skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Australia’s only marsupial apex predator

This is only true if you just count recent history. It's the largest to survive the megafauna extinctions after humans arrived, and was out-competed by the non-marsupial dingo after that was introduced much later.

The "marsupial lion" thylacoleo carnifex (extinct ~35k years ago) was much bigger and more powerful, and "had the strongest bite of any known mammal, living or extinct". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacoleo_carnifex

Australia had tons of much larger herbivores too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_megafauna#Extinct_A...
My current phone does 8 million pixels in about 2.0 MB at the default settings (raw pixel data is 8×3=24MB, compressing down losslessly to 15 MB). I remember back in the good old days, my mom's digital camera also produced jpegs of about 2.5 megabytes.

Ten bucks on that one of these 200Mpx photos won't exceed 4 MB with Samsung's default settings.

Fwiw there have been significant improvements in image quality despite the file size not increasing, so 2MB was probably overkill in the past. 4MB might simply be a suitable size. It won't be anywhere near 600.
I love my AD2, got rid of the Saleae. It's scriptable and can generate digital and analog outputs as well. Super versatile.
From what search engine will it get the results?

And if i would use it depends on how well it sums it up.
How is the software support?
Sorry but this is completely fair. Despite the Ryzen system having far more resources on paper, they're going to be pretty similar on price and on silicon area.

I don't see how Asahi is going to limit performance in those benchmarks.

TDP is a complete garbage metric and doesn't mean anything.

I think this is a more than fair comparison. They are both the high end, low power chips.
> gullibility gap

Search turns up very little except a book by a Christian author. Could you define what you mean by gullibility gap?
I see netflix has an office in Toronto, but the jobs are "remote, US". Any idea if remote is also an option for canadians?
As a Gentile, I always find these things really funny.

Just reading through the Judaism Stack Exchange and coming across fiery, genuinely intelligent debates about whether or not you need to install a microfilter in your tap for the (apparently not kosher) micro-crustaceans that live in metropolitan water supplies is always a bit of fun.
Sure. Lots of companies and employees are located elsewhere. And software + services is a heck of a financial drug. I dont think that changes the underlying message of how to think about employee comp or business opportunities.
I can acknowledge the point about planes, since I believe in tinkering/engineering over theory.

But I'd say planes are more like "narrow AI", and we already have that. Planes do a economically useful thing, just like narrow AIs do economically useful things. (But what birds do is also valuable and efficient, and it's still an open research problem to emulate them. Try getting a plane or drone to outmaneuver prey like an eagle.)

I'd consider the possibility that we WILL get AGI in 10, 30 or 100 years, but it won't be that impactful compared to the narrow AIs already running everything! It will be slow and suffer from Moravec's paradox (i.e. being much less efficient than a human, for a very long time)

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"Solving AGI" isn't solving a well-defined problem IMO. If you want to say "well we'll just ask the AGI how to get to Mars and how to create nuclear fusion and it will tell us", well to me that sounds like a hacker / uninformed philosopher fantasy, which has no bearing in reality.

Nothing about deep learning / DALL-E-type systems is close to that. I think people who believe the contrary are mostly projecting meaning in their own minds onto computing systems -- which if they'd studied human cognition, they'd realize that humans are EXTREMELY prone to!

It seems like a lot of the same people who didn't believe that level 5 self-driving would take human-level intelligence. That is, they literally misunderstood what THE ACTIVITY OF DRIVING IS. And didn't understand that current approaches have a diseconomy where the last 1% takes 99% of the time. Now even Musk admits that, after Gary Marcus and others were telling him that since 2015.

(The point about evolution doesn't make sense, because people want AI within 10 years, not 100M or 1B years)
Only developers will ask for it to be a website. Normal people are perfectly fine with an app.
Except what you just said isn't true. Yes, Apple charges for developer accounts that lets you publish to the AppStore or even privately. But you can get a free version that lets you push to devices locally. So if you want to distribute your app not in the store you can do so as long as you release the source so other people can build it on their free account.
> whether you have the right to force Apple to carry any apps

We are explicitly talking the opposite - let me install apps even if Apple disapproves of them. No need for the Appstore. Just let my sideload my own software on my own device I paid for with cash.
Sorry, but how the @#€& is 6 years a senior engineer?

