skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All GD learners are interpolators (cf. https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00152) we also know theyre exponential in parameter count ( cf. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Number-of-parameters-ie-... )

> If GPT is not exponential, then the m/p distinction falls apart.

Yes, I think if you have a system which implements QAWH with a similar compelxity to a known intelligent system -- at that point I have no empirical issues. I think, at that point, you have a workiung system.

We then ask if it is thinking about anything, and I think that'd be an open question as to how its implemented. I dont think the pattern alone would mean the system had intentionality -- but my issue at this stage is the narrower empirical one. Without something like a "tractable complexity class", your system is broken.

> And GPT has way too much world-knowledge, IMO, to be storing things in such a costly fashion.

This is an illusion. Knowledge here is deterministic, to the same question, the same answer. GPT generates answers across runs which are self-contradictory, etc. "the same question" (even literally, or if you'd like, with some rephrasing) is given quite radically different answers.

I think all we have here is evidence of the (already known) tremendous compressibility of text data. We can, in c. 500bn numbers, compress most of the histoy of anything ever said. With such a databank, a machine can appear to do quite a lot.

This isnt world knowledge... it is a symptom of how we, language users, position related words near each other for the sake of easy comprehension. By doing this one can compress our text into brute statstical associations which appear to be meaningful.

As much as Github's AI is basically just copy/pasting code from github repos, GPT is just copy/pasting sentences from books.

All the code in github, compressed into billions of numbers, and decompressed a little -- that's a "statical space of tricks and coincidences" so large we cannot by intution alone fathom it. It's what makes these systems useful, but also easy illusions.

We can, by a scientific investigation of these systems as objects of study, come up with trivial hypothesis that expose their fundamentally dumb coincidental character. There are quite a few papers now which do this, I dont have one to hand.

But you know, investigate a model of this kind yourself: permute the input questions, investigate the answers.. and invalidate your hypothesis (like a scientist might do)... can you invalidate your hypothesis?

I think with only a little thoguh you will find it fairly trivial to do so.
The word "internet" doesn't appear in Neuromancer because in most respects it hadn't been invented yet.

While DoD declared TCP/IP the future standard for military networking in 1982, IBM, DEC, and AT&T only adopted TCP/IP in 1984, a couple of months before Neuromancer went on sale. Gibson notoriously wrote it on a manual typewriter circa 1982-83. (It took a year from acceptance to put a novel manuscript into production back then: very often, it still does.)

ARPAnet existed in 1982, Public BBSs had been a thing for a while. But the publicly accessible global information network with visual representations of corporate presence? That was all in his imagination.
Renaming because of this name clash has been suggested but the suggestion wasn't taken up:

- https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf/issues/383
- https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf/issues/547

They did do something to ameliate this though: now they refer to the proect as asdf-vm as much as possible, to distinguish it from Common Lisp asdf.
> It will be flavourless - not just musically (most likely) but also culturally.

Actually, I doubt this very much. I think there's a tendency to overestimate the "special" that actual humans bring to artistic creation and underestimate what contemporary machine learning (or I prefer to call it, overcooked cross-correlation analysis) can bring.

The problem is not so much that something generated using such techniques will be flavorless. It's that once it's good enough, it will have a distinct flavor, just like human artists, and that flavor won't sit well with everyone. That is to say, you can't solve this once: you have to solve it for every human aesthetic preference (within limits).

I can entirely believe in an automatic drummer that is "as good" as Steve Gadd, having been trained on the performances of said master percussionist.

However, if you want Gavin Harrison instead, you need a different instance.

And if you want something new, let's say 20% Vinnie Colaiuta, 30% Phil Collins and 40% Bill Bruford and 10% John Bonham, that will be very to accomplish through ML-style techniques. By contrast, Gavin Harrison could probably do that if you asked him nicely and paid him enough :)
A Rust OS with Only Rust Applications
As a fan of Rust myself, I know that Rust offers memory safety and type safety.

Suppose there was an operating system written using as much safe Rust as possible, on top of which one only ran software written safe Rust...

How much more impervious would such an operating system be to attacks than other operating systems?

FWIW, I know that Redox exists.

And here's a ranking of common software vulnerabilities.

https://cwe.mitre.org/top25/archive/2021/2021_cwe_top25.html

Obviously, a software developer who stores passwords in plain text is just asking for trouble - even Rust can't fix that, but there are definitely issues on that list that Rust can fix like buffer overflow.
We are nothing but a future memory in people's mind. So, even if we can make a difference in one person's life, that should be it. Well it would be nice to be on the good side of memory. To make memories we have to do something. Doing what we love and making an impact is a win-win. All the best.
> First personal knowledge management is not a new field, it was just called "note taking" before.

