skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like it; the author also says he sticks to certain paradigms like an indentation style I've not seen in the wild before and making as many things as possible 'const'.

I don't mind, I can respect people having Strong Opinions, it's an improvement over having too weak opinions which lead to inconsistencies in a codebase.
I have a CTH-480 on Ubuntu and I don't know how to right click with it. 2 fingers scrolling works though
> (regardless of whether the company actually has web scale problems—but that’s a different problem)

Indeed. So then they'll go ahead and design "web scale" solutions to non-existent problems. I quote web scale since in the majority of the cases I've seen, the solutions don't actually seem particularly capable of handling massive scale but since they don't need to, it never gets tested.

Worked with one company with this ginormous logging and analytics pipeline which consumed most of the AWS budget, but the actual data flowing through it amounted to a handful of million entries per year. Yes year. At that scale, the wise solution is grep and awk on a $5 VM.

Solve the problems you actually have and the ones you can project to having in six months. Don't solve the problems you wish you'll have in ten years.
You are right that it's not inevitable, but still pretty likely.

Also keep in mind:

Human nerves work (roughly) at the speed of sound.

Computers work (roughly) at the speed of light.

We already make computers that are much, much faster than humans at sequential processing.

About the representation thing: if you start with AIs that are copies from each other, you can probably keep the 'superior' internal representation the same or nearly the same. So I would expect AI clones to be able to exchange knowledge much quicker than unrelated AIs.
Sorry to sound cynical but it's a question of funding. Flint city council (Democrats) almost unanimously voted to switch the water source to the Flint River to cut costs because they did not have funding for a renegotiated contract with the original water source. The city was effectively bankrupt.

>Michigan just gave General Motors $2 billion to build two EV battery plants, one in Lansing and the other in Detroit which will create 3,000 jobs.

This is fake news, Michigan state did not give money out to GM.

>The state caused Flint's problem by discontinuing water from Detroit and pulling from a local river without adding a required chemical.

>This decision was made by an emergency manager appointed by the then governor to save money.

Voted almost unanimously by the city council. Everyone loves to leave that detail out.
You can downvote me until the cows come home, it's still true fellas.
Waiting for 'an act of god' like a tornado or a great Chicago fire event to force the issue appears to be the default option.
In a world full of faked empathy, thanks to thin-skinned morons who avoid any and all pain at all costs, I choose not to believe anyone - especially some bullshit mainstream site - who tells me that I shouldn't rely on Empathy.

Empathy is real. Morals are not. Anyone who struggles defining Empathy does not have any. It's not rocket science. If you need to learn, go slap someone and have him slap you back. You'll learn soon enough.

Compassion without Empathy doesn't exist.

If the western degenerates weren't so hell bent on avoiding any and all pain, both physically and emotionally, we'd all be in a better place and articles like this one would have never come up.

The sole reason bullshit like this comes up is because our world is borderline totalitarian already. We're not supposed to trust our own feelings, at all, so instead we're being told what to trust.

Worse: All these degenerates out there actually believe it.
Just used it on my Samsung tablet and it absolutely flies and supports touch. Such great work!
I believe USB HID drivers have been in userspace for quite some time, in part precisely to provide a stable interface. I'm not sure why the Wacom drivers are an exception though: https://linuxwacom.github.io/
Amazon is expensive. I once got an Amazon gift card and the first thing I told the person that gave me the card is that I will spend 20-30€ more on Amazon than on any other site.
Reasons to not use PCA for feature selection
The Interface Types and Module Linking proposals were recently superseded by the Component Model proposal, which unifies the two: https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model
> Would that actually work, though, or would it just cook itself?

You could add better cooling than what the human hardware provides.

Even just taking a normal human head and dunking it in cold water dissipates a lot more head. (If you try this at home, I suggest getting a snorkel.)
I've never understood why we assume that AGI will not have many of the problems and limitations that GI has. It's always been my assumption that the development of AGI will probably mean creating intelligences that will:

1. Take a long time to develop and learn

2. Require large energy resources to deal with relatively trivial life situations

3. Have difficulties with fundamental motivation: desire, the (non)meaning of life etc...
>Don't buy 3rd party products sold on Amazon. I always tell people this. They ignore me and then stories like yours pop up.

So buy Amazon Basics and nothing else?

Also I tried to avoid buying from third party sellers but the Amazon website is so deceptive that you are bound to buy something from a third party seller at some point. There is obviously no option to hide third party sellers because that would solve the problem and Amazon's opinion is the problem shouldn't be solved.
I'm going to go for personal assistant in this case.
Thanks for clarification, indeed I can see go.sum being checked in on few go package repos I've checked, nice.
>wireless landline

You mean a cordless phone?
Is it really worth knowing if you use numpy or R style array ops in a daily basis?

