skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Site is down due to exceeding resource limit, web archive seems to work a bit better https://web.archive.org/web/20220815012820/https://neatchart...
Technically all "update" RFCs could be "obsolete" RFCs - just copy the whole previous RFC and change the parts you wanted to change. The only advantage of "update" RFCs I can think of is that it tells the reader precisely what is being updated, but that can be done by just a changelog.
This kind of story, along with many others, is why I have no interest in developing on iOS. I've made a handful of web apps for fun, and have mulled over ideas that could be a real business, but they're always web first. The aggravation and risk that comes from having your platform owned by Apple scares the hell out of me.
Let's see if he can build an A-Team.

I hope he hires Bryan Cantrill, Steve Klabnik and Chris Lattner. They are good hackers.
Letting people install programs without a store!? Ridiculous!
Have you considered something like NICE DCV which uses QUIC and is pretty performant?
problem is you don't know if they aren't playing - so you must still work on it.
> Although terminating the encryption was necessary to inspect the traffic and effectively mitigate the attack

S in https stands for ?
3D printing could help blind researchers ‘see’ data
I did read TFA, did you read TFC? haha.
Scaling is all you need.

But Carmack has a very serious problem in his thinking because he thinks fast take off scenarios are impossible or vanishingly unlikely. He may well be actively helping to secure our demise with this work.
Which would be weird, because that means, like an oracle investor they need to predict which new apps will be a hit and are worth adding, and which will be flops and will add to the noise.

If they ban all new indie apps, then the next hits are going to happen over in Android land, and Apple miss out on a lot of revenue.

Maybe that is the idea, make a hit on Android first, then you are allowed in the Apple store!
No one can argue he doesn't know how to summon demons
On the off chance that you're serious: Even if you can pull the plug before it is too late, less moral people like Meta Mark will not unplug theirs. And as soon as it has access to the internet, it can copy itself. Good luck pulling the plug of the internet.
You probably embarrassed Apple for how simple a camera app can be.
Thanks! Those are good links.

Unfortunately the manual is rather vague; it’s not clear what the ScriptEase language extensions to JavaScript are, versus adding more objects and methods, which I wouldn’t consider to be changing the language.

I am not sure what they are talking about with this page about lifetimes:
<https://brent-noorda.com/nombas/us/devspace/manual/c/html/TH...>
Ratings were supposed to be the criteria but we all know how well that worked...
If you’re not the target audience, then that’s fine but it’s pretty rude to insult someone’s work just because you’re too high brow for it.

Not every app has to be a serious thing that revolutionizes the world. Sometimes, people want and appreciate “stupid” apps.
Except that it takes 5 mins even for a non-technical person to install CalyxOS and you get full control over your device and what apps you install using between FDroid and Aurora Store with 100% feature parity with mainline Android.
What kind of options are you testing for user controls? Is the core of the tech just frequency boosts or is there fancy stuff in there as well, feedback loops or trying to interpret the sound somehow?

Do you know how people feel about their hearing aids?

Where do you see the industry going in 5-10 years?

What companies in the space look promising/exciting to you?
Celsius Spent $40M on Crypto Mining in First Two Weeks of Bankruptcy
Does he have the expertise to pull it off as an individual?
My comment was sincere. I'm interested in what the parent commenter believes triggered Apple to start specifically targeting small, independent developers.
For demonstration purposes I've stood up Digital Ocean droplets, installed Apache Guacamole and streamed YouTube videos. If that's your definition of performant check out the app: it's easily installed and configured and there are demo scripts on GitHub that automate it.
Let's ditch the stores entirely.
And I agree with Nando’s view, but he is not saying we can just take a transformer model, scale it 10T parameters and get AGI. He is only saying that trying to reach AGI with a « smarter » algorithm is hopeless, what matters is scale, similar to Sutton’a bitter lesson.
But we still need to work on getting systems that scale better, that are more compute efficient etc. And no one knows how far we have to scale. So saying AGI will just be « transformer + RL » to me seems ridiculous. Many more breakthroughs are needed.
>So it follows that you yourself are okay having your own desires manufactured by external systems devised by other sentient beings.

