skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First: as said, we all work through representations. And we also all have inputs. "All" being human and machine, in the context of intelligence.

We do not get directly to the lemon and we work on stories about the lemon.

And - again -, the idea was to demonstrate that something was impossible. Not to contemplate ideas like in a bad pulp fiction about the Sixties - less productively than Java without garbage collection, because in Java, that which is now garbage has formerly been actually used.
Excellent point. It is absolutely not new. I also avoid those things except salmon, its pinkness doesn't really enhance my personal enjoyment so I'm not hung up on that one. It's easy to buy natural, traditionally made food. Once you go away from factory food you can't really go back.
This is another one of those things that I would argue is a continuum, not a binary dichotomy. I think it's totally reasonable to posit that human intelligence is not "fully general". But I would have a hard time with suggesting that we don't possess a certain measure of "generality" in our intelligence. I mean, humans have dealt with new situations before and apparently thrived despite that. Imagine the first human to live in an environment near an active volcano and who witnessed a volcanic eruption. Or just think in terms of new technological innovations - our intelligence is "general enough" to learn to use telephones, drive cars, do abstract math, etc. All things that the stereotypical "caveman proto-human" did not have to deal with and which would have been new to somebody at some point.
Quotes used to work fine until they broke it. Hopefully this "improvement" is as easy as git revert.
"Experience" is a thing represented by chemical markers in the brain however. It's all electrochemical in the end. And I have heard first hand stories directly from people who used to use the stuff that it absolutely changed their personalities, i.e. brain damage which is a chemical effect.
Fantastic write-up. Thanks for sharing this!
I find sleeping in a tent during the rain actually difficult and much prefer wearing earplugs for the quiet, although tent fabric also tends to flap in the wind which frequently accompanies rain. Do people enjoy the rainy tent noise for sleeping?
The problem here is there is no direct way or feedback mechanism to link "lost sales" to this issue, other than people messaging directly.

Otherwise, it's the kind of thing that usually ends up as a positive feedback loop: "We need more money" -> "Cripple some old games" -> "Users are buying less of our games" -> We need more money" -> "Cripple more old games" -> ...

We've seen it before with DRM, we've seen it before with microtransactions. When there's no organic way to complain other than "don't buy", execs don't get the message.
It's got to be a combination of both (e.g. made from wood and shaped like a ball but feels like this in this room etc) but maybe that is too neurotic and not conducive to new aesthetic experience. I think my pattern recognition for generative art would be quite high based on how many times I've seen it as a style of art previously. For most images i've seen DALL-E has all of the fingerprints of generative art and on some level I notice that even if the fidelity is approaching something that takes over aesthetically (e.g. where those kinds of perceptual fingerprints fade away a little bit).
I don't think current music theory is excessively academic, I think it's not academic or rigorous enough. Many institutions languish in studying harmonic theory to the exclusion of many other modes of musical analysis. This leaves them equipped only to study archaic styles of European music and jazz where harmony was one of the defining factors. The expressive power and applicability of music theory would be served best by focusing study on areas that have been underexplored. Those areas are too numerous to even list, but standouts that apply to music more recent than mid-century are rhythm, timbre, movement (as driven by elements other than harmony), instrumentation, electronic techniques, and cultural aspects of music like references and interpolation.
Thanks for the links! That tiny USB-C power supply is wonderful. I think I'm going to have to build something like this now. Maybe with a case that can be mounted into a portable workstation.

Ricardo - the builder of the linked power supply - also linked this DC6006L [1] by FNIRSI if a non-DIY route is more appealing.

[1]: http://www.fnirsi.cn/productinfo/556155.html
I would like to add that running a zfs raid array without ever scrubbing is asking for data loss ask Linus from Linus Tech Tips how he lost data repeatedly.
I can certainly imagine an electromechanical system comprised of 1) a "brain" which can grow without practical bound, exactly like data centers already do, which controls 2) a "body" which can be switched out for another at any time, to simulate physical growth. The same brain could even control multiple bodies simultaneously.

Now, I'm not going to claim this will entirely enable AGI. But the base argument of "computers can not possibly have bodies" is nonsense.
> … I didn't acknowledge the majesty of the argument I had been confronted with.

Gee, thanks, I think. Sorry to say we don’t agree on your summary of my comment.

> Filippo Valsorda wrote a tweet that included a meme from "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia"

From this, we already have serious disagreements. It’s part of a series of tweets amplified by others. It isn’t a single tweet in isolation even when we only look at the direct author. We do agree on the source of the clip, though I think you weren’t familiar with the background of the subject parodied in the clip as I raised it. Perhaps you do not believe it or perhaps you think that the parody somehow erases what was parodied originally. Reasonable people can read it many ways.

