skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, I got this rejection when I made this tipping app (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tip-69/id1460610078).

I went on to add OCR detection for receipts so you don't have to type in the amount, I added more tipping modes, I added split bill functionality, and eventually added an entire social network with the ability to share your receipt for the world to see, like or comment on.

Must have spent months trying to get approved by Apple.

I'd rather no one ask me why.
Right, certain companies will definitely have a big bullshit party about the term "AGI".
Apple, by walling their garden, have essentially used their hegemony to steal billions of dollars in potential revenue from developers. Think of how much innovation has been blocked by them intentionally gimping iOS Safari to prevent web apps from competing with native ones.

Remember this when reviewing job applications, folks. Apple, Google, and Facebook employees, current and former, are morally derelict and have profited from harming our society - treat them with reciprocity.
SHENZEN I/O: https://store.steampowered.com/app/504210/SHENZHEN_IO/
Key early stage valuation drivers include quality of the founder/team, history of success, and market opportunity (especially if a fundamentally disruptive technology).

All three of these are off the charts.
Or keep repairing athletes or those that part take in any sport?

I think Europe and Japan has to at some point come to terms that just how long are we willing to expand lives of the elderly. And at what cost?
Play Guide for Space Invaders
a huge amount of mobile users don't know what a "website" is and just use apps
I certainly hope not. I've been fully remote working a single job in a tiny, mountain town since 2016 and have been more productive than ever.

I'm happy to travel for work, but will never give up my morning coffee on the continental divide for an office again. I'll switch professions and work at the local hardware store to keep this up :) (I do very much enjoy software work FWIW)

It's quite gratifying being in an environment surrounded by what you love. It's not for everyone, and I'm very grateful it all worked out. Unfortunately, the little towns like this just don't have economies to support my profession, and I'm incompatible with the big cities.
Cool. I was looking at ffmpeg.wasm[1] the other day and it had me wondering what the performance might look like for a similarly browser-based and offline service for common tasks.

I wonder about the use of remote file operation terminology (e.g., upload, download) versus local (e.g., open, save) when using offline/local and privacy as an attraction.

[1] https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm
One suggestion: In documentation and comments, distinguish clearly between "const" and "constant".

"const" means "read-only", and probably should have been spelled "readonly".

"constant", as in "constant expression", means evaluated at compile time.

For example: `const int r = rand();` is perfectly valid: r can't be computed until run time (it's not constant), but it can't be modified after its initialization (it is const/readonly).
I knew I should have qualified my comment about arrays with: “without using a hack such as storing the values in a string with a custom delimiter.” Those aren’t really arrays.

What happens if the delimiter appears among the values you want to store? This is a pretty big disclaimer:

> Do not use arrays with file paths if there's any chance they could contain \r.
Interesting that meta isn't involved in any way considering his existing position in meta and meta's focus on AI.
Basically Apple pre-OS X.
If the mafia doesn't like your store, you can't offer your product.
https://www.vintagedigitalcameras.com/

I remember a Kodak dc210 whose main feature was 1 megapixel resolution, meaning one could get a 4x6” print that wouldn’t look pixelated. It had zero control (no aperture/shutter speed settings and only crappy slow fixed focus) and took ages to take a picture, meaning it was unusable for moving subject photography. It was still better than other cameras of the time which only achieved vga resolution.
Shazam as a product feels a bit odd. Almost as if they’ve never quite outgrown their slightly sketchy “advertised on MTV2 alongside the Crazy Frog” origins.

They must have loads of data on songs people actually want to know yet never really managed to turn themselves into anything more sophisticated.
The problem I have is that, no, the spiders in my bathroom do not have any of these features. I don't know what kind of Loxosceles they are, but I am pretty sure they are some kind of Loxosceles. I do put them outside whenever I see them because they make me nervous, but they also seem to be generally uninterested in biting me.