That's not really the same. Note-taking is simply the act of recording something. While knowledge management aims for the systematic approach and is an established academic discipline with a very long history. Though, of course not every random system some guru wants to sell has this level of research and quality. And I wouldn't put PARA there either.

> Second the place where you really need to manage knowledge is at your job.

Depends on your job and live. Most people use PKM for their own hobbies and daily stuff. Work-Knowledge is of course also a big area, but not the only one, often not even the dominating one.

> Using a system that requires discipline at work is usually a bad idea as most people are not disciplined.

Which is the point where a system can help.

> Finally if that method works for the author then good, but I also have also method that works for me which is : try to take notes of almost nothing

So what? Can't the author wrote about their methods just because you have yours?
A lot of interesting data on your website
My position is that Russia's Article 51 legal justification for the invasion is a stretch at best, but that the US policy of unnecessary, aggressive NATO expansion [1] baited Putin into this war whereas he was very clear Ukrainian NATO membership was a red line for him. We also made no effort to encourage Ukraine to honor the Minsk accords which would have almost certainly prevented this. If Mexico was hostile and Russia was in the process of working with them to put nukes in Tijuana I wonder if the US would sit idly by? Meanwhile was have Condoleezza Rice without a hint of irony on the news agreeing that invading a sovereign country is a war crime (does Iraq ring a bell?)

I see my point of view reflected only in alternative, independent media. This includes, for example, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Chris Hedges who had years of his work purged from YouTube simply because he had a show on RT which was never once sympathetic to Putin.

My anti-war, pro-diplomacy POV is banned from corporate media, and flagged/downvoted into oblivion on Reddit and even Hacker News. From my perspective most supporting sending arms and money to Ukraine has been the victim of a policy campaign by the arms industry which has already generated windfall arms sales to Ukraine and now Germany (!). So am I surprised by this story? No. I've been seeing a banned perspective on this conflict in the US from day 1.

[1] “We reiterate the decision made at the 2008 Bucharest Summit that Ukraine will become a member of the Alliance” June 2021
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_185000.htm
> My theory, an academic “forgot” they had “borrowed” them.

Or genuinely meant to borrow them for some reason, but couldn't be assed with the process involved. Maybe it had been mentioned to someone who worked in the library at the time who was a friend, nudge and a wink and I'll get them back next quarter.

6 months passes, the friend moved jobs and no longer have an easy route of return. Ignore the problem until it's far too late to solve in any useful way.

etc etc
A great and terrible book, Gibson repeatedly throwing you in to mountains of not yet explained language and concepts before dragging you out of confusion a chapter later is frustrating and tiresome, however I could not help coming back for more. I regret nothing.
> $10,000 + $900 + $1000

Which is still less than the EV premium right now. A model 3 at ~$45,000 (low end for 2022 model) vs. a civic at ~$30,000 (high end 2022 model).

Even the Nissan leaf is ~$27,000 on the low end, for a vehicle which is incomparable to a Civic.
Chrome OS is the new Windows. Go to Walmart and look for a normal PC, you won't find one, just Chromebooks.
> Many people have to live with the concern and question on if they're going to be safe entering a building.

Yeah, including me, thanks for trying to shut my opinion down too. It's laughable how people like you, who act so high and mighty about giving underprivileged people a voice, only want to do so when the underprivileged are saying what you want them to.

> They're identifying symptoms of the disease of inequity, not contributing to it.

I disagree. I claim they are contributing to it. Your opinion does not factor into my opinion, and I hope people like you can see how you're just exploiting the plight of others to serve your own views, rather than sincerely trying to help give them all a platform.
I think it's quite different. Gas can be understood as being sold by Country A to Country B (instead of business to business or business to consumer). Yes, there might be private firms involved, but Country A can stop the gas on a moment's notice if so desired. Also, there's likely no substitute for this gas in the midterm (months? years to get 3 new nuclear plants?). Finally, in terms of "responsibility", this was decided by the German government, not just by individual consumers / businesses that decided to buy more from Russia.

The commercial relationship between the USA and China is much different. First, it consists of thousands of businesses and millions of consumers: it's not so easy to stop the flow (you can ban some of it, but there are workarounds). For many of those goods, there will be substitutes. Finally, this wasn't something explicitly decided by the USA government.
> None of these are nearly as hard as cult-of-always-use-an-engine makes them out to be.

I never said they were _hard_, but they take time. Time that can be spent on your game.

> You don't have to wait for Unity to support a new platform, or fix a bug that's blocking you, or implement a feature you want, you just do that yourself.

Every system has bugs. You're always going to have to make tradeoffs when building projects, and building an entire framework from scratch to avoid those bugs is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. You're trading the possibility of at some point in the future being blocked from developing a very specific part of your game for the guarantee of spending time up front yak shaving.

