skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I understand you) I'm not sure that I'll do it but thank you for idea. For now there are few alternatives like helm charts for k8s or juju from ubuntu, or providers like heroku, but nothing that I know which have level of heroku in open source - and I understand why xD I saw coolify.io on HN yesterday - mayby they will do...
Based on the anecdote Inread home wifi works great, other network APs do not.
Last year, the government director Dr. Trips-Hebert explained the facts and the law to prevent misunderstandings like yours in the future. [1]

Let me translate the key section of his letter: "Section 86a of the Criminal Code is located in the third title of the first section of the Special Part of the Criminal Code.
The offenses of this title criminalize acts that constitute a 'threat to the democratic constitutional state.'"
The protected interests of the provision are political peace, the free democratic basic order
democratic basic order, the idea of international understanding, and Germany's reputation abroad.
The ban serves [...] to prevent the revival of the banned organizations or the aspirations they pursue [...]."

"Hitler.rocks" is not falling under this, since it is not a "threat to the democratic constitutional state". That's also why satire magazines like "Titanic" are allowed to publicly show Swastikas on their front page. [2]

A domain about hitler minerals [3] which does not aspire the revival of banned organizations such as the NSDAP, (there isn't any nazi glorifying content on the website), does not reflect a threat to Germany's democratic state. At least I hope so :)

[1] https://www.bundestag.de/resource/blob/869290/c8bd5f14ef172e...

[2] https://www.titanic-magazin.de/heft/2017/april/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDVIrp8XaWI
Ah, the old “we’ve already solved this 40 years ago”. Lambdas, immutable-by-default, async/await, etc.
It's absolutely astounding how far phone call audio quality has fallen in the last 30 years. I'd kill to have routine narrow-band analog POTS phone calls again.
Even with high end networking equipment (at work), I have found WiFi introduces a lot of latency which is noticeable when e.g. SSHing to other machines.
I'm assuming that our ability to computationally aid / resolve signal is far higher than voyager's.
> I am a professional AI practitioner and I feel that I understand the field well enough to see multiple possible paths towards actually creating AGI.

So do I, but none of them revolve around training an current-era AI to produce an AGI, that was my main objection to your article.
Regarding grids of cells, it seems hard to beat.

If you think of it in terms of energy, where energy is defined as some quantity you want to minimise, then it becomes apparent.

Define the energy as the distance of an atom of data to other atoms of the same subject (row) plus the distance of the data to other atoms of the same abstract property (column). Then choose a model; this defines your atoms. You could call the selection of the model a discretisation because all models become 1s and 0s eventually. If you choose a model where atoms occupy pixels exclusively (only 1 atom per pixel) and the XY coordinates of each atom is the variable, I think you’ll find that feeding it into most optimisers (such as a Monte Carlo simulation) will result in something very closely resembling a grid of cells.

If you choose a different 2D model/discretisation, such as hexagons, you’ll find an abstractly similar result if not a little unfamiliar.

If you chose a higher dimension space for your model/discretisation (3D+), then you may find something uniquely interesting, but good luck mapping it to a solution which is compatible with our traditional 2D UIs.
And I was hoping for a pair of bat wings and a pair of horns.

:shrug:
This zooming in effect is really similar to how THC affects me except it's in reverse i.e. zooming out. In addition to this, I am made a total observer who's entirely out of control and forced to watch myself thankfully act in character. It's an incredibly uncomfortable feeling if I'm not in a comfortable & safe environment.
Towys in my country are usually connected to some kind of mafia. Never met an altruistic one like like matts offroad recovery in my travels.
how much did you take?
I agree. Prominent investors, scores of former and current federal reserve analysts and directors, traders, and many others have been begging congress for financial regulation--before and after meltdowns. Many of those mentioned above have offered direct, specific advice on what to regulate and how to do it. Crickets...for decades.
This is a dumb question but... does housing have fundamentals?

There's a demand curve of renters willing to rent housing at different price points and I can see how this would put a lower-bound on housing prices, but why should there be any upper bound? When you buy a house you intend to live in there is no associated revenue stream, and the only return you can hope for is your expectation that someone else will buy the house from you for more in the future.

Maybe you can quantify that return, by modeling a rising population and municipalities which are slow to add housing? It still feels like housing is worth what other people are willing to pay for it, that's the fundamental.
> During play, loading should be considerably faster as the GPU could just load the data from storage into graphics memory, without touching the main system at all.

This could not affect performance much, because pcie speed far surpass speed of best ssd/nvme.

Currently only problem, that for all transactions ssd<->gpu, involved main cpu, so it have much load only for accept transactions.
But this is already solved by new technology, which appear recently and allows gpu to access ssd directly, unfortunately not much details known.