I consider all of the lessons that he mentions to be things that junior engineers learn before becoming medior engineers.
Or, the spider is large enough that your doom is guaranteed.
I thought you could add 5 self—signed from Xcode?
I'm sure you'd love it when Apple starts pushing a whitelist of "high quality" URLs to your phone banning you from going to any other website to keep you safe from the trashy parts of the web.
Well only if your app is codesigned and notarized..
A bulk-purchased commercial camera probably works out cheaper than a $10,000 B-52 toilet seat.

https://www.military.com/dodbuzz/2018/06/20/10000-toilet-sea...
The Money Laundering Crackdown is an Attack on Speech and Privacy.

Every bit as logical and reasonable as the title of this post. In fact, they are pretty much identical.

I mean, people who need to launder money for perfectly legal purposes should have the right to do so --- amIrite?
Sure, it’s only half of a Duopoly. So if you don’t like Apple you have exactly one other option.
https://shop.evilmadscientist.com
I think the web is a great application framework, but I agree some sites really don't need as much JS as they use. For example, my note taking setup is a self modifying HTML file that relies heavily on JS for obvious reasons. Your typical blog or news site really doesn't need it in the same way.
Chrome Remote Desktop works pretty well and works on all OS's

https://remotedesktop.google.com/
So nice. Browser as an application platform, in a truly serverless fashion.

The browser can expose many everyday small utilities like this, to scratch very particular itches.

I remember that the original idea of bookmarklets [1] was similar to this.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmarklet
This is just completely false. You have no idea what the actual max power consumption of an MBA is.

15W is it's TDP, and various companies release chips that run at triple their TDP - including repeated by Apple in the past. Saying it's never going to exceed it's TDP is just blatantly ridiculous, and Phoronix were completely right in treating it as a useless number (which it is).

The only reliable way to measure power draw is either to monitor the exact voltages and amperages on each power lane - which is not made available by Apple - or wire into the motherboard. Anything else is not serious, least of all taxing the TDP to its word.
Random mutagenesis eg radiation could be used to introduce diversity.
Oh FFS. He starts off by giving the AGI a robot body that can kill things (don't do that in the first place!), and then he adds a stop button in a type of location that wouldn't pass muster on a table saw, let alone an industrial robot.

If you've placed the stop button such that you cannot access it safely in all possible failure modes of the dangerous machine, be it bench grinder or an AGI or whatever, you have failed the very basics of industrial safety and you must go home and be sad, for you will not be receiving a cookie.

And the thought experiments of this guy are completely incoherent. At the same time the robot has human-level (or greater) intelligence, yet is extremely stupid, and you can somehow program it in an extremely simplistic way.

Sorry, but all you've convinced me of is that this is just a random guy on YouTube with no particular education of relevance nor other qualifications (I checked), who is very pleased about his own ideas and is quite lacking in the ability to think critically.
I'm unfamiliar with the innards of the cubesat industry, but one question I have had for a while is are there any players out there offering CaaS (Cubesat as a Service)? E.g. A company sends up a bunch of cubesats, each with a variety of instrument suites, and then essentially timeshares them on some web platform.
Our telemetry says users are spending more time than ever before in the settings app. Engagement is up! Good work, team!
I’m sure I saw a quote from a bash developer saying that bash shouldn’t be considered for security, but dont recall where I saw it. I’d love to know a source if anyone knows where I can find it.
It's coined in context.
I’ve been told that spiders can be beneficial for getting rid of (i.e. eating) other pests - actual insects. Obviously if I find a spider in my living space, I’ll relocate it outside. Since almost spiders, in the US, are virtually harmless, they’re pretty easy to move with a cup/tissue/paper/whatever.
How are you defining "understands things"? Or more precisely, what are the observable consequences of understanding things that you are waiting to see?
> Did you buy an iPhone not knowing that it's not a general purpose computer?

