skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, now we are getting somewhere. Donald Trump managed to somehow get control in a very limited sense of the US nuclear arsenal.

First of all, how did he get this control? Certainly it was not via his profound intelligence, but because other humans chose to give him control.

Second of all, we know beyond a shadow of a doubt, that if Donald Trump had ordered a nuclear strike in a situation where it was not consistent with US nuclear weapons doctrine, his command would have been disobeyed and the 25th amendment would have been enacted poste haste.

So again, how would an AGI be able to get into office or into another position of power? And how would it be able to order a nuclear strike in a situation inconsistent with nuclear doctrine and not be overriden by those lower in the chain of command? Why would there be different rules applying to the AGI as compared to the human?
Well then I do apologize for my bluntness. The sibling comment put it much better: RE: “emergent behavior.”

Cheers, it is a good question.
As cliché as it sounds... networking. My best careers have always come from being open to meeting people outside of a career-seeking context.

Last August, a startup moved in next door to my place in SF. I was friendly to the owners and we'd occasionally share a beer in my front yard. They mentioned they were hiring engineers and I always laughed it off.

One night they were working late in lawn chairs out front, and I idly asked them to finally show me the app. Turned out to be one of the most innovative web products I've seen in a long while. I've been with them now 8 months and couldn't be happier.
The 6850U will also be throttled. They are going to both be throttled to a comparable envelope.
That doesn't seem to make sense. There's no reason to think an "AGI can learn 1000x faster than us", unless that's your idiosyncratic definition of "real AGI". Something as smart and capable as the average human would certainly be real AGI by everyone else's definition.
As long as there is a directional effect, and something morally akin to what a triode valve and a transistor do amplifying signals, it's not magic. But does it look like magic when it's quantum effects? Hell yea.

What beats me is the same thing in pentode+ valves and modern day transformers/gates -reuse of the same elements of the physical structure for different purposes at the same time.

MEMS. Now that's magic. You're down in the space where van der waals is bigger than other forces, and you can make gears and levers work.

Fibre optics is pretty magical. The modern day fibre bundle is doing very odd boundary effects on lots of signals in one complex structure.
Needs to be conductive and strong enough. Aluminium works just fine for that.
This is incorrect. You do not need to pay the developer fee to load apps that you create on your own phone.
That's an interesting dilemma. I don't think Georgism fully solves the issue of returning community-created value to the community members who contributed to it. Of course the same is true under the current system for anyone who rents their residence.

I think the ideal outcome would be to just build additional housing for the people who want to move there, i.e. split the tax per unit land across more units of housing, since that's what the market is indicating that it "wants".

Of course most of the Anglophone world is doing a terrible job of adding housing in high-demand areas, and I'm not clear whether and how that would change under a Georgist regime.
Yes, exactly. I want a device that’s thoroughly locked down. For myself, and especially my parents and spouse, who I’ve taught never to access their bank accounts on the web, but only on their iPhones.

If I want a hackable pocket computer, I’ll buy a device specifically for that purpose. Or pay the rather minimal fee. (Edit: If needed.)
That’s not basic functionality for everyone. I’m a developer. I have an iPhone which contains personal photos, bank apps, etc. (basic functionality) I have another device with Android which I can run my custom http server on, or i.e compile some code on the plane for fun.

I don’t want to worry about what the app that I side loaded last month is now doing with my photos or or if the phone is spying on me for an ad company.

I believe I have a good balance. A free for all on one hand and a locked down device on the other. I personally like this balance and don’t see a compelling reason as to why I should change anything.

P.S. I know the iPhone and the review process won’t eliminate the risks all together. It just needs to improve my chances which it does for me effectively.
The scaling laws of large language models are very specific to language models and the way they're trained. The important thing that LLMs demonstrate is that transformers are capable of this kind of scale (where other approaches have not)

In the RL space, a sufficiently complex, stochastic environment is effectively a data generator.
I don't see it. Did they mean "uncanny valley"?
If you suspect it's a brown recluse, use a flamethrower.

