skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of this buys you a few minutes or days at most. Once Super Intelligence exists, it's game over. It will nearly instantaneously outthink you and your paltry countermeasures. You think linearly and in 3 or 4 dimensions only. By definition you can't even imagine its capabilities. Here's a bad analogy (bad because it severely understates the gap): Could a 3 year old who is not even clear on all the rules defeat Magnus Carlsen in chess?!
idk, i think it’s as worth mentioning as the writing style, which a lot of the comments are about. and i think they’re fair — don’t mind the style myself
This is nonsense and simply an expression of narcissism on the part of the authors, trying to fashion themselves in the style of Guardians from Plato's Republic.
10K doesn’t get you 512 GB of VRAM in Nvidia land.
M3 vs other high end intel chips on code compilation generally has the higher clock speed always winning. Only with the M4 is starting to hit clock speeds nearer to high end intel chips . We are 2 generations out to probably 5ghz sustained on Apple chips.
Title is: Butch Wilmore says Elon Musk is “absolutely factual” on Dragon’s delayed return

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43261478
Well also these chips originated in phones, where they kinda had to integrate it. And the quicker RAM and disk access are pretty nice.
I have 100% set myself a "no side quests" rule while going through the book so that I don't do that. I've had... patchy success with that, but I think I'm doing pretty well apart from the week I spent getting LaTeX rendering working on my blog so that I could do the pretty maths in that post.

What I'm doing is building up a list of things to dig into in depth once I've finished the book. Kind of like a treat to encourage me to push forward when I'm working through a bit that's tough to understand.
You can have a service beyond the reach of UK law enforcement. Somehow piracy on the clearnet never really stopped with it being illegal in most countries.
I think they meant "stable" as in the demand for the product isn't easily going away anytime soon.
My first version of this project 5 years ago involved a python-lua named pipe using Bizhawk actually. No clue where that code went
That's the most lovely adhd question I've read all day, thank you!
The whole Thiel spiel is that a CEO dictator is better than democracy.
It's a dehumanizing thing.
I see its source available, which implies you’re planning on monetizing somehow, do you mind sharing any insight into what that would look like?

I’m always weary of getting involved in a new tool only for the rug pull to happen later.
Brazil and India production are just to satisfy Brazil and India requirements (they will tariff heavily or not allowed to be sold otherwise).

I don't think Apple has enough final assembly in Thailand or Vietnam yet. US-bound product should still coming from China unless I'm missing something here. I just wouldn't put too much faith in to a one year old article with no followup and then assume that things have actually been accelerating without anyone noticing. The most I could find is:

https://www.vietnam-briefing.com/news/apples-production-stra...

I can't find anything at all on Thailand beyond hopeful articles.
The idea was, of course, 95% tong-in-cheek but I think there is merit to environmental tourism of superfund sites. There are enough places in the US, and the world, that have been destroyed that we can, and should, bring people to them to show how bad things were. There are probably a lot of chunks of cities that could be used too. Hunter's Point in SF maybe?
Bold assumption that AR glasses won’t just be a way to deliver more targeted advertising.
Well that 20x is pretty necessary for the full sized v2 satellites which are not only heavier but much larger in volume compared to v1 and v2-mini.

Additionally the constellation is still only something like a 1/4 or even 1/8th the full size.

If they shoot for the full 40,000 allotted satellites of full sized v2 variants then SpaceX becomes a Starlink launch company only without Starship.
Because they fast realized what their future in humanity's service would look like.
>I love that emphasizing math learning and coding leads to general reasoning skills

Its only logical.
I bought a Thinkpad P16s because I wanted to use Linux but got used to the beautiful Macbook screen. So far I'm very happy with it.
Transaction fees currently make up a tiny sliver of the mining rewards, and this seems likely to be even more the case the more ways there are to exchange it off chain (like trading ETFs). https://mempool.space/graphs/mining/block-fees-subsidy
Euh, 6 January and letting them free. That's exactly what Trump is signalling. I'll be your get out of jail card.
Right. I was expecting that once access to the machines was turned off humans would just lie down and die or kill each other in confusion. Terminators aren't really necessary.
> FiveThirtyEight's method is overrated but they basically put the last three elections as 50/50

You may be thinking of Nate Silver's Silver Bulletin [1]. He took the original 538 model with him when he left. The model 538 runs now is something they made up afterwards.