On the other hand, my house also seems to be home to a thriving Scutigera population. They eat spiders, right?
I love that his page forwards hn users to a tweet[1] that coincidentally accurately describes the content that still thrives on this site.

[1]: https://mobile.twitter.com/violenceworks/status/148712570863...
Aztec – how to run an Ethereum mixer in responsible manner
I'm curious: in what accent/idiolect?

Not in mine, or any I can imagine. (British RP speaker.)
Once you set your mind to something you gotta see it through.
You can see a hint in the debugger screenshot. The call is not directly a registry read but to the iphelper API. There are functions in there that enumerate adapters.

Knowing nothing about this scanning process, I’m just assuming they first enumerated wireless adapters. So you could start with iphelper and then explore deeper into how you tell the card to scan. There’s probably some API for that as well.
Agreed, just like mutable x = 42 should be allowed.
I've mistakenly conflated Electron with webview use - sorry about that. I've edited my comment.
Okay, but do those ML domains help with AGI?
This looks great—feels very polished. I love the "hack club" concept :)
The /r/spiders subreddit likes to meme on all the people asking for things that are clearly not recluses, you can find some entertaining ones by using the search: (obvious cw for spiders)

https://old.reddit.com/r/spiders/search?q=recluse&restrict_s...

and an ID chart: https://i.redd.it/avet69mnjga31.jpg

And slightly off topic, but I love the "/r/geology rock identification guide": https://i.imgur.com/Asnut.png
Tracking-free link:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001YHYVEY
absolutely not! to the contrary; don't force yourself to endure abusive relationships.

(also cats are extremely destructive beasts)
I think the front page might be a little too exploitable from the looks of it right now (currently plastered with The Thing).
Or 4. The pressure to grow cash crops to service debt.
Reader Macros in Common Lisp (2014)
What exactly does that tell you? I called you friend and apologized if I upset you (which you have acknowledged I did by comparing current strains to the original and making the judgement call that the current strains in our current situation aren't so bad... again relatively). I'm genuinely not sure what is wrong with any of that, perhaps a language barrier thing, apologies again in any case.
Ran into the exact same problem with a very simple camera app I made. Camera app was completely gesture based. So you never had to find a button to quickly flip the camera to the other side of the phone or find the button to start/stop recording. It made using a camera a lot quicker to get multiple shots of a scene and your reaction shot. Also added in stabilization to the front lens, which was easy but wasn't enabled at the time in the native camera app.

I got the "too simple" response.

Which was the whole point. A camera with zero buttons. I still pointed out the 5 or 7 features it had that technically the iOS camera wasn't doing. I would get a different reason back then. So I'd argue a different point. Then after weeks of this, it came back with the "too simple" reason again.

And I was left with the same conclusion. I don't think Apple wants anyone "outsimpling" their camera app. Maybe if I had added a social network to it or filters or something I could have finally gotten it approved. But I lost the desire to keep fighting :)

(Just by posting this, now I fear I broke some kind of TOS, and can never publish an iOS app again?)
a push is an HTTP2 stream.
the stream header contain everything the client need to know if it already have that file.

If it does already have that file, client simply close the stream it doesn't need to download the file or send request to server to say it doesn't need the file.
It already is, running on top of Hyper V, VMWare, Crosvm.
There’s certainly the philosophy side of AGI, but there’s also the practical side. Does the Chinese room understand Chinese? If your goal is just to create a room that passes Chinese Turing tests that doesn’t matter.
a) We don't really know what AGI implies

b) Even if we say "a human being level of intelligence, whatever that means", the answer is still a maybe. For a singularity you need a system that can improve its ability to improve its abilities, which may require more than general intelligence, and will probably require other capabilities.
they don't seem to have a theoretical upper limit. more data and more parameters seem to just keep making it more advanced. Even in ways that weren't predicted or understood. the difference between a language model that can explain a novel joke and one that can't is purely scale. So the thought is with enough scale, you eventually hit AGI
We are living Stallman's Nightmare where some supernational empire decides what programs we're allowed to run on our computers.
What’s the ballpark price these days for building and launching a basic cubesat?
See: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06175