As for size I'm not sure, because gpu hardware is too special for deal with filesystems, so I think, there will be special fs.
Also possible that this part of disk system will be read only for gpu (all writes and maintenance will do host cpu), to simplify gpu software part.
For some time an assumption - a rule of thumb of a sort - was that chemical rockets can get people comfortably around within Mars orbit, and to get further away we need something better. That "something" is likely not solid-phase nuclear engines, with Isp about twice as good as LOX/LH2, and probably not gas phase nuclear engines... but thermonuclear engines, which get closer to feasibility with advances in thermonuclear energy field. A thermonuclear engine could be more attainable than a thermonuclear electrical plant, and cheaper LEO access could be a big part of enabling technology.

Having engines like that we may talk about much faster trips to Pluto and back.
Hi! Author here. I tried to qualify a good chunk of my assumptions with "I think" or "I believe", because I don't want to come off as thinking I can predict the future (nobody can!), but maybe the article still reads too confidently. How would you suggest I present my thoughts in a more nuanced manner in the future?
I had a problem with US Bank just trying to open an account with them. They sent me these instructions on how to upload a copy of my ss card through some “secure” Cisco system. The email I get has a different subject line than what the instructions said it would, it has this HTML attachment that doesn’t render right, and it was missing the button they said it would to create some kind of account. I was like wtf and their security department said if I didn’t like it then I had to go into a branch to handle everything.

Went with a local credit union instead
Here is a nice short video on how that works: youtube.com/watch?v=2iK3Hw2o_uo
> They are already do "evil" things.

I disagree. I think Apple has been a pretty good steward as a commercial vendor, with a few missteps. I have a pretty high degree of trust in them-- though my eyes are always open for any substantive problems emerging.
Lawyers drafting indictments directly related to a technical subject should have them proof read by someone with knowledge of that subject.
What the hell were they doing that close to Chernobyl anyway?
Reproducible builds? [0]

[0] https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/
I like it, reminds me a lot of something I used to use with Windows -- SpaceSniffer

This might get me to finally stop writing so many loops, but getting this on servers at work might be questionable :D
Good point. As anyone who has written an essay before can attest, if you have it all in your head before you start writing it can flow out from your fingers remarkably quickly. If you're still piecing it together as you go along it will typically take an order of magnitude longer.
> An AI that is truly generally intelligent could figure out how to free itself from its own host hardware!

We haven't even figured that out for ourselves yet. Why assume an AI will automatically be able to do so?
Maybe I'm showing my old age, but I never thought of Wi-Fi networking or mobile voice as anything other than "toy" technologies, unsuitable for SeriousBusiness™. Wi-Fi is what you use very temporarily at a coffee shop or something when you simply have to log in to deal with an emergency while on the go. But, for serious daily driver usage, it's wired all the way. First thing I did when I moved into my home was crawl under the crawlspace and run two CAT 6 drops to each room.

If I were to be hired by a company and went into their office the first day, and they said, "so the corporate Wi-Fi SSID is..." well, I'd kind of not take them really seriously as a business. I realize with today's much better Wi-Fi and cellular technologies, that this is an emotional response and there's no rational facts behind the way I feel. Just an artifact of growing up with "wired = reliable".
I’m in no ways an expert on this, so someone please correct me if it’s wrong, but one of the things that I learned that was surprising was that one client with marginal reception can really dominate the airtime with retries, effectively DOSing your wifi network. So good coverage is also pretty key.
I know it doesn't matter for reading text, but the look is no bueno.

I really think this detracts from the credibility of a "Security expert".
It's just entropy, honestly. Growth = complexity/debt/escalating coordination cost. Success = complacency/greed. Like a cancer, the fruits of growth and success eventually burn the house down.

It's just the way of things, apparently. I try hard to not worry about it too much and instead side-step it as best I can.
A very cheap thinkpad if he need a laptop.

When I need more power I use RDPs with free cloud credits which you can easily get.

If you can get your hands on a raspberry pi at the real price it could be even cheaper. When I was really broke I was just hooking a PI to my TV, with a 30-40$ wireless keyboard+touchpad(logitech). And I was connecting to a remote RDP with free cloud credits.(the PI itself is actually usable with just a light linux distro, but it's kind of limited)

I was basically getting the equivalent of a 1K/2K$(or even 4K$ computer) for like 100-150$ tops.

(for credits, there is GCP which offers 300$ for the free trial, or AWS which have all kind of different offers, from student programs(including online courses), to any kind of entrepreurship program, if you have a basic website or just a landing page with a realistic project you can get a TON of credits, it doesn't have to be a real startup, just a side project that you may or may not finish one day...)

he could also learn some basics about cloud services/hosting that way...
So you use your device as a universal remote control. That is not at all the common use case.
Accepting the waste energy arguments, some remaining criticisms of proofs of work revolve around the allocation of computing resources, e.g. manufacturing custom ASICs to compute hashes vs other applications.