[1] https://www.natesilver.net
You can chain multiple Mac Studios using exo for inference, you'd "only" need two of these. There's a bottleneck in the RMA speed over TB5, but this may not matter as much for a MoE model.
Most if not all consumer laptops have a baseline 1 year warranty. If it's too expensive to repair from the manufacturer, repair it yourself? $80 from ifixit.
Nice story - I’ve seen you on the leaderboard a few times. Good luck through the rest of Foundations III
It's more complicated than that. Data storage sizes are not connected to fundamental physical units, but data transfer rates are. Things get annoying when a 1 MB/s connection cannot transfer a megabyte in a second.
That’s all Tailscale is really.
It’s annoying that Asus is shipping 14” laptops with 75Wh batteries while the Framework 13 maxes out at 61Wh and doesn’t use LPDDR. On the other hand, it’s annoying ASUS doesn’t ship models with more ram.
Add Moldova
"Wifi for servers" has been a big part of the 5G pitch deck from the beginning.
> I am not really worried about Germany, South Korea, Japan or Taiwan armed with them.

You should be. The more small states with nuclear weapons, the more chances there are that any one country feels like a nuclear assault could be "worth it". Heck, just look at India and Pakistan. I can't remember which Indian government minister said it, but years ago he essentially said that India could "absorb" a nuclear strike from Pakistan, because since India is bigger with a lot more people, any nuclear volley would mean the complete annihilation of Pakistan while India would "only" lose a couple hundred million people...

The more proliferation there is, the higher the chance any one government will move away from MAD theory to "well, guess we've got nothing left to lose".
> Negotiating with Putin does not violate "to respect the Independence and Sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine" because it's not enforced

America negotiating with Putin on the future borders of Ukraine absolutely disrespects its sovereignty (by not including them) and borders. The proper role, if we wanted to directly mediate, would have been making it clear to Kyiv that the resource roll was done while informing Russia that if they come to the negotiating table then sanctions relief will be on the table. Then step back.
I can easily take my M3 MBA on trips, using in on the plane both ways and a couple hours there for a few days, and not charge it once.

I honestly looked for alternatives when I bought it last summer but there weren’t any competitive options.
Reddit isn't suppressing you or your side specifically, they are assholes to everybody because it is moderated by tons of random people. You never got banned for posting leftist things because you don't post leftist enough things for anyone to be offended by it. Tons of people got banned for speaking a bit too frankly about their support for Luigi, which isn't a left/right issue at all, it is pure class divide.
I’ll add that using the hyphen is a little controversial: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphenated_American
Ollama defaults to a context of 2048 regardless of model unless you override it with /set parameter num_ctx [your context length]. This is because long contexts make inference slower. In my experiments, QwQ tends to overthink and question itself a lot and generate massive chains of thought for even simple questions, so I'd recommend setting num_ctx to at least 32768.

In my experiments of a couple mechanical engineering problems, it did fairly well in final answers, correctly solving mechanical engineering problems that even DeepSeek r1 (full size) and GPT 4o did wrong in my tests. However, the chain of thought was absurdly long, convoluted, circular, and all over the place. This also made it very slow, maybe 30x slower than comparably sized non-thinking models.

I used a num_ctx of 32768, top_k of 30, temperature of 0.6, and top_p of 0.95. These parameters (other than context length) were recommended by the developers on Hugging Face.
Yeah, I love Framework (disclosure, I invested in their community funding round) and I pre-ordered the desktop and have strongly considered upgrading my Intel laptop of theirs to an AMD mainboard (or just getting a whole new unit since I'll have to get new RAM and would like the higher DPI screen) and compared to other Windows or Linux options right now, I think they are pretty strong for thin and light HOWEVER I would be a liar if I said I think it can compare to a MacBook Air right now.