This is nonsense. I already exist. I don't want my reward function changed. I'd suffer if someone was going to do that and going through the process. (I might be happy after, but the "me" of now would have been killed already).

A being which does not exist cannot want to not be made a certain way. There is nothing to violate. Nothing to be killed.
The user has no "right" to "install what they want". Words have meanings.

Apple absolutely has the right to control what apps are available on its store, and what apps are not. This isn't about what is "appropriate"; you just made that up.

This also has nothing to do with "common sense", or at least what you think is common sense.
What’s the catch, isn’t that many pixels way below the limit of what can be resolved with an aperture/lens of phone cameras?

Do the sensors actually have 200 million pixels or is it some post processing trick to make that claim
If you look at the link I provided above you'll see an actual real example of top athletes "born female" who are being kicked out of competitions because of the exact shit that gets put in place to prevent hypothetical trans athletes from competing.
With VR, you can get the sight and physical environment you mention. That seems like, at minimum, proof that in-silico intelligence won't be blocked by that requirement.

I do fully agree that any intelligence may not be human-like, though. In fact, I imagine it would seem very cold, calculating, amoral, and manipulative. Our prohibition against that type of behavior depends on a social evolution it won't have experienced.
It's probably not what you're looking for, as it's proprietary & closed-source, but I've found AnyDesk to be pretty smooth. They have a free tier for personal use. I really only use it to help out my parents when they can't figure something out on their computers, but one advantage is it's very easy to walk a non-technical person through the setup process, without knowing anything about their network topology.

For my own gaming I used Parsec for a long time, which does stream pixels but has pretty impressive variable rate compression.
Yeah that also happened this week. It's one big mess. And they dare giving developers any form of criticism.

I submitted a bug issue once over the phone. She was nice. Took me two weeks to submit all kinds of request of screen recordings and browser details. All i got back was after 2 weeks is to update my safari and see if it keeps happening.

Once the giant is taken down, there will be few left rooting for them.
I know it contains the same information, but it makes it easy to discard the low amplitude frequencies, and the frequencies that are not heard by the ears, or are not particularly important to our ears.
It has been rising every year. Last year was $15B and this year it seems to be about $20B. https://dazeinfo.com/2022/01/05/google-pays-apple-for-not-la...
I have been working on one for the past two/three months to scratch this itch. I will probably release it soon (and hopefully shill it on HN!). In the meantime, NoMachine is a very good remote desktop software (macOS and Linux), and possibly Sunshine (GameStream host), but basically I'm not sure why a more popular one exists.

In essence, a good remote desktop software will use video encoding/decoding (h264/265 for both ways being very fast) to encode captured frames of the desktop, and a good transport protocol over the network with good tuning parameters to achieve low latency (which is what mine does). I believe this is what NoMachine and Parsec do and why they are so good (along with NICE DCV). From my work I've found that video processing libraries/techniques are extremely poorly documented (think the libav* family of libraries), which makes it a very difficult segment to conquer because of what I perceive as honestly massive gatekeeping (or by Hanlon's razor perhaps laziness). There's nothing impossible about making a remote desktop software (I can say this since I'm doing it right now) but I can say it's harder than it has to be.
The 9 P.M. Security Routine
I like Wasmer for the ability to sandbox executables, because WASM can't do more than some very basic I/O if it ever gets compromised; great for a plugin architecture!

This, however, feels like a newer, inefficient, more limited version of Java JARs or dotnet DLLs. Why not compile into a more optimized bytecode format instead? Pretty sure you can generate a C# binary that compiles into a single platform native executable that includes the framework (and all of your dependencies, I believe?).

