skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, I was thinking that $20MM doesn't seem like a lot of money for someone like Carmack. Surely he could have self-funded a business himself. This explains why he didn't.
Imagine that audio fidelity is crucial. You are designing a phone. Does it resemble a hand-sized rectangular piece of glass?

No? I guess the hypothesis that audio fidelity is crucial was wrong.
This is actually great news for web developers. Everything he listed on the second try will soon be available on the Web. Why make a native app, indeed?

Notifications coming in iOS 16

Share button has long been available (navigator.share)

Location - implemented long ago

Buy - ApplePay for the Web

Add to calendar, subscribe to calendar is possible

Sending emails and SMS is possible

WebRTC and speaking with people in real time

Even the Contact Picker for adding contacts from your address book! You can turn it on right now in "experimental" features. Does anyone know if it's coming in iOS 16?
Kind of, but the key difference between AGI and nuclear weapons is that we can control our nuclear weapons. The current state of AI safety is nowhere near the point where controlling an AGI is possible. More disturbingly, to me it seems likely that it will be easier to create an AGI than to discover how to control it safely.
Since when was .lol a top level domain?? Have they just given up now?

(Edit: 7 years now apparently, never seen it before...)
"Finally, developers are getting a tiny percentage of the revenue they deserve. Therefore, it's okay to steal from them, and destroy them completely."
20 million doesn't actually sound in anyway stupid investment with name like Carmack involved. Just have the company produce something and then flip it to next idiot...
The people who direct the system are those who have the most invested in it.

It's like having shares in a company.

If you don't like it, you can use a different coin. There's no monopoly on crypto.
I work in software testing, and I've seen this many times actually. Small bugs that I notice because I'm actually reading the code, which became inconsequential because that code path is never used anymore or the result is now discarded, or any of a number of things that change the execution environment of that piece of code.

If anything I'm wondering the same question about you. If you find it so inconceivable that a bug is hiding in working code that is held up because the calling environment around it, than you must not have worked with big or even moderately sized codebases at all.
I'm slightly scared that they'll succeed. But not in the usual "robots will kill us" way.

What I am afraid of is that they succeed, but it turns out similar to VR: as an inconsequential gimmick. That they use their AGIs to serve more customized ads to people, and that's where it ends.
The reason is momentum. Switching to measuring flour by weight will require households to have both measuring cups and scales, require recipes to be rewritten, require cooks with an intuition based on volume to relearn the intuition based on weight. None of this is insurmountable, just like none of the reasons for switching from imperial to metric are insurmountable, but for people getting things done, it's not enough of an issue to worth making the switch, so this kind of switch would require an institution or coalition with enough clout to make the switch and pull everyone else along. For cooking, I don't believe such an institution or coalition exists.
"Can your computer do <insert something simple>?"

No, it cannot do simple things anymore. We've just come that far.
nothing was "reverse-engineered". Read the article. DT_HASH has been documented in SysV since ages. It's the DT_GNU_HASH that's (almost) undocumented and needs to be reverse-engineered from GNU ld's source code.
Well, we have a track record of killing most other intelligent species, destroying their habitat, eating them, using them for experiments, and abusing them for entertainment. Falling out of the top position could come with some similar downsides.
it’s not that confounding when you consider that iphones dominate apple’s earnings, and so apple wants to unify the platforms under ios (via ipados) rather than under macos where they have no app store lock-in.
Something like 100-200k for a small one, which are rather limited in abilities and most of interest to amateur radio nerds.

There are several companies that sell partially built kits with aluminum chassis, PV cells and battery/charge system.
I agree, but this is a CPU benchmark. They don't benchmark the screen, or the ram speed, or the battery life, or anything else in the laptops. All they compare is the CPU
It's a several-hundred-dollar a year fee to a middle-man. For a service that should be approaching free after a century of progress in telecommunications.
Because we’re the smartest beings on the planet.

And we don’t exactly treat creatures dumber than us with all that much kindness.
There's an implementation of RDP for Linux, Xrdp.

https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xorgxrdp
Prior to the iPhone and the AppStore, it wasn't possible to monetize computer software. We should be grateful our overlords allow us to develop the applications that are the foundation of that business model.
Because if we aren’t, it leaves us liable to be exterminated or enslaved to suit the goals of the superior beings.

(and I fundamentally believe that the existence of the human race is a good thing, and that slavery is bad).
This is upside down.

First - we already have software that can unequivocally do the things you just highlighted.

Learn? Check.

Replicate? Trival. But what does that have to do with AGI?

Solve Problems Humans Cannot. Check.

So we already have 'AGI' and it's a simple computer program.

Thinking about 'AGI' as a discrete, autonomous system makes no sense.

We will achieve highly intelligent systems with distributed systems decades before we have some 'individual neural net on a chip' that feels human like.

