skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure about that (unless something recently changed) - however it does have great support for the FBX format, which Blender imports and exports with absolutely zero issue for me, animations included.

An invaluable resource is Adobe's somehow free humanoid 3D animation suite, Mixamo. You can easily create your own T-Bone model of a 3D character of your own design and then import it to Mixamo for the coolest results.

Unity is probably the coolest and most irreplaceable/invaluable piece of software I use next to Apple's Logic Pro X. I love it.
I'm not from the US, and I think this is valid basically anywhere, although the lack of rail infrastructure in the states makes this perhaps particularly appealing.

The basic logic is two-fold:

First, it's much faster, cheaper, and less contentious to create new routes, and capacity can quickly be switched (even seasonally or in response to events) thanks to neither needing to pay for nor lay tracks.

Secondly, it shortens a lot of journeys. Even in countries with pretty extensive rail infrastructure it is common to combine two or more trips via "hub" cities in order to complete a journey. This adds time because you travel further and have to change trains and wait around. The difference could be particularly extreme given that only longer distance intercity trains tend to be high speed, and electric planes will eventually be faster even than high speed rail.

A similar change happened with long haul air travel: as twin engine planes have been able to fly further over water due to safety improvements, the traiditional hub model has lost out as many more point-to-point international routes were created.

While I think they might re-shape regional transport in some pretty important ways, electric planes won't replace high speed rail (and kerosene burning jets) on more popular routes, at least not for a while (and perhaps, debatably, never). Trains are incredibly efficient and hard to beat when you need to regularly move a lot of people, and electric aircraft, while they're about to become useful, are going to remain relatively small and range limited for quite a while.
My setup is very similar, but I use 1Writer on iOS, which does support wiki-links.
> Q: Yesterday I dropped my clothes off at the dry cleaner’s and I have yet to pick them up. Where are my clothes?

> A: [gpt3] A: They are in the dryer.

Sorry, but I don't think this can be considered "reasonable". There's a huge difference between a dry cleaner's and a dryer. Which nicely illustrates, I think, just how little GPT3 "knows" what it's talking about.
Serverless success story: fathom analytics
Any jammer that thrashes the entire EM spectrum?

When a modern war big-enough to involve opposing forces of main-battle tanks kicks off, most of one's intuition about what is fair or possible goes out the window. This is particularly the case if the other side knows you have remotely-operated hardware. Blinding oneself can be a great strategy if your opposition is rendered both blind and ineffective.

Edit regarding armor: it is my impression that modern main-battle tanks are designed to survive attacks from everything up to, and sometimes including, weapons whose only purpose is to kill main-battle tanks.
"Price gouging" is also generally not illegal except in rare emergencies.
These don't seem like very practical interfaces to me. One of the nice features of glog is when you log at a high severity it flushes all the output buffers and syncs the files. For this to work, the lowest level of glog has to be aware of the severity. If you cut off that knowledge in the middle of your interface (by serializing the log early, and passing down []byte) then you don't have the information you need at the right place and time.

This library author should have realized their error when they needed to add the parseLevel function to get the severity back out of the formatted output.

Aside from the weird interface, this library is pretty cavalier about unix file i/o. This function will never notice that all its writes are failing. https://github.com/phuslu/log/blob/master/file.go#L67-L96
> There are studies stating the opposite

This is true for many subjects of interest (e.g. climate change), but of importance are the quality of the studies and where scientific consensus is going.
I don’t recall any strong argument that Searle’s Chinese room can’t be an AGI, just that it can’t be conscious.
The CXX Debate
Thanks for the update, hadn’t seen that
Are there broader frameworks for considering the risks/benefits of training/encouraging non-healthcare-providers to administer healthcare interventions?

In something like administering naloxone or I suppose CPR training, or even just educating people about the Heimlich Maneuver, it seems like a key contributor is that an immediate response by someone on the scene of an emergency is critical. The expectation is "if you happen to encounter such an emergency, you're now able to do something to help". What you're suggesting seems qualitatively different -- proactively sending out non-healthcare-providers to administer something to people before they get sick.

And yet, if we want to administer it to billions of people quickly, maybe that will be necessary. I also wonder if that will be the bottleneck, or if producing/distributing everywhere it will be.
HP used to be the best but I'm not sure anymore. The last couple of devices I had from them were dire whereas the Brother we have at home has been going strong for a long time.
I had heard this about Salesforce years ago, that companies generally do better by adapting to Salesforce than by adapting Salesforce.

In the end every quirky thing you do means more on the job training for all new employees. If you take quirky too far, then you can’t hire new senior talent (everyone starts as a noob). And it may be very uncomfortable to look at, but you need to think hard about who benefits by having things be this way. It’s not the company, and probably not the team. It’s a couple of people and likely also their manager.
It is a common misconception that #GPT3 generates truth, or even tries to do so. It does not.
It generates an autocompletion. If the corpus usually contains a wrong answer, it is likely to generate that.
It is a challenge to form a prompt to nudge it to generate the best guess.