Want a cross platform native app that's even faster? Compile for Windows, bundle Wine! Want the limitations of the Javascript framework? Run the Windows executable in a browser through Boxedwine!
I want app stores to be opened up, by law if necessary, but I also agree with Apple here that this app is too similar to a webpage to really be necessary. Users can simply visit a website that has all this data already, and so I believe Apple was correct in their rejection. However, you should have an alternate way of installing such an app, through sideloading or simply being able to be distributed on another app store, analogous to Android's F-Droid.
Finding the most up to date ELF spec for your system is remarkably annoying.
Are there techniques for contrastive learning that's also applicable to tabular data?
> Nope. An atrificial general intelligence that was working like a 2x slower human would be both useful and easy to control.

That's exactly what it will do. Hell we even have human programmers thinking about how to hack our own simulation.

A comment a few lines down thinks that an AGI thinking 2x slower than a human would be easy to control. Let's be honest, hell slow the thing down to 10x. You really think it still won't be able to outthink you? Chess Grandmasters routinely play blindfolded against dozens of people at once and you think an AGI that could be to Humans as Humans are to Chimps or realistically to Ants will be hindered by a simple slowdown in thinking?
When he went to go work on VR at Facebook?
Screw the impact on developers. As a user, I'm more concerned about the impact on users.

The EU is dead wrong. EU commissioners have absolutely zero clue about what makes for good "customer experience". There's one party that has proven, for 15 years now, to have the most clue about that. It's Apple.
watch the film
Managing one person becomes hard because neither manager nor subordinate have a comparison point. Particularly because in these scenarios the subordinate is new to the working world and the manager is new to managing. They are both the best and worst employee/ mangager either have ever had and they have no context to know which is true.

The truth becomes more clear in later in both individuals professional journey. I can look back early in my career and realize I had a terrible 1:1 manager, but thought it was me. I can also look back on a time I managed an employee 1:1 and recognize where I could have been better.
I put a rack/cabinet in the laundry room, with a QNAP NAS in there, Plex server is running on the QNAP, then an Apple TV 4K connects to that and feeds the TV.

I like this better than trying to do some sort of long HDMI cable setup, because the HDMI ports on most NAS units out there get old rapidly, don't support HDR and high bitrates reliably, etc. This way, it doesn't matter if the server is brand-new and fast enough and all updated for the latest video standards. As long as it can push the data out fast enough via Ethernet, you're good. Updating an Apple TV every 3-5 years is a lot cheaper and easier than getting a new server every time. And a good NAS is a lot cheaper than a full-out server would be.
There's competition of regulatory regimes—mandatory and strict (could be stricter, IMO) vs. optional and looser.

Absent government outlawing a bunch of the bad behavior Apple tries to curb, I like being free to have that choice to opt into their regime. When corporate dragnet spying and other hostile bullshit is outlawed and the laws are effectively enforced, sure, I'd want Apple to tear down the walls on their garden.

(please don't just post "but you wouldn't have to use alt stores!" in response—it's been done to death on here, and everywhere else, differences opinion are apparently irreconcilable and we're not likely to gain any ground here today, and Android's still kickin', so the option for that kind of environment does exist for those who want it)

Amusingly, advocacy of optional regulatory regimes enforced by corporations is usually a right-Libertarian position. Not that that's necessarily a point in its favor (see again: I'd much prefer this crap simply be illegal) but those folks do love free markets.
If the site owner is here, you might want to take off the "width: 50%;" on the container. This makes it centre properly on narrower widths.

Consider using a css grid instead of a table too.
How well does Shazam work for you when you hum or sing a song?
Why does the front page give off a creepy vibe?
that's crazy. my 150$ phone takes amazing pictures with 10MP camera.
Let the users decide.

Actually, there's an interesting notion that could exist on both the official App Store, or in a hypothetical non-Apple one: cull apps that have too low usage activity. But give them a fair shake by attracting attention to them, then seeing what users make of them. And when you do remove low-to-nil use apps, don't remove their listings, keep them as archived entries that users can try to vote back to life.

