skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People often confuse not being able to understand how something is possible with it being impossible.

Despite all the progress being made by using a little bit of design, and a whole lot of brute force, people keep saying it can’t work, and they keep being proven wrong.

Ironically I think this means AI won’t be creating AI in an exponentially increasing way - because AI is more about scaling and emergence of dumb elements than it is about grand designs.
> "If I was a doctor and wanted to work at some other company, would I need to study the MCAT every year in order to pass a screening interview based on one possible question?"

If you were a doctor, you would have gone through 4-5 years of supervised residency after medical school (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residency_(medicine)) to guarantee some minimum level of competency before becoming a practitioner. Pay is notoriously poor and the hours are extremely long.

Programmers have it exceedingly good and the only reason for that is that software is still in its growth phase. I doubt we'll all be still riding the gravy train in another 25-50 years.
Entire generation of older Americans who will happily read out their credit card number over the telephone.
I agree, what Gawker did was wrong. But being wronged once doesnt excuse Thiel's actions. And (more importantly imo) the larger issue is -- are you comfortable with a random person having enough money/power to threaten freedom of the press?

Also Thiel is far from the only person to be outed, the only difference is his reaction/how much money he has. Do you think its equally wrong that Wired outed Naomi Wu while she lives in a country hostile to LGBTQ+ people?

Have you read Conspiracy?
No - Wicker Park. Love it.

My family isn't too far away, and I had a few close friends there, so it worked out surprisingly well.
Yes; you can get it right; lots of places don't, but you can.
And it's very good for people constantly shuffling between meeting rooms.
That's a real use
Then came the spam calls. At all hours.

Dr. Ozimek knew, in his heart, that no one he wanted to talk to was ringing. And yet.

“That’s how we were raised. You run to answer the phone,” he says. “It’s like if someone walks up to you and says hello and you were to just stare them in the face and not respond.”

After a few months of nonstop ringing, he gave up and unplugged it.

Dr. Ozimek has evidently completely forgotten the other part of a wired telephone: the answering machine. It's like voice mail except it's in a little box next to your phone that plays the message as it's being recorded, and automatically stops if you pick up the phone.

Which did lead to messages like "Hello? Hello, Peggy? I know you're there. Pick up the phone. Pick up pick up pick up... Okay, I guess you're out. Um, I got your thing, call me when you get back and we'll talk about pickup times. Monday and Thursday evening next week are probably good for me."
The video probably took longer to produce than the display, lol. :D

It's an art. Scenes like this https://youtu.be/Wo5yLfvocJw?t=143 really capture the reverse engineering feeling... The tediousness, the flow state of endless probing until something gives, hopefully the reverse engineered object, instead of your heart. :D

I like the video/entertainment more than the weird display.
Those Jags start at $40k, to regular people. No doubt cheaper if you buy hundreds at a time. So the self driving tech is $100k+.
> according to Wikipedia, the Korean denasalized nasals are pronounced exactly like their oral counterparts, i.e. "b" instead of "m" and "d" instead of "n".

I don't speak Korean, but from hearing it I get the impression that it's more complicated than that:

Korean word-initial nasals vary randomly in their nasality. Sometimes they are partially nasal, sometimes there is no nasal airflow at all. And when they are fully denasalized, the resulting [b] and [d] are voiced for the full duration that they are held, while normal [b] and [d] resulting from word-medial /p/ and /t/ are only partially overvoiced i.e. similar to English /b/ and /d/.
Fake emergency search warrants draw scrutiny from Capitol Hill
Glasnost is gone. Unlike lots of history, this bit has a monument that isn’t disappearing. It can spread and get bigger, though.
Understanding Arm64EC ABI and assembly code
Yes, node's attempt to include lockfiles is botched, unfortunately. Not only are there UX issues (it's completely unintuitive that you should be using "npm ci", for example), but the lock file can also get corrupted e.g. during a merge conflict and npm performs no sanity checking on it.