I spent a bunch of time with J. I think it’s really worth knowing the semantic layer — that you might write code like you write sentences is quite brilliant — but unless an array is the only abstraction you need, you might find it orders of magnitude harder writing code well fitted to other abstractions
Super interesting story, I liked reading the exploration.

> Today, he admits that perhaps the reason he hadn’t considered looking at the female side of things was a result of his own male bias.

Honestly, the male scientists really disappointed me. Do they not have any curiosity or sense of professionalism? This guy dissected multiple penises and never once thought to dissect a vagina? Wow, just, wow.
I mean if the government wanted they could identify homes that are too expensive to repair, put the residents up in temporary housing, remove and replace the home with a simple new one, and put the residents back. The federal government gives hundreds of billions to big corporations every year in tax breaks, incentives, contracts, and protection, but we would balk at giving individuals safe homes.
I think I'm adequately protected from this as I don't take phone calls at all. I will call my bank and providers on my own time.
How do we know that what we achieve is different from what the Chinese Room achieves?

Doesn't that beg the question?
Grades are a measure of understanding VS expectations. If my kid is struggling with a topic, then I can hire tutors, or just sit with them and work through things.

You can't fix what you can't measure.

Teaching kids is the schools job, but it's my job too. I'd argue it's more my job than their job. I'm the CEO of my kids education. If they are falling it's on me to help them.

If I don't know there's a problem, how can I help.
They don't care about protecting third party brands. They will definitively make sure their Amazon Basics products are free of scams.
Yeah, too complex just like the banking crisis of 2008. Let's just bail 'em out... /s
Recently I fell into a wormhole, or rather time sink, playing with a Gameboy emulator that runs in the browser.

https://github.com/binji/binjgb

There's something so satisfying about a virtual machine that fits in a ~106K WASM file, that can play hundreds of classic games like Teris and Super Mario Bros (via ROM collections on Internet Archive). I don't usually play games, but this emulator is so cute and fun, I keep coming back to waste time on it.

Actually, PICO-8 was the last time I felt this kind of child-like joy about a computer.

I get a similar feeling from this Infinite Mac project.

https://github.com/mihaip/infinite-mac

It's so pleasing to see a running Macintosh in the browser. That interface feels like an old friend. The underlying VM, BasiliskII, is a little less than 1MB WASM file. Amazing!

From the entertaining article, I learned about "retrocomputing". Now I know, that's what I'm into, haha. I especially like it when it's virtualized - like a microcosmos.
Now you listen here, Mac. We're delivering valuable designs and solutions at cloud scale over here, so you take your FUD and envy elsewhere.
What are the "so many better alts"? I have my complaints about Grafana, but anything else I've found is either much much more bare-bones or tied fairly deeply to specific tasks and setups. Would love to learn about alternatives.
What are your thoughts on zero trust from OpenZiti? - https://openziti.github.io/
a vs code live share would solve a lot of those vision issues.
> it makes me think complete control is an evolutionary disadvantage

Have you considered that every specie approaches this differently for their own situations? That doesn’t mean it’s a conceptual failure.
I've got an imagination, but you're letting yours run wild. AGI doesn't mean immediate sci-fi level medical technology, and it certainly doesn't mean human brain copying and transfer of consciousness to some artificial storage device.

Biological brains are incredibly complex and if that level of complexity is needed to host intelligence I think we're a long ways off from building any true AGI, even if we pumped every bit of engineering skill our society has at it. And even if we _can_ build AGI I doubt we'd have the resources to host more than a handful of them for years to decades after their creation or that their intelligence would be anywhere near small mammal level.
Getoutahere. Nothing about this whole affair is "lowkey racist". It is all about science. The pursuit of truth. And doing your own research ...
It took one un-loading incident in Rotterdam to cause damage north of what 10 years worth of insurance premiums would have cost, in the case I mentioned above. And that's excluding the added benefits of your insurance handling all the administrative stuff, from on-site haverie commissars (transportation acident investigators) to sorting out claims against any third parties. Or claims from any third parties.
This is a cute idea but it sounds headed for pain, as most typical client environments will come with bindings for multiple db's including sqlite. So if you want to use pg bindings, that probably means you want to use pg features, which aren't present in sqlite. There might be a use case where you want to use sqlite remotely as a client/server db, but even then, is this such a great approach? Sqlite has its own special features that likely don't fit the pg wire protocol that well.
I think the way to compete here is not directly targeting BT customers, but looking at other potential customers that might not be able to afford a BT, at least in the beginning of their journeys, and use that revenue to fund "completeness".
It’s just the same kind of conventional thinking we’ve seen a million times through history. Most people, even the smart ones, just aren’t good at imagining anything that hasn’t already happened. So they’ll say it’s impossible and keep doing whatever more immediate practical concern they’re working on.