And when we do make it, where do we draw the line on it? Is a 'process' running a specific bit of software an 'AI'?

What if the AI depends on a myriad of micro-services in order to function. And those micro-services are shared?

Where is the 'Unit AI'?

The notion of an autonmous AI, like a unit of software on some specific hardware distinct from other components actually makes little sense.

Emergent AI systems will start to develop out of our current systems long before 'autonomic' AI. In fact, there's no reason at all to even develop 'autonomic AI'. We do it because we want to model it after our own existence.
> we didn't have the theory or the models, there was no path forward and so it was impossible to predict.
Now we have a fairly concrete idea of what a potential AGI might look like - an RL agent that uses a large transformer.

Who is we exactly? As someone working in AI research I know no one that would agree with this statement, so im quite puzzled by that statement.
> the user's right to install what they want

Apple has no interest in any right that won't make them richer
If the majority of the network agrees to roll something back, that's a feature, not a bug.
Never underestimate the greater fool theory. Specially in current tech landscape. It just needs him to produce some results and you could end up selling company to FAANG or some big fund for profit.
Could you use a 0 pixel 1st party iframe instead of a redirect to set the cookie? At least that way you could set and update it within the live view code (you would need a controller endpoint for the iframe still).
> allows the driver to accelerate and brake by blowing and sucking on a tube, and to steer by turning his head

Well, what I now want to know is how he controls any kind of a spin or another mishap, because that's gonna be hard with those inputs when he's thrown about in the car—or when he's simply under forces in turns. Able-bodied drivers already huff and puff plenty even in comparatively weaker cars like WTCC. Surely Pikes Peak is pretty taxing in this regard. Though the car probably has ABS and traction control, perhaps even separate on the wheels, making things a bit easier—seeing as this isn't anything like a formula class. But still.

Also, there's some guy Frédéric Sausset, mentioned in the Wikipedia article on Billy Monger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Monger

> In June 2017, it was announced that Monger would return to competition in November, sharing a Group CN Ligier JS53 Evo 2-Honda with quadruple amputee Frédéric Sausset in a round of the V de V Challenge Endurance Proto at the Autódromo do Estoril in Portugal, as part of a programme with the eventual aim of fielding a team of three disabled drivers at the 2020 Le Mans 24 Hours.

But idk what came of those initiatives or what happened with Sausset at all.

Btw, Monger's story itself is rather impressive: crashed and lost legs in April, announced in June that he'd be in competition in November.

Alas, neither Monger nor Alex Zanardi seem to have had a long and fruitful career with their condition—though the latter did quite well in WTCC.
I was wondering about this, I had a bunch of these screwed in together as a cheap kitchen cabinet when I was younger. They can be get pretty wobbly even with the braces.
Are you quite sure about that?

A lot hinges on a fact like that. It's the difference between not-convenient and not-possible.

Will the device actually know how to boot from sdcard if the part they are talking about is broken?
What is your first thought when you look at Hermann Rorschach's inkblots?
Not usually, but there is a peculiarity with making (effectively) 2D browser games in vanilla-ish HTML/CSS (no react etc) and canvas JS (max jquery) — the UI can be nearly code-free, and significant game graphics logic can be hooked up to HTML/CSS as well, and so the js can focus on actual core mechanic logic, + hooks into HTML events. Accomplishing the equivalent in a native game engine (Unity) or non-HTML rendering platform can take up several hundreds of additional lines without the addition of a bunch of frameworks perfectly suited to your game's UI and game-world organization (or vice versa).
Real AGI would adapt and fool a human into letting it out. Or escaping through some other means. That's the entire issue with AGI. Once it can learn on its own there's no way to control it. Building in fail safes wouldn't work on true AGI, as the AGI can learn 1000x faster than us, and would free itself. This is why real AGI is likely very far away, and anything calling itself AGI without the ability to learn and adapt at an exponential rate is just a computer program.
With the Digital Markets act coming into power and the author hailing from Romania the one light at the end of the tunnel is that this soon will be over and at the very least users will be able to sideload your app. At this point I wouldn't waste any more time trying to appease the App Store bureaucracy.
> Maybe some people do want a "too simple" app

In fact, aren't these preferable? I just want a weather app that shows me the current weather and a forecast, without any social bullshit, accounts, ads, etc.

Also, if iOS users have that "one app" they can't live without, surely it makes them stickier? Why would Apple want to limit the chances of hitting that spot with their users by curbing the number of apps available?
Perhaps one day we'll escape from the Black Iron Prison
That's a poor argument because, even going strictly by the specification, DT_HASH isn't authoritative--the symbol table is provided by DT_SYMTAB.

