skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think generally the expectation is that there are around 100T synapses in the brain, and of course it's probably not a 1:1 correspondence with neural networks, but it doesn't seem infeasible at all to me that a dense-equivalent 100T parameter model would be able to rival the best humans if trained properly.

If basically a transformer, that means it needs at inference time ~200T flops per token. The paper assumes humans "think" at ~15 tokens/second which is about 10 words, similar to the reading speed of a college graduate. So that would be ~3 petaflops of compute per second.

Assuming that's fp8, an H100 could do ~4 petaflops, and the authors of AI 2027 guesstimate that purpose wafer scale inference chips circa late 2027 should be able to do ~400petaflops for inference, ~100 H100s worth, for ~$600k each for fabrication and installation into a datacenter.

Rounding that basically means ~$6k would buy you the compute to "think" at 10 words/second. Generally speaking that'd probably work out to maybe $3k/yr after depreciation and electricity costs, or ~30-50¢/hr of "human thought equivalent" 10 words/second. Running an AI at 50x human speed 24/7 would cost ~$23k/yr, so 1 OpenBrain researcher's salary could give them a team of ~10-20 such AIs running flat out all the time. Even if you think the AI would need an "extra" 10 or even 100x in terms of tokens/second to match humans, that still puts you at genius level AIs in principle runnable at human speed for 0.1 to 1x the median US income.

There's an open question whether training such a model is feasible in a few years, but the raw compute capability at the chip level to plausibly run a model that large at enormous speed at low cost is already existent (at the street price of B200's it'd cost ~$2-4/hr-human-equivalent).
IANAL and not particularly familiar with the particulars here, but very likely, the answer is "there is no legal recourse."

As a private entity, chess.com is within its rights to admit or reject people for any reason it wants, except on the basis of certain protected classes (which cheating is not one of them). Furthermore, the terms of use for an account probably says something to the effect of "we have the right to ban you for whatever reason we feel like, and you have no real recourse." One could still attempt to sue, but the almost certain result is to flush tens of thousands of dollars in the toilet just to get thrown out on the motion to dismiss for lack of a case.
Greenland? You'd have an easier time growing coffee in Illinois or Iowa
I am supportive of private and charity funding. I think we can do it without a focus restricting copying. I think this because there is precedent with any industry that relies on trade secrets. Once I can copy a Coke with a food printer we'll be having some really weird internal consistency issues with copyright.
His approval numbers will decrease 20-30% over the next few months. Only the most cultish cultists will stick with him when inflation spikes to 15%.
I don't see how they're worse than Nvidia, Broadcom, or Intel. At least you can remove Windows from a computer.
The T480 motherboard they use as a base for the conversion does have NVMe support, just a weird one that's integrated in the SATA bay. There was a name for it, but I forget. Some kind of transitionary standard.

But you can get a converter for that. It did have half the PCIe channels of a regular M2 slot I think. It's been a while since I had one in my hands.

The T480 didn't come with an ExpressCard IIRC hence the lack of it.

You need an adapter like this: https://www.google.com/search?q=ssd+m.2+caddy+lenovo
Targeted advertising is about determining and giving people exactly what they need. If successful, this increases consumption and grows the productivity of the economy. It's an extremely meaningful job as it allows for precise, effective distribution of resources.
You do realize that corporate contributions power a huge chunk of the free software ecosystem, yes?
This cartoon show is almost like a web page!

Incidentally it crashed the browser the second time I looked at it.
The last article I read about him implied that he’s intent on working and that working with him was… intense. But that was a few years ago.

I like to imagine there’s an inner sanctum in a secure sub-basement of Microsoft where a couple dozen cracked kernel developers work quietly… except when Dave Cutler asks them to come into his personal lab through the three foot thick blast doors and man-trap so he can yell at them about a bug he found.
Why is any of this seen as desirable? Assuming this is a true prediction it sounds AWFUL. The one thing humans have that makes us human is intelligence. If we turn over thinking to machines, what are we exactly. Are we supposed to just consume mindlessly without work to do?
Google Cloud revenues were $48B in 2024 vs $109B for AWS. It's silly to call that insignificant.
> Good, private corporations should not be allowed to leverage a public utility like this as their advertisement soapbox.