> Hell, Jonathan Blow is a successful game developer who made his own engines for Braid and The Witness, and now he's gone as far as making his own language and compiler to make games with going forward because he feels C++'s eccentricities get in the way too much.

Blow has shipped two games in 20 years, and one of those (braid) predates _any_ of the existing engines being free and easily accessible. Another of the "build it from the ground up" camp is Casey Muratori, who started handmade hero almost 8 years ago, and is nowhere even close to a game. The post we're commenting on here is entitled "Accidentally Making a Language, for an Engine, for a Game". If your take away from those things is that "you'll spend more time fighting the engine" then I don't really know what else to say.
To become one with God, through his commandments, mostly by loving, clothing, and feeding my neighbor. However, my performance is woefully inadequate. Luckily, my God is a loving God, and has me on a PIP, so hopefully we see some good progress with the time I have left.
I agree. And since the RuskiEuro will be backed by a massive amount of commodity it'll be fairly hard currency. Zoltan Poszar has been clear on this[0].

My gut feeling is, that the EU, without any commodities, has a single choice: kick the Russian gas habit immediately, and force Russia to kill their western gas fields. Then pray they collapse in the next few years.

If the EU keeps paying - Russia's new Gazprom central bank controlled RuskiEuro reserves will stabilize its economy and it will rise like a phoenix from the ashes. Even if we kick the gas habit, this might still happen if Putin keeps his thumb on public sentiment enough.

[0]https://www.credit-suisse.com/about-us-news/en/articles/news...
Hey, all I want to do is shave yaks, and now you want a coat?

That will involve sorting, carding/combing, spinning, weaving/knitting, and all sorts of other stuff that doesn’t involve razor blades and yaks.
Remember O man that thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt return.

Our work is important, but is not the only source of purpose, meaning, or identity.
I don't like /r/place - I spend time in several regional subreddits, and they've transferred their nationalistic identity wars to Reddit. They're constantly fighting to build and rebuild their flags.

Now those regional subs are littered with one post after another of "come on, we need your help to defend our flag" nonsense.

It's all pointless and divisive.
I got curious, is this the one? https://fortelabs.co/blog/the-one-touch-guide-to-doing-a-wee...
In Finland, national newsmedia Yle is forced to serve mostly similar content because of some legistlation that it cannot purely act as normal news site (text only), as it is traditionally broadcasting company. They serve content like this to bypass these rules.
Why experts are terrified of a human-made pandemic and what we can do to stop it
Hitting a daily goal means more walking for many. "walk for however long you feel like" means nothing... having 3k steps on the pedometer, while the goal is eg. 10k steps (or 7k i guess now) means many people will go for a walk, which is good for them.

I know it's just gamification of exercise, but if it works, I'm all for it.
I was in a bookshop in Germany the other day, and saw a "Neuromancer" cover with a cool stylized photograph of Seoul, South Korea, in the background. The most perfect metaphor for the West's present switch-over from Japanmania to the Korean Wave.

Similarly now have the modern Korean alphabet bleed into the neon signs of Cyberpunky streets of more recent movie productions where in the past you had Japanese or Chinese writing systems. The shifting representation of Asia in Western exoticism/escapism content is fascinating to observe.

Edit: Photo of the cover: https://eikehein.com/stuff/neuromancer_seoul.jpg
> install these language runtime versions with your favorite package manager like Homebrew or Macports

Package managers often don't have a way to install specific old versions of a package, or multiple versions of a single package. That's the whole point.
If you liked Neuromancer then you should read True Names by Vernor Vinge.
That's true, but you can see new open source engines rising becoming a serious choice to make games.
Not so much for web browsers.
Or just a simple microphone recording cheering audience noise for 10s...
"Good job taking out the trash from the restroom when the janitorial staff was out getting the vaccine!"

"Good job taking out the *** from the ****** when the janitorial staff was out getting the ******!"
Why not just like, exercise properly? Walking is the absolute bare minimum, if you don't walk every day you're not going to just be a bit unfit, you're going to be hilariously unhealthy.

Stats like 65% of Americans being overweight make so much sense in this context. Develop a relationship with your body, it's not hard and you'll reap the rewards throughout life. Better _everything_.

Walking to and from the platform of my nearest tube station is about 2.5k steps....
Not GP, but I think the point being made is that regardless of your ability to distinguish between the two, you still need to act according to one of the two, with less weight given to which it ends up being. Showing up late means you avoided making a decision, to the detriment of both others as well as yourself. So pick one now, and maybe next time figure out if that was what you were feeling or not.
There's more to the story than that.

The last German government before Merkel came to power, was a coalition between the Green party and the Social-Democrats (SPD), this government decided to phase-out nuclear power in Germany in favor of renewable energy by limiting the running time of existing nuclear power plants.

The next German government was a coalition between conservative CDU under Merkel and SPD, and the nuclear phase-out remained untouched.

