skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah this could be anything from "wow cool" to "holy smokes, how is THAT possible???". If all of the game state, output pixels etc were turned into time series data and reassembled in a dashboard in real time--THAT is pretty cool!
<looks up from hand-riveting a wooden boat and grunts approvingly>
I already know about launchd. I am talking about stuff like com.apple.geod and the dozens of other daemons running on my device. Where is that documented?
hmm... I can't help but think that having the state pay tuition will create something like free-to-play games with in-app purchases.
Nike Wants to 'Destroy' Unauthorized NFTs–How Will That Work?
It seems impossible that an AI could trick a human to "let it out of the box". But you might find this interesting: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/AI-box_experiment

(With sufficiently nasty psychological tactics it is apparently feasible - even for humans - to make someone fail at a game where the only objective is "don't release the AI").
Their only option is to be wrong. At the end of the day, the fed has an impossible job to do.
Vernor Vinge coined the term, and he was a computer scientist (though more famous as a science fiction writer, a profession which I guess TBF makes money from visions...).

An exponential looks the same whereever you are on it, so arguably we are in the singularity now, and have been for quite some time...

"Singularity" is a terrible term for an exponential. It's meant to convey that we can't predict what's next... which has always been the case.

The problem of predicting an exponentialling expanding search space of arbitrary conplexity is that it gets big fast. It also means each little 'bit' of information allows you to see a little further, sometimes revealing things you could never have imagined (because you couldn't see that far before).
You might want to try out Baserow (https://baserow.io). It’s an open source alternative to Airtable, backed by a PostgreSQL database. Main differences are that you can self host it with unlimited rows, it’s modular and it’s made to handle high volumes of data.

Disclaimer, I’m the founder of Baserow.
To "compute a neural network" is a long-established way to say "train a neural network", which in turn is a long-established way to say "find a set of weights for the neural network that maximises its accuracy".

The idea is that a neural net is a kind of data structure used in AI, like a decision tree or a decision list (like a decision tree but it's a list). There are different algorithms that can "compute", i.e. construct, a decision tree from data. In modern parlance we say that the decision tree is "trained". Same goes for neural nets, except the network itself is typically constructed beforehand, and manually (we refer to it as the "architecture" of the neural net) and only its weights need to be tweaked until it has a good accuracy- at which point we say the training algorithm has "converged".

It's all a bit confusing because in common parlance there is little distinction made between a neural net's network (its architecture), the algorithm that trains the neural net by finding the weights that minimise its error (backpropagation) and the neural net with trained weights (the "model"). Sometimes I wonder if this distinction is clear in the minds of people who actually train those things.

Btw, the study is solid and meaningful. It's a theoretical result. More of those are needed in machine learning, we got plenty of empirical results.
Does this not break HAM license rules if you used it over (for example) amateur radio equipment?

Fantastic project either way, would be great to set this up for a global team to assure privacy of communications.
+1 for `ncdu`. One of my favourite tools.
They break down fast anyway, but they’re cheap and easy to replace.
I don’t find these arguments convincing for AGI to appear. Saying scale is not the answer isn’t not argument for AGI.

Saying the ball is “rolling” and that AI will design AGI just isn’t convincing. We don’t understand how biological machines learn and especially not our own brain. And admittedly our AI is unrelated to how human intelligence is created which is our gold standard for AGI…

So why would anyone think the singularity is close? When I read this is still seems impossibly far away.
That’s a fair point, though ultimately everything will be 64-bit in time so there’s a bit of an asterisk there.

Hell Apple has ultimately been vindicated going whole-hog on USB-C. Anyone who’s made the swap got over the dongle stuff pretty quickly.
I don't think the quote you quoted justifies your conclusion that Acid3 should no longer be used for anything. There's a lot of the web for which Acid3 levels of standards compliance is adequate for readability, and Acid3 enables a very quick feedback loop during development.
OP probably lives in a highrise with centralized air condition or with passive toilet vents without a backflow stopper.