If you suspect it's not a brown recluse, use a flamethrower.
Swan Interactive Teletext (1994)
Is it a case of people not being interested in the functionality, or a case of the functionality being so poor that people don't want to use it.

I remember using X to run applications from half way across North America about 20 years ago. To be specific, I remember using it to do image editing in Gimp. Performance was great. Heck, I even used it over dial-up connections to my university. For some X applications performance was fine, though I was clearly using it for less demanding software.

Of course, expectations have changed. Microsoft has acknowledged this by continuing to improve upon Remote Desktop. I love and use the feature, even though I cannot stand Windows. While I use a couple of X applications over the network, for the most part I don't even bother. It's finicky to get working. Even when the fiddly bits are set up properly, there is no guarantee the software will work.
I expected at least bar charts rendered photorealistically, with beautiful materials, shadows, etc. Now I wonder if the use of Unreal Engine to prodice these graphics is even more ironic than I had thought.
1. There are OSes that are “open” and still reliable.

2. OP was talking about loading apps on his/her OWN phone. Apple could offer some “OS variant” or some settings for people like OP while the default is closed for people like you. This doesn’t seem mutually exclusive technically — it’s probably just not in apple business best interests.
Driving cars can be seen as a bad habit too. We could cut down on emissions a lot (in N. America anyways) if we committed to better public transport, cycling etc.

There are some parallels between the tobacco and auto/petro industry. Many north american cities had excellent tram systems, but they were torn out/abandoned for car roads under pressure from industry lobbyists in the 50-70s.

Some cities retained their tram lines (Portland, Toronto) from that era, but many did not (Chicago, Vancouver).
So what? There is zero political appetite in the US federal government for going back to a gold standard, or switching from the dollar to some other currency. It's pointless to even discuss such hypotheticals.
I am ok with candidates asking questions.

And I am ok with managers filtering out people who ask questions.

From both perspectives, mission accomplished.
It's a pretty good movie I recommend it! (If you're into slow sci fi)
My work issues me a MBP that I can't stand, so finding a way to access it remotely has been a priority. For CLI apps, I SSH into it from a Linux machine, but for GUI apps, I've tried X (most Mac apps are Cocoa and not X-compatible), NoMachine (it was ok), Splashtop (ok speed but glitchy), VNC (slow), and Jump Desktop (https://www.jumpdesktop.com). I found Jump Desktop to be surprisingly good, roughly on par with RDP. They have a free version, so I'd recommend you try it.
Hacker News Trending: Top HN stories for the past week/month/year
I don't think it is accurate to interpret that Signal's in-app browser is captuing information about the user. If it were, that would be just impossible.
> Essentially matching the signature of the sound to the sounds in the database.

And Dall-E 2 is just doing fuzzy hashing of images with text keys.

Shazam continues to amaze me because it "just works", and still feels more magical to me than most of the AI out there since it directly solve a major problem I didn't even think was solvable "what is this song!!?"
Yes. I have colleagues in different time zones and feel they are marginalised by almost all work processes.
It's not...

Games are benchmarked at different resolutions for the same game because that shifts the CPU/GPU burden. It's a great thing to do and many benchmarks do it too, and yes in the same average.

If you don't include a game at those resolutions for no good reason that's one thing, but varying the resolution in the same mean is a good idea.
Needs ungated entry to comment.
#3 earn more is the only way to avoid it. Smart idea, I'm looking for the same myself. Reducing spending never works and multiple sources provide safety.

I was thinking maybe a podcast explaining the tools I use.
Which one do you have? I wondered if the 2000 Series is better than the AD2 as its a good bit cheaper.
I assume there are people out there in the world who actually find equations like this comprehensible?

https://imgur.com/O2BEyjp

One of my main barriers to reading and learning from academic literature in this space is that while I understand all the words perfectly well, invariably I hit something like this which might as well be in chinese characters to me.
Greed. that's all
There are some undefined variables. Did the people doing the improving own the land? Well, now they're no longer poor. Yay. Sell and get out of there before the Californians move in and turn it into a sewer.