A Generalist Agent

Inspired by progress in large-scale language modeling, we apply a similar approach towards building a single generalist agent beyond the realm of text outputs. The agent, which we refer to as Gato, works as a multi-modal, multi-task, multi-embodiment generalist policy. The same network with the same weights can play Atari, caption images, chat, stack blocks with a real robot arm and much more, deciding based on its context whether to output text, joint torques, button presses, or other tokens. In this report we describe the model and the data, and document the current capabilities of Gato.

Gato is a 1 to 2 billion parameters model due to latency considerations in real time physical robots usage. So for today standards of 500 billion parameters dense models Gato is tiny. Additionally Gato is trained on data produced by other RL agents. It did not do the exploration fully itself.

Demis Hassabis say that DeepMind is currently working on Gato v2.
Fun!

...but there's layer after layer of this not working, haha:

3\cos \left(\frac{1}{x\cdot 0.0001}\right)+1.2^{-x+12}-10
It could be a devaluation precursor, or it could just be psychological. Points-denominated rewards break the association with the actual dollar value. Folks feel better (irrationally so) about earning 100 points each worth $0.01 than they do about earning $1.00
Or not being evil and actually liberating Ukraine and rest of the Eastern Europe after defeating Germany in WW2...
> I don't believe we should store text as characters

Could you briefly elaborate?

[edit]

I read the article on your HN link. I didn't quite "get it". Program text gets in the way, let's replace it with [?]. Dr. Strandh at U. of Bordeaux, et al., have argued that we shouldn't store programs as text files in an operating system--is that what you are advocating? An image based system, for example?

> none of my work ever gets any interesting comments whenever it does

Sorry for my part in that, most people don't find me interesting. :) My work doesn't get much attention either, even if someone else happens upon it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Common_Lisp/comments/ezruuc/tovero_...

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I don't know why I keep quoting Shakespeare this week, I mostly slept through the Shakespeare module in high school English, but I guess some filtered through and maybe WRT promotion on the Internet:

"Had I so lavish of my presence been, so common-hackneyed in the eyes of men, so stale and cheap to vulgar company, opinion, that did help me to the crown, had still kept loyal to possession and left me in reputeless banishment, a fellow of no mark nor likelihood." Henry IV, Part 1, Act 3, Scene 2

It seems to me like for the most part only the best connected, ruthless, garrulous, overly vocal people get their ideas heard. I've tried business development orgs (including personal connections), directly contacting relevant researchers or sources of funding, on and on. Mostly, the advice has been to throw the spaghetti on the wall (put up a Github project, e.g.) and see what sticks (yell on Twitter, try to get some users). Even one of the founders of this site had difficulty marketing his idea for a new variant of Lisp, you know.
the climate crisis might kill us all off if not some deus ex machina (i.e. AGI) comes up with some good solutions fast.
This is part of the reason Virgil doesn't rely on any userspace libraries. It uses the kernel directly, which is very stable on Linux.
There is an inverse relationship between the age of a futurist and the amount of time they think it will take for their predictions to become true.

In other words, people making these sort of predictions about the future are biased towards believing they'll be alive to benefit from it.
Ah, good point. Wish the backtrace were fully symbolicated (for the system DLLs, at least). Thanks!
As someone who likes to remotely stream games from my desktop, Parsec has been extremely easy to use and very performant. Could be worth a try!
Apple ecosystem developers, developers != UNIX.
When it isn't about the money, it is usually the credibility and influence that VCs can provide. Looking at the list of investors, of course Carmack would want to have them attached to the project, if for no other reason than to make raising the next $100M a cakewalk.
Yeah, I'm curious about this as well. I know the Go and Lua creators explicitly included goto in their languages, saying it can be useful if used carefully.
How many of these people are software engineers? Not shaming, if anything I'm impressed. I'd have to hustle super hard to hold down two Senior positions at once, never mind three or four!
K&R is C language specific

.dll, .dylib, .so are files created by/used by the linker the compiler calls to create/use the OS specific .dll, .dylib, .so files.

