skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Appreciate the discussion with lots of study references, with evidence on both sides of the alcohol issue- healthy in small amounts, unhealthy in any amount, etc- with usual issues of fuzziness around categories of consumption and accuracy of surveys and variations in age and background and so forth.

Will just add that since acquiring a rather sensitive personal wearable that continuously captures various quantitative measures about my body- heart rate, temperature, heart rate variability, spo2, and others- that even with the uncertainty that stems from having a single data source- it is VERY clear quantitatively to me how much even small amounts of alcohol affect MY body.

I had a semi serious sickness earlier this year that had me entirely out of commission for a day and at reduced capability for several days. Looking just at the data, a minimal amount of alcohol (for my definition of minimal) is roughly 1/10th the negative impact of that illness. It doesn't feel that way to me, but that's what the data says. That's amazing and terrifying to me.

I am not going to make a specific wearable endorsement but do highly recommend those who have opinions on this matter to collect their own data about their own bodies. Cheers.
The amount of wild ass speculations and conspiracy theories about this thing on youtube seems to be off the scales. No wonder we can't have nice things...
If life is short, why not make the best out of it. Specially when the last years might not be most quality.
But I think something of the level of a 6 year old, not so much a super being.
Developers, developers, developers...

Now more than ever it's important to keep developers / desktop users.

If they destroy macos, lots of developers will actually go somewhere else. What do you need these days? Chrome..

If I'd move off of the Apple ecosystem with my laptop, I'd probably look into other fields to jump ships as well.

MacOS X became popular bc of developers. We are the ones creating things for people.. I hope they don't forget this.
Thank you Gabe, I sent you an email.
He recently described his love of computers as rooted in realizing that “they won’t talk back to you.” The job he wanted at Meta was “Dictator of VR.” When someone talks AI ethics to him, he just tunes out because he doesn’t think it’s worth even considering until they are fully sentient as the level of a human toddler, at which point you can turn them on and off and modify their development until you have a perfect worker. His reason for working in AI is that he thinks it’s where a single human can have the largest leverage on history.

All that paraphrased from the Lex interview.

I see him as the guy who builds the “be anything do anything” singularity, but then adds a personal “god mode” to use whenever the vote goes the wrong way. Straight out of a Stephenson novel.

On the other hand, he’s not boring!
If the task is possible… then why not?
O'Brien wasn't actually alive during the Napoleonic Wars- so how did he get the details to write his stories? He read history and had enough imagination to interpret it, rather than look at it as a 'boring' recitation of facts.
This is incredible, we use QT5.12 for an embedded device application, and this issue has been a really weird one for us and this spot on resolves it! See browsing HN at work does pay off!
Especially assertions of consensus provided without evidence of said consensus.
Squoosh with basic drawing and cropping tools, what exactly is the use case for this?
It looks like they’re still active as of 20min ago [0]. Super handy account. Just scrolling through the pics gives you a much better sense for identifying them. I suspect I’ve seen one or two in my yard, but now I think I have a better idea of what to look for.

[0] https://twitter.com/RecluseOrNot/status/1560235560324710402
..Nor for AI
It's akin to nuclear weapons. If you do not develop them, then you'd be subject to the will of the ones that develops them first. So invariably you have to invest in AGI lest, an unsavory group develops it first.
Because JavaScript happened to be the language we at Nombas implemented in our "robust and predictable" engine. If a, e.g., python or TcL engine were as solid at the time for a can't-fail embedded engine, they could have happily used that.
The sentencing was in 2011, and yes, they went to jail. One is still in, one is on house arrest.
It's a bummer obviously, but is there an actual reason not to just use the website?
The meme that AGI, if we ever have it, will somehow endanger humanity is just stupid to me.

For one, the previous US president is the perfect illustration that intelligence is neither sufficient nor necessary for gaining power in this world.

