skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like now that it's out in the open, there'd be a lucrative market in selling the DSDs directly, rather than waiting until it goes to the labels or vendors to re-rip the vinyl remasters into FLAC/MP3?
You're right..the lack of a touch screen is weird.

I do use mine for dev work/etc though (M1) and it's completely fine, even with only 8gb. I've never had any slowdowns or felt like it was holding me back.
An 8088, or anything manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation, might classify as a "very old machine" but something that's barely a decade old certainly doesn't.
There are some different/new tools for creating your own Python packages these days. It's still not truly solved in the sense of having a single clear winner , but one of these new package generation tools might serve you better:

poetry2nix: https://github.com/nix-community/poetry2nix

mach-nix: https://github.com/DavHau/mach-nix

dream2nix: https://nix-community.github.io/dream2nix/guides/getting-sta...

pynixify: https://github.com/cript0nauta/pynixify

pip2nix: https://github.com/nix-community/pip2nix

The tools available to you at the time (pypi2nix and maybe python2nix, if it was a long time ago) have been abandoned in favor of the newer tools, I think chiefly poetry2nix but I'm not sure.

There's still the Nixpkgs buildPythonPackage stuff, I think, if your goal is to upstream a lib into Nixpkgs. But if you just want to build your own Python applications and vendorize the deps (e.g., for work), you might try one of the tools above, which weren't available 3+ years ago.

dream2nix is by the author of mach-nix IIRC and has the goal of establishing a unified standard and codebase for ${proglang}2nix type package generators. But mach-nix is still maintained and might be the more feature-complete choice between them.

Maybe Nix-y Python users and developers can reply with some of their experiences using those tools for real projects :)
Thanks, and well put. It's amazing how people who think, "I don't want to mess up my body," will come to a different conclusion, once they are facing death or disability.

Perhaps experience really is the best teacher. ;)
Anker has its own store within Amazon, and you can see it as the verified seller on their product pages. But the general point of this post is correct: Amazon is a terrible shopping experience and it’s mostly because they’ve monetized the search
Personally I think widespread use of a certain kind of mature augmented reality will make its users effectively transhuman.
Geeze, quit down voting me already. Killing my meager score, why is this not true?

You don’t want an epicurean organic rural farm?
Supposedly Quantum-Proof Encryption Cracked by Basic-Ass PC
I don't understand why they can't just make them trades based on future political actors. Feels like that's what the futures market is in general - risk betting.
HarfBuzz Study: hb-ITER, C++20 Ranges-like abstraction
A better career in a more creative field... does that count?
I definitely disagree with giving the government the ability to retaliate against corporations for political speech.

Or, to seize their property without a warrant. Could you imagine if the Trump administration had the legal right to seize property at Twitter, WaPo, etc?
> Really impressed that Dreamworks is making this move.

It's bone-headed. They could have partnered with a cloud vendor and maintained control and a large percent of the revenue. Instead, Amazon can now turn this into an AWS offering, drive mindshare to the AWS offering, and then bleed DreamWorks of whatever competitive advantage this offered them. AWS makes money, DreamWorks loses talent and leadership that moves over to work at AWS.

Open sourcing big software with an enterprise market and giving it a permissive license is stupid, because you can't compete. Look at pretty much every permissively licensed database vendor. Elastic's recent fight comes to mind.

In ten years, when this stuff becomes easy enough for small studios to run (something my startup is working on), the need for big studios like DreamWorks to pursue projects funded by institutional capital evaporates. Everyone will be making real time 3D animation. If you look carefully, you can see the genesis of that trend now.

If I were in a leadership position at DreamWorks, I would be staffing up how to make these offerings broadly available. How to make tools that put more people in the director seat. That sounds like the mission of a company named "Dream Works". Let more people dream. I guess this does it, just not in a way that they'll be using your company to do so.

Big disruptions are coming to the creative fields. This kind of move is like giving away the keys to Amazon for free. (I mean, they are buying Hollywood studios left and right. If you don't see it, you're asleep at the wheel.)
They literally never claimed this was accurate and even said their methodology could be wrong. Nothing in the contract says anything about bots. They don’t have to prove anything at all.
After 3 years of tai chi I learned that most of us are pretty oblivious to the limits of the human body. And that as someone who was previously an endurance athlete.

Sports medicine is optimizing the effort/return of such pursuits, but we also have islands of information that could be normalized as well, in particular looking for missed opportunities for complementary interactions. If you took Wim Hoff and made him a master of yoga and tai chi, would he be even more 'alien' to the rest of us? Maybe we need to set the minimum bar higher?
My employer is the government, they don't even provide enough parking spaces for all employees. There's a waiting list.
If we can't believe people who are experts in their field, who can we believe? That mindset damns the entire field of science communication and outreach

Are we supposed to take the lesson that we should simply never believe anything? Just give up on the concept facts and objectivity and give in to the chaotic maelstrom?

