skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now that would be a fascinating development. Apple blocking most new apps because there are already too many of them. I can imagine some scenarios.

"Candidates for this job are required to have released an app on the iOS store"

"Fortune 100 corporation is suing Apple because it won't accept its app"

"Only 1 in 154 app applications is accepted by Apple"

"College admission consultants are starting to recommend high school students seeking admission to top colleges to release an app on the Apple store"

"Study shows college applicants who have release an app on the iOS store are twice as likely to gain admission to an Ivy League school"

"82% of Harvard's class of 2028 released an app on the Apple store prior to admission"

"Study shows that releasing an app on the Apple store and advertising that fact in your online dating profile triples your odds of a match"
> or else I get a nice email from IT.

what would it say? how ridiculous.

I'll bet you can't insert USB flash drives either.
For low-traffic niche content that might not be a cache hit in the first place in every region?

I wouldn't bother. Unless you use storage at the CDN - which is probably very not cost effective for you.
Which research?
I get that it seems implausible that there's just money sitting around waiting to be picked up, but it was there. Used autos is a hugely fragmented industry that is only slowly consolidating. Bids + bid strategy are likely still extremely far from optimal. Probably more easy wins out there.
What's the price they're required to offer the debtor in that scenario? How does anyone know that's a fair price when there has been no other offers? Why should it be the debtor that benefits from the lender's misfortunes?

This whole thing reeks of entitlement to me. If you take out a loan expect to pay it off. Don't expect that if the lender goes belly up that means you got some get out of jail free card.
Feels like it makes perfect sense to compare performance on the same system. Is someone going to switch systems for some minor performance gains? I really doubt that. Usually it's something else that motivates people to switch.

That said people pick different manufactures for their next device all the time (at least in the Linux/Windows world) and having performance comparison for these devices on your favorite system helps you choose.
Not sure if "optimistic" is the proper word here. Perhaps "scared senseless in the end-of-mankind kind of way" is more appropriate?
Reverse Engineering the Arturia KeyStep Firmware (2020)
Cookie-wall-free link:

https://archive.ph/okNlm
Three big and important reasons:

1. What the dev themselves use. I don't want to use an app that the dev doesn't use daily.

2. What the development experience is like (tooling and API)

3. If you wish to monetize your app at all, iOS users spend disproportionately more. It's not about % of devices so much as it is about % paying users. (Same idea for the % of the target market, how many music festival goers use iOS?)
If AGI is possible, it’s immoral not to create it.
Exactly this, one of the things that really struck me about apps on fdroid is just how simple they are.

They do one thing, and (usually) do it pretty well, probably because the developers probably don't have the time and resources to do anything more than that. But that's perfect for someone who just wants the thing on their phone to do what it says on the tin.
We programmed this at a company hackathon a while back. We pivoted and presented it as an "open office eavesdropper" because our naive algorithm amplifies distant speeches pretty well unexpectedly. https://github.com/Quantisan/nullwave
Thanks! I don't know if it's unusually compact for web game dev, but I will take a victory lap on the vanilla JS "game engine" we built for this project. We get a lot of very Unity-like behavior in a much smaller package!
> Most of VCs funding seed rounds do it mainly for the Team.

I know this to be true and it makes a lot of sense for the average VC backed startup with some founders that are not famous but have a record of excellence in career/academy/open source or whatever.

I'd be curious to see how it translates to superstar or famous founders, that have already had a success in the 99.99th percentile (or whatever the bar is to be a serious outlier). I doubt it does, but I have no data one way or the other.
none of these things are air-gapped once you have the ability to coerce people

if you want a fictional example: watch Colossus: The Forbin Project
meshcentral - https://meshcentral.com/info/ - self hosted server needed for best effect.

Open Source and development is lead by an Intel employee. I use Arch (btw) exclusively on my personal gear and I'm a first class citizen along with pretty much everything. The Windows binaries are signed too, which is nice. It also fully supports Intel AMT (vPro) which is probably why it is supported by Intel.

