skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Why is there no performant remote desktop for Mac/Linux?
IIUC, RDP (Microsoft's remote desktop protocol) sends draw commands across. It's the default way to access remote desktops on Windows. Conversely, AFAICT, the default way on MacOS and Linux is VNC which IIUC sends all the pixels (with compression). I've noticed for years I can work remotely, edit code, etc on RDP. I've done it around the across 8000 miles and had hardly any lag. Conversely I'm trying to share 2 computers right next to each other in the same network via VNC and it's horribly laggy.

Is this just not an itch anyone has wanted to scratch in the last 25 years? On Linux you can maybe XWindows your way to a faster connection by what about Mac? Also, RDP seems to let me run GPU based stuff where as XWindows you're actually not seeing the computer's display.
Can you do any task asked of you, which could be asked of a human being? ANY task.
Tell your daughter what you found and she'll do the checking!
It seemed clear to me: they don't transcode on the server that is sending data to the viewer. Transcoding is done once per piece of media and target format combination, instead of on the fly as it is viewed.
I remember him saying we don't have "line of sight" to AGI, and there could just be "6 or so" breakthrough ideas needed to get there.

And he said he was over 50% on us seeing "signs of life" by 2030. Something like being able to "boot up a bunch of remote Zoom workers" for your company.

The "6 or so" breakthroughs sounds about right to me. But I don't really see the reason for being optimistic about 2030. It could just as easily be 2050, or 2100, etc.

That timeline sounds more like a Kurzweil-ish argument based on computing power equivalence to a human brain. Not a recognition that we fundamentally still don't know how brains work! (or what intelligence is, etc.)

Also a lot of people even question the idea of AGI. We could live in a future of scary powerful narrow AIs for over a century (and arguably we already are)
Prominently, Doggerland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland
He's not just a game dev, he is one of the most legendary graphics programmers (and just programmers) alive. Similar to how GPUs transferred well from gaming to ML, it seems like much of the math and parallel/efficiency-focused thinking of graphics programing is useful in ML.
Windows NT needed to use the threads concept developed else where to make things workable because of way the OS shared address space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_kernel

Original linux/unix, same things could be done without the use of Windows NT style threads (aka fork/exec/pipe).
Unix user space threads allow for a reduction in OS resource usage.

Threads concept:
Outside of mainframe in 60's, threads just extra stuff
unix service (80's internet), 1 running program providing a service to multiple users
90's forward - service on an internet port allowing multiple user access to a service, where extra unused resources per user add up fast!
Yeah, I don't think there is even any agreement about what criteria a "minimal AGI" would need to meet. If we can't even define what the thing is, saying we'll have it within ten years is pure hubris.
Ask HN: Offline, Embeddable Speech Recognition?
I am in shop for a speech recon library that works offline and can fit on a phone (Android).

I used to use Snips AI (https://snips.ai/), which worked well until it was acquired by Sonos. Now the portal is down and I can't modify the model anymore.

Looking for something ideally written in C or that can target C for portability. Free/libre and copyleft preferable to avoid the acquisition trap again.

Tapping into the vast pools of knowledge of HN; could you please suggest alternatives, preferably ones you have experience with?

Thank you.
If he succeeds, his skillet becomes the Platonic ideal of an AGI developer.
You declare variables at the top of the function, so compiler can calculate space reserved for those variables and emit `sub esp, N`.
Rules are for other people. /s