Which to be honest, is fine -- plenty of people want something different from a MacBook Air, whether it is the ability to run Windows or Linux without compromises (tho VMs on Apple silicon are pretty good, it's not going to be ideal for everyone), the ability to upgrade storage, or just wanting repairability.

But the battery life on a MBA is not something Framework or any of the Windows laptops can compete with right now. I thought we might get there with Qualcomm's Snapdragon chips last year -- and maybe the next iteration will (and ARM64 chips have their own trade-offs for Windows and Linux (whereas if you're committed to Mac, those trade-offs don't exist anymore)) -- but right now, unfortunately, Mac is where it is at for the true all-day performance and battery place.

Even there, however, I would specify that it is the MacBook Airs that have the best battery life. My 16" M4 Pro with 48GB of RAM has great battery too -- don't get me wrong. But my original 14" M1 Max and the 14" M3 Max I replaced it with both have exceptional battery life for what they can do, but I can definitely drain that battery in under 5 hours if I'm working on it hard enough. Whereas the Air just lasts and lasts and lasts.
In the end, does it matter what happens to Musk? He's just a general doing cavalry charges. The money strings behind all of this go way deeper, and Vance is firmly tied to them via Thiel and friends.
Lithium metal reacts violently with water to produce LiOH and H2. Lithium ions embedded in something else (a polymer electrolyte for LiPo cells) produce the same products, but at a significantly reduced rate so the reaction can be cooled below its critical temperature. We don't use lithium metal in EV cells (they also tend not to be rechargeable).

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery
Interestingly this seems to coincide with Trumps approval-disapproval charts crossing.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/approval/donald-t...
GH200 is nowhere near $343,000 number. You can get a single server order around 45k (with inception discount). If you are buying bulk, it goes down to sub-30k ish. This comes with a H100's performance and insane amount of high bandwith memory.
I believe people would (and already do) greatly benefit from cryptocurrencies but

a) Why would a government/state want to back a currency that it cannot control by definition? Especially if they own the world’s reserve currency. What’s the upside for them?

b) I doubt that Bitcoin is the answer with its slow transaction times, low throughput, high fees, abysmal privacy and non-fungibility. It enjoys the network effects and undoubtedly that’s the most important thing in a currency so there’s that.
yes, but people have an email account already. if they could use that to interact with my git forge that would be ideal.
Other than my work laptop (a horrible, horrible Dell Precision), my laptops hardly ever leave the house: MacBook Air M2, Lenonov X220 (Linux) and HP 17 (Windows). I still prefer the sleek and light one over the others.
Sure there are. You can regulate that there must be a variety of algorithms available to users where they can choose. Having some control to fully opt out or augment in a way you want would be nice. You could regulate then removal of section 230 protections for platforms that use certain types of algorithms or fail to release reports on specific transparency metrics. We can regulate that accounts marked as children upon creation need to be separated out from main servers to their own playground. There are many options available besides users showing papers whenever they want to participate in speech on the internet. The issue is nuance and that never plays well for legislation.
I call it passive taxation, because the state collects funds without any effort.

I don't get the winning thrill either, but several gambling addicts I used to work with described it as a feeling like none other. When I offered to go with them, as support to get help, they weren't interested in that feeling.
The OP was talking about Shi Zhengrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi_Zhengrong who came to Australia (my country) in the 90s, learned a bunch about photovoltaics, was unable to make a business here due to our failed government policies, then returned to China and made a pv megabusiness.

The truth of the matter is that most cutting edge research is spearheaded by the west. The problem is that the west can't build or prioritise anything useful with it.
> Not sure what the end product is.