And we do in fact live in a world where the upper echelons of power mostly interact in the decidedly analog spaces of leadership summits, high-end restaurants, golf courses and country clubs. Most world leaders interact with a real computer like a handful of times per year.

Furthermore, due to the warring nature of us humans, the important systems in the world like banking, electricity, industrial controls, military power etc. are either air-gapped or have a requirement for multiple humans to push physical buttons in order to actually accomplish scary things.

And because we humans are a bit stupid and make mistakes sometimes, like fat-fingering an order on the stock market and crashing everything, we have completely manual systems that undo mistakes and restore previous values.

Sure, a mischievous AGI could do some annoying things. But nothing that our human enemies existing today couldn't also do. The AGI won't be able to guess encryption keys any faster than the dumb old computer it runs on.

Simply put, to me there is no plausible mechanism by which the supposedly extremely intelligent machine would assert its dominance over humanity. We have plenty of scary-smart humans in the world and they don't go around becoming super-villains either.
Being "Overemployed" by holding two or more jobs at once, (which is not what that word means, at all) is not unethical. Many of the "tips and tricks" posted there are unethical. That's what the author said.
However the GPL is irrelevant in this case because the NetFlix Open Connect appliance is not sold to ISPs. The GPL is only relevant if you are distributing GPL software e.g. Sony PlayStation.
> Now we have a fairly concrete idea of what a potential AGI might look like - an RL agent that uses a large transformer.

Any resources on that?

I have a feeling that RL might play a big role in the first AGI, too, but why transformers in particular?
I think there is a point to be made that if one could do the work, is offered the work, but thinks it's ethically questionable: go there and be an ethical voice.
Mildly frustrating to see the author waste so much time and energy before coming to the correct conclusion:

> But I think they just don't like the idea of the app, and no matter what I add to it, they won't accept it.

It's awful how gatekeepers usually behave this way instead of coming out and telling you that you should stop and they're never going to approve your product, since that usually is how it works.

On the bright side if he was actually using Google Sheets as his data backend, Google was going to shut the sheet down permanently eventually and maybe ban the account, so he dodged a bullet.
Same, but I accidentally flag and hide posts all the time.
Only if you don't count the second dark age of 1200 years that fit between 2093 and 2094
I noticed that remote desktop from Linux to Mac (with Remmina) is much slower than Linux to Windows 10. It's definitely RDP on Windows, maybe it's VNC on the Mac.

No idea about the performances of a remote Linux desktop because I connect to remote machines with ssh and use only the command line. It's maybe 25 years since I run remote X11 applications to my local server.

There are other apps like NoMachine and TeamViewer. I never used them with a remote Mac.
Most of VCs funding seed rounds do it mainly for the Team. As long as the team has OK credentials and the idea is not a hard stop (illegal or shady stuff) most will likely provide money.

Given the John Carmack name... I can see why ANYONE would love to throw money to a new entrepreneurship idea.
We have an ancient guy who delivers binaries compiled from pascal for one of our proprietary desktop programs
> 23. Place #else, #elif, and #endif in the same file as the matching #if or #ifdef.

Oh my. I bet that one has an interesting history! That thought has never even crossed my mind, and I did some fun stuff like include a header twice with different definitions to get a C++ mixin.
Snap Scraps Development on Flying Selfie Pixy Drone
https://archive.ph/nMHHU
I don't agree with apple that this should be rejected, but it does seem like something that would work better as a web app. Also then it would be available to people on other platforms as well.
I think civilization needs to take a step back and reflect on why we're making debt/credit a necessity to have basic needs like shelter.

Also, why are governments not creating sensible upper limits on lending and interest rates? For instance, if I can afford to purchase the raw materials and build a house myself in 10 years with my own two hands, assuming I'm not working a job, then why is a bank allowed to extend interest over 5 times that timespan and make me pay e.g. 1000% of the raw materials price in profit to them? They are preying on peoples' basic need to have a roof over their head.
Funny little idea. Not sure how much traction it’ll get :-) but the creator likes to fiddle with some cool nerdy things it seems [1]. Made me think it’d be interesting to have an Instagram clone that downsamples the media and maybe makes it monochrome (or colors more monotone at least) and removes some of the most offensive ML smart rankings, just to have a more calmer less addictive media consumption site?