It’s a jobs subforum. It exists literally for corporations to advertise job opportunities to relevant and likely interested communities.
What I got from your comment and from that interview were very different. He starts that bit with “when I text you on WhatsApp”. The “we” refers to Mark and Joe (Alice and Bob), not Meta (Eve).
Jan 6 was far from many people's lives. It was a philisophical debate at most. When they get to the stores to buy groceries and they are 30-50% higher and their next TV, laptop the same way, they will realize that voting for an Oompa Loompa was a bad idea, and will want him out.
What's in that bright red fire retardant? No one will say, so we had it tested
I do realize that, and their investment doesn't obligate them to special treatment. That's the point of free licensing and compulsory donations.
"Prompt artist" makes me sigh out loud
A picked nit, perchance, but you may have meant "trawling". Not sure how much trolling the NSA does :)
Who is supporting terrorist groups? Pro-Palestinian protesting is not support for terrorism.
> It has never happened, not even on Microsoft’s 1st-party hardware

It did on Windows RT devices.
It’s playing a chord, so harmony exists by definition. It also has 600 years of continuity planned in.
They are pretty good at making money at the end of the day, with ~100 billion/yr profits. Their P/E is only 30, which isn't outrageously overpriced.

What strikes you as fake?
Who was in the US illegally?
With all due respect, Anduril already knows how the NixOS forum feels about them. The purpose of this listing is to insult and inflame the community. In politics we call this bear-baiting.
Peer pressure is hell of a drug. If your friend group mainly plays competitive shooters and you suck at them you can easily gain status by paying for a aimbot.

Also current hustle culture’s toxic “your time is valuable and should not be wasted” mentality plays a role. Many people hate playing video games and losing because they then feel like they didn’t achieve anything and wasted their time. With cheats you can make sure you win so you “don’t end up wasting your time.”
It does not have to be all-at-once.

Your bash program takes 10 input args and requires 15 env variables to be set? Don't reach out for that bash ini parser, create a python script which parses configs and invokes the original bash script. Next time you change feature, move it to python. Eventually you'll be mostly python.

Something that helps greatly with that is that you can embed bash in python. So initial conversion can be as simple as file rename + 3 lines of code.

import subprocess
subprocess.run(["bash", "-c", """
echo This is bash
if hostname | grep box; then
echo running on a box
fi
"""], check=True)

this lets you start by trivial .sh -> .py conversion, and then you can change one block at a time. Variables are tricky so do them first; or in the worst case, "declare -p" + "eval" + temporary files will save you.
I don’t feel like the reasons behind this are the same.

Biden/Obama: We want you to accept and protect everyone

Trump: I want you to deliberately reject certain races and nationalities, and close all the departments studying stuff I don’t like.
Their ego.
As far as I know, if you're speaking of the United States, the copyright of commissioned work is owned by the creator, unless otherwise agreed upon specifically through a "work made for hire" (i.e. copyright transfer) clause in the contract.
I think some of the suspicion is that it's really not 10x in practice.
Inflation is definitely going to happen due to tariffs. If I'm paying 20% more next year on average for products above what I'm currently paying that is 20% inflation for me, that is what people will see; they don't care about your purist form of inflation arguments. They also vote against people who cause inflation, especially when they promised the opposite.
That's absurd. Trailblazer means a pioneer; an innovator. Apple is one. Microsoft isn't. Microsoft is known for copying ideas, not for innovating. If there is one thing that hasn't changed in 50 years, it is the fact that they don't innovate. Take their recent products: Teams is a copy of Slack. Loop is a copy of Notion. This has been going on throughout their history. .NET is a copy of Java. Windows is a copy of MacOS. Excel is a copy of Visicalc and Lotus 123, Word is a copy of WordStar and WordPerfect, PowerPoint a copy of Harvard Graphics and Aldus Persuasion, and Access a copy of dBASE and FoxPro.

What about Microsoft makes them not innovate? To innovate you have to hire smart developers and let them do what they love doing. This will result in some waste, as only some of the ideas will be successful financially. But the ones that succeed will be innovative. Microsoft doesn't do that. They hire good developers and assign them to a Program Manager who gives them a fully nailed-down spec for what to build. Inevitably the Program Manager (who are often business people) will find financially successful products to clone. This rarely results in waste as the product they are cloning has already created a market, Microsoft only needs to take the market from the innovator, which they do by bundling the product with either Office or Windows.
I didn't think the person was supporting Holocaust because he used the phrase "The Final Solution", that phrase is made up from very common words, and why would I assume malice, especially in the context of IT?

I may have used it unintentionally too, because "final solution" makes a lot of sense to use. The best way to ruin one's language is to keep using such common phrases that refer to such negative things. You know, there would not be a way to ruin it if people were just aware of the context and were not to attribute malice by default. It was probably accidental, like you said.

I think the issue is with this not-so-generous interpretation of it by default, or reading too much into it.

Do not allow your language to be ruined, and you could do a lot to help that cause.
interesting example of swizzling

```
int[<3>] a = { 11, 22, 33 };
int[<4>] b = a.xxzx;
```

I assume that the `xxzx` is translated directly by the compiler. not seen that in any other language though ruby can fake it pretty easily via `method_missing`
Yes or no, where is this going? Please elaborate.
Snapshots of HTTP://Localhost
Sweden actually has a higher rate of billionaires than USA (and Norway).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_...