Just because it’s the best of two bad options doesn’t mean you have to be happy with it.
Try contacting Airgility in Maryland. They have US-made drones for a variety of applications.
https://dro.pm/q.png shot with a Samsung from 2019 by hand (no tripod or so) using the stock camera in manual mode (standard mode just gives you a white-orange smear). Took the picture because it appeared oddly red, it doesn't 100% come across in the picture but it's decent, and honestly quite impressive for a few mm thick phone sensor if you ask me.

I see the major dark areas, is that what you mean?
>It is Accenture laying off people, not Meta.

Companies this size will often hire consulting firms to "restructure" so they can blame the outside firm for choosing who to lay off which means it's a softer blow in terms of morale for the remaining employees.

If Zuckerberg said let's lay these people off, remaining employees might hold a resentment towards him. Conversely, if Accenture says it, then they don't.

Regardless, choosing people randomly using an algorithm? Wow.
When did they change that? When I stopped doing iOS dev on ~2017 it was still true that you had to pay to deploy to your own phone.
It really isn't, when the annual budget for states crippling cryptographic standards dwarfs the salaries and tuition of everyone in the global academics maths community combined.
Do these side loaded installs expire or work indefinitely?
HN is a table layout.
This. You can feel the author’s excitement about teaching electronics and emphasis intuition over rigorous mathematics proofs.

An example is that they talk about opamps as Lego blocks and how it can be configured to be an amp, a filter, a buffer, an inverter, an oscillator, a switch!

Instead of teaching a bunch of theoretical knowledge, which is important for certain things, they get you thinking how to use analog electronics to do stuff!
I have my entire life in my phone: bank accounts, private keys/passwords/2fa/crypto, pictures/videos of personal life moments, messages between family/friends/business, etc. I want the "thing" that holds all this to be as closed and reliable as possible.

I know that I can just simply not side load, but the smallest attack surface the better.
If only Windows Defender did not immediately mark redbean as malware :(
Except with a free account (“ADP” according to Apple) there are limitations: https://help.apple.com/developer-account/#/dev21218dfd6

On top of that, apps installed this way expire after a number of days, possibly as few as 7 days? And there’s a limit to how many can be installed this way, might be as few as 5 apps.
It's funny because we already saw this done a year ago, with the exact same pitch- the Freedom Phone.
I would say so. Most AGI work so far has been pursued by academics with a lack of software engineering best practices. Codebases get bloated and hard to understand. Ramp-up time measured in years. This hinders experimentation, which you have to optimize for with projects like this.

I would suspect Carmack understands this, and also understands what resources to consult, and how to spot the bullshit artists in the field.

I'd work for him in a heartbeat.
Does this have any relation to Dig Dug[1]?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dig_Dug
I see a different problem with the separation.

In the modern day, the improvements may contribute more than 100% of the value of the land. In most cases the sole benefit of having land in a desirable city is that it is near other desirable things. This is unlike the agricultural model motivating Georgism, where the primary benefit of owning land is that you can grow crops on it.

But taking the proposal literally that we can tax land based on the improvements existing on other nearby land, but not based on the improvements made to the same land being taxed... there is a very obvious implication. Land will end up being owned in such massive chunks that the land value tax goes back down to zero, because we subtract away the entire value of the area when calculating the tax.

Consider a small plot of land in Los Angeles. It's relatively close to Hollywood, and a lot of other nearby amenities. In its unimproved state, it's a swamp unfit for human habitation, but it is so advantageously located that we can attribute a lot of value to it anyway.