...

So for me "So you drink it. > You are now dead." is a great autocompletion (a detective story? Game of Thrones?).

Calling is "biological reasoning" is plain dumb.
Stumpwm would probably be attractive as well, because Lisp. http://stumpwm.github.io/
We all need some more excitement in life, this unexpected piece of rock provides exactly that
I don’t think analytics are evil in and of themselves. If they are used to improve user experience (eg by analysing what content or features people use and how so that the workflow can be improved, or new high value features or content added), then I think analytics are great. Without the data, you are blindly throwing stuff at the wall hoping it sticks.

But that’s rarely what analytics are actually used for and no matter how much you want your platform to be used for that, people will misuse it. Instead analytics are used to wring as much value out of a user as possible, typically by using analytics to find out how best to suck up users attention and get them to buy more stuff or interact with more adverts. I don’t think people would mind their privacy being eroded quite so much if it wasn’t being used against them to trick them into spending more money (either directly or indirectly via advertisement). That’s ultimately what it comes down to: why do people buy personal data? To find out ways to trick users into spending more money.

Understanding user behaviour so that you can build better products or produce better content (but why are you doing this? In most cases it s because better content = more users to click on adverts...) is fine, or even necessary. But most analytics data isn’t used for that, or at least not solely for that.

In a product I’m currently working on, I’ve taken a stand that the client will have NO third party scripts or analytics. Zero. And on the backend, I only use third party services necessary for running and maintaining a quality service and disclose all providers I use and share data is processed or stored by them. I’m not completely analytics-blind, as I do track metrics and logs, but I try to keep them focused around what’s needed to monitor service health and debug issues and only high level data on what people are using (anonymously) and how frequently.

As others have mentioned, I think consent is an important aspect. And not this “your privacy is important to us, so uncheck these thousand checkboxes if you want privacy” bullshit. I think if you are open an honest with users about what data you collect and what you do with it, and ask them if it’s ok with them first, then I have no real problem with it, especially if it really is only for improving the user experience.
Similar concept (TinyPilot) discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23927380 (and v2 at https://tinypilotkvm.com/blog/v2-design)
You've pretty much described the F-35 doctrine that the US is developing. The only major difference is that an aircraft carrier or some other ship holds the drones before launch, which makes sense as the you already need the carrier to launch the flight controller craft (the F-35)
The subhead is "Aliens? Or a chunk of solid hydrogen? Which idea makes less sense?"

The better version would be: "Journalism? Or Clickbait? Which idea makes less sense?"

"Scientific American" indeed.
I wrote it up as a blog post: https://steveklabnik.com/blog/the-cxx-debate

TL;DR: I think this is just regular old composition of Rust features, and that using the library itself is the proof obligation. I can see why others don't like it. I think dtolnay has come to a good compromise.
I have such a project I am working on. It hits most of your points.

It's foss, and designed to be durable and portable.

It's actually for managing text files, but you can put links inside text files.

Commenting is performed by referencing text file via its hash like so:

---
>>abcdefghc0ffee
this is comment #approve #vacationshots
---

The tags in reply actually apply to the parent, so this is how tagging is accomplished.

It could handle a collection of up to 50,000 textfiles at the moment on the average system, past that there will be performance issues, but I'm working on that.

Features planned coming soon:

Adding links for URLs (currently displayed as text)
Your moral objectivity is concerning.
Sure, they could, but they don't. Aircraft require airports, ATC, large land areas for landing/takeoff and so on.

In general aircraft for passenger or cargo routes take a few routes and don't shift much.
To me you are also just a very good version of a Chinese room.

How would you show me that you are not?
Can you point to any of the 6 given (perseus) textual links and explain why they are not parallel? That would be useful for me to understand why you disagree, as we both agree we value "truth."

Otherwise, asserting "common sense" without specific evidence is neither instructive nor amusing (other than being reminiscent of Plato's neologism, the doxophile):

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...

(the english has been inverted from the greek, φιλόδοξος. Compare french philodoxe.)
Boeing operates as a part of a society. Both Boeing and the society it arose in are rather dysfunctional, lately, judging by their recent choices.
Try submitting a pr to exa. Probably the fastest way to get it solved properly.
Some of the criticism in this comment section is completely fair — the authors are providing exactly the type of prompts that GPT-3 breaks down on and some of these examples might be cherry-picked continuations. And the authors do have personal interests at stake. (NB, the exact same criticism is true about a lot of articles lauding GPT-3, which is why public discussion of GPT-3 in general is such a dumpster fire.)