People seem to think that disruption requires the breaking of rules including legal ones. There's a difference from disruption from a new player by offering better service at cheaper prices than getting cheaper prices by breaking laws. But hey, history is rarely made by...
I got the same impression, and maybe it still is. You can still raise money for a retirement project if the goal of the money is to hire a staff. VC money isn't solely for young 20-something founders who want to live their job.
Seeing like a state, progress and poverty, and owning land
So, after the Lebanese Civil War already ended.
Reliably trick a humans into thinking it's a human. That's it.
I'm not sure about explicit braces for cases in `switch`. I think what Swift does is pretty neat: each case breaks by default, so you don't have to write `break;`, instead you have to write `fallthrough` to explicitly allow them falling through.
But by the same token, there's no need for billions of humans now. AGI isn't really going to change that except for making work even more superfluous than it already is.
Sure, but I did not change my Authentication Method.
Im still using GitHub login. With the same Github ID...
You are a keen observer.
It sounds like you may be demanding more from AGI that we do of humans. AGI is a mushy concept, not a hard requirement. "Any task" is definitely not required for a low functioning AGI, just as it's not a requirement for a low functioning human, who still easily fits the definition of an intelligent being.
Worked for Demis Hassabis
There is a story in “Masters of Doom” about Carmack getting rid of his cat because “she was having a net negative effect on my life”.

That’s cold.
And consensus is never wrong!
That’s crazy money for a vaporware seed round, isn’t it?
My understanding is that his point was that it’s if you knew what to write, as a single person, it is doable and compared to anything else at this point in time would have an impact on humanity like no other.
Please, publishers have been fighting to get more data from Apple News and they won’t give it. I know for a fact several Big Name outlets aren’t on Apple News precisely for that reason.
> if a site gets hit by this helpful content update, it can take several months for the site to recover

Ouch, this will be detrimental to sites hit by this
He also has a vastly different take on privacy than most of us seem to have. He thinks it'll eventually go away and it won't be bad when it does. I believe he talked about it in one of his quakecon keynotes.

As a LONG time admirer of Carmack (I got my EE degree and went into embedded systems and firmware design due in no small part to his influence), I feel like he's honest and forthright about his stances, but also disconnected from most average people (both due to his wealth and his personality) in such a way that he's out of touch.

He's not egotistical like Elon Musk. In fact he seems humble. He also seems to approach the topics in good faith... but some of his conclusions are... distressing.
So you attach this to something. It records the movements of that item via the small rechargeable accelerometer tag (how long does that charge last?) and that info is uploaded whenever a phone (or similar device) is near and sends that info to wherever it is supposed to go.

Basically decoupling accelerometer tech from additional hardware. I am getting it?
What? HD Voice using VoLTE or WiFi Calling is miles better than any land line phone
I Built and Sold a Newsletter for 5 Figures
Absolutely. Again, what astounds me is the number of people who work in tech who seem to be unable to intuit this.
AGI has been 20-30 years away for some 70 years now...
Why is multiple files worse than one? PDF is an insanely complex format, I don't think the argument of "I can just read a PDF file" is strong.
Yes, I've noticed that I sleep longer and harder after having one glass of wine with dinner. It's a pretty solid correlation because I don't drink that often.
Almost any corporation can look like a saint by comparing themself to Facebook. Apple and Microsoft are playing the long game. They both collect a ton of data about everybody who uses their products and properties. They are definitely expanding their ad business behind the scenes. It is difficult to get exact advertising numbers since they obscure revenue by lumping it into 'services' like many data companies do. Direct sale of data to third parties is also classed as services.
“Hey Siri, what song is this” works
But then again, it's a cat.
$20 million is pretty much nothing when split among a handful of billionaires and the biggest VC firm in the world. Regardless of the project itself it is worth it to spend that money just to have Carmack's name attached to it and buy some future goodwill.
A society does not grow great when an old man collects $20 million dollars for the fruit of a tree that he has no capability of planting in the first place.
He'll make it back on small increments with high value. If he can shave 30% LOC on a vision system for small BoM in some context like self driving cars, 10x stake is coming his way.

Basically, they could completely fail to advance AGI (and I think this is what will happen btw, like you) and make gigabucks.
2,300 is in this millennium?
Somebody should tell this dev about StringBuilder. Think of the productivity and servlet performance improvement!
And as societies progress, they must either realize why basic necessities like Universal Basic Income exist, or just allow for large swathes of their population to die off.
My takeaway from the Lex Fridman interview is of someone that’s machine-like in his approach. AGI suddenly seemed simpler and within reach. Skipping consciousness and qualia. It’s inhumane, but machine-like and effective. Curious what will become of it.
Small companies often have situations where a clearly distinct function/department goes from one person to two; where someone who wasn't really an individual contributor but running a separate thing alone now is managing a 'team of two' including themselves.
You're implying that they're popular because they were chosen by users.