Either of these is really nasty with any kind of pungent odor, no matter if feces, cooking or smoking.
I think general is a poor term, that likely applies to nothing. The Gödel's incompleteness theorem says as much.
Origins of Goomba from Super Mario Bros
I've bought plenty of products that explained their fee structure built into pricing. There are also plenty of stores that also explain their processor fees.
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Anonymous Twitter account translating Chinese propaganda about the Ukraine war
They use price to rent ratio for determining if there is a bubble. This seems like a flawed metric - both home prices and rents are increasing. What is not increasing is the income. So shouldn’t they be tracking median income to median home prices and rents in local areas? I feel this will show a different picture and we might already be in bubble territory - especially if the interest rates co tongue to spike.
Yep - we kept having near-misses with prior coronaviruses, so understandably, scientists were spending a ton of energy trying to figure out what makes them so pathogenic and how the animal-human jumps occur. Considering the fact that SARS and MERS both came from zoonotic origin (and IMO, Sarscov2 did as well) - we should really be spending our energy on the best research methods to prevent another pandemic, whether that's GoF research or something else.
DaisyDisk is very polished and nice, but I'd like to add GrandPerspective [1] to the discussion - it's not as pretty, but it's free and does a very good job as well.
If you don't mind spending $9.99, DaisyDisk is definitely worth it, though.

[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/grandperspectiv/
I'm sorry but I'm not super familiar with the workflow for working with dependencies in Go, I've only read about it. You say:

> Raise the version there.

Am I to understand that it's common to hand-edit the version constraint on a transitive dependency in your go.mod file?

But that transitive dependency was first added there by the Go tool itself, right?

How does a user easily keep track of what bits of data in the go.mod file are hand-maintained and need to be preserved and which things were filled in implicitly by the tool traversing dependency graphs?

> Repeatedly assuming that the Go core team never thought through the design of Go Modules

I'm certainly not assuming that. But I'm also not assuming they found a perfect solution to package management that all other package management tools failed to find. What's more likely is that they chose a different set of trade-offs, which is what this thread is exploring.
I received a "remind-us?" mail from they ten days ago. I suppose that they lose a percentage of freelancers because of the Putin genocide and may be trying to round numbers. Russian freelancers probably can't work there anymore (Could be wrong)
there is a reason, why tools like Tableau and Power BI exist. Excel fails at building stable solutions for presenting or modeling data. Actually, it also fails at stably and effectively preparing and transforming data for more complex scenarios.

It is great for freestyle. But people want to use it for more...
> and a GPU shader can render the RGBA pixmap from a spatially partitioned display list on demand.

... but... the GPU shader will need a surface to render into, no ? do you know of any OS where asking for a 1000x1000 surface does not allocate space for that in normal, non-GPU RAM ? I believe that this uses RAM on any mainstream desktop OS
Destroy them all and let God sort them out.
https://archive.dhakatribune.com/world/2020/10/01/dna-from-n...
Yet humans realized we are biased and devised ways to mitigate that. It still sounds like you’re referring more to our basic goals than to our faculties. I agree that the word general is fuzzy, but to say we do not do general problem solving seems incorrect.

Aside, but a long time ago, Yudkowsky wrote that an AGI should be able to derive general relativity from a millisecond video of an apple falling. Later, he took to calling them optimization processes. Say what you will about the fellow, he has a way with words and ideas.
Income most certainly is increasing
That burden exists if you're calling into it from C, it's just implicit. At least Rust gives you the tools to write safe wrappers. Once you've done that consumers of your library don't have to tiptoe around the possibility of unsafe behavior.
It's an extremely common piece of software that is presumably responsible for running the Wi-Fi hotspots in a large percentage of routers, from many manufacturers.
I should say, that I'm from Belarus - yes, the country near Russia and Ukraine whos territory russia used to attack Ukraine. Small remark: we - belarusians - fight against Putin and Lukashenko at leaset since 2020 and asked world to help us, but we lost and today we have that we have. Personally I emigrated with my girl...
So, in Ukrain, Belarus and Russia we have a good technical level and access to all clouds like aws. Hovewer, Russia and Belarus doesn't have currently and I rather support it. So my pack could help teams from Russia, even when I don't support the action of Russia and hates them. But this is a good example why sometimes you want to selfhost some services xD

TLDR: I personally think that free paas is better than selfhosted in multiple ways, but sometime its great to have some alternaty and I hope that my pack give it for someone :)
Tbh I’d think there would be (technical) mechanisms in place to make this impossible.
Not to be intentionally contrarian, but do you have a data source for the vacancy rate?

My understanding is that some states have been losing people net and have still had rents and home values skyrocket. I think an increase in Airbnb would be one possible contributor.
i dont think it's population growth.. I mean haven't a million people died of covid?
The halting problem doesn't prevent correctness proofs, it only means that you get a three-valued answer: proof, counterexample, or too complex to determine. "Too complex to determine" usually means that the code needs to be rewritten to have simpler structure.