Or are we supposed to go out and build our own space telescopes to verify every piece of information for ourselves?

Neither of those are tenable, we have to be able to trust some people some of the time.

Frankly I think tricks like these just erode confidence in science and science communicators. How many people excitedly shared these cool space images with their friends, and now have to deal with the embarrassment of looking like a fool for trusting a legitimate authority? Are those people going to be as excited when the next batch of legit photos come out, or will they withdraw and lose their excitement for fear of being tricked again? You may laugh, but these kinds of experiences do determine people's, and society's, behavior.

The goal of science communication is to educate and excite the public, and by extension, drive funding for new advancements. Smug gotchas like this actively impede that effort.
Extropians hack reality versus a purpose built man made machine: https://youtu.be/XheAMrS8Q1c

Ideas like designer drugs and therapy to embed experience and knowledge is way more interesting than VR apps
As someone who is relatively active in EA and was interested but not super active in transhumanist orgs outside of a brief volunteer stint many years ago, I think this is incorrect. I'd guess there's quite a lot of overlap in people who are interested in both, but I don't think there was an active merging of communities
On OSX Music, window>equalizer. You can also grab Rogue Amoeba’s “SoundSource” to have volume controls for every noise-generating app on the computer, and apply effects chains to them, including EQ.
Lol I thought it would be a 386/486 at least, its a Sandy Bridge! But that just reflects my age really...
We'd know it's not a quasi-Monte Carlo renderer at least.
Italian and Irish were not considered "white" at the time. They were oppressed by the white majority. Lucky for them, after assimilation into American culture, they became impossible to distinguish from the white majority and so their persecution was relatively short lived.
My experience of owning 2 EVs (2013 Nissan Leaf and then 2018 Chevy Bolt EV), the Leaf for 2.5 years/22k miles and the Bolt for 4 years/48k miles:

Never took the Leaf to a shop for "official maintenance" other than an a general evaluation early on.

With the Bolt, I never had any issues during my ownership that took my vehicle offline/out of my hands. I replaced all four tires once, at my own expense, because I wanted a different tradeoff from the OEM tire choice. I took it to the shop once for a tire rotation/cabin air filter replacement at a regular service interval, and was about to do so a second time when I totaled the car this past Memorial Day weekend.

All told, I'm still totally unfamiliar with anyone visiting my home for any kind of automotive service.
Selenium allows this, and its also there for Firefox. You can even export the actions as a different language e.g. Python.
This is fantastic reading and never really through to use nix for a router.
I was looking for the source of the quote as I had never heard it, but didn't realize my brain had assumed Leonard not Jim.
Agree. It seems like this article is just talking about trans humanism as a cultural topic that goes in and out of popularity. But real transhumanism occurring seems inevitable if technology continues to march forward.

Is anyone in the year 2100 really going to be talking about genetic modification or wearables? No, they will be everywhere
Self realizing that it cannot possibly do anything physical would be pretty cool but likely preprogrammed which wouldn’t be impressive anyways.
Is that correlation or causation? I could imagine that the kind of people who make sensible choices about who to marry and are able to hold a marriage together for a long period of time would also happen to be the kind of people who could raise children adequately.
I understand what you're saying, but let's see the other side:

I -- like many others in tech and even in HN -- don't live in the US, and don't have any obligations towards the democratic system they have over there, or their government, just like the US has been historically a mixed bag towards us Latin Americans, often undermining our own democratic institutions when they weren't aligned with Washington or various American business.

So yes, I wish you the best of democracies, hopefully one that is respectful of other countries choices and sovereignty, but I'm not responsible for it, and if my criticisms undermine US democracy or their electoral system, then how weak must they really be!

So with fresh Latin American eyes, a lot of what the US says and does reeks of hypocrisy. It's not "Whataboutism" to remind everyone about this, every time a government official says something about China, Russia or whatever country "not following the rules", ignoring or rejecting international treaties, or using threat of military force to achieve their goals. "Well, yeah" -- we can claim with knowledge of our history -- "but the US also does this."

And it's not a "rebellious phase" or Whataboutism, it's a very apt remark.

Stopping all conversations about this because "now we are talking about Afghanistan/Russia/China/Saudi Arabia, not the US!" feels lazy to me.
None of the things you mentioned are free speech.

The crime is deceiving through lies and fraud (or bribes), speech is just the tool used to achieve that.
Is there a pre-agricultural movement I could sign on to? It seems like every development post-hunter-gatherer has been in service of extending our lives while simultaneously making them (and the environment) worse. We talk about quality of life, but what kind of life is it to sit inside a box 2/3 of your life, or breaking your back in a factory, or on a farm? Most hunter-gatherers actually have more leisure time and work less, are healthy, don't pollute.
> I am in general against patents, copywrite and trademark.
if an idea is protected by such laws - you are limiting thought.