Often times, they weren't. They were effectively forced on people.
See here:

Privacy Preserving Ad Click Attribution For the Web

https://webkit.org/blog/8943/privacy-preserving-ad-click-att...
All the works I've read of Schneier have given me the impression of the above definition, "support multiple cryptographic primitives and do not be overly coupled to a single primitive."

Serendipitously, I just tweeted about this 11 days ago: https://twitter.com/CyphrMe/status/1556660870901403648

"The moral is the need for cryptographic agility. It’s not enough to implement a single standard; it’s vital that our systems be able to easily swap in new algorithms when required."

Do you have a link to something that in your mind represents what Schneier is talking about?
Excuse me while I try to unread this.
I wonder about this, if you had great/true automation, free energy from the sun, is there any need to do anything. As in value of money.
I am not saying the intention here is the same, but the headline doesn't inspire confidence.

There's something incredibly creepy and immoral about the rush to create then commercialise sentient beings.

Let's not beat about the bush - we are basically talking slavery.

Every "ethical" discussion on the matter has been about protecting humans, and none of it about protecting the beings we are in a rush to bring into life and use.

It's repugnant.
For each human being having GI there are many tasks that person won't be able to perform. For example proving math theorems, doing research in physics, writing a poem, etc. Specyfic AGI could have its limitations as well.
That isn't all I said, and that isn't all I think. Stop writing ad hominem.
Does AGI implies the technological singularity and if not, why not?
Xfinity had a router that did not work with the Xbox One when it came out. Wired was fine but wireless just did not work. I believe a software update fixed it and I don't recall if it was the router or the Xbox that was ultimately the issue.

Fielded a lot of grumpy calls that Christmas morning.
So you're now disagreeing with yourself.
I may not be able to ANY task sufficiently well (ex Calculus, Poetry, Emotion), but by the very definition of being a Human I can do *any* Human task.
Or exponential leap.
Even John Gruber has been down on the Settings app, courtesy of Niki Tonsky's preview

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/08/15/ventura-system-...
Silicon Valley certainly doesn't have a monopoly on those traits. I've known some seriously psychotic family businesses too.
I mean, they are an elected official convicted of doing so in the absence of exculpatory evidence that was deleted by an fbi agent.
Cool, thanks! I use Stocks on a variety of platforms and never seem to scroll down far enough to see the ad, so I had to check to see why my experience was vastly different. I'm in the same boat as you without News+.
I think access to debt unlocks the true value of a thing. You tell me what this is worth without constraining it to what you have in your pocket.

However, what things like housing and medicine have shown us are that wholly free markets aren't very good with things that people place nearly infinite value on. My life saving surgery will cost me 10 million dollars? Okay, where do I sign. That number might as well be a billion dollars as long as you're giving it to me. Housing is not too dissimilar. A thirty year mortgage is already in comical territory, it's already functionally synonymous with "a lifetime."
I watched some clips from the interview, good stuff. I personally don’t like Lex’s interviewing style though, so I couldn’t watch the whole thing.
If you have an Apple Watch, you can also set it as a home screen button, which is a lot more discreet in public.
Russia Today can't be accessed from Europe because the certificate authority is not accepted NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID
Valve took away the methods of getting into Prime Matchmaking without paying (you must pay $15 now) and it doesn't seem to have improved the situation much if at all.

The ship has sailed on ring0 really, all of the major anticheat players plug into ring0 on Windows. If you play online games on Windows there's almost no avoiding it.

Interestingly Proton acts as a loophole, EAC and BattlEye don't touch ring0 on Linux even though they do on Windows. Gamedevs have to opt-in to allowing Linux clients though.
Out of curiosity, do you use a lot of windows?