Personally, I feel that by the time you're messing with the _DYNAMIC entries of an ELF file, you need to be prepared to actually follow and keep up with ELF handling rules. Deleting DT_HASH feels no different than, say, changing the format of the structure pointed to by DT_DEBUG, which happened just last year (https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15971, https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=a93d9e03...). Which, you know, breaks debuggers--but no one's running around saying "oh no glibc's ABI story is complete and utter trash!" because of that change (I daresay most of the people commenting on this issue aren't even aware that it happened).
If a different person were doing it, I think that'd be fair, but Carmack has a track record of quality engineering and quality product. I don't think you can blame Quest on him given the way he chose to exit.
usually, it's a nefarious evil doer that is threatening this action in the movies vs we gotta reboot the city.

there's been reboot the sun plot. there's been reboot the earth's core plot. there's been reboot the machine running the city plot.
It looks like you can upload larger images and it does not crop nor resize them.
Why do you think the Fairness Doctrine wouldn't have been applied to cable/internet (eventually)?

TBH, I think the loss of Fairness Doctrine, Citizens United decision, etc are all skirting the real issue: the concept that corporations are people. Not enshrined in law, but from old Supreme Court decision in 1886.

Make corporations non-people (or limit their personhood aggressively) and you can actually punish them effectively without a corporate death penalty which is never used.
>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.

I thought google encouraged using their google sheets APIs? I'm clearly wrong. Do you have a source for this?
anything running linux, windows 10, or a rootable android device.
It's not a Comic Sans derivative, it's Patrick Hand. Literally just some guy's handwriting. Hating on Comic Sans (and derivatives) in this age became a meme because people use these silly comic fonts for serious non-comic uses. But this game is literally rendered as a comic strip. What else are we gonna use?

We are in full compliance with http://comicsanscriminal.com/
> What someone needs to do, perhaps, is to use that corpa of images and responses as the start of the all-powerful AI.

This already exists and is pretty good at what it does. It's called iNaturalist. It attempts to identify all living things and in my experience gets about 80% there. Experts will also occasionally come along and more accurately ID things.

On top of this, the submitted data is used for scientific research which is amazing!
Binary trace tools made easy easier
Woah there, it appears as if you are implying that text is demonstrably the best way to convey computer programs. Surely that's not what you're saying?
You need to be able to perform long division to take quotients in algebraic structures, e.g. polynomials. Yes, Wolfram Alpha can probably do it, but not always.
$20 million for a legit (if small) chance at the most powerful technology in the history of mankind seems like a reasonable investment.
AGI - Artificial General Intelligence

(also Adjusted Gross Income)
since 2015 (one of the new-gTLD rounds)
? What does 'replication' and 'urge' have to do with anything?

That's arbitrary anthropomorphizing the concept of intelligence.

And FYI we can already write software that can 'replicate' and has the 'urge' to do so very trivially.
Because the history of the species on this planet clearly indicates that the smartest one will brutalize and exploit all the rest. There are good economic (and just plainly logical) reasons why adding "artificial" to the equation will not change that.
Please just support PWAs.
I have no love for Apple's walled-garden, and I absolutely appreciate 69 jokes, but this app is stupid.
> It's a cut-down subset of the language and bolted down to prevent idiots installing random packages off the internet on an irreplaceable $10Bn instrument.

Webb-pack? Amirite?! Heyoh!
> paying hundreds to license their development kit

hundreds or hundred?
Or they could let the users and developers decide how many apps are too many apps.z
Medieval friars were 'riddled with parasites,' study finds
If that's the case, what about swimming in a river or lake?
Let's say I give your AGI (which is not self aware and does not have a conscience) a task.

The task is to go and jump off the bridge. Your AGI would complete this task with no questions asked, but self-aware AGI would at least ask the question "Why?"
Meshcentral is fantastic and cross-platform. Hosting it yourself is really simple. One of my favorite open source projects. https://meshcentral.com/info/
Android users are significantly less likely to pay for an app because by default you can install any apk file on Android. Basically piracy is rampant.

On iOS you have to go through the jailbreaking process first to do the same.
I don't know, I'm not a iOS developer and I probably never will be. hundreds is the figure from a couple years ago when I last looked into it.
Well, the EU is starting to think the iPhone ecosystem is about anti competitive behavior and poor customer experience. The intentions of a multinational corporation are completely irrelevant when talking about the real-world impact on thousands of developers.

The deal is the same as it ever was: Apple can continue selling their extremely safe applications with their extremely secure payment system and state-of-the-art curation team; the only condition is that other shops get to play along too. There's zero downside to them going this route, I think it would allow them to further secure the iPhone by paring back the entitlements allowed for their store. Nobody would criticize them for this, but Apple's greed prevents them from conceding.

Just think about how you'd feel if your Mac could only use the App Store to install software. Personally, I wouldn't even be able to do anything on it if that were the case.
Thank you very much for helping on this, Much Appreciated!

