skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Computers actually exist outside of spacetime! Didn’t you know?

Reading the abstract made me very annoyed, there’s like 4 separate completely false claims.
My developers use CVS.

Sometimes, they are really stupid, and they will checkin passwords.

With the RCS archives, I can use vi (or nano, or any other reasonable editor), and remove this foolishness.

When I run "git cvsconvert" any foolishness is ENGRAVED IN STONE.

Removal is possible in git, but not easy.

This is my problem. THERE ARE SO MANY IDIOTS. What can I do?

EDIT: For Windows-centric users of git, you need to run this in every and all repositories RIGHT NOW.

git grep -i password $(git rev-list --all)

[actually, everybody should try it]
Never? Not even if your needs are very unpredictable or seasonal?
The paper seems to depend on this claim:

> One of the leading critics was the philosopher Hubert Dreyfus, who argued that computers, who have no body, no childhood and no cultural practice, could not acquire intelligence at all.

So, I don't understand how the argument is at all credible. We have computers that do this. They are called robots. It may be the case that the best route to AGI is to put a robot through childhood. It would need an advanced enough learning framework first. All ML research is currently hashing out what that might be.
Eh, just sounds like you have a good routine going, based on the study results you could probably skip the microdosing and achieve the same performance.
It’s really disturbing that TikTok’s algorithms are aggressively promoting misogynistic content like this to young people despite claiming to banning it.
Email and the windows file system is a SCM system if you're dumb enough.
Several, though not "holy" in itself, but befitting a holy person (saint-like behavior).

In this particular instances he means in the practice of Christianity, which in the Catholic and Orthodox version (or the unified version before the schism) had strict lent period, with rules about abstaining from meat (and, for those following the stricter rules, dairy products two in most days (and in the traditional versions, a bread+water diet only on some important holy days). Regular christians followed (and follow) those at their own preference/faith/tolerance level, the clergy, monks, and saints, follow them strictly. And there are several stories of saints who followed them year round.

But of course, veganism is also associated with holy behavior in Hinduism, Buddhism, and such.
ECC is not about disk corruption, while the checksums are about disk corruption

ECC is corruption of the parts in memory, like caches of data, data when it's in the process of being compressed or encrypted, some management data always cached in memory etc.

In the end not having ECC can affect your system in such abstruse ways that IMHO it probably doesn't make any relevant difference if you use zfs or e.g. ext4.

Tbh it's kind absurd that ECC is not the standard for any non-"cheap" PC/Laptop.

EDIT: Checksums can still potentially help in the unlikely case that the RAM error is a bitflip in some loaded offset/ptr referring "into" the HDD/SSD storage (e.g. position of some file on disk).
No, you just misunderstand the breakup clause in this contract. It's not an exit for any reason and pay a fee clause.

Musk is actually obligated to buy the company at this point. It is unlikely the courts will fully attempt to force such a large purchase. But the penalty decided could be much higher than $1B.
That’s kind of true (too some degree at least) if you’re talking about Western Europe. However Lithuania (and Jogaila himself) was still Pagan back then and had much closer ties to the Orthodox world. There was a very clear dividing line between the two nations and chances are Lithuania would have become Orthdox had he not been offered the throne of Poland.

> An aristrocrate inherited lands and a relatively week tie to his patron. An aristrocrate inherited lands and a relatively week tie to his patron. No "nation" in the power equation. They could and did switch sides a lot, especially if that meant extra subordinates and a higher aristocracy rank.

Polish nobles were not legally allowed to own land in Lithuania (and vice versa) many years after the initial union. Legally in many ways it was much harder to move to a different country without losing you social position and most or your property than nowadays.

> there was no concept of nations and nation-states

That just a misconception. Their understanding of what a nation was might have been quite a bit different but it did definitely exist.
I mostly use zinc oxide sunscreen and don't think I look awful, which I understand is both a personal opinion and also something that can vary from person to person based on skin tone.
Good thing we still have Voigt-Kampf in our back pockets.
> I’m actually fascinated by how much this post became accepted canon over the years.

