skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are modern day geniuses, they just look different to the big name scientists he is lamenting.

I would argue Fabrice Bellard should be in contention, DJ Bernstein, etc. There are geniuses all around us and that is what has changed. It's by no means normalized but extraordinary doesn't seem as extraordinary when the world is literally powered by tens of thousands of extraordinary people doing awesome things day in and day out.

Those are just two public examples I can think of, imagine how many genius level brains are working at Intel, AMD, TSMC and ASML that make the physics of what we consider "normal" tick.
I guess developments are not published on Nature.
The original jackplug was also just as simple. Instead of 3.5 they could have gone for the 2.5" to avoid confusion as an audio out. But the new proposed cable? Is it available? Seems to be more work to offer.

/me checks taobao again

Nope, still not.

Kittenbot devices came with a standard audio jackplug. Easy cabling, off the shelf.
>This is ridiculous. We’re seeing innovation EVERYWHERE, and looking back, this will be a golden age for progress (if the species makes it far enough to look back, that is).

Innovation is not the same as genius. Innovation generally occurs as a linear function from point a to b, whereas genius operates as a step function. Geniuses are the people who make that mental leap of progress in t=1 instead of t=sqrt(2), and they sit up there waving their hands saying "Hey guys! Look what I found up here!", and we all say "How the hell did you get up there so fast? What the heck are you talking about?" until we start catching up and go "Oh yeah... that makes sense".
> There are many geniuses, who make big contributions, but they don't work by themselves, so their contributions are not seen as advancing a field by one big leap.

I think this hits the nail on the head. Because we now have access to an instant world-wide exchange of ideas scientists work more closely together on developing their respective fields than ever before. By the time a major breakthrough happens most experts in the field will have already seen it coming.

Breakthroughs consist of many smaller leaps in knowledge and we are now hyper-aware of each small development, thus it doesn't seem like we're making big leaps anymore. Rather than creating new geniuses the Internet eliminated the need for the classic "genius" to make a breakthrough in a scientific field.
Is this a productized Duet[1]? Are you using it under the hood?

(As far as I'm concerned, if the answer is yes to both, this has much potential. I'm just trying to figure out what I'm looking at)

Thank you!

[1]: https://blog.openmined.org/duet-demo-how-to-do-data-science-...
> How does a minority protest stop the evil masterplan? This makes no sense at all. Either there is a master plan and you have to have 90% of the people on the street opposing this, or there was no master plan from the get go.

Why can there not be a master plan that is difficult to implement where there is resistance? Why can the plan not have several stages and levels of implementation? Why can it not be that at different levels of resistance the plan may have to be shelved completely, in part, or be paused to try again in future?

To reduce a plan to take over the world so reductively as to make it a dilemma can only be the product of black and white thinking. I know it's best to be sceptical of outrageous claims but I would assume that anyone who reads HN knows that a project with any level of complexity couldn't be characterised in such a way, let alone one to take over the world!
Salaries in the EU are not what they were and have improved dramatically. I've found most companies to be wildly off the mark when making offers. Perhaps you need to recalibrate.
Assessing connections in the brain’s reading network
Histre[0] automatically saves your browsing history (customizeable[0] of course). No explicit save action needed.

[0] https://histre.com/

[1] https://histre.com/articles/customize-logging/
>> If economic growth is defined simply in terms of tons of refined resources pulled out of the ground, then yes, of course economic growth has a limit. Trivially so.

Yes, this is obviously the case, but I think people over-estimate how close we are to hitting this limit. It won't happen for thousands of years. We haven't even properly mined the seafloor or the sea itself yet.
A large part of austerity is ressentiment.
Desire to be indispensable is a manifestation of imposter syndrome which is a manifestation of anxiety. If it doesn't fade after a few months you've got underlying issues you need to solve.
The best alternative I've found for macOS is Jump Desktop's Fluid protocol.
Makes me wonder if a large company like Facebook has ever "accidentally" counted their shadow profiles in user growth numbers.
Thats not obvious to me.