.dll is Microsoft Windows library

.so is unix related static library.

.dylib is MacOS related library.
Try to have a good attitude about it. You are the base case in an inductive proof!
He mentioned, in his Lex Friedman interview, that accepting investor money was a way to keep himself serious and motivated. He feels an obligation to those putting their money in.
Glad to hear it was preserved. Absolutely mortified in other senses though. Thanks for the link to the case.
To be fair - for a standard account, not hearing back for 8 hours wouldn’t concern me too much
> Technically: determining the health impact of radiation is difficult and the methods are disputed. Moreover every specialist agrees that waiting at least 15 years is necessary because most induced ailments have a non-neglectable latency. Solid cancers, for example, develop in up to 15 years.

This is hand-waving and scaremongering. We have models. The models we use are the most pessimistic (linear no-threshold). The dispute is about whether we should use the more optimistic models (threshold). There's a whole debate, but rest assured, we're incredibly pessimistic.

You can of course say the same thing about cancer caused by particulate emissions, etc. You know what's radioactive and blown around everywhere? Coal fly ash. It's full of uranium and thorium. The question I have for you is over the life of Fukushima, how many people were saved as a result of not burning coal or oil?

Let's run the numbers. Nameplate capacity 5300MW for 32 years (1979 to 2011). That's a grand total of almost 1500TWh. Remember, coal kills 25 people per TWh, so it saved 37,500 people. Sorry, 37,499.

In my opinion, the deaths from the evacuation are attributable to the tsunami, not to the power plant. But even if you factor them in, that's still 35,298 folks alive today because of Fukushima Daiichi.

Even at 2202 deaths is 1.4 deaths per TWh, which is 1.4% as many as a brown coal plant would have killed, ~5% as many as a coal or oil plant would have killed, 35% as many as a natural gas plant would have killed - and exactly as many as a hydroelectric plant would have killed. Only 3X as many as rooftop solar. Even Fukushima alone makes nuclear one of the safest forms of energy on the planet. The second-worst nuclear disaster in history - in isolation - is still one of the safest power plants we have.

These plants save lives. Don't fear the spicy rocks.
Thankfully that is only a bunch of relevant applications, mostly forced use at day job, everything else can be ignored.
The best and most effective ads are the ones you don't see or notice as ads. They are more subtle and woven into content. Adblockers can't block them, and people walk away thinking they consumed some useful information.
Not really "a lot" it seems. If you look at the price for "No merge by January 1st" it shows $0.03, which seems promising, but you can only buy like $3 worth of contracts at that price. If you try to buy $1000 worth, your average price shoots up to $0.52! Not sure if this is just a particularly thin market, or whether there's not actually a deep well on confidence that the merge is coming soon, or what.
An AGI is something you give tasks to and it can complete them, for some collection of tasks that would be non-trivial for a human to figure out how to do. It's unclear at this point whether you could engineer an AGI, and even more unclear whether the AGI, by its nature, would be "sentient" (AKA, self-aware, conscious, having agency). Many of us believe that sentience is an emergent property of intelligence but is not a necessity- and it's unclear whether sentience truly means that we humans are self-aware, conscious and have agency.
Everything Deepmind published at this year's ICML would be a good start.

Transformers (or rather the QKV attention mechanism) has taken over ML research at this point, it just scales and works in places it really shouldn't. Eg. you'd think convnets would make more sense for vision because of its translation invariance, but ViT works better even without this inductive bias.

Even in things like diffusion models the attention layers are crucial to making the model work.
Not Jewish myself but married to an Israeli; it was explained to me like this:

- There are rules, passed on to humanity from God.