[1]: https://bbenchoff.github.io/
Yes, you do misunderstand. The D language is terrible, it has no loops, no functions, it is not a usable language beyond basic scripts. The _good_ part of the windows implementation is the kernel interfaces, which is what my design uses. The entire point of this research was to discard the D language.

My implementation(s) allow you to use C++ 17, or Web Assembly instead. These are significantly more powerful languages. The Web Assembly scripts are a demonstration of using the same 'safe' architecture as DTrace. While the C++17 DLL system is a demonstration of an 'unsafe' but more powerful design.

If you think DTrace can't crash the system, you are mistaken.
> However, if the exchange itself goes under you SOL.

Either your deposits are federally protected from failure of the institution, or not.

It's as ridiculous as me telling my credit card issuers that their loans to me are federally protected because I have an FDIC bank account.

Nobody's worried about some bank going under, we're worried about the risk of trusting our money with a crypto exchange when so many have been Ponzi schemes.

Waving around the terms FDIC- and SIPC-insured in a way that implies that it means something to the end consumer is, IMHO, the sign of a scammer.
If you have multiple WireGuard versions, in a migration setting, you also need to do some negotiation at the start, no? Wouldn't that be potentially vulnerable to downgrade attacks as well?
It’s depressing how few developers would even notice that performance degradation, let alone go back in and fix it.
Rage Tech
Received. I confirmed the team is working the issue. Stay tuned.
You're making me think of the recent "Hoverboards".
Ask HN: Best Small Oscilloscope?
I'm in the market for a basic small oscilloscope, what can you recommend?
They have a weird little back and forth going in this regard, lots of the stuff on their app store is basically a webpage (or literally one, if it's a webview app) but then they keep holding features back from Safari so you need to be on the store to access them. I don't envy people in that situation, where you've got a good website but your iOS users want one or two small features that can only be offered via the app store.
> I write a bunch of SQL scripts and then maybe take it into a python toolkit for stats stuff.

That sounds a lot like a test (or set of tests). It would appear that you are already doing something akin to TDD, although perhaps without the formality of turning your exploratory work into documentation for other developers to read about what you learned.

> Why not do TDD? I find the interfaces are more naturally expressed as the consumer than the implementer.

If exploration is necessary to find the right interface that may be worthwhile, but I find when the requirements are well defined the interface is obvious before writing either tests or implementation. It may be still worth writing unit tests up front, but it is not testing that is driving your development. The requirements are driving your development in that case.
what if humanity's role is to create an intelligence that exceeds it and cannot be controlled? Can humans not desire to be all watched over by machines of loving grace?

More seriously, while I don't think it's a moral imperative to develop AGI, I consider it a desirable research goal in the same way we do genetic engineering - to understand more about ourselves, and possibly engineer a future with less human suffering.
That’s why the penalty should be death
Hah, yeah I did originally think something along those lines, but I wonder if you could actually do it non-comedically (e.g. somehow every node connected to the internet has to all be switched off at the same time and restarted to restore connectivity). Most likely it's already been tried too I guess.
From the point when an AGI is capable of constructing a slightly better version of itself and has the urge to do so, everything can happen very fast.
IBM Color/Graphics Monitor Adapter (1981) [pdf]
So, a big thing about mental health diagnoses in general is that they have two components: an identifiable behavioral difference from neurotypical baseline, and enough difficulties and social conflict in their life that mental health professionals end up getting involved. The second part is important to keep in mind - people who are like Bill Gross and wind up happily married and running a highly successful bond fund simply do not get diagnosed at nearly the rate as an eleven year old who cannot go through a school day without a screaming meltdown.