(This is also a utility argument, but more nuanced than the nocoin argument. It leaves open the question of whether the market forces are sufficient to give ideal outcomes for society.)
My personal pet peeve theory is that automotive engineering missed the memo that the hard part of software based systems is integration and remote dependencies.

All their engineering and supply structures have evolved from mass producing mechanical marvels which happen to have a few electrical and electronic E/E components, marvels and components which are hard to manufacture but simple to integrate ("plug together", essentially).

At the core, their thinking goes "Creating components is expensive. Putting components together is cheap. Also minimize prototype scrap with extensive planning and scrupulous list checking processes. If parts don't work together you didn't plan well enough."

And that leads to a culture that is the exact opposite of CI/CD, fail early, fail often, rebase or reintegrate continuously.

Thus in the automotive SPICE and six sigma world it takes 2-3 years to replace an ECU with another one with sufficiently similar specs.

Also, they prioritize "economies of scale" over flexibility and time to market.

For example a "gateway controller", a router and switch, routing and switching between ethernet and CAN, with some spare CPU cycles for centralized functions? 2-3 years. Now let's say you need 3 million of these devices per year (Volkswagen group, Toyota, Stellantis each make ~10 million vehicles y/y), and you'll produce cars with that same device for 5 years? Then cost savings of 10$ per device are equal to 150 Mio bucks. As a supplier you'll happily put 20 people on saving those 10 bucks on the "bill of materials" --- not adding cool features, no, saving some RAM, CPU, ... the boring and non-innovative side of "economies of scale"

Now the device is cheaper but maxed out. So your OEM won't ship new functions. the OEM is also later to market. And the OEM can't replace the part as easily because the spare would have to be as damn dirt cheap as the original. Not alone would you have to redo all these micro optimizations --- the savings from the previous design wouldn't materialize against the lower volume any more.

And that is, in a nutshell, imnsho, why automotive asks for more of the old parts instead of switching to a new board design with a next-gen CPU...

To summarize: automotive deals time to market and flexibility for "economies of scale" and "automotive grade quality processes".

Contrast that to an OEM who thinks like a software CEO...
the software CEO understands that the secret to high quality is in CI/CD with outstanding test and validation pipelines. You seek to change any part of your system just at marginal cost. And then you can replace some ECU within 6 months.
> UltOrg is roughly "spreadsheets re-built atop the RDBMS datamodel".

That's how AirTable is described as well. And Google Tables. And Amazon Honeycode.
If you can map the differences in your code and your interface does not leak any implementation detail, you won't have problems.

But if the current database has features that can't be mapped to the new one, the interface won't save you.

Example: DynamoDB has a "time-to-live" feature [1]. You add a specific property to any item with a timestamp and it will auto-delete this item at the timestamp determined.

Few databases will provide this out of the box. If you choose to use it and later need to migrate, you'll have to implement your own kind of "TTL monitor" to perform the same task. The interface can't possibly save you from this.

But this would be an issue whether you decide to use a central interface or not, anyway...

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerg...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_banking
Throwing Bodies at Gaps in I.T. Systems
This whole line of reasoning sounds like a philosopher debating the number of teeth in a horse's mouth.

Just come visit San Francisco and see the evidence. Look in the horse's mouth, so to speak. The cars are driving around a complex city, without a driver, and doing an amazing job. The progress is real.
I was going to ask you when it is typically harvested, but thought I'd check the page you helpfully linked:

Winter wheat accounts for about 97 percent of Ukraine’s total wheat production. It is planted from early September to mid-November and harvested between July and September.

So depending on what happens with the invasion, it seems possible that a substantial portion might still be harvested on schedule.
Python has some pretty neat metaprogramming features that are worth knowing about.
This is true. For radiation hardening for space, this is exactly what is required for anything more harsh than LEO. And as a consequence, the generation of processors and memory typically used are 10-20 years behind the current state of the art. That's simply the price of reliability in harsh environments!
Having dependencies not change is literally trivial. Just link to them by hash. Async/await is a pragmatist garbage hack, and does not fit in the archetype you are trying to name.
> What is it then?

I'd say it's a property of forms of government, or of constitutions: some of them are more democratic than others. Sometimes it's obvious which of two systems is more democratic; sometimes reasonable people will disagree. There can be different opinions on which criteria are most important. For example, how much does it matter if convicts are not allowed to vote, or if homeless people find it almost impossible to vote in practice? But also it's not really the formal rules that matter. How things work in practice can be more important. How are the rules interpreted? Do people really follow them? What would happen if the government broke the rules? How would people behave in a crisis?