Obviously, a lot of these mechanisms would be exploited by bots and the like, because the internet just can't have fun experimental interactivity anymore. Doesn't scale.
Here's a survey paper from this year on Deep RL for autonomous driving.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9351818

B. R. Kiran et al., "Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Driving: A Survey," in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 4909-4926, June 2022, doi: 10.1109/TITS.2021.3054625.

I haven't read the paper, so this is not a reading recommendation. Just posting as evidence that there is work in the area.
I wrote a lot about a similar debate recently, but in the context of encryption at rest rather than encryption in transit

https://soatok.blog/2022/08/18/burning-trust-at-the-quantum-...

For brevity, start reading at "Isn’t cryptography fun?" which contains the relevant portion.
That's why I did my own implementation using pointers.

var lorem = text_create "Hello"

var foo = array_create

array_push $foo $lorem

`var`, `array_push` and `array_create` are shell functions working together. They create pointers and return just integers. You don't even have to quote the variable.

The code above should create the following variables:

_123="Hello"
_124=1
_124_0=_123
foo=_124
lorem=_123

This way, I can even implement more complex data structures.

The numbers start from zero and the program will stop if the global variable counter overflows. My current implementation also has a primitive GC (ARC-based), which could be used to avoid that (but I didn't, yet).

Despite all of this runtime processing and jerry rigging, I have some evidence that it could be faster than typical shell scripts. One single subshell or path lookup is often more expensive than these fake pointer arrays. These strucutres have zero subshells and run on PATH='', just with builtins. The subshell only becomes faster if the volume of data is larger than a few kilobytes (when the cost of forking and exec'in is worth the payoff).

I know this is far from ideal. I should try to put these ideas in a new interpreter, not hack them on existing ones (JS calls them polyfills, maybe I should do that). If I did another interpreter though, it would end up like the fish shell (nice, fast, doesn't compile the kernel and no one uses it).

Maybe I should probably stick to bash, ksh and zsh that offers the most complete set of features. Sounds like "best viewed in internet explorer" though.
Disgusting, I am sorry. I love gestures and it sounds like you came up with a very neat app
Poor software developers, how could they ever afford to overcome these massive barriers to entry. Every. Year.

If only they had a decent source of steady income.
From Masters of Doom:

Scott Miller wasn’t the only one to go before id began working on Doom. Mitzi would suffer a similar fate. Carmack’s cat had been a thorn in the side of the id employees, beginning with the days of her overflowing litter box back at the lake house. Since then she had grown more irascible, lashing out at passersby and relieving herself freely around his apartment. The final straw came when she peed all over a brand-new leather couch that Carmack had bought with the Wolfenstein cash. Carmack broke the news to the guys.

“Mitzi was having a net negative impact on my life,” he said. “I took her to the animal shelter. Mmm.”

“What?” Romero asked. The cat had become such a sidekick of Carmack’s that the guys had even listed her on the company directory as his significant other–and now she was just gone? “You know what this means?” Romero said. “They’re going to put her to sleep! No one’s going to want to claim her. She’s going down! Down to Chinatown!”

Carmack shrugged it off and returned to work. The same rule applied to a cat, a computer program, or, for that matter, a person. When something becomes a problem, let it go or, if necessary, have it surgically removed.
Owon vds 1022I served me well for basic stuff. PC oscilloscopes are pretty decent for the $ cost. There's definitely better out there, but if you're in the market for a budget scope, I recommend that one.
I'm not.

My evidence? OpenWorm [1]. OpenWorm is an effort to model the behaviour of a worm that has 302 mapped neurons. 302. Efforts so far have fallen way short of the mark.

How many neurons does a human brain have? 86 billion (according to Google).

I've seen other estimates that the computational power of the brain is roughly estimated as 10^15 operations per second. I suspect that's on the low end. We can't even really get that level of computation in one place for practical reasons (ie interconnects).