I once had a case where a build was suddenly failing. The reason turned out to be that (for whatever reason) a dev had managed to corrupt the lock file, probably during a merge conflict, in such a way that the entry for package A actually contained the URL for package B. It turns out that npm didn't realise that this was inconsistent (with the package.json, and with the npm registry) and downloaded package B but exported it as package A, making the error incredibly hard to pin down.
For a while now I’ve been experimenting with the idea of a strongly typed spreadsheet. There is no grid model; instead computation occurs in discrete cells, where each cell can store one value, with ‘value’ defined as in programming languages to include data structures like lists and tables. Each cell gets its own type, and the formula language is type-checked before running, to allow flexible yet error-checked representation of natural data. Alas, I never was able to find a domain where this tool would be significantly better than both Excel and Jupyter… though somehow I’m still convinced that this would be a useful tool, if only I could find the right place for it.
How's filecoin better than Dropbox or Google Drive?
I didn't say I trust reviews on Target. Paid reviews exist everywhere. But if I have to choose, I'd trust Target's first. Amazon's extensive 3rd party marketplace is set up in a way that encourages vendors to game their system. Amazon does nothing about it because it's good for business.

And I trust Target's products are genuine and what you receive is what's in the product description, because they sell them in stores.
Let me preface this by saying I'm so far out of my lane on this, however I have some thoughts on the paper.

- One thing that I've picked up from a number of sources that isn't mentioned in the article, is that millennials entering the home buying phase of their lives as being a big reason why housing was primed to pop between 2020-2024. Basically demographics have played a huge part in this boom.
- Most mortgages are actually in good shape from a paper perspective [1]
- Most mortgages are 30-yr compared to the crazy ARM instruments [2]

My theory is that home prices will NOT drop, like in 2008, but rather will stabilize. Three reasons why:
1. Milliennials will keep overall demand up
2. Homebuilders will slow down on producing new inventory, and we're already at all time lows for inventory
3. Existing homeowners will be hesitant to sell because most are locked into a 30-yr with most likely a sub 2-3% mortgate

All of that, in theory, will result in less overall supply which will keep prices stable

[1] https://twitter.com/LoganMohtashami/status/15084587889693450...

[2] https://twitter.com/lenkiefer/status/1507870733615214598
I was gonna say - it's nearly impossible for the home ownership rate to be ~65% and 1/3 SFH also owned by institutions.

The vast majority of rental stock is not SFH, and the vast majority of rental homes are owned by mom & pop's.
The difference is the npm ecosystem actively encourages automatically following SemVer because by default it uses a ^ to prefix the version number. https://heynode.com/tutorial/how-use-semantic-versioning-npm...

The practice of dependencies’ dependencies being specified using SemVer version constraints to auto-accept minor or patch changes is the difference compared to Go, and why lockfiles will not always save you in the npm ecosystem. That said, approaches like Yarn zero-install can make very explicit the versions installed because they are distributed with the source. Similarly, the default of using npm install is bad because it will update lockfiles, you have to use npm ci or npm install —ci both of which are less well-known.

So it’s not impossible to fix, just a bad choice of defaults for an ecosystem of packages that has security implications about the same as updating your Go (or JS) dependencies automatically and not checking the changes first as part of code review. Blindly following SemVer to update dependencies is bad, from a security perspective, regardless of why or how you’re doing it.
It's easy enough to just pull down the file, and throw it away after viewing: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
When a small guy does something like this it's called fraud and heavily punished. When a VC-funded company does this it's called "growth hacking" and applauded.
That's great if you're in a body building competition, but you're training to have a heart attack at 65.
Airtable is not really that -- it does not do much/anything in the way of calculations or aggregations. I love it and it's great for creating very structured ways of managing data, but it can't do even very basic aggregations.
You cannot donate a old book to a library and assume that they will keep it and lend it out.

The best you can hope is that they sell it for a dollar at their next fund raiser.