> That meme is a parody of "A Beautiful Mind"

There are many memes with text included, though this was a video, and it seems clearly a parody of Nash from that film. Here is one example meme that I did not create: https://me.me/i/mathematician-john-nash-during-a-schizophren...

> John Nash was mentally ill

Yep. The implication of using such a meme to punch down is mirrored in the words of the related tweets calling him a conspiracy theorist. This wasn’t as you tried to say, a single tweet, it’s presented in a context that is harsh, and condemning.

> John Nash was virulently anti-semitic

Maybe, it’s unclear if it was a byproduct of his mental illness or a sincerely held belief. It’s a third rail, regardless. I won’t hold a mentally ill person accountable for stuff they say during an episode, and I also won’t use it as a joke.

> Ergo, Filippo Valsorda is both bigoted against the mentally ill, and also an anti-semite.

This isn’t my claim. My claim is that it’s completely inappropriate on many levels to post not only that meme but to use it in tandem with direct personal attacks on Bernstein. This seems especially relevant in a thread supposedly about damaging behavior of other people in the community.

I would prefer you don’t cover for mental health stigmatization or antisemitic dog whistling even a tiny bit, especially if it was not intended. Painting me as crazy for my analysis is shitty. You asked me to bring some light and then attack me for sharing my actual thoughts. You didn’t acknowledge my insight about Jewish names, either. Was that news to you? Dismissively omitting anything about that insight is weird.

Please leave no room for ambiguity here, it is a very dangerous time in the world, and in America, especially after the Tree of Life murders. There are many many other examples of terrible stuff like that - and anything that even remotely smells like that must be immediately challenged in my view. No doubt this personal context makes myself and others extra sensitive. That is exactly why I explained my understanding of the meaning.

I am happy to provide an analysis of Homer Simpson memes in context if it can help us break the ice and not end this thread on hard or hateful terms.
Well, no. A bunch of mechanism have models of lower complexity that have almost exactly the same predictive power but a completely different structures. Those higher order structures are the "why".

Why did does a cube on a inclined plane start to slide? You act like the correct answer is "because the subatomic particles and space time in the light cone of the experiment made it that way" when one should expect "because the sin of the incline angle times mass times local gravity became bigger then the static friction between a cos(incline angle) times the original cube weight and the surface at no incline" which is a lot simpler.
Thank you Sega for introducing me to the Echidna (sonic & knuckles)
I’m always amazed at how many programming languages there are. I’d never heard of Haxe, I don’t think it would have crossed my mind to look for something like it but here it is powering a highly successful game with, from what I can tell, a vibrant eco system around the language as well.

Perhaps I’m not curious enough to go exploring for these languages. I’ve used a few smaller ones in my years (usually because of an external forcing factor - like Squirrel running on ElecticImp devices) but I tend to stick to the big names we all know
Used bookstores are great for discovery, you often end up with something random and unexpected that you would never buy on a digital storefront.
Yeah, I don't quite see what the notion of the "supermode" does for anyone, either.

Maybe he's going to elaborate it somewhere else? Or just hoping that someone else does.
I've come to strongly dislike the idea of the "Turing Test" and agree that it's not a good test. IMO, all it's really doing is testing our ability to create a computer than can lie effectively. That does not seem to me to be the most useful thing to focus on.
Does someone run NetBSD in production? What do you use NetBSD for?
> To the end-user, it might not seem like there's a whole heap of changes, but the largest and hardest part was actually migrating the entire project from VS2008 to VS2019 and getting it all to build successfully
Their existing users might hate it, but the new users they want won't accept anything else.
If I may offer you my own words, "the problem of this world is a problem of Human Resources".
This presentation is what got me started. Tim Holman - Generative Art Speedrun [0].

It gives a nice introduction and you end up with a nice tool belt of simple techniques to later experiment with. Like drawing simple shapes. Then repeating them. Then adding noise etc. A very simple and gradual approach. Highly recommend watching.

[0]: https://youtu.be/4Se0_w0ISYk
I feel like Iranian-American programmer Nasir Gebelli deserves a special mention here. His early Apple II and Atari 800 games were credited simply: NASIR. I remember playing Space Eggs on my Atari 800 as a kid and being mystified at this strange name at the bottom of the title screen.

But what he’s most known for is more or less single handedly carrying Squaresoft through their formative years. He was responsible for Rad Racer, Final Fantasy I-III, and Secret of Mana. Nasir was such a legend that Squaresoft flew him to Japan from the US to work on their games. At one point when his work visa expired, they flew the entire Squaresoft dev team back to Sacramento and completed FFIII in Nasir’s apartment.
For the narrow AI cases, their goal or purpose is similarly tightly circumscribed.

Do you also think that some goal is necessary for an intelligence to make sense?
If so, what do you think that goal of an AGI would be?
It's very easy to enable secure boot with Nvidia now, at least on fedora with kmods.

https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Secure%20Boot?highlight=%28%5CbC...