You can auth with say MS Azure (documented config required) so you simply click on the MS logo instead of filling in username and password and if you have an Azure cookie you go straight in or you go through the usual MS sign in thing. There are several more auth/auth mechs.

There is an agent install required and my Ansible playbook for it is roughly 10 lines long so rather simple.
It's always bothered me how they call it a "supercomputer in your pocket".

Not very super if it doesn't do the things I want, sigh.
Do you have a rationale for that? I get a feeling progress in both machine learning and understanding biological intelligence is fairly rapid and has been accelerating. I believe two primary contributing factors are cheaper compute and vast amount of investment poured into machine learning, see https://venturebeat.com/ai/report-ai-investments-see-largest...

Now, the question of whether we are going to have AGI is incredibly broad. So I am going to split it into two smaller ones:
- Are we going to have enough compute by year X to implement AGI. Note that we are not talking about super intelligence or singularity here. This AGI might be below human intelligence and incredibly uneconomical to run.
- Assuming we have enough compute, will we a way to get AGI working.

The compute advancements scale with new Chip Fabs linearly and tech node improvements exponentially. I think it is reasonable for compute to get cheaper and more accessible throughout at least 2030. I expect this because TSMC is starting 3nm node production, Intel is decoupling fabing and chip design (aka TSMC model), and the strategic investments into into chap manufacturing driven by supply chain disruptions. See https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tsmc-initiates-3nm-chips-p...

How much compute do we need? This is hard to estimate, but amount of human connections in human brain is estimated at 100 trillion, that is 1e14. Current largest model has 530B parameters, that is 5.3e11: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/using-deepspeed-and-megatr... . That is factor of 500 or 9 doublings off. To get there by 2040 we would need a doubling every 2 years. This is slower that recent progress, but past performance does not predict future results. Still, I believe getting models with 1e14 parameters by 2040 is possible for tech giants. I believe it is likely that a model with 1e14 parameters is sufficient for AGI if we know how structure and train it.

Will we know how to structure and train it? I think is mostly driven by investment into the AI field. More money means more people and given the venture beat link above the investment seems to be accelerating. A lot of that investment will be unprofitable, but we are not looking to make a profit - we are looking for breakthroughs and larger model sizes. Self-driving, stock trading, and voice controls are machine learning applications which are currently deployed in the real world. At the very least it is reasonable to expect continuous investment to improve those applications.

Based on the above I believe we would need to mess things up royally to not get AGI by 2100. Remember this could be below human and super uneconomical AGI. I am rather optimistic, so my personal prediction is that we have 50% chance to get AGI by 2040 and 5-10% chance of getting there by 2030.
I wish I could decisively turn off airplay on macos.

It's the source of so many weird issues.

For example, locked down mac, using wifi at a friend's house and their LG tv shows up as an airplay mirroring device. Why should my machine be discovering that TV without me asking? When I'm on a public network, I'd like to make my machine output-only, not promiscuous in this way.

there was also an issue where a macbook would randomly lose its onboard sound and somehow default to using a nearby appletv as the output device.
maybe there's an app on Android already or maybe OP wants to learn iOS programming/SwiftUI/Swift.
These are great examples of threads to use in outdoor applications (I use Tera 80 and 60 almost exclusively). However, I believe* polyester threads are not a popular choice when it comes to quilting (unless of course they are referring to the kind of quilt you use as part of your sleep system ).

Going through Gutermann's catalog might be a good starting point though.