I think the misunderstanding goes something like this. I'm pretty sure all three of the below statements are true:

• People who prioritize data integrity are more likely to be using ZFS.

• People who prioritize data integrity should use ECC memory.

• Ergo, if you are using ZFS, you should probably be using ECC memory.

However, it doesn't naturally follow that because you are using ZFS, you should be using ECC memory, nor that people without ECC memory should not use ZFS. This is unintuitive.
The Astonishing Hypothesis is that “You”, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules (Crick, 1994, p. 3)

I'd be astonished if that statement were correct. For it to be a viable hypothesis it must at least begin to explain how the memories of my school graduation and the joy I felt are stored in the brain. But scientists like John Searle are dismissive of "wild ideas" and say consciousness is just a biological process in the brain, as he does at the beginning of this lecture [1]. Ok, I guess that settles it.

I'm going to assume AGI means human-like general intelligence, but emotional intelligence plays a large role in human intelligence. I'm surprised this isn't talked about more since we were all raised on Star Trek's Spock emotionless self and especially Data, trying to find the emotion chip so he can finally be human.

[1] Consciousness as a Problem in Philosophy & Neurobiology (John Searle)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot4z1UrPvZY
> The do say that "player unlocked content will transfer over" but you'll lose the game dynamics of the first game forever...

This is something I don't like about the modern game landscape. But it appears to be overwhelmingly popular, for reasons that escape me.

Every time an existing game is updated, you lose the dynamics of the first game forever. How is Overwatch 2 replacing Overwatch 1 any different from that?
what linux server distro are you using if not ubuntu lts? Im not a massive fan either but i run thousands of the bastards (k8s hosts) and cant imagine an other...

just disable snap and you're good ;)
The pictures make me so sad, broken. I am too old to experience that, too bitter, too broken. Even though my country has festivals I was and is too afraid to go.
Seems like a nice tool to have when building a quick prototype. I've not really ventured into LV2 development yet, but a quick gui toolkit might lower the time cost enough that I'd give it a go.
I wrote a tool to do this for circuit board artwork changes. It used gerbv to rasterize the vector (gerber) files, then used XOR on the pixels to make unchanged areas disappear. For such a simple tool it is quite useful.
I might be an idiot myself, but would `git rebase -i <commitBeforeSnafu>` do the trick?

edit: This is interactive rebase, where you can rewrite history. Instructions are in the file you are editing once the command is executed. As a rule of thumb, don't rebase on production, however with such a SNAFU you probably need to.
>into a fissionable target that would achieve critical mass once the bullet whacked into it [...] I can’t imagine the gun method really takes a lot of energy (more than a shotgun shell, but not much more?)

The gun type is mechanically simple, but impossible to scale up. If you're smacking two subcritical spheres together, each sphere can't be more than 15kg.¹

But wait, Little Boy used 64kg of uranium. How did it do that?

"Critical mass" is a function of mass and surface area. A sphere packs the most atoms together, a long skinny rod spreads them out. To increase the amount of uranium used and thus the explosive yield, Little Boy actually fired a 38.5kg cylinder onto a stationary 25.6kg plug. Each half of the pit would have been supercritical, if they were spherical.

Gun types also need to assemble quickly, since as soon as any part of the assembly reaches critical mass it will start blowing itself apart. It had 64kg of uranium but 2,300kg of neutron reflecting material and tamper, and the launching charge used 3.6 kilograms of cordite! That would be a hell of a shotgun shell.

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¹: For pure U-233, which Little Boy didn't actually have, since it was only enriched to 80%. Wartime contingencies and all.
Thank you! I'm surprised that I've not heard this before, and I never noticed it the many times I've been to NuScale's site.