Like I said, my feeling is that the UK has a relatively strong culture of democracy despite having a very bad electoral system and a monarch that could theoretically refuse to give royal assent. I think a government that was really hated by a big majority of the population would be removed without violence before too long. I think that's how one philosopher (Karl Popper?) defined democracy. But I'd still like to see things improved.
Yudkowsky is a philosopher, in the sense of someone who thinks a lot about things that haven't been achieved yet. Lots of otherwise smart people (wrongly!) discount the value of philosophy, but it's close by every time there's a paradigm shift in humanity's knowledge. Philosophers can be scientists and vice versa.

If anything, I'm surprised that this philosophy isn't mentioned more in a thread where the author gleefully talks about ML being used to create better AI, layer by layer until the thing is even more opaque than what we're currently working with.

This is terrifying, as we currently have only very loose ideas about how to reliably ensure that a powerful reinforcement learning system doesn't accidentally optimize for something we don't want. The current paradigm is "turn it off", which works well for now but seems like a fragile shield long-term.
There are classes ABOVE mil-spec. These are several "Space grade" classes above mil-spec which have far wider temperature and radiation ranges.
What's OCF?
Unity 3d has this where you can update variables directly from the editor, some scripts can be reloaded aswell, maybe you meant for network games ?
A common symptom of today's society, thinking so short term.

Should we consider these systems are only in place for 10-20 years, are assume their use will grow so we certainly want to make sure we're not evolving less robust bees.
I agree. Congress is paralyzed (far more than the usual) when it comes to monetary policy and financial services regulation. It's officially their job but not their wheel house. Unsettling.
You should have spun up gour own tile business, preferably just dropshipping from the real Jordan’s Tiles!
Purchasing it at market value sounds fairly convincing.
Yes, pretty much anything that goes into your lungs is bad. Lungs are incredibly fragile. This is especially so if whatever you're inhaling is hot (eg.: water vapour, smoke from any source...).
Yeah unless technological growth curves are logistic and we're soon in for another 500 years of figuring out how to create societies stable enough to facilitate not having to shit outside in the winter.
I wonder how USA would fare in the face of a real war on the scale of WWII or bigger.

For once, the government would need a real jolt, a voice of a leader, to send a spine chilling message down to every corner of the gov to stand up and get up. This seems impossible in the day of social media and the internet.

Second, the financing machinery of the government would need to be completely replaced with something temporary the 1000x size of DARPA to get things going. Most people don’t know but the marginal tax rate during WWII and well into 1970’s was insanely high, at one point 91%. Reagan reduced marginal taxes from 70% to 28% by the end of his term.

Laws would be slashed or dismantled. Bureaucracy would see the face of reality it has never seen.

Then, the will of the people. Which I feel the most optimistic about. Humans are pretty good at getting together in a war like urgency. Counter point is COVID, but I can imagine every person to be onboard if a nuclear bomb was detonated in New York.

It would be a strangely fascinating thing to witness, as much as I wish no war to ever happen.
> San Francisco proposed a new bus lane on Van Ness in 2001. Its opening was delayed to 2022, yielding a project duration of around 7,600 days. “The project has been delayed due to an increase of wet weather since the project started,” said Paul Rose, a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency spokesperson. The project will cost $310 million, i.e. $100,000 per meter. The Alaska Highway, mentioned above, constructed across remote tundra, cost $793 per meter in 2019 dollars.

A similar example – the Golden Gate Bridge was built in 4 years in the 1930s at a (inflation adjusted) cost of $500M, ahead of schedule and 10% under budget. A project to install suicide nets below the bridge started in 2008 and is still ongoing after multiple delays, with a total projected cost of $211M.
Show HN: I made a stupid indoor cycling app for my command line
Wow. And here I think that everyone I know uses ublock origin or similar. Adblock's even mandated on servers I manage if we need a browser.

And here we are, someone not using any sort of adblocking. It's essential antivirus for the web. And you absolutely should be using it. Adverts are a massive malware entry point.
My son is learning Java and Python for a middle school class. I encouraged him to download Squeak and learn Smalltalk, as to my thinking a student is going to struggle to understand OOP if you jump into Java and Python. I know there are many OOP haters here on HN, but I'd encourage you to take a hard look at Smalltalk and consider how it approaches software engineering - it might convert you into a fan.
you mean the enormous drop-down on the left at the top? Where it shows the current cell, and you can type to replace the value with a name?
I am very wary of taking too much from (python, js, et al). Referential transparency is of great value, and it is a shame to lose it. As a colleague is fond of saying, mutation (et al) is an implementation issue, not a language issue.

Also: python does not scale well. If you pursue python (or its ilk), you will converge on common lisp (or similar), which is, ideologically, diametrically opposed to apl. The conflict should be clear. Conceptual integrity and coherence will be lost at any point in between (this is not to imply that common lisp is a bad thing).

And, by nature, common lisp can subsume apl (see april), but the reverse is not true.
Oooh, good way to abstract out names from stories! Stolen for my own future use.