Take optimization using Monte Carlo. What do you prefer, ten little innocuous steps or a single bold large leap over a barrier?

I dont see human endeavor as linear. I see it as an infinite dimensional space that we are somewhat directed to explore. In this PoV little steps get me nowhere.

Also, consider that ten little scientists will quickly dominate the institution and crowd out the genius who they cannot understand.
The general class of 'They're pretending to be incompetent... as a trick!' theories about Russia all seem less likely by the day.
We aren't innovating like we use to and it isn't even close. We are just such a histrionically ignorant society that has lowered the bar on innovation so we can pretend that we are a society innovating at lighting speed.

The smartphone was 15 years ago but we act like it was yesterday.

1900-1910ish we got air conditioning, plastics, airplanes, motion pictures, the Theory of Relativity..

We are just so clueless now. Even the smart people are clueless.
why? status, hierarchy, etc, will be genetically edited out to turn our species into a faceless mass of obedient drones, ruled by the selected few?

I see simply no other way out of very deeply the status/hierarchy thing that's so deeply ingrained into our species.
This is a deeply myopic and zero sum view of trade. Moving low tech manufacturing to Asia has lifted a billion people out of grinding rural deprivation across multiple nations.

Western nations are wealthy because the West, broadly, won WWII and the Cold War while spending the post war period building high tech industry. The US in particular started industrialization as a low cost manufacturing center. Other nation deserve a chance to follow the same path to prosperity.
You are right. My personal method for testing such things is to ensure I do not have any of the default keys.

mkdir --mode=00500 -p ~/.ssh_config_backup
rsync -avH ~/.ssh/. ~/.ssh_config_backup/.
rm ~/.ssh/id_*

Then I generate custom keys per-site and list them in ~/.ssh/config/

ssh-keygen -q -t rsa -b 2048 -N "" -C "test" -f ~/.ssh/.id_devzat

Then in ~/.ssh/config

IdentitiesOnly yes
SendEnv LANG LC_ALL
ForwardAgent no
ForwardX11 no
ForwardX11Trusted no
# [snip]
#
Host devzat chat
Hostname devzat.hackclub.com
Port 22
User test
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/.id_devzat
LogLevel VERBOSE

Verbose to see debug if you are having issues.

If one needed to temporarily use the old key for a site until it is changed to a site-unique key, then

rsync -av ~/.ssh_config_backup/id_rsa ~/.ssh/.id_somesite

Then make a note to change the key on that site and generate a site unique key.
This experience helped move me from the first category into the second. I now do Google Takeout periodically, and have a full backup on external drives.

I'm also slowly degooglifying my life (and recommending the same to everyone around me). There is another grouping of two types of people: (1) Ones who don't do business with Google anymore (2) Ones who won't. That one took more incidents than backups.
vector search is everywhere nowadays. Glad to see another success story. Kudos to the team
I think much of it is caused by the way we work on problems. We work on individual problems that get more and more complex and demand an ever increasing entry hurdle to be able to have a meaningful conversation on the subject. We zoom into existing problems. Yet most of the fundamental breakthroughs were often in hindsight "trivial". Because very often what it needs is a new perspective that allows for the creation of much more efficient alternatives. True innovation.

Add to that the ever increasing time pressure and funding problem. Remember, Einstein was a patent clerk. Most people simply cant afford to invest their time into allowing themselves to think freely. I am confident we could get the genius rate back up with something like UBI.
The quibble is with the narrative that the south side of Chicago is a bad place to go wandering around because of the political party affiliated with the leaders of Chicago or Illinois would be. Similarly, the narrative that crime went up in 2020 because of local governance choices predominantly made by a political party is similarly flawed.

On the flip side, you can better understand why Republicans might be more perceptive about a significant increase in crime in 2020...
Just doesn't seem like it's worth it even for terrorists.