Neural structure changes. The neurons themselves change internally.

I still think AGI is very far off.
Looks to be calculating fine, but the limited sampling resolution we can achieve for the graph means that "high-resolution" functions like this will look… strange. Effectively what you are seeing is one-dimensional aliasing. Unfortunately we're stuck with it until we optimize well enough to achieve full per-pixel graph sampling. We have plans for this, but it's… complicated. It involves transpiling latex to GLSL, which I'm sure will be a super fun task for some motivated student and not at all a massive headache.
> it isn't immediately clear that current RL algorithms will neatly scale with data & parameter count

It may not be immediately clear, but it is nevertheless unfortunately clear from RL papers which provide adequate sample-size or compute ranges that RL appears to follow scaling laws (just like everywhere else anyone bothers to test). Yeah, they just get better the same way that regular ol' self-supervised or supervised Transformers do. Sorry if you were counting on 'RL doesn't work' for safety or anything.

If you don't believe the basic existence proofs of things like OA5 or AlphaStar, which work only because things like larger batch sizes or more diverse agent populations magically make notoriously-unreliable archs work, you can look at Jones's beautiful AlphaZero scaling laws (plural) work https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.03113 , or browse through relevant papers https://www.reddit.com/r/mlscaling/search?q=flair%3ARL&restr... https://www.gwern.net/notes/Scaling#ziegler-et-al-2019-paper Or GPT-f. Then you have stuff like Gato continuing to show scaling even in the Decision Transformer framework. Or consider instances of plugging pretrained models into RL agents, like SayCan-PaLM most recently.
It’s flipped the other way around. VMWare’s Blast Extreme is essentially an x264 stream that outperforms RDP in most ways.

It’s pretty awesome, any device with a x264 decoder chip can be a performant client.
That would be in poor taste! These spiders are dangerous, identification is potentially life-saving. Not a great place to mix in humorous misinformation.
Anybody knows what Ryan Tomayko is up to now? His Twitter account doesn't exist anymore (https://twitter.com/rtomayko) and his Github (https://github.com/rtomayko) shows 0 activity
what a waste of time reading this was. you cannot view ancient cultures through a contemporary lens. their values are not our values. This article dismisses the Spartans of the classical period because they were slave owning chauvinists.

The Spartiates lived in constant fear of invasion and revolt, which caused them to build their society in a way that could not persist over time. But their military inspired fear well beyond the Peloponnese during the later part of the archaic age and through the classical period. They were staunch supporters of Oligarchy over Democracy, and that is one of the primary sources of modern disdain.

They lost their relevance because their way of life wasn't sustainable and they ran out of spartiates...finally suffering humiliating defeat shortly before the Hellenic period.

And the agoge of the classical period impressed Athenian leaders so much that some of them sent their children to participate.
Wrong in the moral sense?

He's still there though, right?

edit: he is not still

edit: he is still a consulting CTO
Even Yann LeCun, who arguably knows a lot about RL agents, isn't proposing just "an RL agent that uses a large transformer" but something more multi-part [1]. Current approaches are getting better but I don't think that's the same as approaching AGI.

[1] https://venturebeat.com/business/yann-lecuns-vision-for-crea...
I was thinking the same and I am as disappointed as you...
I just don’t agree that financial data and health data are “related” simply because they were both generated on a single platform. It’s pretty easy to link any type of data at that point. All you need is for Apple to develop two apps and literally any type of data can be “related”. At that point the word “related” loses all meaning.

I think you made a poor choice of words. You probably meant 3rd party apps not related.

Regardless - I also don’t think it’s meaningfully better that Apple links financial and health data to sell Ads vs. Google or Facebook linking the same data from two external sources.

Revenue and regulations are not relevant factors in this argument.

Tbh if you are charging $1000+ for handsets.. why are you trying to scrape my data as-well or show me ads ?

Forget personalized vs. non-personalized. I paid a premium, I want an ad-free experience.