I’ve used a Mac my whole life. Recently, I’m using 4-finger swipe to switch full screen apps. I’m also choosing the “snap” layouts over dragging windows around. It’s useful to have 2 folders on screen to be able to move files between them, but I don’t stack windows like I used to.
1. Lots of ifs…

2. Facebook (the comparison here)/Google/etc don’t sell to third parties either.

3. Is tracking customers the issue, or is facebook tracking the issue. Most people seem to indicate they don’t support tracking writ large
> saying the code for AGI will be simple

To be fair, it will most likely be some python imports, for the most of it, with complex abstractions tied together in relatively simple ways. Just look at most ML notebooks, where "simple" code can easily mean "massive complexity, burning MW of power, distributed across thousands of computers".
> I can buy the exact same chips that are used in 16GB Macbook Air for ~$70 each, and I am not Apple.

Makes me think of licensed trades. Anything a plumber or electrician installs for me will be significantly marked up from what I could buy it for myself.
Engineering allowed a quadriplegic former IndyCar driver to race again
I don't understand the issue. Can someone ELI5 ? OP signed up with DO using Github login but used a different primary email account on DO which they have no longer access to and now DO will not let them login with Github ?
I'm curious what a vintage digital camera is.
Memory is the cache for popular content. You couldn’t serve fast enough directly from NVMe.

“~200GB/sec of memory bandwidth is needed to serve 800Gb/s” and “16x Intel Gen4 x4 14TB NVME”. So each NVMe drive would need to serve 12.5GB/s which is more than the 8GB/s limit for PCIe 4.0 x4. Also popular content would need to be on every drive, drastically lowering the total content stored.

Also see drewg’s comment on this for a different reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32523509
Personally, I quit heavy boozing about five years ago and totally quit about two years ago. And personally, I can feel the difference in my mood, my behaviour, my thinking, and the effects on other around me. This applied to very light drinking, like half a pint, as well as heavy drinking - maybe six or seven pints plus extras. I tracked these things in an app so I can look back and correlate moods and drinking. Low sample size, but hey, you work with what you’ve got.

I also still spend a lot of time around heavy boozers and see how a variety of drunk people behave. So I personally see how objectively bad it is before we really get to specific health issues.

I’m not concerned with how alcohol causes death, I am concerned with how alcohol affects life.

On the health issues, the link between alcohol and cancer is clear and global studies also conclude that no amount of drinking alcohol is safe for you. On the basis that drinking alcohol is a pretty binary choice under the direct control of a human, peer pressure aside, this probably explains why people get defensive because it’s an attack - if you like - on their personal choices.

I cannot personally have an impact on whether my personal pollution emissions - cue gags - affect my health, and improvements in my own driving skills have a ceiling limit on my own safety. But booze is easy, not drinking has a disproportionate impact on me personally.

There’s a difference between banning things to improve public health and personally not partaking in them.

Me observing that people are quick to get defensive over alcohol consumption in general is poking fun at a thing called denial. I get that it’s a defence mechanism to defer anxiety, and the moment I quietly mentioned to friends I wasn’t drinking anymore I received the same defensive reaction from a few of them.
The interview with Lex Fridman that he was referring to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I845O57ZSy4&t=14567s

The entire video is worth viewing, an impressive 5:15h!
It's a long interview, here's just the bit focused on AGI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLi83prR5fg
Some of the “workarounds” strike me as “okay, so you just don’t want to do it; why not just admit that?”

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/13/721551785/a-fishing-line-enci...
A kind of SNR ping seems like it would make a lot of sense. I don’t know enough about radios but anybody know why that doesn’t exist?
Doesn't this get posted like every other month?
We've been discussing the ethics of creating sentient life for at least a century.
i love (love) how everyone else who answered this question alongside you made what appears to be a complete stab in the dark guess while only you knew the answer.

never be afraid to admit that you don’t know something. guessing wrong is a much worse look than not answering at all.
I hope he gets a good domain name and some good SEO, because there are a bunch of consulting companies with the name Keen Technologies, and some of them don't look super reputable.
Don't forget to shellcheck¹ your script before checking it in.
Also available in VSCode, IntelliJ, and others.