I'm clearly in left field when it comes to concerns about nuclear, in that I mostly am worried about wasted effort and capital on a tech that I do not foresee being able to keep up, rather than concerns about "safety" or belief that it is in anyway necessary for decarbonization. So I appreciate seeing some new information that make me more hopeful that SMRs will succeed.
[Video] Dreams Graphics Engine Design
You may try finding soap that will make a bath "last" for weeks. If you do find somebody claiming that, and actually give them your money, that is on you. I promise you will not get any of it.
I don't think he is popular, he appears in popular shows and is shared across youtube/instagram alot

I checked his TikTok profile, he don't get a lot of views

https://www.tiktok.com/@tate.0fficial

For comparison his instagram seems way more popular:

https://www.instagram.com/cobratate/

And similar, it's more views on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=andrew+tate

It's more like a youtube superstar at this point

They even picture him as "the new Alex Jones"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq4cDv2cUoE

Youtube is the root of the evil
The good thing about filesystems which have no error checking is that they won't generally go back and corrupt the old, idle, already written data on disk when they have a memory issue. If you run a scrub/whatever to check validity of old data and your system has a new memory issue, it could destroy everything very quickly even without new file writes. With a less feature full filesystem your data corruption could still be quite bad, but it would have a better chance for recovery as even if the filesystem is severely damaged, the file data would be (mostly) untouched. ECC helps prevent both of these cases, it's really too bad it's so hard/expensive to use outside of server hardware.
If you did that, what would stop everyone from just pirating your game?
Thank you, and that's a good advice from the comment:

"So if you're writing a script that needs to work with dozens of past and future Git versions, use git checkout. If you need to teach humans how to talk to Git, use git switch. Some details of some flags may change in the future, but I'd argue that that'll be a smaller mental challenge than trying to teach which parts of git checkout do what."

I'll try to use more switch/restore

I've actually used "git stash" more than it should be (I'm probably applying real bad "p4/g4/svn" like ideas in my head to the development. As soon as I go into project with few more people, and I'm lost, though I was able to make few PR's in github for things - but everytime had to le-learn the process).
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Some do, but it rarely happen in Social democracy because everyone more or less follow the status quo. Democracy favors short term choices and demagogue.

If you want to hear people have vision statement, you need to listen to speeches made by leaders who know they will likely stay in power (Xi Jinping, Putin, etc). Whether you like the vision or not, their speeches are often based on history and long term vision.

You can also have regular politicians who offer something radically different, they usually resort to vision statements as well.

Bernie Sanders uses some in the US.

You also have Mikheil “Misha” Saakashvili in Georgia who introduced liberalism to Georgia not too late ago.
Dude, you played the worst two of the series. MGSV was incomplete and a "fuck you" to Konami at least in terms of story/incompleteness. Rising is more or less just a game with "Metal Gear" in the title and is pretty removed in terms of gameplay/narrative.

You really need to play MGS1-4 to appreciate the story and gameplay, and to get a real sense of Kojima's brilliance. They're top notch all around, but definitely up there as one of the best stories ever told.

Correction: Survive is the worst if you even want to consider it a MGS game
A lot. for example: jainism, zen buddhism (shōjin ryōri), rastafarianism. There are also a lot of religious practices where the religious doctrine doesn't _require_ adherence to a vegan diet, but not eating animal products is considered more holy, and specifically because of the abnegation aspect the post is talking about. Catholics, for instance, have a long and complicated tradition of avoiding animal products for religious reasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting_and_abstinence_in_the_...
Chill?
https://thenextweb.com/news/elon-musk-telsa-shares-loan-twit...

> Musk's equity commitment now stands at $33.5 billion

> May 26, 2022

> But in the latest filing, he’s completely removed this loan in the financing plan to acquire the social media company.

If he needs to sell thirty billion dollars worth of Tesla shares it is going to devalue the stock quite a bit. That's a full day volume of trading.
You can try and talk to your developers with more respect. People make mistakes and don't have to be idiots or stupid for it.

edit: mistakes happen always it is better to change the workflow in such a way that a the consequences can be contained.
Some noisy services can cause bans.