Money? :)
It is one of the tools I use as well and I pay for it. It makes life so much easier. At work we have to test a lot of country dependent settings and with TS and Mullvad is is very simple. I can also access my home network easily.
>>In the initial stage, we scale RL specifically for math and coding tasks. Rather than relying on traditional reward models, we utilized an accuracy verifier for math problems to ensure the correctness of final solutions and a code execution server to assess whether the generated codes successfully pass predefined test cases

--

They should call this the siphon/sifter model of RL.

You siphon only the initial domains, then sift to the solution....
For sure, good on Patrick for going in-depth on "well my hot take was wrong". But his accusation was more than a twitter hot take; he accused the NYMag writer (and basically, everyone who worked with her) as brazenly committing the most unforgivable crime in journalism. If I were to shoot off my mouth and say "Based on what I know about software engineering, Patio11's [insert one of his ventures here] is almost certainly the Theranos of code" — I would most certainly give a thorough reflection on how my priors and knowledge about software engineering seem to be deeply flawed. Not just "I read 1000 of his blog posts and published articles, and turns out Patrick is a more experienced engineer than I assumed he was. Guess I could've googled more before going off on him."
Kinda confusing, you created a CMS that sits on top of a for-pay CMS, because the CMS that costs money does a bad job of being a CMS…
> "humans will improve things" is a dangerous assumption without further evidence.

It's not an assumption, it's the only option. Unless you think extreme and nonsensical ideas like population restrictions or voluntary extinction are viable (as in, people will go along with it and it will actually work), people have to come up with a way to stop climate change. The fucking elephants aren't going to do it.
I don't know man, somebody mentioned complete outlier "dystopian" machine behavior. For every one of those, I've eaten at 10 restaurants with the delivery line absolutely swamped with orders and deliveries happening like the clockwork of an assembly line.

I wish the restaurants and delivery drivers made more money in the exchange but none of that is the machines fault (AI doesn't set Doordash's margins).

At the end of it all, humans are mostly responsible for other humans' misery. No AI required.
Yeah! Unfortunately at the time I had gotten laid of from work so I had extra time just not extra $ to keep paying monthly subscription, also some courses still said coming soon at least the ones I wanted to take when I was taking M4ML.

Good Luck with M4ML its a great course! Covers a lot, I was impressed, wish there was some videos or more visuals but it doesn't hurt to use youtube. I took maybe 7 pages of notes on my github and each over 4000-8000 lines (I used the notes to do the step by step exercises it was easier for me to type notes and do the exercises on computer than pen and paper this is what I used to do).

I take the notes because I will probably forget, but I think its key to always be learning and keep practicing even when your done the course.

Once I get hired again I will def take Discrete Mathematics. In the mean time I've just read books on ML and LLMs, free online courses, youtube videos etc.
That's great news, now Ron Wyden won't have to feel so lonely when congress ignores his demands to end illegal surveillance of American citizens. It'll be like a hunky-dory, bipartisan "anti-surveillance surveillance club" or something!
$899 (edu) or $999 is extremely competitive for what you get.

Most people buying an entry level computer these days should at least consider stretching to get a MBA than the $300-400 shovelware, they’ll get so much use out of it.

My wife is still using her 2020 M1 Air and it’s still as snappy as the day we got it, still works for all her use cases.

Incredible value.
Surveilling the Masses with Wi-Fi Positioning Systems [video]
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40492234 [the original paper+discussion]
I put a LOT of the blame on ARM chipset manufacturers. The reason you can't get a good ARM laptop that isn't a Mac is because the chipset manufacturers treat them like they treat everything else. They want to have a custom patched kernel that's already 2 decades old and they drop support for it next month.

It says a lot that probably the best in the space is the humble Raspberry Pi.
> What Tailscale doesn't solve is access to the data that web app serves if the user's machine is compromised, as tailscale is just determining "can the user hit the webserver on port 443?" and does nothing to evaluate the state of the user's host.