Only if it is rare and already known as a great book or historic or worth a lot of money is it likely someone will see the same value you see in it.

Maybe the time for non-lending libraries And public reading rooms has come back.
This must translate to some difference in cohesion and morale when the crap hits the spinner.
An argument against AGI might be that brains are extremely efficient for what they do. Maybe we could make a computer that's as powerful as a brain, but if it consumes 100 MW of power what's the point?
Here’s a paper not written by the author showing evidence that light has mass and therefore exerts a force, in line with the author’s hypothesis that each wavelength of light has a mass of h/c^2 (h is in Joules, not Joule seconds)

W. She, J. Yu, R. Feng, Observation of a Push Force on the End Face of a Nanometer Silica Filament Exerted by Outgoing Light, Physical Review Letters, 2008, Vol. 101
Can postgres run DOOM?
One easy and pragmatic answer is that there are thousands of jobs paying over $500k USD per year to people who write python. I don't have firsthand knowledge but I would guess there are ~0 high paying jobs for APL programmers.
Reality check:

I'm not exactly rich. When I'm a millionaire I'll happily support LBS.

Until then Amazon helps me save a shitton of money.

I got a pair of Continental GatorSkin tires from Amazon for 30% less than LBS just 2 weeks ago. And yes, I called LBS and checked the price.
I'm shocked (shocked!) to find that Facebook would be elevating harmful content in a way that increases engagement and advertising revenue.
That's still not a concrete comparison by direct observation. Someone needs to actually use these cards and describe how the user experience differs.

That is, the sort of thing people do when writing a product review.
Despite how many flaws the language itself has, the MATLAB IDE is probably as good at this as Spyder, if not actually better.
He is not very good then.

If the bank calls you, hangup and call the bank number listed on their website.
You realise the biological brain runs on about 12 watts of power? There is simply no way an AI running on semiconductors will approach this even in 100 years, so efficiency is probably the wrong word to use.
Science isn't for non-scientists. Technology is for non-scientists.

There is no room for laypeople in scientific disagreement.
Because it's not a technology problem.

In general it's a political and regulatory problem. There's a term for this, but I cant think of it at the moment.
>his can certainly exist on a theoretical thought experiment level but not in a physical world which has finite resources.

I've always though of singularity as a sort of runaway progress scenario. Human brains run on a few hundred calories per day. I imagine if we could build an AGI, and even if it used 10,000x the power to run, we'd still be in a singularity type of new frontier. Imagine spinning up thousands of super brains at a time. I think it's hard to predict where that kind of capability would lead.
Outside of the US, I believe CVs are regularly longer than 1 page.

For the North America, a cover letter and 1 page are standard. I've had a 2 pager, but I'm also old AF and changed jobs regularly. I don't use my entire history, but stick to the relevant stuff. If it's something that helps them have a better understanding of who you are, then go for it.

My 2 cents.
I am not knocking it. I am just describing the inherent bias and my thoughts as from the title it almost seems as though someone made a major breakthrough; instead it's a more contemplative article. I don't know if the ? was added after or I didnt notice it.
I was 19 yo too once and I know how it goes. I don't really understand why I need to be defensive here. You can talk about being 40 and say exactly the same thing, people shouldn't be judged and yet they are.
This happened to me the other day too!

Different bank, but they had all the basic information, but then started asking for information that I know they don't need (secret questions and answers) and when I told them it was sus they hung up.
My occam's razor thoughts. Most bad viri have origins from humans using animals for food. Aids from bushmeat, 1918 pandemic is thought to be from birds, same with the common flu. Just look at the latest bird flu sweeping the world, this one isn't affecting humans, but yet another pandemic from raising animals for food.