I have quite a bit of rep with Hetzner, so they didn't outright nuke me, but I once got an abuse email because I was running an IPFS daemon, and the reference IPFS implementation allows RFC1918 IPs and GCNAT on discovery announcements... so dialing into nowhere a lot upset the router.

With the new no-ip-at-all option you can set up a Network and set up an extra instance as NAT as you would with a home network. That should cut down on issues like that.
Fix whatever processes, tooling, culture or training you have that leads your developers to make these mistakes
> one chief characteristics of human intelligence is its generality

Citation needed. This sounds exactly like something a human would claim!

Our intelligence is very much tailored to the environment we find ourselves in. The specific/general intelligence dichotomy is false.
I feel like the implication was clearly that it was done on the sly. Outright defecting to the other country is quite a bit different from being paid to look the other way.
> there’s like 4 separate completely false claims.

If that's the case, can we just flag it for bullshit?
Why do they have '--' as an argument in a lot of the commands? I don't think that's necessary?
I don't really think it matters, this site has seen a lot of studies studies showing that iOS users will pay money hand-over-fist either way.
I have several non-ecc machines running 24/7 for years without any crashes.
it has been quite some time since I read this, perhaps 12 years, and I had forgotten the salient point that it is about the first private communication with someone the initiator of communication does not know, in that context trying to be clever and failing to seem clever to the person being contacted makes one seem an asshole.

So while it could also be that internet mob decides that someone failing to be clever is an asshole it should be noted that the failure probably was quite larger of a failure, given that it was misinterpreted by a mob probably reading something on social media they sought out and not just a single person getting contacted out of the blue.
"Forever. Ha. In my experience it's a little bit longer than most people expect."

Westworld
When it comes to git, I am firmly of the opinion that it's not you, it's them.

Git is simple, but it takes a lot of experience to appreciate its simplicity. So don't beat yourself up, git is hard and it's okay to be lost.
There's not going to be a tutorial for the exact result someone has in their head, yes. That doesn't mean there aren't resources to learn the tools and techniques, so that a person can understand how to achieve their desired result.

We don't tell people to just throw some vegetables in a pan and expect ratatouille; or to pick up a trumpet and presto, they play jazz.
I'd say they are more like the property managers that also hold some ownership of the property. The janitors at Twitter HQ are like the janitor that cleans a property.
Dreams is an awesome “video game creator” game for PlayStation. It uses uses distance fields for geometry, instead of polygons.

You model things inside the game via sculpting by adding and subtracting shapes. Surfaces are covered in “flecks” which gives models a really unique look.

The talk goes into the rendering pipeline, optimizations, and how they and obtained a particular look.

Sorry hacker news title doesn’t match video title. Thought it was more fitting.
Yes, sysupgrade was very gentle and forgiving. The 9.3 pkgsrc update/upgrade has an issue with version/patch 38 and 39 of pysomething or other which I suspect broke cns font width calculation.
Yeah… but Shopify forces me to use it when accessing their storefront api.
Minecraft early access is a good counter argument, but it wasn't a narrative game.
Can you show me a robot that grows incrementally?
I once read an article making the point that copyright is "[economic] protectionism against the past" - its purpose isn't really to accomplish anything in the present or future, but to prevent current producers of intellectual property from having to compete with the intellectual property produced by the past. When you read Pride and Prejudice instead of something "more appropriate" to the modern day, that's money taken out of the pocket of a book publisher today.

You've rediscovered that concept as applied to video games.
> If you run a scrub/whatever to check validity of old data and your system has a new memory issue, it could destroy everything very quickly even without new file writes.

No, it won't.

https://jrs-s.net/2015/02/03/will-zfs-and-non-ecc-ram-kill-y...

> Let’s assume that we have RAM that not only isn’t working 100% properly, but is actively goddamn evil and trying its naive but enthusiastic best to specifically kill your data during a scrub. First, you read a block. This block is good. It is perfectly good data written to a perfectly good disk with a perfectly matching checksum. But that block is read into evil RAM, and the evil RAM flips some bits. Perhaps those bits are in the data itself, or perhaps those bits are in the checksum. Either way, your perfectly good block now does not appear to match its checksum, and since we’re scrubbing, ZFS will attempt to actually repair the “bad” block on disk. Uh-oh! What now?