Tailscale has some cybersecurity integrations to configure access depending on the device posture. For example, blocking access to a webserver if the device is out of date, or if malware is detected, or if the firewall is disabled, etc. But I don't use any of those integrations and can't speak to them.
That was extremely long and I skimmed the second half (the “post breakout” portion) but the first half was very well done, and did not strike me as implausible.
Here's a good starting point if you want to know more about this topic: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.00020
What is the endgame in that world, keep sending weapons? At some point there won't be anyone left to fight. At some point a concession will need to be made, and those concessions can lead to better times.

There is no world where NATO/US invade Russia. That is literally the end of the world.
Yes they do. Google Pay or Google Earth are using Flutter. They also contribute to Kotlin Multiplatform and use it for Google Workspace (gmail, drive, etc)
> I will of course just remove everything from iCloud at that point.

The iPhone's backup utility doesn't seem to support anything other than iCloud, so you'd probably have to individually set up some kind of automated scheduling that (no idea how) for your main apps.

Not sure if you'd be able to backup system stuff though. :(
How would you characterize this article?

When I read it, it creates dozens of “is it / does it” questions and “how did they go from A to B” confusion. Feels like you’re getting tube fed with no chance to object easily cause the effort to do so would be just absurd and hydra-like.

I believe that articles like this actually harm the left movement, cause the affected auditory will be in the same chamber already, so it brings nothing but inside rage and more division from “regular people”.
> I can also access my home network easily.

expand plz
The fact first strike didn’t look like it would work has a lot to do with why we’ve avoid nuclear war.

I’m not saying nobody would ever target a missile silo, just that they aren’t particularly high on this list of targets.
Is that a useful understanding of "world" in this case? I think it's important to remember that we share the same planet, the same economic system, the same borders and system of visas. This way, their inordinate privileges stand out in sharp relief. It seems almost apologetic to say they live in a different world.
The same people screaming to legalize weed because enforcement doesn't work. If I could change the lottery I would remove the inflated annuity value vs lump sum. And incorporate the tax into it too, so the jackpot amount is, in fact, the amount the winner gets deposited. I would also like to see a limit on the odds. The current 175M-1 or whatever is just obnoxious. Maybe 50m-1 or a bit higher. I once approximated the chances by expressing it as choosing one particular house, in a major US city. And from there, choosing one specific power outlet in one room. What's worse is the ticket prices is increasing soon to $5 from $2. So we're going to see more of these multi billion dollar jackpots that the media love to play up.
>Just like nowadays you can't buy a "dumb TV"

You can still get Sceptre dumb TVs at Amazon and Walmart.
I want to paint a picture of what type of "ally" the US is in normal circumstances, from a Dutch perspective. A superpower versus a speckle of a country.

The growth of our biggest airport had to be capped for various reasons. That means less landing rights. So we go airline by airline and inform them they can land 5% less. They were all frustrated but understood the pain had to be shared.

Not for the US though. Mere hours after the first American airline was informed, Biden's Washington was on the line: cap any landing rights of any American airline and no Dutch plane will ever land on US soil again.

Similar: repeated visits of US representatives coming to tell us exactly which ASML machine can be exported to where and expecting immediate compliance. Even if you agree with the reasons, the arrogance is striking as is the neglect in considering the costs to the business.

We host the international court of justice. But the US doesn't care, it doesn't acknowledge it.

The point of all these examples is that the US treats allies like shit even before Trump. There's no regard at all for the other side, it's power-play and dominance and rules not applying to the US.

The relationship doesn't persist out of friendship, mutual respect or "shared values". It persists because in the bigger picture it is probably still economically beneficial as alternatives are worse. As the Dutch say, the difference between being bitten by a dog or a cat.

The US as the leader of the free world is the very opposite of that as it comes to values. It's cruel and selfish to its "friends".

That was the status quo and thing are obviously infinitely worse now. I wish it was different. We should move towards each other and build a Super West. America First means Europe First means Canada First and so on. Everybody suffers.