skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I might be misunderstanding GP, but I think what they're saying is that when package A depends on package B, building package A will use B's lockfile. Assuming that's the case, I think this is generally not how Rust does things, as by default Cargo.lock is explicitly listed in the .gitignore when making a library crate, although there's nothing stopping anyone from just removing that line. I think I remember reading in documentation somewhere that checking in Cargo.lock for libraries is discouraged (hence the policy), but I don't recall exactly where since it's been so long. (That being said, there's a pretty decent chance you were the one who wrote that documentation, so maybe you might remember!)
The human experience is fundamentally chemical in nature (which is why alcohol has an impact on cognition, for example). What would it even mean to replicate that in silicon? I know food is bad because I can hold it, smell it, and taste it, none of which a computer can do. If you tried to upload someone's consciousness to a machine, you would need to emulate the full sensory experience as well, because there would be zero context otherwise.

What's missing from discussions on AGI is the lack of a measure that relates human intelligence with machine intelligence, and the recognition that our own intelligence is fundamentally tied in to our physical bodies. To what extent does it make sense to talk about intelligence without also talking about its embodiment?
> there are absolutely zero studies that show that these compounds are either safe or dangerous.

there are many studies about these medicines - curious where this statement that there are none is coming from?

here's a tip of the iceberg, a good place to start --

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01336-3

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/00952990.2016.11...

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/...

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/hallucin...

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/magic_mu...
High-end digital imagery has always had a use case for Linux because being open lets you bodge together custom software and hardware to create bespoken pipelines - Wacom just followed along with that demand as it picked up in the early years of desktop Linux, as a form of B2B client service.

Proprietary apps in this space still gained most of the market by aggregating the most common features, giving them some UX polish and shoving them into the education pipeline; the open alternatives have always been in the background, since they are, in fact, too professional, in the sense of "you have to make it your job to understand this thing", and didn't aim to make the common things particularly easy. That's only changed with time, gradual iteration and industry support to break the monopolies.
You're not wrong, but discrimination in businesses serving the public is a pretty hairy subject.

The protected groups are broad enough and the spirit of the law clearly such that there's a pretty straightforward path to arguing refusing to accept cash at public restaurants/bars is discriminating against minorities which tend to overlap substantially with poverty, or religions that prohibit the use of debt/credit where cash would be perfectly fine.

The fact of the matter is this move towards cashless retail commerce alienates significant numbers of citizens, and those people overlap substantially with the existing protected groups.

If you're going to refuse cash, it should be a private members-only club.
Insect “penises” vary hugely, or even wilder variations e.g. detachable.

“Insect genitalia have been the focus of much attention since the middle of the 19th century, when their taxonomic value to diagnose species with otherwise very similar [shapes] was recognised.”, “The structure of the female genitalia of Limnebius is poorly known, mostly due to the lack of sclerotized parts”. https://peerj.com/articles/1882/
Is it possible to use squeak for a typical enterprise software - accessing databases, with a strong authentication system, with CRUD screens, multi-user abilities etc?
> The males in many species compete to match some criteria of quality observed by females of that species.

It works in the other direction as well, especially if competition involves expending many resources on a single female. Only attractive females attract many competitors.

> It’s already applied in business [Founders (competing), investors (curating)] [...]

Wouldn't the even more basic dynamic in business been between company and customers? (And of course also between company and suppliers including workers who supply labour (or investors who supply capital, as you mention)?)
You can get a special HDMI cable with the CEC cables disconnected to stop that.

CEC won't work at all then of course, but it will fix that problem.
It's interesting that Harbin became so prominent given its general obscurity otherwise. If you are interested in the history of biology, Harbin during WWII was occupied by the Japanese and was the primary site of their "Unit 731" which focused on biological warfare. Did the Chinese take over their labs post war?
My state has hundreds of judges. I daresay they could convince some of these to run an oncall rotation for a slight compensation bump. It's not like the police are filing these EDRs every day.
Not really, Turing test and its variants aren't that relevant anymore. Even Turing himself didn't like it.
They can specifiy "Open Source Textbooks" or at least ones without a one-off code for marketing tests.
We know how the room works--not the brain.

...Can we break it down and replicate it?

Can my sense of self be quantified?

What about animals, insects, viruses?

Is life unique, or an illusion too?

Or, are you the Chinese speaker, and the universe the room?
I don't know how you think that programme means anything other than a centralized decision making process. It doesn't matter if you put "population wide selective breeding of the exact same traits" - it actually matters especially if you do - before a word that means "a set of related measures or activities with a particular long-term aim" - you think this process of "population wide selective breeding of the exact same traits" has an aim, which it most emphatically does not have an aim, as it is a response to environmental conditions. Unless you think the environment has an aim? Even still, in no world does any single or group of individuals have any sway over this process.
I don't think dzink's point relies on whether the suitor is male or female, but that the distinction exists at all and is so widespread.