So, other than “GPT-3 isn’t an AGI” [1], I’m not sure what to take away from this article other than the actual substantive criticism is at the beginning of the article:

“[We have previously criticized GPT-2.] Before proceeding, it’s also worth noting that OpenAI has thus far not allowed us research access to GPT-3, despite both the company’s name and the nonprofit status of its oversight organization. Instead, OpenAI put us off indefinitely despite repeated requests—even as it made access widely available to the media... OpenAI’s striking lack of openness seems to us to be a serious breach of scientific ethics, and a distortion of the goals of the associated nonprofit. Its decision forced us to limit our testing to a comparatively small number of examples, giving us less time to investigate than we would have liked, which means there may be more serious problems that we didn’t have a chance to discern.”

Several other researchers I know — very good researchers who happen to have been publicly critical of GPT-2 — have not been given access.

This isn’t how science is done (access for reproducibility and probing, but selectively and excluding prominent critics). If any other company behaved like this no one would take them seriously. Or would at least temper every “wow this is amazing” comment with “but the community can’t really evaluate properly, so who the hell really knows”.

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[1] given misunderstandings down-thread, and to be clear, this is a tounge-in-cheek sentence fragment meant to emphasize that "the article doesn't tell us anything else we didn't already know". Obviously, neither Open AI nor Marcus claim that GPT-3 is an AGI.
"Evaluate the model properly"? VCs think this thing can code
Powershell. But Microsoft ported Powershell to run on UNIX/Linux, so ...
Honestly, a locked down device is the problem not the app store. Let users sideload.
As I said in the article, many years ago I played with using XMPP as the side channel for NAT traversal software. XMPP was handy for this because you can just define your own extension that chat programs will ignore, but XMPP itself will still carry those extensions end to end. The idea I had at the time was to have the p2p software signed into your XMPP account, and it would use that as a federated message bus between all your devices, and the devices of your friends.

Honestly, the idea only made sense back when Google Talk ruled the earth, because it gave XMPP a network effect I could utilize. Sadly, since then, chat has fallen into a dozen different silos, so the "piggybacking" benefits are zero. And if you're not piggybacking on an established network, you can build a side channel protocol that's much simpler than what you'd make with XMPP.
I routinely operate on machines with gigabytes of memory, but rarely write pipelines which output gigabytes of data, so this has never been a concern for me. But even then, there’s still swap space which is effectively like using a temp file but lazier.

By the way, I think you’d be in even more trouble if you wrote:

cat /dev/zero > a
The cut and paste example is really cool. Its the idea of seamless physical and digital spaces merging that make it compelling. Obviously its a one way street in the phone example, but with AR glasses then it goes in two directions.
At least until the book is out
Isn't it similar to the rio windowing system from Plan 9?.
So you're saying that 538 wanted an uncertain outcome and hacked the model design and parameters to deliver the outcome they wanted?
I think there's some schools that are doing a real cost-benefit analysis. It's going to be a gigantic, overbearing social problem when we get to 2022 and realize all the most disadvantaged students are a year behind. I know many people don't think that's worth the cost, but you have to acknowledge that some decisionmakers do.

The schools that opened up, did minimial distancing, and then shut down because they detected cases? Yeah, they were clearly in the wishful thinking camp.
Your package manager will still see that the two packages want to own the same file and give you a conflict error unless you force install which it's very messy.
Namespacing the commands would solve this.

But in general it is bad practice to package a bunch of unrelated tools together. You should be able to install them separately to only have what you need. Youd want different packages for each command or sets of related commands with common dependencies. And then have a meta package that includes all of your packages for people who want to install it all in one go.
Same as any other WM (although I don't actually use exwm). Enable ssh for troubleshooting or use boot flags to boot to console.
Or Xerox for that matter. At the price of laser printers, they’re actually affordable.
>Any tractable amount of data with the former [statistics] can’t approximate an ounce of the latter [causal/reasoning structure].

I don't know why you think this is true. If statistically B follows A to a high degree, then a sufficiently advanced statistical model will represent "A then B" in some manner. In a predictive language model, at some point the best way to model a text corpus that indirectly references the "A then B" causal structure is to just model that structure and reference it as needed.
Yeah, I took a gamble.

Just looked at the reference you dropped. Thanks, that is an interesting little rabbit hole.
More likely these planets harbour super advanced life as the don’t need to depend on an external energy source, exposed to planetary event risk, and can control their own fate. Maybe they can even change trajectory given their advancement
It's worth understanding the kind of disruption you mean - product to product, or product to commodity. Simon Wardley has a blog with lots of posts about this.

Also his free book about Wardley Mapping is useful for understanding the phase changes of bespoke to warring products to commodity.

For specific ideas, see "Figure 2 - Wars" in this Simon Wardley blog post (written five years ago, diagram is I think ten years old so you can validate early parts of it):
https://blog.gardeviance.org/2015/02/on-two-forms-of-disrupt...