I have personally set up secure boot with Nvidia on RHEL 8 and Fedora 36, it survives driver updates as well. Fedora also makes it simple to use a TPM for drive decryption.
Yep, and to be fair it's always been that way to some degree. The most recent generations just happened to live in an economic golden age where there was so much economic opportunity there actually was more competition and meritocracy than the world had ever seen.

Now we're receding back to something more resembling the mid-late 1800s, where aristocracy was a big deal and you had situations like the Imperial British military, where the enlisted soldiers were impeccable, but the blue-blood officers did things like carry pianos into combat zones, and caring about things like self-improvement was a sign of weakness socially.
That's really part and parcel of the whole Hanlon's razor thing: sometimes you have to put forth a tiny shred of imaginative effort to consider whether someone was maybe trying to be clever, or otherwise find the non-asshole interpretation of someone's actions.

This is not even remotely the most important case where failure of imagination is a moral failing.
> Physical media is getting kind of dated as seen by many devices no longer even including optical drives.

the lack of optical drives in consoles isn't because the tech is 'dated' it's because forcing users to online-only and preventing players from owning physical media they can let their friends borrow or sell used makes more money for gaming companies and gives them greater opportunity to collect your data and push ads at you. It gives them greater control to censor, patch, and remove content too.
The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.
If you see a devlog post from Lucas Pope you know it's going to be a goldmine. No matter the topic. Dude has a real knack in writing these, clearly describing the problem and the thought process on possible solution. And making it all very interesting so you yourself start thinking how would you address it or what other cool thing could be built instead.

Here's some of his other huge devlogs on TIGSOURCE:

1. Papers, Please. https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=29750.0

2. Return of the Obra Dinn. https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.0
Is this bait? Lol
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Would that there was a one-off (every 18 months) exemption for individuals to import one of whichever car they might want from the EU or Japan.

Msr. Pepin could have a Renault Vel Satis, and I could have a Citroen C6....
> The point isn't that you have to provide a comprehensive proof of safety, which is arguably a philosophical impossibility,

Then don't call it 'unsafe until proven otherwise'. Safety standards are a great idea. They're not this and calling it this is just a recipe for failure when new information makes it look like the original research was insufficient and that its a policy failure.
Hey all, didn't think this would be anything more than 1 or 2 comments.

I appreciate everyones passion and level of thought going into the replies. I will try read most of them.

Please note that if you reading this.

My intention of this post was to get a little rant off my chest and find out about potential solutions and gotchas about using GraphQl. It's unproductive attacking me or anyone else for character like "clearly not a senior developer" or "clearly never used API's before" because if anything this is about trying to find a solution and to save each other time.
My music theory is very weak, but I have some difficulty understanding the point of supermode; if it includes 10 out of the 12 notes, then does it really function as a scale anymore or would it be just simpler to think in terms of the chromatic scale and abandon modes altogether?
The folks who believe that a significant part of our cognitive function is rooted in our physical selves certainly believe that. There's even an entire book "Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought" by George Lakoff & Mark Johnson that argues that not just cognition but almost all of western Philosophy is grounded in our physical manifestation.
Not a robot.
I also accept a license to use my toaster when I buy it, and the intellectual property rights are still owned by the manufacturer, etc. I wouldn't call burying it in legalese that no one ever reads and even fewer understand, "pretty explicit".

It's really frustrating to me that "say one thing on the page and another thing in the terms" has been steadily creeping from "that's a scam" to "that's a completely normal business practice", and it's even more frustrating that some people defend it.
And you think that's good the way it is? I'm saying we should change that.
> I jubilantly drive a stick shift car with a radio that has a cd player and buttons

Oooh, look at you with your fancy radio! My car doesn't even have a synchro on first gear, and you've got a cd player. I bet you've got luxury roll up windows instead of side curtains, and signal lights instead of trafficators, huh? ;)
MGSV was designed for episodic release, and Kojima already LARPs as a film director, so the missions follow the presentation of a television episode-- hence opening credits every few minutes.

Earlier games would just have cheeky references to himself here and there. Most obvious one I remember was Psycho Mantis' fight in MGS1 opening with him appearing to change your television input to one called "HIDEO" (instead of "VIDEO").
The productivity of solo indie game devs is just really impressive.

While I’m aware of the “go fast alone, go far together” quote, I’m depressed by how inefficient app/ui development is at big tech companies compared to game studios, especially short staffed indies.

Really makes me wonder about the “engineering excellence” that tech leads and “architects” pride themselves in when games are developed much more quickly and are - to my eye - much more stable and performant.
That's a good point. Sounds like the beginning of a death spiral caused by bad management decisions.
> Like hardware manufacturers? I thought getting commercial users to contribute to the kernel was desirable?