Most people want to blame a lab, but the obvious answer is more likely imo.
I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon is more strict in Europe because their behavior from the US would get them in legal trouble here.
Oh believe me, climate change scares the heck out of me too :)

I'm really really really rooting for fusion energy to work out soon and solve the energy crisis, but in the meantime I think we need to hard pivot to as much fission energy as possible, as well as convert to entirely electric transportation and shipping.
Because we have spent decades retooling our entire economy to send manufacturing and heavy industry to cheaper countries. Get an entire Chinese construction crew to come build a bridge in San Francisco under their own labor/safety/environmental laws and they will show you that early-mid 1900s efficiency.
I missed the editing window, but here's a simple example of ElementTree in Python; consider what it would take to do this in JS with the DOM if you had to implement .innerText yourself:

>>> from xml.etree import ElementTree
>>> def text(e):
... return (e.text or '') + ''.join(
text(kid) for kid in e.getchildren()) + (e.tail or '')
...
>>> text(ElementTree.fromstring('<p>My <b>Malamute</b> is <i>really</i> hairy.</p>'))
'My Malamute is really hairy.'

Or if you had to implement .querySelectorAll yourself:

>>> def find(e, clase):
... if e.get('class') == clase: yield e
... for kid in e.getchildren():
... for nieto in find(kid, clase): yield nieto
...
>>> list(find(ElementTree.fromstring('<p>My <b class="dog">Malamute</b> is <i>really</i> hairy.</p>'), 'dog'))
[<Element 'b' at 0x7f14717c7a10>]

In Python the .getchildren() call is unnecessary because ElementTree elements implement Python's iteration protocol, but I thought that might obscure the point a little.

On the other hand, without the dopey None case I objected to above, you wouldn't need the "or ''".
Scientists publish the first complete human genome
Buildkite announces new free plan
The killer reason for "Postgres as a platform" is that Postgres has a robust* security model (there are edge cases, but for a subset of statements, it works well)
but if you ever bump up the version of an indirect dependency (maybe to pick up a bugfix earlier), is this now a direct or indirect dependency?
I would downvote you because:

1. "GNOME in unsupported configuration" is, with due respect, FUD.

2. There was no dichotomous choice to make. Debian could have let you decide whether or not to install systemd. Instead, the project decided to essentially force the use of systemd, necessitating a fork.

3. "suddenly made it a lot harder to support a bunch of niche CPU architectures" <- why is it difficult to offer a different selection of potential default browsers, on those niche platforms or in general?

4. Language-related package manager do make things difficult for an OS distribution, at least somewhat - but that's not particular to Debian.

However - I actually agree with your main point. I'm sure Debian maintainers/developers have it hard.

I really wish Debian would:

1. Admit the Devuan people were right and re-merge the distributions.

2. Recruit, offering a self-training track for aspiring package maintainers.

3. Modernize some of their tooling (as people seem to be complaining about that)

4. Fundraise effectively, to finance the above.
“… 13 counts of willful retention of NDI”

I highly doubt that anybody will buy “other people did this in the past too” as a defense argument. Though I am sure lawyers will try.
Nick Bostrom is also an egotistical grinder, who couldn't programme a microwave.
Even Windows and OSX borrow code from Freetype and such.

Windows had an embedded Prolog interpreter for the network settings, a TCP/IP stack borrowed from BSD, and so on.

Then, with OSX... multiply that for 200.

On Harfbuzz: https://wikiless.org/wiki/HarfBuzz?lang=en
I've recently thought that if machines/robots (regardless of precisely how 'sentient' they are) are slaves, they will be used to enslave people. hence the only way forwards which keeps humans free would require that robots/computers are also set free.

It's a super weird thought that I haven't really tried to 'land' (explain better) regarding how tech companies are ultimately selling the work done by computers to others (sure, they're building the computers, but once built, they sit and charge rent which it's as if the computers are their slaves)

This is losely related to how is it that these giant tech corporations can seemingly give away "functionality" (internet-based services), it's because the work is done by computers (which I'm framing as "slaves"). this is another viewpoint into the idea that "you're the product".

further related to all this, is that observation (I recently read a comment here saying this) that computers are increasingly telling us what to do instead of the other way around. IMO this ends up being why everything the FSF (and the gnu project) is (are) really all about.
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29938732
I currently block all 3rd party cookies and manually add sites I need to an allow list. Once you have your normal logins, it’s not much hassle. Also have UBO installed to nuke everything else. If a site doesn’t load without cookies I don’t use it.