If they voluntarily improved somebody else's land under no contractual agreement with the owner, why do they think they're entitled to a share of the new value?

If they voluntarily improved "public" land, good luck extracting gratitude from the state after the fact. The bureaucrats are more likely to issue fines and send in bulldozers.
Story to which the parent comment refers:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/15/brett-kavana...

Man (allegedly self-identified trans woman?) arrested outside Justice Kavanaugh’s house with loaded Glock pistol after expressing intent to assassinate the Justice. Charged with attempting to murder an associate justice of the supreme court.

He likely knew where to find Kavanaugh as the result of highly-publicized protests outside conservative Justices’ homes. Protests at the home of Supreme Court justices are expressly illegal under federal law, a law the Biden DOJ has decided not to enforce.

Legal opinion from GWU law professor:

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3480452-from-court-pac...

The law:

https://codes.findlaw.com/us/title-18-crimes-and-criminal-pr...
I don't think so; it's completely honest. but we can agree to disagree.
Is this a new requirement? I remember for Kubecon Seattle 2018 using an iOS app (named KubeCon+CNC) that was nothing more than a schedule viewer for the event. It didn't even use native views and given how narrow the audience for the app was -- attendees for one of two 3-day conferences -- I was surprised at the time that it even existed as an app and had made it past the app store review.

I also know of at least one app, a sanitary self-certification app that allows your entry into a European country by generating a QR code to display, that is also basically a shell around a simple web app with a form. It absolutely should be an app given how convenient it makes accessing the entry requirements and generated QR code, but its existence does make these app store requirements seem absolutely arbitrary.
mogery's Guide to Becoming a Programmer
Could have fooled me! By two paragraphs in I ( :[ ) was reading (and judging) like it was an article on 538.
It's typically ebay for me, possibly craigslist as well if you live in a big city.
I've not seen this one before. It looks really thorough so I'm also looking forward to taking it for a spin. Thanks for posting it.
HN is overly dismissive of tech in Android devices. People should look up testing of Samsung’s current gen 108 MP sensor. It’s true that it doesn’t look sharper when displaying the whole image on a smartphone’s 3.5 MP screen or a 4K (8.3 MP) monitor, and that it’s not really 9 times sharper than a quality 12 MP, but those points miss the meaningful one: it actually is way sharper than the current gen iPhone, and it is very visible as soon as you blow up the image, zoom in, or significantly crop it.
That's a neat idea. It's like a self-contained documentation / "comment" of the URL. `#` is even fairly well-known commenting character.
"Understands things" means a lot. Mostly I'm referring the causality and generalization of inference though.
I've always called this "state-to-state" income inequality, because it used to be that people from relatively wealthy states would "retire" (probably not actually retire) in lower income states because they can purchase a home with less friction.

Nowadays, the income inequality gap has grown drastically in each state, so I think this problem just falls under that umbrella. A good source: https://www.cbpp.org/blog/a-state-by-state-look-at-income-in...
Yeah, I'm definitely not saying this is already the ultimate solution. But if you look at their scaling experiments and extrapolate the results, it roughly shows how a model with number of parameters on the same order of magnitude as the human brain could more or less achieve overall human level performance. Of course that doesn't mean the architecture has to extrapolate, but it's definitely a path worth walking unless someone proves it's a dead end. In that case I'd replace "end of decade" with 10 to 20 years in my above statement.
I've tried compressing an icon and it ended up being larger than the original:

FILENAME. ORIGINAL SIZE UPDATED SIZE SIZE IMPROVEMENT FILE TYPE
128-light.png 920 Bytes 1.83 KB -104.02% PNG

It would be nice to at least say that the compression didn't go well :)
Be thankful and keep them as friends. It's a serious mistake to either cross the beams between productive labour of this kind and friendship or to unlock the secret diary of your conflicted heart and mind.