This is especially important when it comes to identifying genetic correlations with autism, since anything that negatively impacts overall functioning is going to wind up positively correlated with autism diagnoses. Nobody sane is going to argue that having an itchy skin condition means that you're more autistic, but an autist with itchy skin is more likely to have enough behavioral issues in school to meet the threshold for a mental health referral.

To summarize my point, there's all sorts of genetic stuff that will end up completely unrelated with being autistic, but will end up correlated with getting diagnosed as autistic. This is because merely being neuro-atypical is not enough to get a mental health diagnosis, you need to combine it with enough life difficulties and social conflict to drive the bureaucratic machinery involved with producing a diagnosis.
we hope
I mostly find myself thankful that this site does not support embedded images. Makes it one of the only places an arachnophobe like myself can calmly click into a discussion thread with a title like this!
Hopefully the AI Carmack creates doesn’t think the same of you ;)
I'm fairly confident you are victim of a PMTUD black hole. It's easily fixed by making your router force the TCP MSS to a slightly lower value.

All your symptoms are explained by this (some but not all devices are affected, some but not all services are unreachable).
Kurzweil in 2002 made $20,000 bet that a difficult, well defined 2h version of Turing test will by passed by 2029.

https://longbets.org/1/

Given development in language models in the last 2 years he may have a decent chance at winning that bet.

People give him 65% chance [0] and by now there are only 7 years left.

[0] https://www.metaculus.com/questions/3648/computer-passes-tur...
It also doesn't seem to talk about libraries, which leads me to ask myself where the authoritative source is for reading about .dll, .dylib, and .so files. GCC and Clang documentation are about as close as you can get. To be fair, these are OS-specific details, but Unix-likes do have this, and the book talks about Unix system interfaces.

Mac OS X Archived documentation talks about it, presumably Microsoft documentation does as well, but AFAIK there is no official Linux documentation for it outside of compiler documentation.
I have heard from multiple people that apparently Kilimanjaro is surprisingly easy to climb
This brings to mind Compass Rose's piece Shabbat Hard or Go Home.

http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/sabbath-hard-and-go-home/
No: you simply don't speak the old versions.
Google pays Apple about $15B a year to be integrated into their products. Since Google is primarily advertising, why isn't that considered advertising revenue for Apple?
So sure are you that Carmack can't make inroads here, I wonder where you get the confidence from?
I've got a Casio QV-10A[1] somewhere that almost certainly counts? Can't beat the constant fear that you could brick it if the batteries ran out at the wrong time.

[1] https://cameralegend.com/tag/qv-10a/
I used to find black widows frequently near a melaleuca tree which was near my side door, in south Florida. Day and night. Not infrequently in the house. They always seemed passive, but I still ushered them outdoors.

I have yet to identify a recluse with any confidence, although a friend of a friend lost his arm after one crawled upward from his hand to shoulder, biting repeatedly as it moved. I think delayed treatment was the ultimate cause of severity.
It will decide our fate in a microsecond: extermination.
If you think about big areas of cognition like memory, planning, exploration, internal rewards, etc., it's conceivable that a breakthrough in each could lead to amazing results if they can be combined.
> So I personally see how objectively bad it is before we really get to specific health issues.

I understand, but that's your personal experience, which is invaluable, but not in general.

People have been drinking since we call them humans and it hasn't affected our path to progress.

Many wild animals do it too! (elephants, bears, monkeys, squirrels, bats, and many others)

I don't think people defend alcohol despite the negative effects, people think alcohol is not the problem, but the way it is consumed can be.

I've also witnessed personally the difference on how Americans drink alcohol in my city (Rome) and how we drink it. It's always surprising to me that they survive to live another day, they drink as they want to destroy themselves, we usually do it for the fun of it.

Same way a wedding or birthday cake is not responsible for obesity, but most obese people love them and eat too much of it.