I upvoted you, but I also have a counterpoint. If you do not protect the value of thought, then the differentiator among competing businesses boils down to cheap assets, relationships, and labor. Because everyone is sharing the same designs and processes the company who can out-cheap the competition wins. Innovation is not valued because it's cheaper to emulate what works.
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Not only that, but what you hear at those upper frequencies isn't tone anyway. the highest harmonics of tonal sounds live in that region, plus aperiodic signals (the hiss from sibilants, cymbals crashing, and so on).

The content can be faked, and this is used in low-bandwidth codecs and such.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth_extension
I'm not in an urban environment, and the part about "under 20 minutes" is what I'd call "not on par with classic gas stations".

There's no (usable) car sharing services that I'm aware of where I live.
or became more concerned with AI alignment than thinking about potential upsides
> Musk didn't do (and subsequently waived) due diligence.

Wasn't him collecting all of this MAU stuff to analyze it part of the due diligence needed in order to close the deal?
I think I agree with the thrust of what you are saying, in that we do need to think about the negative externalities of different technologies before scaling them out as a species.

I am getting a little tripped up on your usage of 'the natural world' and 'environmental destruction' though. Aren't humans 'natural'? And if we are natural, shouldn't anything that springs from us also be 'natural'? We are subject to the 'laws of nature'. Is a beaver dam a natural thing? An ant hill? A bee hive? A bird's nest?

It's obviously nitpicking semantics and word usage, but I think people often use 'natural world' to refer to their own human preferences for how the world should look (often just as it looked as they were growing up), and by using the term 'nature', it carries a sense of absolute purity, and anything that goes against it must be wrong.

'Natural' arguments have been used throughout history, and still get frequently used today as a cudgel to dismiss any sort of social/technological change happening.

Now this is not to say that there can't be arguments against certain changes or that all change is the same, but the invocation of what's 'natural' always feels like a cheap rhetorical tactic in place of a stronger argument about why one state of the world is inferior to another state of the world.
The problem is that even the "what we can see people doing" test is slippery. It tends to start as "what we see all people, even young children doing". But then when an agent surpasses, it changes to "what we see modal [or median or average] people doing". Then when an agent surpasses that, it becomes "what we see the most-skilled-ever people doing".

And as agents increasingly surpass that, the focus shifts, or retreats, to even murkier standards. "Sure, but it's just a mechanistic mirror, it doesn't really have [X, Y, Z] inside, even if it's externally indistinguishable from human excellence." So, an originally 'black-box' internally-oblivious test then shifts to a 'white-box' internally-dependent test, just to maintain the same comforting conclusion.

And by subtly shifting the grounds-of-evaluation, & definitions, it becomes easier to ignore massive improvements, & disturbing potential impacts. It creates an illusion of "zeno's paradox" where agents are never reaching the (shifting) endpoint, when in fact they're speeding past every robust test that can be devised. That's a really important thing to accurately notice!

Also, regarding: "current AIs lack… an understanding of it's own processing and an understanding of the limits of that processing"

People only have vague, incomplete understanding of their own reasoning, & limits, too. (Experts in restricted domains may be better – and those domains are often easier to train in an artificial agent.) The mere act of "thinking-about-thinking" can sometimes improve the quality of reasoning in humans – forcing something to be explainable – and it turns out to help in these modern large models too. Asking a GPT-like Large Language Model (LLM) to explain its reasoning step-by-step can improve its answers; prompting it with the info that it is an agent that may make errors, and asking it to state its confidence, also often generates more truthful, properly-qualified output.

So are the current LLMs that much behind, or inherently incapable of, human-level self-understanding in this sort of test? It seems an open question to me, and even if current SotA models miss a mark, perhaps 5x or 1000x larger models coming soon will outdo humans on any measurable test of "self-understanding", too.
Not only is there a tutorial app ("Tips") but you receive a notification pointing you towards it shortly after setting up a new iOS device. Also after major iOS updates. So... Yeah I suppose you're making their point for them, to an extent.
The funny thing is that stalling is probably enough to pay less. He's partially financing the operation by selling tesla stocks, if the market goes back up and takes tesla stock price up with it then buying twitter will cost less money.

My opinion is this is just a stalling tactic, he thinks the market will recover by next year and this is a pretext to wait until then.
The AI Scaling Hypothesis
This needs work. The first and only attempt I tried:

Hi there. Do you know any good jokes?

No, I was hoping to do a Turing test on you. Can you tell me how to make matzoh ball soup?

Matzo ball soup is made with matzo balls and chicken broth. Mofongo is a Puerto Rican dish made with plantains.

(At this point I clicked on it for the explanation of the non-sequitur, which seems to be that it's found in a Google search.)

I don't get it. Did you just say that because it starts with the letter M?