> [...] and there are - or used to be, sadly - enough species for every linear combination of both possibilities.

Extinction is sad, but there's still plenty enough species to make this statement true.

> If I know anything about nature, it's that it's a brute-force optimizer for biological fitness. Every possible combination of traits could feasibly be tested on these scales.

Not quite. Eg there's basically no wheel in nature, despite the structure itself being quite simple. That's mostly because it's hard to evolve in small steps.
It has a definition in the same sense that "Agile" and "Lean" and "Six Sigma" have a definition. The definition isn't important, it's the group of ideas that the word refers to.
"Vivisection" involves a living creature.
Letting a part of the population die, perhaps entire species or groups of species, is one of the way nature "rights itself".
Well, the fatalities were exactly how nature 'righted itself'. Nature ain't squeamish.
"Parental investment theory, a term coined by Robert Trivers in 1972, predicts that the sex that invests more in its offspring will be more selective when choosing a mate, and the less-investing sex will have intra-sexual competition for access to mates. This theory has been influential in explaining sex differences in sexual selection and mate preferences, throughout the animal kingdom and in humans."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_investment
Something to think about: the self-decompressing algorithm of AGI is encoded at some index in PI.
“The End of Empathy” is an Invisibilia (NPR) episode arguing empathy for a person harms others. I find the episode to be an interesting window into how some folk think. https://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/712280114/the-end-o...
The techniques that will allow AGI are probably already invented. How many people at the time knew what that patent meant for the future of the world?
What you’re describing is called “mating habits”. It’s quite common for many animal species and even communities within a subset of a species to choose mates for similar traits and similar desired outcomes for their offspring.
In the late 1970's I attended an informational talk by an engineer in the Bell system. The speaker said: "We don't know how good the [POTS] system is, but we don't want to make it any worse."
Why would it be a constant risk across all females?

There would be quite a lot of pressure to not die from forced mating. Can't reproduce when you are dead after all.
Additionally, on the other end of the spectrum, small quantities (3-4) of countable items don't need conscious calculations to be counted.

Beyond 4, we need to sum the items consciously.

Beyond 10 (or so), the error rate on quick quantity calculations is exploding. The brain is just falling back on approximation mode.
This is a very great AI that could be put to great use in the right hands, mostly at fitness centers and weight loss programs. A great motivator for those that could work for their ideal body type. Although it could easily be abused with people getting catfished online, I think the positives far outweigh the negatives. I remember when this type of body morphing could only be done with someone with advanced expeirence on Adobe Photoshop. Now its been reduced to sliders and its all automatic. Simply amazing.
Well, it can hold more than 88 888 floppies' worth of data!
>male or female, but that the distinction exists at all and is so widespread.

Fair enough. I do find it interesting that even in plants that have N different sexes, their life cycles are still often dimorphic.

Maybe the most fundamental abstraction really is the difference between a 1 and a 0.
> a backseat collaborator willing to get on an Air China jet, eat terrible food, and stay in bad hotels

I'm not sure why this is supposed to be compelling evidence. Are people who refuse to work unless provided first class plane tickets, meals at Michelin star restaurants, and five-star hotels expected to be more reliable? If anything, I imagine people would be way more willing fudge or flat out lie about their research if they were willing to get that kind of accommodation out of it.
I use Krista on Wayland on Fedora 35.
> It's not like the police are filing these EDRs every day.

Do you have a source for this? I just went to check T-Mobile for example and their site says they got 164k of them in 2020. [1] That's about 450/day, and it's just one company.

[1] https://www.t-mobile.com/news/_admin/uploads/2021/07/2020-Tr...
ThoughtLog: The Free Automatic Diary
Topic Modeling in NLP Using SVD and NMF in Python
(a) you're a buzz-kill; and (b) that i2c bus is part of HDMI so it is an HDMI display.
There are multiple choices for various non-glossy screen protectors for the iPads, some specifically designed for more natural writing/drawing feel.

On-device handwriting (and speech) recognition, and if it's a new enough device...on-device Siri.

Optional cellular connectivity.

GPS.

Top-notch high resolution color screen.

Probably the best device security in the entire marketplace...versus a tablet that is forced to sync with a cloud service located in a nation controlled by the chinese communist party, who considers extensive economic and industrial espionage, as well as 'thought policing' and human rights abuses, to be something of a sport.

Massive accessory and app ecosystem, including most major cloud services.

Works with self-hosted sevices like Nextcloud.

Superb integration with other Apple devices, including functioning as an external monitor.

Fast charging.