Why invest a bunch of time and effort making more and more deadly poisons when we've already got a wide variety of them that are cheap to manufacture, well known in how they work, and don't cost a bunch of research money to uncover?
Court-Martial
Ask HN: Recommendations for an Inexpensive and Weatherproof Computer?
I'm looking for a relatively inexpensive (<$150 USD) computer that can run Linux, has an Ethernet port, can connect to peripherals via USB, and can be connected to a display via HDMI. It needs to be as weatherproof as a good outdoor WLAN router (i.e. can withstand copious precipitation and extremes of temperature). Any recommendations?
Not to get political but people don't care when they can't afford a house, and their kids' future doesn't appear to be brighter as their town is shrinking + all future jobs will be low paying service/technician jobs unless you are working on building these new technologies.
Out of curiosity: with very limited knowledge of the language I would have translated "ska" as "will" or probably better "should" (in the sense of "if someone tells you you should give up resisting, it's false").

Is this a usage of ska I haven't learned?
Is there water in the ocean?

There is always somebody saying 'it depends'.
This sounds suspiciously like manufacturing weapons? I’m most interested to understand how this project was permitted in the first place. Even the public disclosure of this research feels negligent.
A company i work with uses their cdn product. We have been using them for a year or so now, with no issues, and a very helpful support team.

They are fairly competent and cheap. A happy bunny customer here
The US financial industry has almost the exact same contiguous time off requirement for the same reasons.
What happens if a writer halts in the middle of a write? How the reader can ever complete a consistent read?

With double buffering the reader can always fall back on the other buffer (hence it is lock-free, assuming somehow that writers always agree on the current write buffer), but then a fast writer can always prevent a slow reader from reading a consistent timestamp in a row which means it is not wait free.
Millions of Ukrainians weren't feeling safe since at least 2014. But it doesn't give grounds for asking for asylum. So to be "afraid to participate in protests because of fear of persecution" is not enough to claim refugee status.
The article suggests 3-4% inflation moving forward instead of 1-2%. Do you really need to hedge against that? I would say buy stock in companies with strong demand and pricing power.
Maybe not with Starship, but with the invention of fusion powered rockets you will be able to. Once fusion powered rockets seem possible and huge profits are able to be foretasted, lots of capital and people will be thrown at fusion tech. This is already starting to happen.
It's true that encryption is useful despite not being perfect but there's an important bit of missing context: blockchain systems are being sold as suitable protection for people “living in a corrupt authoratarian system” and that changes the risk calculations considerably.

If you live in a relatively open democracy, the knowledge that your encrypted chat app could be attacked by the police isn't a huge deal because there's a legal process protecting you but that trade off changes considerably if you are at risk from a hostile government. Systems which require you to leave a public paper-trail for the authorities, for example, are too risky to consider and something more privacy oriented is still a significant gamble — especially since in such an environment it's likely that you'd be at risk simply having it installed on your devices unless you were certain that it made no identifiable network activity. If I lived in China now, for example, I would not want to risk having something like a VPN client or Signal installed on my phone if the police stopped me or started linking DNS lookups to ISP customers.
Part of the challenge with finding direct applications is that this principle seems apply to both sides of the argument in most domains.

Atheists don't want there to be a god almost as much as theists want one to exist, same with climate change deniers/activists, or NoSQL/SQL advocates.
I think the writer is so completely wrong in his characterization of the internet and all of its free information not even producing "some sort of bump." How could you fail to recognize the massive change and pace of technological innovation in the past 2 decades? I don't know what sort of obtuse measurement they're using, but it doesn't seem to correspond well to reality.

However, I think I essentially agree with the importance of tutoring and 1-on-1 attention for nurturing potential 'genius'. John von Neumann is a fantastic example, but perhaps more obviously illustrative is Susan Polgar and her father's explicit attempt (and success) in creating a chess genius. Susan Polgar is the greatest female chess player of all time by a gigantic margin, and it would be hard to deny it's the result of Laszlo Polgar's efforts from her young age to make her so, especially given the success of her siblings.