* Since I don't have hands-on experience with quilting, I resort to belief
The real instagram feels like it compresses images down to below 640x480, so this is definitely an improvement.
Nando de Freitas Research Director at @DeepMind. CIFAR. Previously Prof @UBC & @UniofOxford. made a lot of headlines:

https://twitter.com/NandoDF/status/1525397036325019649

Someone’s opinion article. My opinion: It’s all about scale now! The Game is Over! It’s about making these models bigger, safer, compute efficient, faster at sampling, smarter memory, more modalities, INNOVATIVE DATA, on/offline, … 1/N

Solving these scaling challenges is what will deliver AGI. Research focused on these problems, eg S4 for greater memory, is needed. Philosophy about symbols isn’t. Symbols are tools in the world and big nets have no issue creating them and manipulating them 2/n

https://twitter.com/NandoDF/status/1525397036325019649
Hi! I'm the head of engineering at Vanta, and as of earlier this year, we do support long-term remote. You may have talked to us right before then.

Feel free to reach out again if you're interested and interviewing -- we're still growing quickly!
I hear you. I’ll talk to the team about how we can do better.
I can see arguments either way. IDEs allow people to create complex code effortlessly so the resulting code tends to be more complex. Forcing developers to remember names and file locations causes the developer to try and encapsulate the complexity so they don't have to remember as much. Also, I often need to read code outside of an IDE. If the code was written to be understood that way, it tends to be easier. If I'm going to be living in a single codebase for a long time, I love a good IDE. Having good refactoring tools is awesome. But I often jump around across many codebases across multiple languages and I appreciate if I can make sense of them without firing up some specialized tool.
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> The real reason is that they don't want more apps. There are too many…

Is your thought process here that 3.7 million apps is where Apple decided to draw a line in the sand?
> Basically piracy is rampant.

This is true in a limited sense. Pretty much any app that relies on Google Play Services has a sort of DRM built-in, you can package it into an APK but it won't let you use the app without buying it. Installing it on a device without Google Play Services won't let it run at all.

Kinda scummy, but a decent tradeoff to keep pure AOSP devices without DRM.
I never got around to implementing Quill (or any of its alternatives) but I do remember reading through the spec documentation some years ago with a vague sense of tingly pleasure. Sad to hear the final product wasn't so great, but I hope the effort and concepts put into that delta spec gets its due somewhere.
I've always suspected that mosquito venom does something along these lines, where the venom hijacks or overwhelms some pain nerves and makes them emit pleasure sensations instead so vigorous scratching of the skin feels unreasonably good instead of uncomfortable and painful
I work in AI and would roughly agree with it to first order.

For me the key breakthrough has been seeing how large transformers trained with big datasets have shown incredible performance in completely different data modalities (text, image, and probably soon others too).

This was absolutely not expected by most researchers 5 years ago.
Dude, spoiler alert. Did you miss the part where OP said they liked not knowing how it works??
macOS, for that matter, despite over a decade of predictions that that'd be taken away.
Bermuda Petrel -- there are many nearly identical petrels, exactly the same to non-experts.

Chacoan Peccary -- There are many wild pigs.

Coelacanth -- Maybe the only real example of a "rediscovered species". But that's only because we know the oceans far less than we know the land.

Lord Howe Island Stick Insect -- You've probably seen a stick insect like this yourself even if it is genetically different.

La Palma Giant Lizard -- Same genus as Gallotia, a very common lizard on the Canary islands.

Takahe -- It's the same genus as the swamp hen. To an non-expert, they are the same.

Cuban Solenodon -- it looks like a common shrew to non-experts.

New Caledonian Crested Gecko -- It's a geko.

New Holland Mouse -- it's a mouse (not a marsupial, despite being native to Australia).

Giant Palouse Earthworm -- It's an earthworm, although larger than normal.

Large-Billed Reed-Warbler -- same genus as many other warblers, exactly the same to non-experts who don't measure the bill.

Laotian Rock Rat -- It actually is of a unique genus, so more interesting than most of these examples, but still, it's a rodent not that different to the average person than other rodents.
See "Born Free".
What would that dev do without their 80% they are making now if there was no iDevices? That 80% looks pretty good compared to 0%
> Replicate? Trival. But what does that have to do with AGI?

If you see it as copying an existing model to another computer, yes it is trivial. But an AGI trying to replicate itself in the real world has to also make those computers.