Cameras and microphones for video recording, conferencing/calling, and biometric unlock.
Ugh, reading this reminded me why I felt good moving away from Go after the honeymoon period was over.

Actually writing the code was fun at first, but everything else around the actual act of composing code was thoroughly awful UX.
To build intuition on scaling, the 1997 "Powers of Ten" video is an excellent resource that is still shown in introductory university physics lectures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0
Scientists sequence the complete human genome for the first time
I've used a Wacom tablet with Fedora for a while and it works really well! I find a lot of value in drawing while programming to work out problems, and being able to easily put those drawings then into Obsidian is just great.
I also hold the opinion that intelligence is computable, but it's not hard to imagine the complexity required is maybe more than we can achieve in the short, maybe medium term.
MP3 players certainly existed so the idea of the iPod wasn't new. All the chips were off the shelf, the Pixo OS already existed, and Apple already had iTunes. The timeline has been verified by multiple people who were there but maybe Fadell already had the idea worked out before he was hired.
And what about things people do that don’t make any statistical sense?

Is it AGI if it picks up its underwear the first time you ask, or is it only AGI once it waits for you to get angry after the fifth time you ask?
That's a lot of work for an April Fool's joke. I'm pretty sure it's legit, they even link to the proposal.
> I will continue dismissing AGI until someone can tell me what GI is

Here's a rather famous recommendation for a definition of general intelligence: https://arxiv.org/pdf/0712.3329.pdf

Very loosely paraphrasing their paper, general intelligence is the ability to adapt to novel situations and predict the future better than any other algorithm could do.

Personally, I think of perfect AGI as this: given that our universe is capable of approximation to arbitrary precision using a universal Turing machine (and infinite time and memory), AGI is the best* computable approximation to Solomonoff induction.

*"best" being some mathematical notion of optimality.
Stupid GoF research has those risks. Totally eliminating a research methodology because of possible bad actors is just like how nuclear energy was delayed for decades because of green ooze.
I like the big numbers with lots of zeros: works for kids as well.

IMHO it could lose some of the silly charm with scientific notation.

But having the numbers aligned for easy comparison would be great.

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To OP: I really like this! Will be guessing some with my kids who are around 10 year old. Combined weight less than an elephant.
Structurally speaking, it's easy to imagine a number of ways the female could have complete control over the process.

But if we don't observe that complete control (at least not in most species), and instead it's more of an "arms race"; then it makes me think complete control is an evolutionary disadvantage. Is that true?
Perhaps language is the foundation for symbol manipulation and complex thoughts. Are feelings a language?
I too would like to subscribe to this newsletter.
> The Soviet Union lost the Cold War decisively. Its empire fell into pieces, its regional alliance disappeared, and most of its former allies joined NATO. Russia lost, and the Western alliance won. Given this, it is not NATO’s responsibility to protect Russian state security interests. It is Russia’s responsibility to give wide berth to NATO, recognizing—as every realist should—that the strong do what they will, the weak do what they must.
Not sure if this is also the case with roundabouts, but traffic circles are significantly more hazardous for cyclists than intersections.

https://cyclingincities-spph.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2018/06/...
Unfettered access without oversight as was acceptable during WWII in practice means LE is behaving as if they are fighters in a war. If they are not regular militia, then according to official US narrative they are insurgents.

Turns out the war on drugs was a war against the People.
Emu: A multiprocessor software debugging tool (1982)
It's definitely not perfect -- great fun, but lacking polish.
U.S. Government's Google Maps Probe Could Send Ripples Through the Car Industry
Define "a large part." Are we talking linear numbers? The US has a population of 350 million people, 3.5 million is still only 1%. Would you say that the percentage of French ethno nationalists is above 1% of the population? What about percentages? I challenge you to find anything showing a double digit percentage of Americans that would like segregation.

You have a very uninformed and derogatory view of a certain segment of the US population, and your view of southerners in particular is very stereotypical and not rooted in fact.
If you say so. The fact of the matter is that if you plugged that thing into, say, a DVD player with an HDMI output, it wouldn't work.

Sorry if that kills your buzz.
There's also Peter Daszak talking about modifying coronavirus spike proteins (through direct synthesis of RNA or serial passage or both). At "History & Future of Pandemics", at the New York Academy of Medicine. In February, 2016.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?404875-1/pandemics at 1:16:30

I can't get over just how insane this sounds. He goes on to claim it's to then check whether humans have antibodies to these mutant viruses they'll create in the lab, except why would there necessarily be that much antibody cross-reactivity between lab-engineered viral spike proteins and spike proteins that spilled over from bats to (eventually) humans naturally?
It’s an “upgrade” of an existing street, don’t think any land had to be purchased.
she chose to freeze up and do nothing instead of fixing her situation. She chose to let a +200K equity get repossessed and taken instead of paying her taxes.