- God is perfect.

- Therefore if you find a loophole in the rules you are not outsmarting God or anything like that, God is Perfect and cannot be outsmarted by mere mortals.

- Therefore if you find such a loophole, you are not committing some form of heresy as most Christians would see it. Rather, you are extra virtuous because you found the loopholes that God put there as "easter eggs" for those of His followers that were attentive and clever enough to spot them.

- Repeat this for several millennia and you get the New York fishing line shenanigans.

I'm not sure I agree with some of the axioms, but I must admit that if you accept the first few points then "New York fishing line" follows pretty much linearly from those. I also quite like the idea that mortals cannot "outsmart" a deity by finding loopholes, because the idea a human could outsmart God always seemed like the very height of hubris to me. Then again, I am a (drunk) atheist so my opinions about gods are probably not too reliable. :)
Querying the registry does not cause the issue. Querying the registry is a thing that Qt does as part of the code that causes the issue.
Galaxy S23 will be equipped with 200-megapixel camera
> Now we have a fairly concrete idea of what a potential AGI might look like - an RL agent that uses a large transformer.

People have thought Deep RL would lead to AGI since practically the beginning of the deep learning revolution, and likely significantly before. It's the most intuitive approach by a longshot (even depicted in movies as agents receiving positive/negative reinforcement from their environment), but that doesn't mean it's the best. RL still faces huge struggles with compute efficiency and it isn't immediately clear that current RL algorithms will neatly scale with data & parameter count.
I know that most people (including me) generally view it as silly loopholes, but I recently read a perspective on this that sorta makes sense in my head.

Basically, if you believe that god is omnipotent and omnipresent, then surely he is aware of those loopholes. Which might indicate that he left them in purposefully, so that people could use them.

While it seems shaky, it follows certain logic there that makes some sense to me as a non-religious person.
With the nerfing of web apps this is too fscking anti-competitive of Apple. If web apps were in fact first-class (or even first-and-a-half class) citizens, I would give them a pass.
This keeps coming up, and there's no answer, because unfortunately it appears we are not really sentient, thinking, intelligent minds either. We'll find AGI and complain that it's not good enough until we lower the bar sufficiently as we discover more about our own minds.
thank you you are right, I did comment in the above threads I am with Tabnine but can always do that better.
iOS says Tailscale used 3% of my battery in the past 24 hours, far far beyond Firefox at 70%. If so, this setup might actually save me battery life by reducing how much I need to download and render when browsing.

I imagine that everyone’s battery usage is a bit different though. Based on their blog post on how they achieve NAT traversal, I could see some network topologies requiring aggressive efforts to keep everything connected. YMMV.
Since the thylacine has been extinct for less than a century, they appear to be hoping that there's enough genetic diversity in modern preserved samples to eventually produce a diverse population. Even with a highly limited population, if you strictly control which pairs breed and aggressively pair the ones that are least related, you only need an initial population of like 16 or something to eventually reach a state where you have a large breeding population where most individuals don't share grandparents, at which point you can let nature take over.
Serious question, is there anything good about mosquitos? They're famously the most 'dangerous' organisms to humans thanks to their spread of malaria, and per the article at least some species are tailored to prey on humans over other animals. Their spit is what makes you itchy, and when they need to detach from your skin they piss on you to make it easier.
Same story, no paywall https://news.yahoo.com/old-medicine-grows-hair-pennies-12061...
Can it? There aren’t that many overhangs to exploit.
Thank you for this comment. I'd never really considered this and it is blowing my mind.
I guess this was written a fair while ago. On my laptop, even in 32-bit (i686) mode, with gcc-12 and libc-2.34:

- very first, unoptimized program compiles to 15440 bytes (vs 3998 on OP's system);

- super-optimized hand-rolled assembly (tiny.s) compiles to 12780 bytes (vs 368 on OP's system).