Making modern computer chips is one of the most non-trivial things that humans do. They require fabs that cost billions, with all sorts of chemicals inside, and extreme requirements on the inside environment. Very hard to build, very easy to disable them via an attack.
So what if the AGI discovers a bunch of zero days on the internet? We can just turn the entire internet off for a week and be just fine, remember?

And exactly how does the AGI extort or persuade humans? What can it say to me that you can't say to me right now?
Just switch back and forth between box representation and graph. It's still far better than text. Text fails far faster. Have you ever used IDA? It shows a graph view of assembly based on jump flow instead of a linear assembly listing. Of course you can't magically understand all programs just with a simple algorithm to format them a certain way, but it's still immediately obvious that this is better. Most code is immediately understandable just using a C#/Java decompiler or gofmt without the programmer needing to format it. I just see variable names and formatting as spam and red herrings. Anyway you can't audit code by taking the programmer's word that he formatted it a certain way, so this whole "text for writing a poem of comprehension" idea is moot and outdated at least 30 years ago anyway.
I still have one of those! It has a floppy drive but also supports the Memory Stick.
What to Do with Friends Who Never Like Your Posts
You don't have to scroll very far at all, there's an ad in between every block of news stories in Stocks, you only have to scroll once on any stock or the first news tab - https://i.imgur.com/ICX0w0I.png - this is just a tiny bit of scrolling on the APPL stock.
RDP also does its fair share of raster shuffling. Where it has the edge is that most windows programs still use GDI (i.e. windows native draw commands), and RDP can send a lot of that as commands instead of pixels.

Xwindows used to have the same advantage, but lost it for most modern applications (i.e. ones written in GTK or Qt, which pre-rasterize almost everything for simplified cross-platform compatibility). Nowadays, unless you restrict yourself to classic X applications, X forwarding is going to be a slower, dumber, version of VNC.

Mac has so many fades & animations that, raster or command, it will probably always be slower.
Yes, I was surprised to see marketing, even criticism of their own previous products, in a programming guide. Once past the "history lesson" the book is actually very good--with concrete examples on building an operating system and a coherent explanation of IEEE 754 floating point format. Hardware floating point for x86 used to be offered as a separate coprocessor chip--the x87 series--otherwise it had to be emulated in software.

I would also argue that the 8008 was a real computer. The ENIAC was the first "real" computer (in the sense of general purpose, digital), with its ~.005 MIPS (integer add/sub) vs. the 8008 at ~0.05 MIPS, and was a bit larger and more difficult to program. I wrote programs on a 6502-based Apple years before the IBM PC appeared. I guess that was a phantom computer.
So drinking alcohol is making the most out of life? That feels a bit sad to be honest. There is way more to life than drinking
OTOH if you & your foes develop them both, then there is a probability asymptotically approaching 1 that the weapons will be used over the next X years. Perhaps the only winning move is indeed not to play?
"In the future you'll own nothing, and you'll be happy."

Unless your Social Credit score gets too low. In that case, you'll get a free trip to the re-education camp.
Do you know if this works wit hardware acceleration (like GPUs)?
This sucks... I'm sorry you had to go through this. The App Store review process is just pretty bad. It's especially frustrating when you see downright shitty apps on the store. The "black-box" aspect of it makes it that much more kafkaesque too.

When I first submitted my app on there, they rejected it and complained that I used HealthKit but didn't mention it in the app description. The thing is, I did. My app description had a list of "highlighted features", one them being "Apple health integration".

I was about to file an appeal, but then I saw a couple other apps with "Integrates with Apple Health" on its own line in the description. Figured that's probably what they were looking for (even though the guidelines don't explicitly say that) so I changed it and boom, the app was approved. I hate it, but it's not worth my time or the risk to fight it.

For what it's worth, I think your app looks really good!
They grow a lot of potatoes in the US. Last week I hauled a load of tater tots destined for McDonalds. I’ve hauled potato products for McDonalds quite often.

They raise a lot of chickens in the US. I’ve hauled chicken nuggets or chicken breasts for McDonald’s in the past quite often.