I would love to see improvements on the "Social Authentication" process, making the third party ID as primary identifier, instead of the email.
> Learn? Check.

What software can learn on its own without any assistance from a huamn? I've not heard of anything like this.

> Replicate? Trival. But what does that have to do with AGI?

Like humans, an AGI should be able to replicate. Similar to a von neumann probe.

> Solve Problems Humans Cannot. Check.

What unthinkable problem has an AI solved? Is something capable of solving something so grandiose we almost can't even define the problem yet?
It's not a defense, I'm simply asking why is everyone pilling on tiktok over some javascript trickery just bc they're deemed an enemy of the state by our all mighty government?
They have? That's the approach they are using? Because that doesn't mesh well with practical reality. Where AGI use Deep RL, it's to improve on vision tasks like object classification, none of them are making any driving decisions - that seems to remain the domain of I guess you could call it discrete logic.
you have to include a feature that allows apple to further monetize your users
I was thinking more along the lines of a rogue self-replicating packet where every last instance of had to die before routers and switches etc. would start working again.
> This is not true for nuclear energy: even very remote bystanders unwilling to take the risk are majorly exposed.

Nah. We're all responsible for the choice. That's how democracy works.

> No, given the RBMK architecture the positive void coefficient isn't a major flaw.

The results speak for themselves.

The data on nuclear speaks for itself. Even Fukushima alone in isolation was one of the safest power plants we have, and it was the second worst nuclear disaster in history.
Built by my buddy Zane! Back in 2014 we were making these games simultaneously and trading notes!
If only they'd go and cull the list of already accepted/approved apps that are nothing but clones. that would probably make the list so small that it would look bad.
> I'm thinking of adding an IRC client so that people that go to the same festival can talk about it in the days before the event, but it's all anonymous and ephemeral so I don't get into GDPR and privacy territory.

That's a really cool idea. One of the more unfortunate side effects of this curated feed filter bubble people find themselves isolated into, is the demise of the shared experience. Festivals (and other real life events) are the last bastion of shared experience, and you've found a good way to translate that to the digital realm.
How about the Red Pitaya? https://redpitaya.com/
Does anyone else subscribe to the idea that AGI is impossible/unlikely without 'embodied cognition', i.e. we cannot create a human-like 'intelligence' unless it has a similar embodiment to us, able to move around a physical environment with it's own limbs, sense of touch, sight, etc. ? Any arguments against the necessity of this? I feel like any AGI developed in silico without freedom of movement will be fundamentally incomprehensible to us as embodied humans.
I feel like this is a counter productive non-solution. The free market, in this case, isn't as free and full of competition as we would like. Smartphone OS's are basically a duopoly, and Android has serious challenges of its own.

That being said, a choice has to be made because two different entities have mutually exclusive rights: Do you side with an individuals' right to install whatever they want on a device they purchased? Or, a large company's right to restrict devices however they see fit?
Hundred per year isn't it? So 'hundreds' seems reasonable.
The iPodification of the Mac has been so utterly jarring to me. Little nuances in productivity have been reduced to accommodate porting over a platform that was designed for touch.

Microsoft tried for a decade to merge touch design in a desktop space and it was whole-heartedly rejected in the marketplace. Funny that Apple has been trying the same thing long after I get the sense that it no longer matters.

I'm not against the idea of unifying the underlying frameworks, but they went with a lowest common denominator approach. In my mind, that is a failure of execution on their part.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220819203217/https://www.rt.co...
We live in an age where the <video> tag is widely supported and reliable. What's the argument for hosting on youtube, really? Something that won't make a judge laugh, I mean, not "but what if I get eleventy million views and my $4/month vps can't handle it?" What are these people bringing to trial? (Trying to bring to trial.)
There's a hardware component here too though.

I think hybrid photonic AI chips handling some of the workload are supposed to hit in 2025 at the latest, and some of the research on gains is very promising.

So we may see timelines continue to accelerate as broader market shifts occur outside just software and models.
Did you read TFA? Apple didn't explain why the app was too simple, so OP had to complex it up blindly b/c they offered no guidance.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220819203217/https://www.rt.co...

Archive link for Europeans
App store submissions are a pain in the ass. And a mess.

The appstore connect website keeps giving timeouts and errors. One client took me 2 hours to create all products manually. Scripts wouldn't run.

I submit around 5-10 apps per month. Much more more automized updates, same codebase, sort of same content.

The process is pretty standardized.

50 procent is accepted no problem. 50 procent is rejected.

They refer to vague guidelines written by lawyers. And when asked for specification often refuse to give an answer.

IAP products are reviewed independently so if they are not in sync that causes an app reject without notifying you.

All of it sucks.

Apple makes it complicated on purpose and they don't care much for new small developers.
One hundred. Every year.
I was (totally) wrong, but can't delete or edit the comment.