Not that that has to be a good thing though...
This is an important distinction though. LLMs don't have any persistent 'state': they have their activations, their context, and that's it. They only know what's pre-trained, and what's in their context. Now, their ability to do in-context learning is impressive, but you're fundamentally still stuck with the deviations and, eventually, forgetting that characterizes these guys -- while a human, while less quick on the uptake, will nevertheless 'bake in' the lessons in a way that LLMs currently cannot.

In some ways this is even more impressive -- every prompt you make, your LLM is in effect re-reading (and re-comprehending) your whole codebase, from scratch!
It's entirely deliberate. CloudFlare could certainly distinguish low-volume but legit web browsers from bots, as much as they can distinguish chrome/edge/safari/firefox from bots. That is if they cared to.
or the model get trained from teaching code which naturally contains lots of comments.

the dev is just lazy to not include them anymore, wheres the model doesn't really need to be lazy, as paid by the token
I believe students are much more homogenic than you find in school (eg dumb people are around) or in joining the military (you meet conservative people).
I'm not defending the use of signal. That said this strawman is very weak. It's not uncommon to have two versions of the same app on your phone these days. My Google drive instance changes from personal to company based on my identity. This isn't hard to implement securely these days.
Not all conservative Christians and right wingers think "women and LGBT people ... don't deserve rights". I find that if I approach people that way, it brings out the worst in them - they feel cornered and they fight. There's not much room for discussion when someone dismisses 'crazy antifa terrorists'. Are you going to reason with them?

It destroys social trust, which is what the real radicals aim at. If you want to fight the far right, work to build it.

I think the DEI rule should be simply to ban intolerance, with some education about how norms can be intolerant of minorities, and the experience of being a vulnerable minority in a room of majority.
What is the special treatment?
So I train a model to say y=2, and then I ask the model to guess the value of y and it says 2, and you call that overfitting?

Overfitting is if you didn't exactly describe Indiana Jones and then it still gave Indiana Jones.
Like I hope you’re right, but what are you basing this on?

Just based on the words that Trump actually says and writes, I find it difficult to come to any conclusion other than Trump strongly believes that trade imbalances are unfair, that tariffs will reshore manufacturing, and that reshoring manufacturing will make America “wealthier.”

But if Trump is bluffing, it’s not clear there’s anything these other countries could give that would satisfy Trump. Vietnam could remove all tariffs against the US and in all likelihood not even make a dent in their trade surplus. It’s very hard for a small, developing country like Vietnam to import lots of stuff from a rich, expensive country like the US. Many of the countries whacked with massive tariffs by the administration already have very open trade policies with the US. What is there to negotiate?
> Open sores zealots have been spewing that nonsense for 15+ years

Pro tip: If you open like that, people won't take you seriously even if you happen to have a point.

> and all it has done is held back Linux from providing the security benefits of Secure Boot and transparent full disk encryption in an easy-to-administer

Also, we have that. In fact, I accidentally reenabled secure boot on a Linux box recently and only even noticed because it broke the nvidia driver. The closed source driver. If only I'd been more dedicated to only running FOSS then it would have worked.
I think the only company I know which spends more time than Anduril getting embroiled in completely unnecessary drama is Automattic.
Yeah, corporations are great because we have little other choice. And, soon, we'll have no other choice! Because they're the only reason free software exists, according to my Excel spread.
I think it's a good example of why monopolies and vendor lock-ins are bad. Essentially when there IS choice, people will go to the better option, and the market leader, if they don't keep pace, people will move if they can.

It's when there is a huge exit barrier that companies get away with all sorts of garbage.
If a company featured an analogous story on their corporate Web site, there would probably be a reason, and one of the likely ones is to promote positive perceptions of the company.

Are you playing devil's advocate? Or do you think the meat of the comment is invalid? Or do you want to derail thought and discussion on the topic?
side question:

Why do I use NixOS instead of Ubuntu + ansible combo ?
Basecamp / DHH are maybe also good candidates for that list.
> If companies could hike up their prices and still get consumers to pay them they'd already have done it. In fact, companies are constantly increasing prices as high as they possibly can up to the point where sales suffer.

Yes they do hike prices and yes maybe it reduces demand, but you can increase prices and blame the tariffs or the taxes. There is no ill will or conspiracy here. It is justified and lawful. I'd suggest the solution is to prevent price hikes due to tax increases. But is there a way of doing that?

> the companies continued to artificially restrict supply and blame the pandemic for higher prices.

> They'll spend billions trying to convince you that taking taxes from them is impossible and not worth trying tho.