She chose to let a 10K tax bill balloon into a 24K tax bill and then freak out and not pay them even though she had 200K+ in the "bank". To get the money in the "bank" (her equity) she'd have had to do some financing and take some action. She didn't.

She chose to "petition the court" to ask if she had the right to sell which was sadly a waste of time because it's not the courts job to answer such things. Before the foreclosure was final, she still owned the property and could do whatever she wanted. She didn't take action!

In short she chose to freeze up and fail instead of hiring competent consul and fix her situation.

This is a sad and unfortunate case. It illustrates to me that our systems are difficult and can be unforgiving. It illustrates that we need something extrajudicial that has compassion, for example outreach, advice, support.

What it is not is immoral. Following the rules is not immoral, nobody lied, cheated, etc. The existing rules leave enormous amounts of time and leeway to correct mistakes and fix things. The plaintiff had to spend $100,000 on court fees to push this eviction. That's not a simple thing so there was lots of time and opportunity to reverse this. And it's economically a lot of effort wasted if she would have instead just paid her taxes.

90% of the people reading this are not as well off as the "victim" was - they don't own their house free and clear with a bunch of equity. Well, even if you do someday, guess what? you still have to pay your taxes.
Wacom Revenue ¥108.5 B (2021), Market Capitalization ¥153.1 B

I expected the market cap to be higher for that revenue, but Logitech Price/Sales ratio is 2.1, and Razer is 1.7 so maybe normal for that market?
Deceiving the actor with no film in camera sounds extreme, but I suppose every production is different. Sometimes actors come up with new or better lines. Off top of my head, Brad Pitt apparently came up with the line "what's that smell" when he died at the end of Fight Club. The Big Bang Theory cast described the set as a "sandbox" where they tried different things, but I suppose a TV series has different production methods.
Stack Overflow April Fools
>No, run `go get <package with vuln>@<version that fixes vuln>` and Go will do it for you.

The point GP was making is that it's not a given you'll know that there's a security vuln in a sub-sub-sub-dependency of your app. Is it reasonable to expect developers to manually keep tabs on what could be dozens of libraries that may or may not intersect with the dependencies of any other apps you have on the go?

Maybe for Google scale where you can "just throw more engineers at the problem".
Yes, it's normal for even the best to make mistakes. That's why pilots have checklists and copilots, for example.
smaller dpi and about the same size of an Apple watch that sells about 30M units a year :-)
I'm a fan of PFsense. You can install it on almost anything. You'll need to find a Wi-Fi solution to go with it.
Thanks for this article! It really resonated with where I am right now trying to more effectively manage my time, keep the team healthy, and keep up with everyone's requests as a product manager/sr. engineer. I'll give the 4,000 weeks book a read.
Upgrade to openbsd and you always get the current version of go with each release. :)
workspace of Go1.18 may solve your issues
https://sebastian-holstein.de/post/2021-11-08-go-1.18-featur...
Mine has touch functionality but I turned it off. I move/spin the canvas using the pen buttons.
>If the whole generation is selecting one way, then they are influencing the next generation greatly reducing the randomness of the outcome

Consider...the selection of the Nth generation, if it significantly affects the N+1th generation... was significantly affected by the N-1th... thus most if not all of the randomness lay in the 0th generation...

But that's not the case. Each generation randomly selects traits, the distribution of these traits is constrained by their biological fitness, which is not determined by an individual, but by the interaction of phenotype and the environment.

>Who then have to fend off big dick energy in future seasons

Love is out there man. Just work on yourself and keep an open mind. Humans can work with abstractions so far above the base nature that we see in animals.
When developers change roles so frequently, being an employer with a reputation for being full of smart people is a good recruiting tactic.

Not because you get good work done, but because people will apply because you look good on a resume.
Thanks! I still hope to learn how they deal with infamous "bi directional requirements Tracing" and similar bureaucracies in the name of dependability. How do they evidence engineering scrutiny, how do the embed it into their processes in such a way that they _evidence_ scrutiny and deliberate engineering _without_ massive paper safety tigers, _without_ tons of slow bureaucracy?
It’s funny that no amount of (Rust-like) compile time or (Java-like) runtime checks would have prevented this — every line of code is working as intended. The parallels to the recent Log4J vulnerability are evident.

If you happen to think, as I do, that we need safe(r) languages to have any hope of creating secure systems, then problems like these are a striking reminder that memory safety alone isn’t sufficient to achieve security.
Emscripten is very cool. So is this optimization effort. This feels like the truest form of the promise of open source.
This ability to stop, move to another machine or upgrade, and then run is a central design thesis for Adama: https://www.adama-platform.com/

I can also take the state and archive to S3, or rewind it.