I don’t think it needs to be analyzed further than that; you’re trying to see reason where there isn’t any. Most people holding the views you’re talking about are at are at best just confused about the subject being discussed, but more likely just wrong.
I was pretty surprised to learn that my 2021 OLED TV only has a 10/100 ethernet port. Apparently previous models had USB 3.0 ports so you could workaround it by adding a USB gigabit ethernet adapter but in newer models they've reverted back to USB 2.0 ports, for whatever reason.
Patch now: RCE Spring4shell hits Java Spring framework
Which one? Turing himself revised it, like, four times. The version where humans can't tell which one chat member is non-human has been beaten several times (with tricks like mimicking a 13 year old foreign boy, iirc). The version where you replace an arbitrary member of a chat with a human is something mostly about speech pattern matching and plausible speech, can't imagine that GTP3 or whatever comes next is too bad at that. If you do it like in Ex Machina, as in chatting in person it's mostly about building a very expensive robot that overcomes uncanny valley.

I think the sad state is that the Turing Test is too diluted to be useful as a marker...
Brilliant, thanks for the link!
"Imagine a drug that makes you horribly nauseous and miserable for the first 59 minutes
after you take it, but then makes you feel hedonistic bliss for a final 1 minute. The
other effect of this drug is that during the those first 59 minutes, it blocks the
transcription of long-term memories so that by the next day you only remember the final
1 minute.

Assuming you did not know the full effect profile of this drug until
after taking it the first time, would you expect yourself to take it a
second time?"

I wouldn't be able to.

This thought experiment makes a fundamental error, that the brain is
the sole repository and processor of memory.

Two books that will help clear-up this misunderstanding are:

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk [1]

Descartes' Error by António Damásio [2]

Our whole body, at the (neuro only?) cellular level, has mechanisms
for "experiencing", processing and reminding us of physical and
chemical experiences. No matter any ecstatic conclusion, an hour or
extreme pain and trauma would leave an indelible reaction that
conscious memory would not be able to explain, like a visceral phobia.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Body_Keeps_the_Score

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes'_Error
I wonder whether the problems with Windows Ink have been a driving force behind this move. I think anyone that has used Krita on Windows has run into issues related to Windows Ink while using a Wacom tablet.
I have worked nearby to this area - this is a legal principle, but the way this takes force in contracts is either by including a specific clause, or via a pointer to an international shipping standard which pulls in sensible defaults. Something like what happens with force majeure clauses [1]. International shipping contracts are themselves fairly standardised; they're thick and have all kinds of things in them, accreted over literally centuries of practice.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_majeure
If the remaining lead is caused by the pipes inside the houses, how come this problem is isolated to Flint? Shouldn't there be the same level of lead all over the US? Maybe they are only measuring lead levels in Flint, because it was they were very high at the beginning.
It depends a bit on what we mean by AGI.

Even if dualism is true, and humans have something special, that doesn't mean that a paperclip optimizer is impossible. A paperclip optimizer would be very, very smart (in the sense of being able to solve problems and achieving its objective of turning the universe into paperclips), but would not have a consciousness.
Very well composed, informative answer. Thanks for sharing.

BTW. is there a separate 2.3 point or is it just a duplication error?
Putin et al are not in Moscow but dug somewhere deep probably in Ural mountains. This alone tells you how Putin thinks and how safe he feels. Now I don't think that Russians ever did dig deep enough to avoid evaporation from few megaton warheads hitting such place in quick succession, but not sure if Washington knows the exact location.

Anyway such attack would prompt similar ICBM response, they are generally quite incompetent as we can see in Ukraine, but not that incompetent to not have this working.

And nobody in west is going to justify killing few million civilians in Moscow, our society is well beyond that point.
WinDirStat was a clone of KDirStat (KDE3-era); today there is Filelight. There's a Gnomeclone of it, but it's quite a lot worse (The sunburst only has only or two levels, which cannot be adjusted, and you can't have anything other than a 50:50 split).
Sexual divergence is a game theoretical consequence of the differing costs two parents might have to form an offspring via sexual reproduction. Suppose a population of hermaphoditic sexually-reproducing species grows large enough to be comfortably self-sustaining and there is no difficulty in finding / exchanging gametes a sexual partner. At this point, every individual is equally capable of mothering or fathering the offspring, but one (say, mothering) ends up being more expensive because it requires more resource investment. Then a genetic quirk that causes a particular individual to preferentially spend more time fathering will be beneficial towards individual fitness, as the offspring/cost ratio is skewed in their favor. Eventually, one or more such genes catch on, and form the first steps of the evolution of the subpopulation with them into a male-type. And, over time, those better at specializing in being male-type will outcompete those who are less specialists at finding mothering partners, increasingly diverging this subpopulation towards maleness.