But if the same person owns the entire region of California around Los Angeles, its unimproved state is still an uninhabitable swamp... and because he owns the entire area, there are no improvements nearby to raise the value of the land to the point where he'd have to pay taxes on it. The film industry is an improvement to the land, which we don't want to tax. The port of Long Beach is an improvement to the land, which we don't want to tax. (There is not any fundamentals-based reason to locate a port there - it was constructed as a union-busting exercise, not because of geography.) The fact that millions of people live there is an improvement that we don't want to tax.

It makes no sense to base our tax assessments on how concentrated landownership is, but that is the Georgist proposal.
Does anyone have any good links/podcasts/books on content that explores what is AGI and how to define it? Probably the best stuff I've listened to so far are Fridman podcasts with guests like Jeff Hawkins or Joscha Boch. But I'd love to read a book that explores this topic if any even exist.
I spend the summer driving a Dacia spring.

150 euros / month, then 0.13 € / KM.

I payed a whopping total of 650€ for 2 months. And they’re is no string attached at all.

Edit : I know it’s not the same category than a Tesla ( by far … )

But a new Dacia spring cost 12k€, with government discount on EV, it’s roughly the same price as the deposit for this service.

But then you’re driving a cube of plastic. I like it.
No, it definitely is not. Besides on many occasions I would not even want to do that.

Fastest is simply turning on “Shazam on app start” in the settings and then starting the apps. However if your phone is locked then indeed what parent commenter said is quickest.
This. Exactly fucking this.
In what world can anyone afford an iDevice but not an Android device?
Most changes are in self contained documents because they are inherently experimental. After a while they become so useful and widespread that everyone needs them, and hopefully a bis rolls them all up.
It's not so much a useless metric, but there's more to photo quality than megapixel count. I'd love a Canon camera phone but it would be the size of a housebrick. In context, I'll take as many megapixels as can fit into my phone's existing format.
Amazon has made a habit lately of rejecting your review if you do that. It's like they want to help these scammers.
Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark is great. It reads like a text book. It's several years old though and I wonder how much has changed since it was written.
Macros and (nigh) mandatory code generation and boilerplate are proof your language sucks. It might go fast, but it sucks.
I would love to use such a desktop environment. Do you have a link for your project?
Lol @ claims to make best environment for users by alienating a whole segment of users...
Credit being normalized increases demand which increases prices, which forces people to take a loan (ad infinitum, one of the reasons real estate is always in a bubble)
I actually tried this out an a 286 CGA laptop. This 286 let you run in either Fast Mode, or Slow Mode (~4.7Mhz), and there was a keyboard command that switched between the two modes. When you ran the machine in slow mode, the music played funny. Music was playing at the same tempo, but the volume decays of the instrument were happening more slowly, making the instruments sound very different.

Also the game ran slightly more slowly. So there might be a tiny bit of overhead compared with the original version of the game. Might need to upgrade to full 286 speed.
Been there. I have an iOS app that’s been a solid top 100 in it’s category and has been featured multiple times on the App Store. I decided to port it to macOS mostly as an experiment but a few reviews had asked for it. It was a big pain (pre-Catalyst or anything else). But I got it working well enough and thought it looked decent. I submitted it only to get it kicked back with the “too simple” rejection. Yeah, it’s simple, but people love it and use it. I didn’t even bother appealing.
Lucid unveils top-of-the-line performance EV that does 0 to 60 in under 2 secs
> you'll get a free trip to the re-education camp.

In your own "subscription" autonomous EV when it quietly locks all doors and reroutes to the nearest facility.

You won't have noticed though; too distracted by the UberHD++ remaster of 2001: A Space Odyssey playing on the holographic windscreen.
It often suggests full functions built from my own code when I'm refactoring to DRY
Tightening guidelines can be an emergent behavior of an app store's growth. Reviewers' incentivizes likely play a huge role in this, and the power trip they get from rejecting things.
Doesn't local storage expire if you don't use a site for 7 days in Safari?

https://webkit.org/blog/10218/full-third-party-cookie-blocki...