But when Merkel won the federal elections a second time and was able to form a coalition with the Liberal-Democrats (FDP) replacing of the SPD as a coalition partner, who had voted in favor of the nuclear phase-out, they decided to cancel the nuclear phase-out.

This happened in the autumn of 2010 and was a controversial decision for the public opinion. When Fukushima happened half year later it was widely seen as a confirmation of the inherent risks of nuclear energy and thus the Green party’s energy politics, not because Germany is especially prone to Tsunamis, but because it showed that it's impossible to rule out and plan for every possible dangerous situation in advance, and that even a high-tech country like Japan, on a comparable technical level to Germany, was not able to stop the meltdowns.

Elections in federal states shortly after Fukushima resulted in a landslide loss for Merkel's CDU and big wins for the Green party, the CDU losing one of its stronghold states [1] it had before held constantly for 58 years.

As far as I remember Merkel foresaw the public reaction and almost immediately after Fukushima voiced out in favor of reversing the cancelation of the nuclear phase-out, but could only get a solid backing in her party, after the losses in the federal state elections.

[1] https://www.swissinfo.ch/ger/-fukushima-strahlt-bis-baden-wu...
From the experiment they only change the IP addresses and no need to spoof the GPS?
I'd imagine looking back, a lot of Neuromancer and pre-ubiquitous web Cyberpunk reads weirdly because it was written in an information-scarce world. Versus the information-excess world we now live in.

In the former, I remember concepts being so much bigger and more concrete. E.g. the "War on Drugs" or "Reaganomics". These were things that existed because powerful people said they did. And there was debating, but ideas were still clearly defined.

So even though CP authors were imagining our future, it was a pretty fundamental shift to go from books-at-libraries to everything-anywhere-all-of-the-time.

Now, every concept seems to have much fuzzier conceptual edges. Because there are a million opinions about it circulating publicly and loudly.
> I would suggest they probably reached a last-minute deal with VISA rather than blinking of their own accord.

Yeah. I honestly wonder how that worked out. I suspect Amazon account for a not-insubstantial amount of payments so you have to wonder how that standoff was resolved.

> Barclays and (IIRC) HSBC

Interesting. Yes, most of the international accounts have some kind of minimum something, which is annoying. Euro and USD accounts are then possible. Other currencies they want you to hold a lot more money to get them.

I can see why transferwise have a market.
Not sure if you’re talking to me, but, the company was never yours.

For every you, there is literally tens to hundreds of thousands who would buy a canned fart if it was genuine apple.

In fairness to Apple, their devices devices go alright for lifespan and support.

Additionally, you probably could have booted pureOS on your old Mac mini.

Good on you for voting with your wallet though.

Highly recommend this drop down terminal add on.
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/3780/ddterm/
Well, I think there are sweet spots for every bracket of wealth. For most of us, having a job and a home that we can reasonably keep until our dying days without living on our knees is the sweet spot.

Once you cross into fame and multi million or multi billion (Kanye, Elon), that sweet spot is nothing to them. Their sweet spot is influence, impact, and the like. In their bracket I think few reached a sweet spot without tarnishing their desired presentation. Someone like Bezos is looked at as a villain, so he didn’t get it. Bill Gates is one or two allegations away from affairs and Epstein stuff being leaked. Warren Buffet is somewhat at the sweet spot but he is a much older man who doesn’t need the validation that Elon needs. In other words, their sweet spots are about as hard to hit as our sweet spots (financial well being).
> Are they in essence capturing some reserves?

No,

sized here means "put under control of a trustee until the situation is resolved"
it doesn't mean "take over ownership".

The reason that happens is because the persons(s) currently in control of Gazprom Germania did try to use that control to act against German law in a way which
threatens national security.

This is also more about Gas infrastructure then Gas as far as I can tell.

My guess is that some Russian oligarch tried to move ownership to one (or potentially
many) chains of "dummy" companies which obfuscate the actual owner and go through many
other non-Russian nationalities. This e.g. would make many legal actions against Gazprom Germania harder as the new (dumy) "owner(s)" would not be from Russia or any other sanctioned state.
> I believe Nix is specific to Linux

I've used Nix on Linux (i686, x86_64 and ARM), macOS and Windows (WSL2). I believe it also works (although not officially supported) on BSDs, etc. too, although I've not tried that yet.

> Lorri sounds amazing though! ...which handles the "this directory needs these specific packages" installed locally, not globally problem that Debian gives you).

You're describing Nix, not Lorri. Specifically:

- nix-shell provides a directory-local environments (and more, e.g. #!nix-shell to fetch script dependencies automatically)

- direnv can enter/exit this nix-shell environment when cd-ing in/out of a directory

- lorri makes direnv+nix-shell faster, by building the environment asynchronously in the background (rather than causing our terminal to freeze)