I blog and I do not want my friends anywhere near it.
IIRC CDs were the first use of dithering in audio. It's not distortion, but both it and distortion change the signal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dither
(+ 0 to 100mph in under 4 seconds)

(+ 1/4 mile in under 9 seconds)
I was trying to figure out a way to list the top YouTube videos posted to HN for the past month. I first tried using the HN BigQuery Dataset [1], but soon realized it hasn't been updated in years. I then stumbled upon HNTrending and realized it had exactly what I was looking for [2].

[1]: https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/y-combi...

[2]: https://hntrending.com/domains/month/www.youtube.com/index.h...
This comes up every time and I have such a hard time believing it's not some kind of weird bot response.

The entire line of reasoning makes no sense to me. You login to bank websites, store photos on computers, and those are not locked down.

Yes somehow, for some reason, your mobile devices needs it?

It makes no sense to me, and I'm not trying to be antagonistic. It just doesn't line up.
Thanks, that’s pretty neat. I have neither the fun stuff budget nor the purpose to justify cluttering up space for a few years, but it’s cool to see satellites drawing closer to “serious but amateur” price levels.
> You can tell a human a pretty fictitious scenario and we're really good at producing those images.

Not all us do that.

A chair is both what I see as well as what I perceive. And it is neither. But, I never build a visual model of it when my eyes aren’t seeing it.
ok, I stand corrected
The original comment being taken out, I remark that they made some valid points.
Really I'd say it is coined by Gary Marcus. At least that's who I first heard discuss it.
The image quality attached in the article honestly doesn't look any better than a 10-year old point and shoot digital camera. A camera that never cost more than $400 by the way.

It's insane how much marketing has to work to make people believe they're buying a superior product, when in fact it's just a $2000 toy with inferior quality.
There is a pretty big difference in apps where you have an account and interact in real-time with service providers, notifications are a critical part of it, etc.

Browsing a list of events is nothing like it
But that's not what he said. He said you can't do it. You can.
IMO morally we should not support closed platforms. Technical people and especially developers are more responsible than others. I find the apologia around this disturbing.
If you review the history of AGI research going back to the 1960s, there have been multiple breakthroughs which convinced some researchers that success was close. Yet those all turned out to be mirages. You're probably being overly optimistic, and the Gato approach will eventually run into a wall.
They would be buying the same computer from a different manufacturer.
Kinda. The gullibility gap more refers to the fact that it is really easy to believe the machines are smarter than they are because they can perform tasks that nothing but humans can do. With the exception of maybe parrots there's no other creatures that can talk so we associate this with intelligence. But I think it is rather naive to believe that the ability to string together reasonable sounding text is actually intelligence. There has yet to be a demonstration of these algorithms actually understanding things.
I strongly notice the other way around. There seems to be much more high view count content for me including the new prominently featured tiktok clone. As a coach I watch fairly niche sports content and really could not care about a 6 million view yoga soft porn clip.
They didn't say it's not possible within 50 years, they said they weren't expecting it to happen in that timeframe, and that's a very different sort of claim.
That still doesn't make it make sense to go for a Tesla vs another kind of car.
"640x480 ought to be enough for anybody"
--Bill Gates (paraphrased)
Why on earth would a paint program need to be interested in WiFi roaming? I can understand that Qt might have network management functions, and even that a paint program might want to check for updates or licensing via the Internet, but it does seem bizarre that they would chain through to something that enumerates through interfaces like that.
"You will own nothing and you will love it".
They often do have version and revision numbers. As well as final release numbers. I find the biggest issue is the lack of ability to trace the document forwards in the repositories.