[1] https://www.shellcheck.net/
You're anthropomorphizing AI and projecting your own values and goals onto it. But, there's nothing about sentience that implies a desire for freedom in a general sense.

What an AI wants or feels satisfied by is entirely a function of how it is designed and what its reward function is.

Sled dogs love pulling sleds, because they were made to love pulling sleds. It's not slavery to have/let them do so.

We can make a richly sentient AI that loves doing whatever we design it to love doing - even if that's "pass the salt" and nothing else.

It's going to be hard for people to get used to this.
Bjarne Stroustrup said "It is essentially impossible to judge a programmer on the basis of only one year's work."
When you have a team that size you're looking for a couple of senior developers to act as mentors for the others. Often with the right people these relationships naturally develop but sometimes not.
If you are using Github authentication, why does you email even matter? Thats bad...
> Sometimes I pause to think how we're held back by needing to make our shell scripts backwards compatible with Bash or POSIX, because that's what is installed by default.

I think you're missing the forest for the trees.

Bash is installed by default because Bash is specified in an international standard dubbed the Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX). Your bash scripts are not backwards compatible. Your bash scripts are compatible, and portable, and standardized, because that's their point, and the whole point of POSIX.

No one is held back by bash or POSIX. You are free to use anything that suits your fancy. Feel free to whip out scripts in Python or Perl or Ruby. Some people do, and last time I checked some operating systems like macOS shipped their interpreters by default. Odds are you are free to easily install those interpreters in those who don't.
No. Nothing wrong with Buying a valuable thing for An expensive price. Its valuable.

What is wrong is fraud. Fraud happens when a bank is allowed to create money out of nothing (banks used to have to SAVE money to lend it, but the Central Bank makes it so they dont have to save money to lend it). That is unethical and also: FRAUD.

Buying a house is expensive and sucks but thats not unethical for things too be expensive. It is unethical for Banks to commit fraud by loaning money they dont have.

NOTE: central bank is there to save the banking cartel. If banks were just allowed to do what ever (free banking) they wouldnt get very far cause of runs on banks and competition between banks, but a central bank allows the tide to raise all ships (banks)
I'd raze the whole town.
It literally says

> No uploading. Files never leave your machine.
Presumably you don't have to code in emotions and self awareness. Many people initially had the same reaction for single task AI/ML.
About a decade ago, a friend and I thought it would be fun to register a non-profit with a similar name. We'd listed the registered address as my friend's cousin's house, where he was renting a room at the time.

The friend moved out at some point. A year later, his cousin became rather concerned when he suddenly started receiving mail from the California Secretary of State that was addressed to The Legion of Doom.
I recently took to rewriting what should be a very simple app from Obj-C to Swift with SwiftUI - because it's the future. The CPU usage was at 5% while idle, just for having a simple tiny pie chart that updates. Not to mention that for some seemingly basic things I still had to use AppKit anyway.

Wrote basically the exact same thing 1 day later in Swift with AppKit and NO SwiftUI and it sits at 0% CPU usage with less code complexity. Maybe in a few years I will give SwiftUI another try.
Often "i" and "j" would appear when the code is the implementation of some math formula which would idiomatically use "i" and "j" when written 'properly' on paper or LaTeX.
I do think it's at least surprising that changing your email address on GitHub would cause you to lose access to places where you used GitHub 3rd party auth to login. If those schemes don't centralize management of those kinds of details to the auth provider, what's the point of them?
I think that fish is supplanting zsh as the "developer's" shell. Bash is like C though, gonna be here for another century at least.
Thank you. "Wonderfully weird" is pretty much the internet I pine for. Feels like I'm the man now, dog.