His teaching wasn't mind blowing. It stressed cultivating passion, presenting progressively more difficult problems to the student, but with everyday consistency for over a decade.

However he was an excellent teacher (that being his main profession), and skilled at chess himself (although not as good as his daughters would be), something most parents aren't likely to be for a given field they wish to inculcate greatness for their child in. Accessibility of this simple yet difficult program is unlikely to be accessible to most people then.

Perhaps we could structure education systems to offer as much of this tutorship exposure as possible? We already know the lecture format and inactive learning is quite ineffective, so perhaps refocusing resources as much as possible on a more effective method, even with mediocre implementation, would produce better results, especially for those with aptitude.
To be completely fair, we don't know that it was staged just for the photograph. We don't know who moved the cannonballs, or why they moved them. All we know is that there are two photographs, and that the one without the cannonballs on the road came first.
> I think this is more of a version of the "why have we stopped making good music/movies, almost everything today is garbage?" issue.

Tangentially, though, I think there's something to the complaints about music. Why does pop music have any noticeably autotuned singers at all, when anyone who regularly goes to karaoke bars knows that there are lots of good singers everywhere? In other words, why is being a good enough singer that one can record an impeccable vocal in one take apparently not a prerequisite for a recording contract?

Edit: To bring this back around to the topic of the article, I think the discussion of autotuned vocals might hint at an answer to the question about individual geniuses: it's not as important for individuals to have extraordinary abilities when technology can help us all do so much. I admit I was being a curmudgeon above; I know that autotune can be used to subtly improve mediocre vocals, in addition to enabling the obviously artificial sound that many of us consider crap.
Hackers rang the bells of Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral for 23 minutes
We already (sort of) do this. AI/ML is probably used for simulating nuclear explosions, and is [arguably] even more useful and accurate than actually setting off a bomb, and measuring it.

It makes sense that it could be weaponized. When Skynet becomes self-aware, it would probably just design a chemical that kills us all, and would aerosol that into the atmosphere. No need for terminators, just big pesticide cans.
I don't think so. It just installs dependencies via npm. If you noticed something amiss please email me
> Energy and material intensity of GDP is falling.

Is this true globally, or just for specific economies? (My true quandary is probably evident:) Are those economies getting measurably more efficient overall, or have we just offloaded the energy and material intensive production?
There are studies with rats that show a link between population density and violence. Not that people are rats but they are mammals sometimes animal studies can shed light on human behavior.
I guess the differentiator is that Jacdac is a higher level protocol. RS232, RS485 and CAN are just 'send some data down this pipe' deals, and RS232/RS485 don't even have a particularly standard way of framing data. I haven't used SPI or I2C enough to know about them, but from looking them up, they also seem to just offer a way to send arbitrary data.

Jacdac both offers a standard way of using devices (from the website: 'devices with the same functionality but different hardware implementations can be substituted without having to recompile the application that uses them. For example, two different models of accelerometer hardware can replace each other because they share the same software interface.') and a standard way of finding devices (because all devices advertise the services they provide every 500ms).

Honestly, as somebody whose job involves a lot of interfacing with random bits of hardware, this would make my life a heck of a lot easier! There have been way too many times I've received a device manual for e.g. a Modbus-over-RS485 interface and had to go 'okay, is this list of register IDs zero-based or one-based? floating point or fixed point? big-endian or little-endian (or both in the case of one awful device!)' etc etc.
Rationalism took over in the mid-twentieth century and now it's the lingua franca of pretty much any activity that requires resource allocation. Any idea you may have, regardless of how mundane or obvious, must be expressed in analytical/economic terms. Have a qualitative aspect that can't be measured? It doesn't exist. Can't predict the future? Pretend like you do and give us some numbers. Arbitrarily create numbers and make them grow. Find studies, regardless how dubious, to support your claims. It's a trap everyone must abide by.

