others.

Meanwhile, Nvidia hardware is expensive and still is in short supply. AMD might look quite tempting.
Heres Crime^H^H^H^H^(ahem)Cloudflare requesting assets from one of my servers. I don't use Cloudflare, they have no business doing this.

104.28.42.8 - - [21/Dec/2024:13:58:35 -0800] consulting.m3047.net "GET /apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png HTTP/1.1" 404 980 "-" "NetworkingExtension/8620.1.16.10.11 Network/4277.60.255 iOS/18.2"
104.28.42.8 - - [21/Dec/2024:13:58:35 -0800] consulting.m3047.net "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200 302 "-" "NetworkingExtension/8620.1.16.10.11 Network/4277.60.255 iOS/18.2"
104.28.42.8 - - [21/Dec/2024:13:58:35 -0800] consulting.m3047.net "GET /dubai-letters/balkanized-internet.html HTTP/1.1" 200 16370 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_1) AppleWebKit/601.2.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.1 Safari/601.2.4 facebookexternalhit/1.1 Facebot Twitterbot/1.0"
104.28.42.8 - - [21/Dec/2024:13:58:35 -0800] consulting.m3047.net "GET /apple-touch-icon.png HTTP/1.1" 404 980 "-" "NetworkingExtension/8620.1.16.10.11 Network/4277.60.255 iOS/18.2"

# dig -x 104.28.42.8

; <<>> DiG 9.12.3-P1 <<>> -x 104.28.42.8
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 35228
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1280
; COOKIE: 6b82e88bcaf538fc7ab9d44467685e82becd47ff4492b1be (good)
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;8.42.28.104.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
28.104.in-addr.arpa. 3600 IN SOA cruz.ns.cloudflare.com. dns.cloudflare.com. 2288625504 10000 2400 604800 3600

;; Query time: 212 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Sun Dec 22 10:46:26 PST 2024
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 176

Further osint left as an exercise for the reader.
Financial struggles are a contra-indication for receiving a security clearance however.
> AGI will arrive like self driving cars

The statement is promising as the earth will dissapear sometimes in the future. Actually the earth will dissapear has more bearing than that.
While correct, everything is a number at the ABI boundary, so it’s still possible - if not harder.

Depending on the layout and arch, -2 could well represent Terminated
I think this whole “AGI” thing is so badly defined that we may as well say we already have it. It already passes the Turing test and does well on tons of subjects.

What we can start to build now is agents and integrations. Building blocks like panel of experts agents gaming things out, exploring space in a Monte Carlo Tree Search way, and remembering what works.

Robots are only constrained by mechanical servos now. When they can do something, they’ll be able to do everything. It will happen gradually then all at once. Because all the tasks (cooking, running errands) are trivial for LLMs. Only moving the limbs and navigating the terrain safely is hard. That’s the only thing left before robots do all the jobs!
So configure busy_timeout, that’s what it’s for.
To be honest, these don’t sound like hard problems. These sound like they have very specific answers that I might find in the more specialized stackoverflow sections. These are also the kind of questions (not in this domain) that I’ve found yield the best results from LLMs.

In comparison asking an LLM a more project specific question “this code has a race condition where is it” while including some code usually is a crapshoot and really depends if you were lucky enough to give it the right context anyway.
I am excited for this new push to break the oligopoly of the incumbent defense contractors. They all provide subpar products at ridiculous prices, and are lacking in innovation. The opaque process of bidding on these contracts and all of the corruption from donations, distorts competition. But I also worry that Palantir and Anduril, and others were associated with them will simply form a new cartel, rather than opening up bidding to everyone, including much smaller startups.
The regulations on profit margins incentivized maneuvering to higher prices to increase absolute profit
"Anyway, my point is that accounting does not depend on IT related metaphors."
> one day, everyone can do maths, just like with programming.

Everyone can absolutely not do programming with an AI.

What is true tho is that everyone who cannot write program code, also cannot evaluate if the code the AI produces is correct.

And we who do write alot of code are not all that impressed.
The latest research indicates that the greying occurs when certain migrating cells get stuck in the hair follicle. This also suggests greying can be reversible, which I know from experience as I have plucked hairs which are grey at the tip and colored at the base.
Well if it takes a ton of memory/compute for inference because of its size, it may be cost prohibitive to run compared to the ROI it generates?
Sorry, meant 5 decades of losses, not 5 wars. You’re right we won one! And screwed up that area so badly we got ISIS.

You wrote a big long post to say I lied as bad as the warmongers and liars, and totally left out my other points. Essentially built an entire argument on a keyboard slip and called me a liar on the same magnitude to distract - without mentioning anything about the legalized torture, secret laws, and secret courts!

Cool trick, but it probably won’t work here - we’ve read the manual about subverting and redirecting online discourse.