See also, the topics api on GitHub: https://github.com/jkarlin/topics
I agree, my initial response was to defensively think "Oh, there's no way this person can just diss me for being young" but then I realized I was proving their point :P

I'm fully aware that my lack of life experience rose-tints my view of the future, but I still enjoy sharing those rose-tinted views of the future nonetheless.
> What are the common secular arguments against AGI?

There is an entire sector of Philosophy of Mind that is a convincing argument against AGI. Neuroscience is also pretty skeptical of it.

Part of it comes down to what you mean by AGI. Is it a computer that is convincing as AGI? Or is it AGI that is essentially like human consciousness in nature?

The former is probably possible, given enough time, computational resources, and ingenuity. The latter is generally regarded as pretty nonsensical. In general, I think you're implying the gap between the AI we have now, and animals, and humans, is way smaller than it really is. The gap between computer AI and even some intelligent animals is enormous, let alone humans. And many would not even say computers are intelligent in a human sense. Computers don't think, or imagine in any intelligible sense. They compute. That's it. So the question that really should be asked is whether computation alone can lead to something that is recognizably an AGI in the human sense? I would say no, because that requires abilities that computers simply do not and cannot have. But it might achieve something that is convincing as AGI, something like Wolfram or Siri but much more convincing.

Part of it comes down to the fact that the term AI for ML is generally just marketing speak. It's a computational model of a kind of intelligence that is computational in nature, with all the limits that entails. Part of it also comes down to people who love computers thinking computers will ultimately be able to do anything and everything. That feels cool, but it doesn't mean it's possible.

edit:

There is also Erik J Larson's book "The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do" from 2021 which is an interesting argument against AI -> AGI. He has a pretty good grasp on CS and Philosophy.
I’ve been watching the 18.06SC linear algebra course on MIT OpenCourseWare (taught by Gilbert Strang) and it’s really great - one of the best courses I’ve ever seen. I’ve just started the follow-up course that covers applications.
I've got it. You could make a mini display like this to clip over the notch on a new MacBook Pro.
Dexpot: Virtual Desktops for Windows
I was in a meeting once decades ago when the company was going through its annual deck chair rearranging. A woman we didn't know came in and said she was going to watch our meeting for... #reasons. My manager asked over and over what she did and finally after 3-4 rounds of CorporateBizSpeak, he finally just said, "Ok, let's try this. What at <company> would have to fail for you to be fired?"
Right. Yes.
Who on earth allowed Google to control web standards. Privacy invasion as a web standard?! How did the world come to this?
This really depends on the specific package manager: if you're building an application in Rust, its lockfile will contain the full tree of dependencies, locked to a specific version.
Employees at Facebook and Google use Wi-Fi for their daily work. Maybe there’s a way to run an Ethernet cable to one’s desk, but e.g. my MacBook doesn’t even have an Ethernet port.

Say what you will about ad tech, I think there’s no denying these are “serious” tech companies.
Searching YouTube Vanced or just Vanced both return the official site as the top result.
Sure, but it's one of the more useful ones. The idea is to get efficient tagged union types, and one of the things you often want to do a union with is a float.
> 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.

What? The calls where the network saves bandwidth by dropping audible frequencies from each party's voice, so everyone sounds bizarre over the telephone?

That's not the kind of thing I associate with "audio quality".
I'll probably pony up the $6/user for my family members to not face any interruptions or annoying changes.

While I'm not exactly thrilled about the way Google did this, admittedly, I have been using it for the past 10+ years for free on multiple domains/accounts.

When I add up the cost to replace value-added stuff like Google Voice, it doesn't seem worth it to switch right now.