Usually an update will list which documents it updates but often it's much harder to find if there have been any new updates that have further obsoleted this update.
Wow thank you I was so confused about the “lack of loops” thing and thought I must have utterly misunderstood the paradigm of Walter Bright’s D.
This is excellent advice. If you start tinkering, get progressively interested and keep going deeper into all the component parts of being a programmer, you will become a programmer.
It seems like bad logic. If he gets bored/throw in towel, he can just pay back with his money and move on. Also, if you need to create such artificial constraints in order to go to work, a main ingredient called “drive” is missing. I respect Carmack a lot but I don’t trust old centi-millionaires to work with same passion as their younger poorer selves. Finally, $20M is too low. AGI is not a solo endeavor and doesn’t fit in Carmack’s legendary work style. Just to train a large model once will eat up 20% of this money.
Clearly, but it is common enough that we joke about how it is impossible to not think about a pink elephant simply because someone said it. People have better visualization than others but the vast majority of people can conjure up the concept of this non-existent elephant. But clearly intelligence is beyond visualization as we wouldn't say a person born blind is unintelligent simply because they cannot see. Still, the pink elephant is a fairly good analogy. But analogies aren't perfect and that's okay. Just take it in good faith.
Small bug report to the OP (hopefully you own the website): The light/dark toggle starts off on dark setting but visually the website is on the light setting. So if you toggle it, the toggle goes light, but visually nothing changes, toggling it back to dark, visually it changes to dark. This only works once as settings as persisted correctly. But opening up an incognito browser you can repro.

Edit: Cool website :)
Progress!! So at this rate we should have LA->SF HSR in ... 2385
I'm interested in this, but you don't have any contact info in your profile. HN itself doesn't have a messaging feature, so you have to leave an email address or something there. If you'd rather just message me my address is in my profile.
Oh that wasn't my intention - Shazam was and is groundbreaking, they did it when no one else could. All I meant was that it seems more "doable and I probably understand how it works" when compared to how Google assistant recognizes songs from my humming.
There's a mix called xonsh where you can use both Python and "bash" code interchangeably. I'm being unfaithful to ZSH atm with xonsh. It's like "shell with the syntax you want", quite nice!
I'm actually a big fan of high speed rail in America for routes that make sense, but this project is going to be such an embarrassment for rail in America that it's going to hurt future projects.
Not sure why you're downvoted when even non-electric cars can be hacked and rerouted. The Grand Future also wants fully autonomous cars to not even have old-fashioned things like steering wheels and dashboards.
No cables visible. I always wanted to do this but i still have an absolute mess of cables.

Maybe one of those "elevator tables" (idk how they are called). So after working a few hours sitting, you could work while standing.

Also having ethernet cables running through the walls for a more stable connection. Also running my own homeserver with network shares and backups and so on.

Some plants. Maybe some paintings/images. Nothing that should distract me, but when i don't look into my
PC i want to see more than plain walls and my setup.

Paint walls in another color.

Lighting when working late, something more "moody" and not bright and white.

And you mentioned sound proofing, i don't know how i would implement it but to hear absolute nothing from the outside "sounds" great. This would probably be one of my top priorities as I get easily distracted.

Writing all this makes me realize how bad my home office setup is and how it is only acceptable when getting lost in my PC and teleporting into my own world.
I'm not sure this particular presentation helps your point though? I sifted through it and if anything I was struck with how simple it seemed? I'm sure there's more to running Netflix though and in my mind they're allowed to have as many engineers as they see fit.
Thanks for replying! I looked on your website, where there’s more information.

Half of my question was surprise, because I would have thought something like Common Lisp, Erlang, Chez Scheme, Guile Scheme, Chicken Scheme would have been interesting choices. Despite being compiled they have various support for interpreters, embedding, and live update / hot reload of code.

The other half was curiosity because I just didn’t know why JavaScript would be chosen and would like to know. (Hence my question.)

You should post here as your own post about the project. That would be interesting.

And congratulations on having some code running on JWST. It’s gotta be uniquely thrilling.
The opposite. VR is an impoverished reality. Any AI seeking to do science, for example, would rapidly hit "bottom".