And of course the proof is only for those properties that you write down, and you could also have a bug in the spec for those properties.
> Rental vacancy rates remain near all time lows

Source?
Related to the bottom: https://wtfhappenedin1971.com
It's the responsibility of the radio operator to check, which is always a caveat when playing with these kinds of technologies.
How long until Github Copilot can autocomplete their standard takehome coding exercise?
Hi! I'm the author. The article is not a joke, more of a lighthearted investigation into a topic I find fascinating. It's also not meant to be perceived as necessarily positive or negative -- I'm personally actually very nervous/scared for the singularity, as after it happens I believe the future gets even more muddy, and the potential for unprecedented extreme outcomes skyrockets -- could be anything from a perfect utopia to extinction of biological life.

This article simply contains my views as to what I honestly expect the future will hold, as well as a few concerns I have in regards to that.
There's a wide spectrum between a piece of data being maintained by every participant of a particular blockchain and maximally available, and that data being completely unavailable to anyone.

It's that spectrum between 0-of-N and consensus-enforced N-of-N that you don't seem to grasp.

I'll say it again, once a piece of data is no longer maintained by all N-of-N participants in a blockchain as a matter of its consensus protocol, that doesn't mean that the data gets automatically deleted from the internet and from everyone's hard drives. On the contrary, there are many reasons why particular actors would want to retain that data, one of which is the very thing we are discussing - to keep a transaction history in case old transactions need to be audited for potential criminal prosecution of $625-million exploits.

> Other chains either drop, or plan to drop data that's been on the network for over a year or so

Yes, the chains, i.e. the actors that are keeping the minimal amount of data to continue to participate in the protocol, drop that data. That doesn't mean the data disappears from the internet. Instead, data availability is likely to remain incentivized within dedicated sub-protocols. That's not to mention the numerous private entities that will have their own external incentives to retain that data. Quote from Vitalik:

> Older blocks, transactions and receipts/logs would still be accessible through dedicated sub-protocols (eg. the Portal Network) or externally developed protocols (eg. TheGraph), in addition to a much smaller but still sufficient number of volunteer nodes and block explorers. Note that many dapps are already moving their historical data queries to TheGraph and similar protocols for efficiency.

> https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/qzvsfq/impromptu_...
^ To be clear, mkaic is the original author of the article.
I still remember Bernanke’s pronouncements before the 2008 crash that everything is just fine. It’s hard to not conclude that they either aren’t very competent or are playing political games.
Good propaganda relies on emphasis, not falsehoods. It's not about telling lies, it's about telling only the truths that back up your point of view.
I don't think the e-mail in the article is very obviously a 2FA code? I usually associate 2FA with something I use to log in somewhere; not to do some other operation which (presumably) already requires account access. To me, it looks like a Wells Fargo Apple Pay "Verification Code", which honestly could mean anything.

There are other signs, obviously. You could ask the question of, why is the e-mail asking me to enter the code myself while the customer support rep asking me to provide it over the phone? But as you well know, the author also asked that question, and arrived at a plausible enough sounding answer.

Regarding that last sentence: I have actually skimmed the e-mail many times now, and only when looking at it again to try to understand what you meant by "even that very email contained a reminder not to tell it to someone on the phone" did I actually see that part. I suppose I just started reading the standard "if you have questions call us on this number" text and skipped the rest of the paragraph. Brains are very good at extracting what they think is the relevant information and ignoring what they think is the irrelevant information, especially when in an active social interaction with another person who expects something from you.

I think any technical person should be able to analyze a play-by-play description of the events and explain exactly how each mistake could've been avoided. But I think most technical people could've made similar mistakes if they were caught in a vulnerable state of mind. I think sharing these kinds of stories, where even people who "should" know better got scammed, is an important part of how we learn to recognize scams. I think the vitriol in places like this comment section plays a part in making people avoid sharing stories like this.
> I think your information is somewhat outdated. For example, paying on USDC using Solana or Avalanche networks

As always with cryptocurrencies, "you're using the wrong cryptocurrency" as if the absolutely dominant ones, Bitcoin and Ethereum don't exist and aren't much more likely to be used than whatever the darling du jour is.

> USDC is backed by US Treasury notes, making it more solid than deposit in a bank

They are "backed" as much as Tether is "backed". To quote, "Circle claims that each USDC is backed by a dollar held in reserve, or by other 'approved investments', though these are not detailed. The wording on the Circle website changed from the previous 'backed by US dollars' to 'backed by fully reserved assets' by June 2021".
I personally know of two parties currently trying to buy a house. The first is a young couple in New Jersey. The other is a retired couple in the Tampa Bay area in Florida. Both of them are extremely well-qualified.

Both of them have put in at least 3 bids on houses in the last year or so and every time they got out-bid by a lot. Imagine a listed house at $600,000. You offer $620,000. You lose and find out later the house sold for $720,000.