> Next, you read [a copy of the same block from another disk]. Now, if your evil RAM leaves this block alone, ZFS will see that the second copy matches its checksum, and so it will overwrite the first block with the same data it had originally – no data was lost here, just a few wasted disk cycles. OK. But what if your evil RAM flips a bit in the second copy? Since it doesn’t match the checksum either, ZFS doesn’t overwrite anything. It logs an unrecoverable data error for that block, and leaves both copies untouched on disk.
Is this about AGI? Carmack is on it, so I would bet he succeeds. He speaks of this quite a lot in the last Lex Fridman podcast (linked on HN yesterday).
I want to like this thing, but i always get the feeling that 1 or 2 accidental wrong keypresses could result in total chaos because i’ll have no idea what just happened to my files/folders…

(currently using Ranger)
I have an Oracle Linux PC, running everything in btrfs.

I use a usb-attached zfs raid-1 for my important storage. I have to run "zfs-fuse" before I mount it.

What I know about ecc comes from this:

https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1235679&p=...

I have never scrubbed my zfs vault, but I have scrubbed my btrfs drives.

I should get something with ecc. Wow, do I have a lot of stuff.
Like Chernobyl?
Totally agreeing with the article, this "supermode" ie in C: all white keys plus Eb, Ab, Bb, is exactly what my rock band's noodles have intuitively followed.
With today’s sensibilities the idea that you would fly civilian passengers regularly on a captured airplane sounds crazy.

An airplane like that is basically unsupported. You have no idea if your maintenance is adequate or if they have discovered any flight safety issues with the type. How would you know the provenance of your spare parts? Are they the right stuff or the rejects from some scrapyard? What if you discover a minor issue who do you contact to check if any corrective action is needed? “So about your airplane we confiscated a few years ago: the fifth spar has a longitudinal crack. Bela recons he can drill it to stop it from further propagating. Can we still fly it?” Would be a funny conversation.
Latin. It opens up a world of historical knowledge through fascinating first-hand sources that are otherwise inaccessible. I wish I were better at it.
Participants were required to bring their own psilocybin mushrooms. Probably because it can be expensive and difficult for researchers to get obtain and administer pharma-grade psilocybin.

The dose was 0.5g of dried Cubensis mushrooms. Usually a microdose is 0.1-0.2g.

All the participants were healthy volunteers. There may be more noticable effects in people with depression or anxiety disorders, etc. Consider that antidepressants often have no effect in healthy volunteers.
> The three replaced almost all of Macy's code in a mad week-long sprint.

damn....

> Sleep to mitigate race conditions

ouch...

> Validation functions which simply return true

da f*

> strange hexadecimal output spamming the root console of their router

:D
Melancholy Elephants
Updates tend to improve games. It's not that surprisingly they're popular.

OW2, however, is going to be a very different game. And from the look of it... much worse.
I see. So adding a fullscreen button instead of the cursor: zoom makes it non-invasive?
AlphaGo?
Even if that is the case, why aren’t they able to make their 400 pack price competitive on Amazon to the 500 pack being shipped from Sam’s club?

I realize there may be a very real logistics reason why they cannot, nor do I necessarily think they should rush to the bottom.

Just something doesn’t add up from this story to me.
> I'd be astonished if that statement were correct.

What is the alternative to that statement?
Pretty sure I read this same article a while back, and came away thinking it was pretty crap, and presented no substantive arguments. I can't be bothered to re-read the whole thing right now, but it seems to jump right out of the gate with what I would consider some shaky assumptions, like the idea that AGI is necessarily "human like".

I know I've beat this dead horse numerous times, but I do think it's critical to make the distinction between "human level" intelligence and "human like" intelligence. And I think we can have intelligence that is "human level", even in its generality, without necessarily being exactly "human like". Or perhaps without even particularly "human like" at all, much less exactly so.