> On the health issues, the link between alcohol and cancer is clear

not alcohol per se, but large amounts of it.

Almonds contain cyanide, 10 of them raw and you're in big troubles, 50, you're dead.

We simply don't eat as much of them usually.

Paracelsus said it all about it.
I wonder if these assholes would be under a lot less scrutiny if they did something to reduce how many times they call the same number.

The article here states that they've placed "billions" of calls. If we even assume the number is just 2 billion, with a US population of ~330M, that's an average of 6 calls per person. But that number assumes every man, woman, and child has their own number, which certainly isn't the case, so the number is likely higher.

I don't answer the phone if I don't know the number, so I've never heard the words "We have been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty", I've only seen the memes about it. But I'll get anywhere from 2-5 calls from unknown numbers per week. They either don't leave a voicemail, or they leave a 5-10 second silent voicemail.
Unraveling Music's DNA (2005)
Circa 1995 the physics department I was studying at received a grant from Microsoft and Intel to buy a large number of x86 workstations, first most of them were running Windows NT but the only people who would use NT were another grad student who liked Windows and me who would use vnc to log into a Linux computer without competing for one.

That grad student and I argued about many things, one of which was the relative merits of X windows and RDP and he was right about that one. RDP was written with the X Windows experience in mind and it performs much better. Compressors for the X protocol were made but they did’t address the high latency nature of the protocol.
What a joke, if they reject it then there should be concrete reasons given to the developer otherwise this is just nonsense.
A modern cryptosystem wouldn't be designed to swap in new algorithms; it would pick a single set of algorithms and constructions, and version the whole system. Which is how WireGuard works: you can't run AES WireGuard, or WireGuard with the standard P-curves.
Electric Vehicles as a Subscription
Ha. My first thought was Fat Darth Vader losing the lightsaber duel and shitting himself
I thought AGI meant "adventure game interface". Apparently not, what a disappointment!
Apps are more monetizable.
to clarify for the uninitiated like myself: this "D" is not the Walter Bright "D", but a language specifically for DTrace.
More to the point, threads are an OS feature, not a language feature.

Atomic types needed to implement things like mutexes to serialize access to shared state have become a language feature, lately. But K&R was written before that happened.

The operations performed on those objects are Undefined Behavior as far as ISO Standards are concerned, but OSes have traditionally provided definitions, often by reference to Posix. So, a program using them is relying on definitions from both places, and usually several others besides.
An autism diagnosis means that you're too autistic to function in society without causing mental health professionals to be involved in your life. There's at least two easily identifiable non-genetic factors: society can lower the threshold of autistic behavior that it tolerates, and mental health professionals can be involved more often and at lower general thresholds.
What bandwidth do you need?
What if you don't know how to complete the task?
what about sony mavica fd5 where images is saved on floppy 3'5
Transformers have gradually taken over in every other ML domain.
No, not what he means, he means code will be simple enough that a single person would be able to write it, if then knew what to write and will bootstrap itself into existence for that simple code and vast amounts of external resources viable via humans, data, etc.
With specific training, sure. Why are we holding an AI to a higher standard?
They've done this since the early days of the app store. Mostly-content apps without really broad appeal have long carried a high risk of rejection.

> Homescreen widgets: utterly useless, but can't get more iOS-y and less webapp-y than this, right?

This especially, but really the whole post reads like the system working as intended.

Granted (as the author notes) way too much shit gets through anyway, but that's not an excuse to do even worse. I do, as a user, wish they'd tighten up the rules a lot and improve enforcement. I'm quite sure it'd improve my experience on the store (and probably on the web—imagine how much better the Reddit site would get, probably overnight, if their app got pulled over not being well-justified).
But who would own the automatons and power generators, and what would be their impetus to share their power? Unless the means of (energy) production moved out of the hands of the few it seems like it wouldn't make the rest of our lives any more idyllic.