Matzo balls are Jewish dumplings used in soups and stews. They can be hard to find though

But I wasn't asking what they are.

Ahh, well matzo balls are only unleavened bread which can be soft or crispy and used in many Jewish dishes

That's around the third time you've tried to rephrase what matzoh ball soup is made of. I wanted to know something else. Did you make the comment about the other dish because it starts with the same letter?

Sorry if this seems like a joke but i really do know what matzo ball soup is made of

Do you even understand the concept "something else"?

Maybe if i explain that matzo balls are only unleavened bread which can be soft or crispy and used in many Jewish dishes

If I asked you what feet are, you would you still try to give me the contents of matzoh ball soup?

Okay okay i get it, no need to get angry! Let me tell ya about mofongo

How is that relevant?

Mofongo is a Puerto Rican dish made with plantains, wanna hear about that instead? It's delicious

It makes it seem as though chatbots haven't improved in decades. If I were to guess out of the blue what it was doing, with no evidence, I would guess that it's programmed to elaborate on a subject or change the subject based on heuristics that have no relation to what the user actually typed in. I could imagine that something like "change the subject after four sentences" would roughly fit a lot of usage patterns.
just fyi, "copyleft" licenses like FSF's GPL and LGPL have legal weight only because of copyright law. The terms of those licences are terms that you, the copyright holder, can legally impose upon the licensee of your of you work.
So what? That doesn't change the fact that, practically, Taiwan is Chinese. The language and writing system, if nothing else, kinda give it away. Taipei's "One China" position merely acknowledges this fact, without committing to any stance that the CCP is the legitimate government of any country.
There you highlighted what i meant by they want C dead
By the downvotes it Looks like musk fan boys cant handle their lord and savior being called out for making a series
of dumb decisions.
Why settle for only $10B? Musk's shenanigans have resulted in significant long-term damage to Twitter in the form uncertainty and distracting Twitter from focusing on operating and growing the business (because they've changed internal policies / direction, and shared a lot of information with Musk, as per the acquisition agreement).

It's only fair for mullosk to be on the hook for the full purchase or at the very least the full differential.

We'll see what happens in about two months.
Nope.

Just another user who sent the wrong type of crypto to the wrong chain. There are warnings all over the place before you send the crypto.

That warning was ignored but they sent it anyway. Either way even if you weren't sure, you wouldn't wire $8,000 all in one go, you would test if the recipient received it first before sending all of it.

Moving to another exchange doesn't solve the 'not your keys, not your coins' problem.
Huawei destroyed Nortel through grand-scale espionage and robbery. They openly support the Uighur concentration camps and totalitarian surveillance in China’s Xinjiang province. Banning import of their products to the US and Canada is a moral, economic, and strategic imperative.

https://aragonresearch.com/cyber-war-flashback-the-huawei-ha...

https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/14/22834860/huawei-leaked-d...
We shouldn't live in a bubble.
Wonkey: A cross-platform programming language
> None of that matters when he waived due diligence.

Musk didn't though:

“Despite public speculation on this point, Mr. Musk did not waive his right to review Twitter’s data and information simply because he chose not to seek this data and information before entering into the Merger Agreement. In fact, he negotiated access and information rights within the Merger Agreement precisely so that he could review data and information that is important to Twitter’s business before financing and completing the transaction.”

> Again all of that information is public knowledge through twitter's SEC filings.

Can you point to the paragraph where Musk waive due diligence?
IMHO it's in a trough on the hype curve. Tech needs to improve before it'll rise again.

The promises of devices like neuralink are decades away from widespread voluntary adoption, at least. You can get small things done today, as you could 10 years ago, but they aren't ready for primetime.

Anecdotally, I got a small coated neodymium magnet implanted in a finger during my youth. It was cool as a college student, I could feel strong AC currents/PWM/etc and I never lost small metal parts like screws.

Those were small benefits though, and the risk was quite high. If the coating had breached, my immune system would have attacked the magnet. Accidentally smacking it into things was painful. I was always aware of the intrusive hardware in a mildly unsettling way. Etc.

When I entered a more nature-y phase of my life, I got it removed by a local tattoo artist who dabbled in body mods. They mentioned that the newer versions were much smaller, and would require serious medical facilities to remove.

At the end of the day, active body mods have too little going for them and too many awful failure modes. Passive ones can be fun - I've seen transdermal plastic beads put in some interesting places - but they're hardly transhumanist.
Sounds like twtr is worth $800B then? ;)
> On recording, you cut the bass and jack up the treble. On playback, you boost the bass and reduce the treble.

Sounds like if you combine the two steps you end up with the identity operator :)
No; it's really fine - same with tube amps etc. It's OK to have a subjective preference for some kinds of distortion. It's not OK to say it's "truer to the original sound", which is where this usually comes off the rails.