("7-Day Cap on All Script-Writeable Storage" heading about half way down)
Most people capable of covering a 6,000$ down payment and 500$/month for a car, have the financial flexibly to make better financial decisions.
There isn't really always a clean separation between private and state actors when it comes to housing
(i.e. Fannie Mae has appraisers https://singlefamily.fanniemae.com/learning-center/applicati...)

So I think we are probably aligned that Government Sponsored Enterprises should be spending some time looking into this given the (weaker) evidence that's already there.

If systemic issues with appraisal are found there, it seems fair to me that there should be some regulation and/or state-sponsored investigation of whether the same systemic issues are happening with purely private appraisal.
This URL:

https://about.gitlab.com/is-it-any-good/

Now redirects to:

https://about.gitlab.com/why-gitlab/
Interesting. Like religion, social justice is often about strongly held belief confronting everyday behaviour. Also like religion strong elements of reductive intolerance creep in.

I'm not a fan of racism. I'm also not a fan of trigger warnings.
This is easy, and doesn't even require a website. Rule of thumb: All spiders are Black Widows, and those that aren't are Brown Recluses. All spiders are deadly poisonous, and those that aren't are deadly poisonous. All spiders hunt and eat humans.

Obviously, this is a joke, but I have an irrational fear of spiders that I inherited from my father, and have passed to my now-adult son. We live in southwestern Virginia (Virginia Tech), and have a nice variety of creepy spiders that all manage to look deadly. My fear has gotten worse as I have gotten older. This is actually useful to me. Thank you to the OP.
I had a brown recluse crawl across my computer keyboard. I was pretty shocked, so I got some photos. I told the exterminator and he said nah you didn’t no way. So I showed him the picture and he said well that’s a recluse.

The main concern of course is that a child will try to pick it up.
Few things I’m never going to have on subscription.

My house, my car, my bike
They make money somehow. All the people that are employed in that industry, tha companies, they're making money somehow, even if if you can't point to a line item on a specific transaction.

Exactly. Retail stores basically don't exist (or are in a clear downward trend) for the same reasons. People realizing they don't add value and they can just buy their stuff directly.

It's the same here, how does quicken loans add value? They do something the people they sell the loan to can't? Not really, it's just marketing. Quicken loans has built a marketing funnel, they get the loans, then sell them. The value they add is marketing.
it amazes me that anyone uses tiktok to begin with. It was spyware from the start.
These pictures evoked simultaneous feelings of nostalgia and intense pride of how far we've come. Thanks to the labor of people like us, we're in a world replete with technological marvels. My thanks to those who came before, and I pray that we continue to face tomorrow with the same kind of optimism that brought us what we have today.
That's a slippery slope argument, and a bad one.
it makes sense for people with no or bad credit because they’re substituting the insane fee for a credit check
Could it be there is a tacit policy of always reject first, like government benefits, as a first pass filter?
One one hand, I believe that, to some degree, awareness creates the disease.

On the other, I see it as a sign of societal progress and even decadence. Compared to all the other ways people can be defective, these mental issues are pretty low-stakes. If depression and anxiety are occupying this much of our mindspace, there must not be bigger problems to worry about.
I think the burden of argumentation is on the person proposing the constraint. I can only think of one argument for why embodiment might be necessary, and that is our only existence proofs for AGI (humans, maybe some animals) are embodied. But those existence proofs also share a bunch of other properties that probably aren't particularly relevant to AGI. Being carbon-based, having DNA, breathing oxygen, etc.

Why do you think embodiment should be necessary?
Humans are made entirely out of quantum fields. I don't think you can get out of the idea that human consciousness isn't produced by computation without positing something like a non quantum field theory soul, for which there is no evidence.
Yes? We are trying to do exactly that, but haven't raised enough money yet.
This is pretty exciting! I really hope it can be part of some to help inspire more involvement , creativity and innovation on the hardware front!

I’m a huge fan of hardware but it’s just seem not feasible professionally when software offers something like 3-5x compensation, cost of development/experimentation/training is practically negligible, and hardware seems like such a ivory tower… * sigh *