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> Humans get a hand crafted curriculum inputs, evolved over 1000s of iterations, in a near-optimal language encoding.


> Human reading/talking/listening equivalent of 200 pages of text per day for 80 years would be just 13GB of raw data or 3B tokens

I am sympathetic to the "total life time input" argument.

But humans get a hand crafted curriculum inputs, evolved over 1000s of iterations, in a near-optimal language encoding.

Also, if unsupervised gets us in-dist, and DRL seems to be not-bad in search-out-of-dist.... then we are getting close ?

Certainly a x100 scaling of current techniques can get a useful enough machine that makes many human tasks trac-able?

(I am not getting into the Turing / AGI / skynet argument)


The title and quote are obviously hyperbolic.

But

A large portion of that mass is in a too high or too low temperature state to support any complexity (I am not a physicist!)

On the other hand, a single pound of neurons is more powerful than a warehouse of nano-scale-minituarized silicon.

Consciousness itself may or may not be a purely emergent property of this complexity.

We already have fairly robust (and simple!) rules for most physical, chemical and biological behaviour.

Other than the creation and ending of he universe, Consciousness is certainly a top candidate no ?


> The title and quote are obviously hyperbolic

Are you agreeing, disagreeing or making another point?

> On the other hand, a single pound of neurons is more powerful than a warehouse of nano-scale-minituarized silicon

Define 'powerful'

> Consciousness is certainly a top candidate no ?

We literally have no access to

99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of the rest of the universe[1], so we can't say. Also we are only aware of what we're aware of, they might be greater mysteries under our noses which we've nor realised, or perhaps are literally unable to comprehend.

[1] quite possibly hyperbolic


I put some spaces in your nines to prevent the comment from borking the page layout. Sorry, it's a bug we're working on.


Yes but many things are a mystery beyond consciousness (thanks due to being conscious and able to reason) Like for instance whats beyond the universe? What dimensions are there? Is there a why to its [the universe] coming into being? Is there a what to it? And so on.


I appreciate Billionaires that take city-size estates out in the country where there is plenty of space.

I feel this is a lot less controversial than urban mega-dwellings which can cause undue hardship for mere millionaires.


Which lib/approach would you recommend if i need run a remote batch process using local files?

For example, on the local system:

remote-execute gcc localfile.c -o localfile.o

And on the remote system, there is a gcc and a remote agent which receives and retransmits the files


You would use rcpu(1) which essentially imports the remote cpu. In other words the remote processor "sees" the local file structure/namespace.

9front is full of "free carrots". If you want a remote vpn, just import another servers /net ontop of your process namespace and you're all set.


9front looks so very interesting. Thanks


It also stays at "looks very interesting", it's not a usable OS on a normal machine for everyday tasks.


SSH for job running and management, NFS for filesystem access. Have remote systems mount the local file system. If NFS isn’t available, have the remote job pull files over rsync from your local system, then rsync back the resulting output.


Ugh! Thanks but no thanks

I dont want to mount and expose nfs, or allow a full ssh login. This will be a custom agent/daemon on both ends


I wouldn't recommend NFS over the open internet but there's a few options based around SFTP (rsync, scp, sshfs) and being based on SFTP means they can run without granting that user full SSH login access while still taking advantage of the security benefits that SSH brings.

For job execution you could write your own agent but doing likely wouldn't be any more secure than SSH. Just make sure you have disabled password logins (use keys instead) and fail2ban or equivalent running to auto blacklist attacks. You could probably use Chef or SaltStack if really wanted to avoid a remote shell but if you're not already running config management then you have to ask yourself if you're over-engineering a solution.

An alternative solution would be to run an OpenVPN tunnel and then you can SSH to your hearts content. But even here, unless you have multiple machines you want to connect to, I can't help thinking you're just making life harder for yourself without getting any realistic gains.

This is all based on the very high level spec provided so I accept there might be some currently undisclosed detail that renders the above suggestions moot.


NFS works great over the open Internet, as long as you do it through a secure tunnel. I've been doing this for years as a way of increasing the size of the available storage in a VPS.


You run NFS within which secure tunneler?


I've used both vtun and WireGuard for remote NFS. On a good day, I get 100MB/s to the NFS filesystem on my San Jose AWS instance (from Vegas) via WireGuard. Note: That was before CoVid-19. CenturyLink/Quest has since (stealthily) throttled my bandwidth down from 1Gbps to ~750Mbps.


It's really no different to running any other service over VPN or SSH tunnel. It does work well with NFSv3 but never tried with NFSv4.


Just use Wireguard, tbh.


Do they need to optimize for reduced memory/communication patterns? Or is that going too far

AFAIK, the memory-communication power can increase by orders of magnitude if u go off-core, off-chip, off-cache, etc.


Do they need to optimize for reduced memory/communication patterns? Or is that going too far

AFAIK, the memory-communication power can increase by orders of magnitude if u go off-core, off-chip, off-cache, etc.


Why is this getting flagged? Are large tech companies now somehow shielded from criticism?

This experience actually sounds both common and unavoidable.

FAANGs have x10 candidates for every position. So the interviews are indeed both difficult and arbitrary. And after a rejection they can always call you after 6 months and restart the whole shtick. So why not. Sigh.

As someone who interviewed 100s of software engineers - its just the system doing its best, and there is usually no bad-intent on either side.


I doubt that it is getting flagged because HN users are so in love with Amazon. More likely because if OP displayed as much of an entitled attitude as they displayed in the submission, they dodged a bullet.


Important line from the article

> a practice at odds with the company’s stated policies...

> .. as stated to congress


So lying to the Congress, eh? Great. Yet another example of how the system can't muster itself to dealing with actual threats to it's integrity.

Just get big enough, and you can lie in front of everyone without penalty it looks like.


You want to start a discussion about company stated policies and how each person feels they do or do not live up to them? That could go on for quite awhile!

edit: it was mostly a joke, calm down.


You're either missing the point or strawmanning, I'm not sure which.

In speaking with Congress, they're stating to everyone that they are there to act as a platform for third parties. They're a "pass-thru" service.

That implies that while metadata may be being collected, you shouldn't be looking at it, as it isn't "yours". It would be like a cloud provider going into business undercutting their client's because they weren't savvy enough to encrypt their business records. Or the post office going through your B2B mailings, figuring out your footprint, them becoming a competitor.

You have one job. That's it. Once you start abusing your access to your seller's transaction data to figure out where to or whether to diversify into their vertical, there is a fundamental breach of trust, and a very reasonable case to be made in having exploited something you shouldn't be.

That's the Hobbesian Leviathan for you; you don't need all those little businesses anyway!


Can you give some salaries for hiring tech workers?

2-3 years experience, web front end and/or B2C marketing


I can't as not out there myself, equally you need to factor in cost of living as 40k a year in a city that costs 20k a year to live is worse of than 27k a year in a city that costs 5k to live. Then taxes..... many factors.

Equally, front end and marketing are not my area's.

https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Salaries/estonia-front-end-devel... may be of some help for you though.


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