Contribute to drivers, yes. Steer development of the kernel, no, IMO. The more they contribute, the more influence they gain. And a lot of the contributions are not hardware related at all.

> Didn't Torvalds himself reject GPL-3?

I don't know, I didn't follow this as I don't follow Linux news that closely anymore. I thought it was mainly about the way that it was introduced. But I think it's a much better license than GPL-2.

> Now I'm really confused. Why would businesses not like the BSD license? And they don't like GPL-3 either? Is GPL-2 the goldilocks license for them?

Businesses hate the BSD license because any code derived does not have to be open at all. So that means anything they contribute can be taken by their competitors and used in closed-source software. That's totally OK. Because of this there's only a few companies involved in BSD. Notably Netflix, the former Skype (before it was acquired by MS), and some smaller orgs like Netapp and iX that makes freenas/truenas.

Companies hate GPL-3 because their license gets revoked if a company uses its patents to attack GPLd software. It also stipulates some other things like that devices running GPL-3 software must also be open (e.g. no locked bootloaders etc). Very good things IMO. A lot of GPL-3's stipulations were triggered by real-world exploitation of free software. Examples: By TiVo (hence the name "anti-TiVoisation clause" for the open hardware thing). And the anti-patent clause was a direct result of Microsoft's patent attacks on Linux. No wonder Steve Ballmer hated the GPL-3 so much.

This is why Microsoft and most of the others hate it so much, they love giving open source lip service, but are not really open source companies. The GPL-2 gives them enough loopholes to get away with this. Many companies avoid GPL-3 licensed software at all costs, it was the driving force for bash not being updated (and replaced by zsh) on macOS for example.

Personally I think it would be better if FreeBSD was GPL-3d but BSD is not bad for me as a use that doesn't want too much corporate influence. After all, if a company makes a closed-source fork it doesn't impact me in any way. I won't use it anyway.
The argument about childhood is specifically about incremental physical transformation being entangled with cognitive development. "switching out [bodies] at any time" is not in any sense equivalent.
How to get along with other people. Reading and math. How to take things apart. How to know where home is.

Mostly it's a matter of NOT crushing their curiosity, and engaging it positively whenever it shows up.
If you've never signed a contract agreeing not to quit, then yes?
Nasty? No!

They're adorable.

I advocate for their domestication to anyone who'll listen.

They're known to be very tame and friendly with in a short duration of repeated human closeness.

Sure, an adult Devil could bite your hand off, but so can a dog, and Devils tend to prefer already dead things.
The Tinnitus Neuromodulator setting works AMAZINGLY well for me. It's effect even persists for some minutes after I turn it off.
There's also the Pinecil, a pretty reputable TS-100 clone with USB-C and barrel jack, and at an impressively low price.

https://pine64.com/product/pinecil-smart-mini-portable-solde...

Tends to be out of stock though - apparently even more so currently with the v2 release.

(oh wow, v2 is rated for 88 W?)
> Says who?

Says me, and also any other person that has tried to build a type-safe GraphQL query builder

> Consumers of the APIs I work on are mostly written in Typescript and constructing types based on the GraphQL schema is a completely automated process

Constructing "types" of what kind, and in what way? Types for queries? Do you need to rerun the tool every time you modify any of your queries? Does it need to watch your query strings to generate the right types for them?

> Ok then every single language is bad because every language's syntax is based on (conceptually) constructing strings. I don't get your point.

Instead of arguing, why not look at what LINQ does?

For the best experience, you should probably try them with an editor/compiler: https://github.com/dotnet/try-samples#basics
I think a great extension to that is to post the question anyway, add your own solution and mark it as solved.
Eh, it's was a dc-3, not only a very well known aircraft, the soviet union actually manufactured them under license as the li-2. So a well understood airframe.

The aircraft in question was rewinged at one point, and the engines replaced with the the soviet engines used on the li-2, I would guess they understood the airplane well enough.

Reading a couple of articles it sounds more like they were having too much fun on their excursion flight.
Those genres are far and away the most popular forms of music for an entire generation now, and exhibit a high degree of craftsmanship with techniques never used before them. Whether you personally enjoy the music or not, an honest academic exploration of music would seek to understand and explain what makes those styles of music tick.
Everyone uses Excel as a database, and Excel should absolutely tackle this. It’s like “Everyone is using Toyota to carry children to schools in underdeveloped countries” so let’s put seatbelts, you know, even if it’s not the intended usage.

The French government believed that Covid cases had stopped increasing, because their federated Excel spreadsheet was silently truncating data at 1 million rows. Accidents like this happen all the time.

Access should be based on Excel, only adding sheet types: single-record forms, SQL reports, pivot tables.

In fact, pivot tables are the proof that Excel is a database tool.