I can’t even tell you where they grow blueberries.
Ask HN: Does your Android phone call 911 if you tap “power” three times?
Recent update to my Nokia 5.4 (Android One, v11), phones does this, so now I'm nuisance-calling 911 every few days. Chat line says the misfeature was rolled out to "all Nokia phones".

Apple watches, I'm told, do this also -- maybe that's the source of contagion? Apple the Wuhan fish market of cell-phone pathology.
Which is why Microsoft's attempts to make UEFI their own little fiefdom need to be resisted.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/security-measure-forces-wi...

Even aside from the most egregious cases like that linked above, operating systems like Linux need their bootloader signed by Microsoft in order to boot on a Secure Boot enabled PC. The conflict of interest is obvious.
> AGI means humans are no longer the smartest entities on the planet.

Superintelligence and AGI are not the same thing. An AI as smart as an average 5 year old human is still an Artificial General Intelligence.
> Afghanistan wants to import Russian crude oil and goods in exchange for its minerals, as well as raisins and medicinal herbs, Minister of Industry and Trade Nuriddin Azizi told RIA Novosti on Friday.

> “We can provide some of our minerals in exchange for imports from Russia, including for products and energy resources,” Nuriddin said, noting “In addition, we have, for example, dried fruits, raisins and medicinal herbs.”

> The minister pointed out that Afghanistan has historically supplied large volumes of raisins to Russia. “We can supply hundreds of tons of such products. For example, prices for medicinal herbs are now very high, and Russia needs such raw materials for medicine. And we can use them in barter trade. We can supply raw materials to Russian factories, as we are already doing with China,” the minister explained

Emphasis is mine
It will be cute when some technology attains intelligence, realizes there's no point to life, and self terminates.
The ability of the FCC to exercise enforcement power over broadcast content, seemingly in defiance of the First Amendment, is a tradeoff that OTA broadcasters have to accept in exchange for their station licenses. In exchange for being granted a legally-enforced monopoly over a given frequency for a given geographical area, they agree to carry programming that's considered to be in the public interest, and to adhere to strict content regulations.

Cable networks and websites don't require these monopoly privileges, so they aren't, and shouldn't be, required to adhere to broadcast content standards.
Human like is actually very good question. It doesn't even come to embodiment, but in general how it would think and act. Lot of how we do is due to cultural, language, training and education.

For example, which language would it "think" in? English? Some other? Something it's own? How would it formulate things? Based on what philosophical framework or similar? What about math? General reasoning? Then cultural norms and communication?
VNC is not too bad now with internet connection speeds increasing. It is usable for development, but not for video/graphics in the way RDP can.

I've found the SPICE protocol using the QXL driver with some compression settings tweaks gives the best performance. The latency is better than VNC, but video/graphics intensive screens are still a problem unfortunately.

I use it to connect to the console of a VM over VPN for Linux development currently.
I think it's worth mentioning that apple screen sharing is pretty amazing for apple <-> apple.

You can screen share a remote mac very efficiently, drag and drop files, use keystrokes such as modifier-plus-key in a sane way, and more.
How does the AGI get this magical ability to coerce people? We couldn't even get half the population to wear a face mask after bombaring them with coercion for weeks on end.
I was surprised by how bullish he is about this. At least a few years ago the experts in the field didn't see AGI anywhere near us for at least a few decades, and all of the bulls were physicists, philosophers or Deepak-Chopra-for-the-TED-crowd bullshit artists who have never written a line of code in their lives, mostly milking that conference and podcast dollar, preaching Skynet-flavored apocalypse or rapture.

To see Carmack go all in on this actually makes me feel like the promise has serious legs. The guy is an engineer's engineer, hardly a speculator, or in it for the quick provocative hot take. He clearly thinks this is possible with the existing tools and the near future projected iterations of the technology. Hard to believe this is actually happening, but with his brand name on it, this might just be the case.

What an amazing time to be alive.