Now a population of mixed male-type and hermaphoditic-type individuals by definition can only skew male-type (in the sense that the average individual over the entire population somewhat prefers fathering over mothering). But each offspring has one male and one female parent; i.e. the population of parents does not skew in either direction. Run the math and you'll find that, counting hermaphodites as 1/2 in each category, there are more offspring per female-type than per male-type: those hermaphodites who prefer mothering are now the sexually fittest individuals in the group. And much like in the case with males above, a genetic preference towards mothering will catch on among the hermaphoditic population and begin skewing a subpopulation ever more female-like.

Eventually the male-type and female-type sexes fully diverge from each other, and the initial population of hermaphodites get out competed by the sexual specialists and fall solely into the fossil record.
God help your kid when they are under performing at work.

Oh.. you failed to learn to read and write. Well no grades. Good luck on your Jib Hunt. Hope you have someone help you rite you're rezuma.
Same here, big spool of cable, crimpers and connectors.

WiFi is nice for what it's good for: mobility. Like when I want to work in the backyard for an hour because it's so nice outside, or when I need to walk around the house laptop in hand for some reason.

But any spot where I'll be online for more than like an hour a week, I install ethernet and wall jacks.
Many animals are not generally intelligent.

Also many human subsystems are easy to trick. Look at eg optical illusions.

And, to follow your philosophical argument: given that the only thing that connects our cells to the cells of our ancestors is information, why couldn't those billions of years be also in our computers?
You use a lot of jargon, but I’m not sure where you ended up.

It seems obvious to me (from logic and observation) that most animals don’t have global connectivity (despite your comparison to internet meshes), and obviously evolve differently across the world.
Learning math? Think like a cartoonist
I am not aware of pipes outside the house here in Germany. Maybe he is referring to southern Europe?
Mearsheimer is not merely noting, he is criticizing and wants the West to join Russia against China with "laser focus"- that's directly from linked interview.

If that means throwing whole middle third of Europe plus Caucasus under the bus, he's apparently okay with that. Finland managed to develop under forced neutrality but that was an exception, life elsewhere between EU and Russia was pretty miserable and has led to wars before. So, western avoidance would not have won stability here either.
This has not been my experience as a renter and as an owner. The realtor's margins for renting are quite low, which means they try to make things as smooth as possible for everyone, to minimize their work: in particular, they try to get the house/apartment rented as soon as possible, to make as few visits as possible; the also have an interest in the tenant staying the longest time possible.
As always, I guess it depends on your real estate agent, though!
Thanks, and I'm really rooting for Spin's success. The cloud computing costs have reached ridiculous levels recently. I blame the new age DevOps culture trained to hit every nail with Kubernetes ecosystem for this inflation. I believe WebAssembly could be the liberating weapon against these rising infra costs.

I see Spin as a small step towards that future of affordable cloud computing. Here's a twitter rant I wrote about the current state of affairs - https://twitter.com/vettijoe/status/1484507483788161026 (warning: Strong opinions ahead)
Are Fake Manual Transmissions Coming? [video]
A tool originally designed for making graphs in a dashboard becomes a full-fledged development environment - is this really a good thing?
> It baffles me that people start frothing at the mouth about Apple "forcing" people to use iCloud when damn near nothing on the device requires a paid iCloud account and there's pretty decent integration with open standards based systems...

Mind to elaborate on that? I just surrendered and started to shell out 4€/month for extra GBs in iCloud because I couldn't find another way to easily and OTA backup iPhone/iPad photos to my local Linux NAS and then my cloud of choice. With Android I do it easily with SyncThing.
> There is no Szilard patent for AGI

You don’t know that. But even worse, you probably won’t know if it happens. History is not as predictable in the present as it is in hindsight.

Most physicists in 1935 would still have said that an atomic bomb was impossible, and defended it with the same indignated vigor demonstrated in this thread.
(As someone whose family has often hired gites for holidays) Airbnb just offers simplicity and centralisation over the previous offerings. Less regular gite-hirers might not know of the precise businesses to go to, to hire a gite.

Taxis existed before Uber; but it was the app (handling location, real-time updates, and seamless payment) that changed things.
I don't think singularity can happen until we get true quantum computing.