Bunch of citations needed, I'm tired of copying and pasting.
Cool, but that's a very different argument from your previous:

> private corporations should not be allowed to leverage a public utility like this as their advertisement soapbox

Clearly it's not about corporations in general, it's this specific corporation.
This is beautiful man, congratulations. I love how much personality there is in the animations!
I would've enjoyed seeing February 30th
Are today's LLMs capable of writing code using these animation libraries? Could you replicate the landing page from its description, for example?
Frankly, most corporations do not last long enough for this to be a problem. Governments are their own issue, but without the political inertia and staying power of a nation-state, your organization will likely be long dead (or at least irrelevant and dying) before interpretations will drift that far. Most of the time, for most engineers, at least some of the people who made these rules in the first place are still around -- which helps ensure that nothing drifts too too far.

Of course there are exceptions, probably even upwards of 20% of the time, but we're talking generalities.
I don't think we are able to communicate with each other precisely.

When I say "most technical debt comes not from rushing", your counter is that some technical debt comes from rushing, which was never disputed.

If I put "fully finished" in quotes, you go on a tangent how software project is never really finished (guess why the quotes).

So you address points that are irrelevant or never made, do not address points I do make and only point to other sources which I don't feel they do either.

I can come up with examples of electrical and mechanical engineering that are of the same sort, but I would be making cocktail party examples.

It seems futile to continue on this thread: thanks for engaging and have a nice day.
But if we represent it as a percentage we can pretend it's relatively not a big deal and minimize their stranglehold on society.
But it rarely gives me a totally-new codebase unless I'm working on a very small project -- so I have to choose between ditching its understanding of some parts (e.g. "don't introduce this bug here, please") and avoiding confusion with others.
The tone of HN is something. For instance there always seems to be someone partisan enough to defend Trump no matter how ridiculous and terrible his actions are.

It true that there are democrats who are more skeptical on free trade and I would disagree with some of their views although adding workers rights and minimum wages into trade agreements are things which might have some merit but none of them would try something as ridiculous and economically suicidal as this. They're literally putting tarrifs on an island with a bunch of Penguins.

That's because he's lazy and doesn't really care to learn about policy or listen to the vast majority of economists including conservative economists tell him he's blowing up the economy and he doesn't care much about the damage he causes. He might remotely care about the stock market going down or losing political power and being tried for some of his many crimes but he doesn't really care much if his supporters (much less the half of the country that voted for someone sane) suffer, starve or die from a preventable disease.
Unfortunately, that's not true. Article 1 gives congress very broad budgetary powers. Basically congress can spend money how they want, including bribing universities.
> As the old saying goes if you aren’t paying for the service then you aren’t the customer.

And that saying hasn't been accurate in ages, because some of the best things are free (Debian) and paying doesn't get you good service. In particular, when I am trying to spend money and the stupid site refuses to help me.
Nice LARP lmao 2GW is like 1 datacenter and I doubt you even have that.
>lesswrong
No wonder the comments are all nonsense. Go to a bar and try and talk about anying.
Empathy is for people who did something for understandable reasons.

Trump hurt the poor the last time he was in office. Republicans literally WROTE DOWN ALL THEIR PLANS to hurt the poor and destroy the country well before the elections. Anyone who saw that and still voted for them gets no empathy.
Some of you may die, but its a sacrifice I'm willing to make. --Farquaad
I think that’ll depend on whether you’re just counting totals or drama per unit time.
As a former military person now working with tech, it's a bummer to see that the "neo" defense industry outside Ukraine (for obvious reasons) is trying to play the "Silicon Valley recruitment tale" without understanding the difference between the kind of people that you want to attract versus the class of people that have "mental elasticity" (sic.) to be willing to work for you.

When dealing with very important but abstract/distant terms in our daily lives like nation, war, death, patriotism, and patriotic sacrifice, you require some sort of people that are definitely not like your regular SWE.

One thing that I learned in military/defense is that the spectrum of people that ends there is between the "I went for the wrong reasons" and "hyperpatriotic on the border of being a zealot". Damn, we had guys in my Company that just went to the Army because they watched "Rambo: First Blood" and found it amazing.

Seeing the Anduril folk in the thread trying their best to recruit people in a completely different vibe related to tech, it's not only unintentionally comic but also shows how the defense tech is drunk with the VC/LP lore of "Let's get the best talent in the market and pay them well".

Edit 1: Anduril is going to learn the same thing that most of the professional military services in the world have already known for decades: Forget this misleading nerd Silicon Valley archetype and go to the Rico's [1] of the world: People willing to do things for the wrong reasons and/or naive enough to occasionally become the people that you want.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b07887ZzKiw

Edit 2: I hit submit early and I reframed my post, sorry for the confusion.
https://lastminuteengineers.com/servo-motor-arduino-tutorial...

Interactive diagrams + code
I had not heard about the de minimis removal. That would be crazy. I assume that would be the end of every dollar store in the country right?
try Computer Wars: How the West Can Win in a Post-IBM World. By Charles H. Ferguson from 1993. The author is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ferguson_(filmmaker) this one
Lesswrong brigade. They are all dropout philosophers just ignore them.