This is freaking New Jersey and Tampa, Florida. None of this is realistic. Why is it like this?
Could also be economical depending on how much you value your life
Multifamily housing typically doesn't consist of hermetically sealed units. If your neighbors are doing something that produces odor, if it's strong enough, others are going to smell it in their units too. Additionally, shared spaces in the building often ending up smelling too. This isn't limited to pot smoking but it is a common enough occurrence that it's unreasonable to mock someone for mentioning it.
Same, but I'm so glad it wasn't.

For those who haven't clicked the link: This is a really cool list of ambitious projects that were successfully delivered in relatively short amounts of time.
A penniless local citizen who is homeless (thus no residence address) has the right to a basic bank account and no issues with that - all the searches for "open bank account Germany" are obviously intended (just because it's in English and not German) for the special case of immigrants who don't necessarily have a right to live, work and bank there. The above discussion was about unbanked Britons - that's an entirely different discussion, the conditions, arguments and legal issues of poor/marginalized/homeless/addicted/etc people are completely different than the same aspects for immigrants without proper immigration documents, mixing both these groups together makes for a muddied conversation that can't come to any conclusion since what applies to one may be entirely opposite for the other.
Nope. Way too cynical of a take.

> If you’re not making your delivery timelines and this is a surprise to your organization, you and your manager have a problem

If you're not communicating the state of the thing you're working on with the people who need to know then you have a problem.

> If product has a dream and no one knows what it would take to build it (time, resources, architecture), you have a problem

Your job is to effectively communicate what is and is not possible, and at what cost.

> you are basically unfireable because you know so much

Sometimes things are complex and you know why they are complex and how they got that way and how to avoid those mistakes in the future.
They don't make it as easy to call as they did in the past though.
Oh, interesting, I don't think I've heard much about "technological regression". Would you care to elaborate?
They can be dissolved. The constitution does not require a central bank.
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NSPredicate has from the very beginning been the moral equivalent of `eval()`, with all of the security implications that has. Sending arbitrary messages to arbitrary objects is just fundamentally the thing it does. The addition of FUNCTION() certainly made it easier to turn a security vulnerability into a useful attack, but if an attacker can control the format string passed to NSPredicate (or more generally the construction of a NSPredicate) you always had a security vulnerability.
First result: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RRVRUSQ156N
And Bitcoin et al is at the whim of the government, example: China ban Bitcoin et al.
Yudkowsky doesn't strike me as a crank. Why do you say that?
The type of places at risk of food shortages don't necessarily have wheat storage facilities with regulated hygrometry. Developed countries will be fine, and have facilities for long term grain storage. It's the poorest countries that will be hit by rising wheat prices and intermittent shortages.
Pre-Covid the US population was growing about 2m per year.

So, if we had 1m excess Covid deaths in the past ~2 years, the population would still have grown by ~1.5m per year.
> Compare and contrast to activities that are very dangerous and have nearly infinite catastrophic risks but we do every day: driving, flying, operating nuclear power plants, refining oil, and much much more.

What? The risks for each of those, even the nuclear power plant operation, are extremely limited and localized. GoF research has potential near-extinction levels of risk. Nuclear weapons are the ony thing on remotely the same tier IMO. It's not to say that GoF is not a good idea, as clearly there is potential benefit. But to compare it to the risks of driving a car is apples to radioactive oranges.
Dumb question, but the lawyers would probably know that NFTs can’t readily be seized by a court or destroyed, right?

What’s the lawyers real angle? Placating out of touch bosses? Billing hundreds of easy, useless hours? Trying to get some legal precedent in place?
The Units of Planck’s Constant Are Wrong, and Photons Do Not Exist [pdf]
Dry flower is more than “slightly” lower risk, I think.

Especially at lower temperature.
It makes 2 concrete predictions, actually! :)

AIs massively outnumber humans within a century, and Turing-test-passing AGI within 20 years.
Population growth in new areas because of telework. People are fitting into new homes based on not having to drive into urban centers.
Insights for Marine (and Beyond) Force Design from the Russo-Ukrainian War
C'mon folks, I know it's fun to slap, "Source?" on every comment, but it took me ~15 seconds to find a number of places where this data exists and is readily available. [0]

'xnx did the same thing as a sibling comment, but I just wanted to add that we can do better! This info is super readily available.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RRVRUSQ156N
You may say spending $200 extra for a black enclosure is irrational, but then most of the world will say spending $1500+ on any MacBook is itself irrational. Ultimately people have their own reasons and justifications for spending their own money.