The fantasy is people analyzing data and making the right decision, the truth is people have their assumptions and then back into data to give their assumptions legitimacy. That's the bread and butter of the rationalization market: legitimacy.
> the old "Don't be evil" Google wouldn't have done this

Just so we're on the same page, I have to assume that'd be the Google that predates Buzz auto-populating your contacts from Gmail, which resulted in people being "Buzz friends" with abusive ex's and other folk that people will do business email with but don't want social conversations with.

So, pre-2010 Google.
It's a small street that no-one has heard about, this is a boulevard in the capital city. We had the same thing in Bucharest, when there was a church (built by Antonescu and his wife) that had a bust sculpture [1] of him in the church-yard sometime in the early 2000s. There was of course a huge scandal, with the foreign ambassadors chiming in, the law against naming things after bad people from our history got passed soon after so that we could entry into the EU, so of course that the bust sculpture had to go.

> Countries are not a homogenous unit.

I expect things that stand in your face (like a boulevard in a capital city, a bust sculpture of a genocide perpetrator in a downtown place in another capital city) to not be left to the local authorities. Even Bandera's wiki page mentions the EU and Israeli administrations not being at all happy with Ukraine naming things after Bandera back in ~2011, apparently that has all been forgotten now that Putin has attacked and everyone acts surprised how come Putin calls the Ukrainians as being nazis. And I didn't mention anything about the infamous "Freikorps" now battling the Russians close to Sumy, most definitely their name was not taken from a Heine poem or anything like that.

[1] https://foto.agerpres.ro/foto/detaliu/158701 (if you're Romanian you might recognise one of the characters in that photo)
No.

Scenario: There is a project your boss is wholly responsible for. You, from a technical perspective, are absolutely indispensable to the success of said project. Maybe it's a small team, or everyone is overloaded, but you can draw a direct line between you quitting (or doing a bad job) and your boss getting called out or potentially fired.

Your boss, however, is not indispensable to their boss, nor is this project indispensable to the larger department. You ask for your raise because of your leverage. Your boss might be worried and try to get it for you. Their boss, not caring about this project that much in the broader context of their work, laughs and says no.

You can absolutely be critical to the success of a project, and even important to your boss's future, but have no real leverage over your situation. That's absolutely a reason to leave but it doesn't mean you'll be able to squeeze any more money out of the place before you do.
"Pine64's announcement also delved into the vexed issue of pricing, with the board likely to retail “north of $300”, putting it out of Raspberry Pi competitor territory."

Not being familiar with the CPU/chipset of this device the logical question is whether it is as proportionally more powerful than a Raspberry Pi 4B as its price suggests. Or is there something else about the Pine64 that makes it far more attractive than the Pi and worthy of the price?
It's been suggested. eg. https://www.vice.com/en/article/akzyeb/link-between-lithium-...

> The report states: “These findings, which are consistent with the finding in clinical trials that lithium reduces suicide and related behaviours in people with a mood disorder, suggest that naturally occurring lithium in drinking water may have the potential to reduce the risk of suicide and may possibly help in mood stabilisation, particularly in populations with relatively high suicide rates and geographical areas with a greater range of lithium concentration in the drinking water.”
Why would I ever be inclined to use PHP again? It’s only okay for web servers, but with a language like Go or Python I can do a lot more with them.

PHP was an utter mess. Has it changed? I don’t care. It broke my trust and I’ve moved onto languages that are more thoughtful and general purpose. Returning to PHP would feel like returning to an abusive relationship
> there's an Asimov short story (I can't recall the name) where certain members of society exist only to make connections between unrelated fields because the knowledge of humanity has become so vast.

The story is "Sucker Bait":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucker_Bait
> best way to use and care for Earth’s resources.

that's not interesting. 'Good enough' would suffice.

An idea might be to stop depleting.