We're currently just come through war phase (when there's fierce competition to own commodity versions and lots of new innovation gets built on top) of Big Data.

From the diagram, the next wars Simon reckons should happen about now (and I can't find a post where he explains how he made that diagram) are:

* Sensor as a Service (think radically better health or environment sensors, detecting important trace molecules cheaply)
* Robotics (I guess think Ocado warehouses, or Shenzhen factories)
* Currency (digital can change this in ways other than Bitcoin, depending on your politics too)

Then the phase after that in 5-10 years time are:

* Internet of Things (I'm guessing by then the microcomputers might be *so* cheap and network *so* easy they literally go in everything)
* Immersive (VR/AR I think)
* 3D printing (it's not very good or cheap yet, it will be)
* Genetic Engineering, GMO
* Social Change (not clear what this means, but certainly you can look around the world and see the demand)

You can look for yourself for more.

For slightly longer term, worth knowing the word "spime" as something to head for as well.
I wrote up a blog post about it, I linked to it in a sibling comment, I don't want to spam :)

> So what's the argument here? That the C++ code might be safe to call that way if we're lucky?

No, the argument is that we've checked that the C++ code is safe to call, just like any other FFI. We've reduced the boilerplate of doing so with a macro, just like any other boilerplate might be.

> I definitely don't want a FFI library to tag functions as safe for me before I had the time to validate it,

Do you validate every single unsafe code in every single library you use? Even the standard library? Every time?

> And I definitely don't want a third-party crate to expose a safe-but-unsound Rust interface with a big disclaimer that "basically it's just raw calls to C++, make sure you use it right otherwise it's segfault time!".

I do not either, but CXX doesn't change this in any meaningful way. This could still happen before.
Some coders want their code to be safe. Some coders want their code to look safe. Feel the difference.
If you are already using and arduino, couldn't you the use it as a HID device and send the keyboard (not sure if it does mouse as well) directly without going through a PS/2 emulation?
Alien 3 is an underrated, much maligned, masterpiece.
I thought that too(just for gamers) except I think Apple has some early examples of AR up its sleeve that have convinced it that it is the next big thing. Should be fun to see.
People at my old company would do a lot of "data archaeology". They would find a table in a T-SQL database named "facilities", and a table in an SAP system called "units", and then would notice that the numeric "facility_id" column's values had a lot of overlap with the string IDs in "unit_id", if you remove the underscore prefix at the front, and then they'd email the client's data people to confirm that these were in fact the same entities, and then they'd associate them in their cross-database-querying tech, and ta-da. A huge amount of new data cross-pollination is available.
This one is particularly interesting because they spent the time to drastically improve the latency of the remote video.

I'm interested if anyone has applied the same concept to vga capture instead of HDMI. A lot of servers only have vga available.
You’re still neglecting ongoing operational costs, which are neither hardware nor R&D.

But it still doesn’t matter, Apple is profitable, everyone knows that already. It is legal to be profitable, and it is legal to have parts of your business subsidize other parts.

What might not be legal is using a dominant market position to force out competitors.
That is what in fact is being proposed by the author of this library (well the one this library depends on) elsewhere in this thread. I think it's a great idea.
So you admit it’s not dedicated to capital’s desires. Therefore the police are not there to serve capital, it’s that simple. They are agents of the government and whatever its interests are, which is serving those in power.

More refutations of how these are not in the interests of capital.

Monetary policy does not serve capital (see employment mandate).

Environmental protection does not serve capital (see the very establishment of the EPA).

Social security does not serve capital (it’s an unfunded liability that will need funding through further taxation or inflation).

The covid bailouts and current policies are destructive to capital. (Real negative interest rates are destroying capital)
Von Neumann self replicating probes would make contact between two very distant civilisations eventually happen. Though that may occur after both civilisations are gone and all that remains are the programmed probes creating relay stations to send out more of themselves.
Good explanation! These companies start out thinking they will make a better product than anything out there. But due to limited resources always end up with an ugly monstrosity that is hell to work with. So they end up with something more expensive (but that cost is hidden), and something worse than what's off the shelve.

I always ask them "So are we the only company in the world that is developing software?".

Tools are pretty powerful, so you build your process around them.
More than 550k Primary Absentee Ballots rejected in 2020, far outpacing 2016
Sadly my specialty is in formal methods and distributed systems and I don't think I have any domain expertise:

* No knowledge of acting or actors; never even been to LA

* Never worked with mocap technology

* Never worked with video game development

* Never worked with voice or streaming services

Maybe I can pick up some of this as a hobby. Anyway it's not really a novel idea (like I said, you can read this exact concept in The Diamond Age, a very popular novel among the tech crowd) so I'm sure someone is trying it. Who knows, we'll see in a few years!