skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AGI is like pronouncements of water or life on [Moon, Mars, x...] lots of similar pronouncements that slowly alter in character over time.

After listening to Duncan Russell's interview of Blake Lemoine[1], my estimated odds that Google does indeed have something close enough to AGI in house at more than 50%. There are a lot of highly non-standard views of the world on both sides of the conversation, so it's a wonderfully chaotic interview, and you might reach far different conclusions.

The thing is, that AI is a hive mind, not something you could just section off and use for a single task. It doesn't fit the model of AI that commercial organizations need. Utilizing it to do simple tasks would be a morally hazardous thing to do, in my opinion.

1 - https://www.duncantrussell.com/episodes/2022/7/1/blake-lemoine
> Engerbrained

According to google, you are the only person ever to use this word.
Fascinating find! He nails so much about todays music. the mystery artist is barfing algorithmic refuse into poor unsuspecting victims' neural grooves. Seems to echo shades of the creepy algorithmic bright colored child videos youtube have.
Thanks for the note and perspective. Some clarifications:

1. As noted, each team got to review and pick the code they would take after each phase as long as it's not your own. I remember drawing a graph of picked code lines and it was fascinating, evolution / survival of fittest at work. But it wasn't something one didn't have control of.

2. I don't know why it would make TA work either better or worse, we may not be fully understanding each other. You have 22 programs to put through a standardized test suite based on formal requirements all teams had to code to. It was far easier to grade than any other assignment I ever had.

3. I guess different people have different real world experience. All of COTS/ERP and a lot of enterprise applications are somebody else's code. Millions of lines of somebody else's code. So that's the norm in my life. YMMV :)
You don’t have to convert your crypto to USD to transact. Anyone would accept coins from your clean wallet.
You could argue it was inevitably going to happen since Apple started designing their own silicon. iOS is macOS, more or less (modulo a few system libraries and apps), so since the beginning of the iPhone project, Apple has had the software in place to make an ARM-based Mac if they wanted to.
Copy and paste from elsewhere because it's the same talking point over and over: big tech is not the government, and your complaint is with the government. The FBI could just as easily setup a StingRay network [1] and capture all cell information. The only protection against that is robust digital civil rights legislation protecting Americans from governmental over reach, not lampooning big tech companies for having data. It's not like Google is willing to just shovel data at anyone who asks nicely, they will actively fight the government on nominally lawful requests it thinks are unreasonable/won't hold up to further legal scrutiny [2].

If you're going to go after someone, at least go after the right people.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/08/18/google-...
I've seen this sentiment quite a few times on this thread. Pretty tiresome to see the same braindead comments over and over again.

I've bought Dells, Macs, Lenovos, System76s, whatever. I found (find?) it hard to believe that anyone offers on-site support for a reasonable price.
No, because you can always replace bad microservices wholesale. It can't be "painful to refactor", because you literally just delete the code and rewrite it.

If you have introduced static typing, you then have to start doing refactoring and verifying correctness. "heavily-typed mono repos which is a breeze to operate on" I highly doubt such a thing exists, more likely you are used to a certain level of bad code and don't understand it can be better.
Haven’t published on Spotify before but isn’t it time consuming to create new artist profiles?
I'm certainly romanticizing the whole thing but given,

> There is no special numbering of the years used in the Icelandic calendar, so the year may be omitted or the current Gregorian year used.

It is hard not to imagine a day in Sumarauki as being sort of magically timeless.
Have had plenty of problems with WPA-Enterprise auth refusing to join a wifi network on account of a wildly wrong computer time. Which in turn means that the computer can't get a correct time on account of not being able to ask an NTP server.
Typing doesn't remove many bugs from Python code (probably about 1 bug per year). It's statisically insignificant.

JavaScript is a bad language and adding stuff to it makes it better. The same isn't true for Python.
There are a lot of alternatives: Checkout.com, Adyen, are the most tech forward I’ve found.
There's a free market of platforms without subpoena power, and people time and time again choose the free platforms powered by ads. I'm in the overwhelming majority with my statement when you look at people's revealed preferences.
Yes anything that dynamic is super confusing. I honestly usually don’t bother type checking unit tests. There’s definitely some value but it’s really hard to justify on existing codebases. One thing I love about type hints (rather than compiler checks) is that you can do things like that.
You replied in the parent thread in error?

appropriately though it seems plausible that a group of crows, is called a murder
> and anything that goes wrong as a result is your fault

Honestly, that doesn't give me the "not care about it" vibes.
Have you looked into Nominatim [1] for reverse geocoding?

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim
In the same spirit it could be Bayesian poisoning of the recommendation algorithm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_poisoning
They're mostly posting incorrect claims like "all it does it make collages out of other people's art" though. It doesn't do that; the model stores about 1 byte per original image it's seen.
It says "allegedly", right there, in the article. I don't have to provide sources, just as USA Today doesn't.
That is exactly what happened. You got 1% extra mark if somebody picked your code.

Seemed trivial at the beginning of semester,right?

...did I mention my team had previous real life experience?

We put extrnsive code and documentation and FAQs online (this was like 99 or 2001 don't remember, but we'll before Github etc) , and committed to 7 day support of our code base. We got 18 out of 22 picks after phase 1.

Of course competition was much stiffer further phases, but that too was like 3 valuable real world lessons learned for everybody!
Ask HN: Working on Any Radio, SWL, FM/MW/TV DX, or Amateur Radio Projects?
Just curious what anybody else is up to in radio. I'm making some basic plans to get into SOTA locally. Listening to some Radio NZ in the 15 MHz band here in California in the hammock during the evening. Hopping on local repeaters or simplex when I can. And playing with favorite AM/MW receivers.
> on account of being long-deceased and all

posthumous releases are a thing
My evaluation's based mostly on the high levels of alienation and social control in modern societies.
There are still big legitimate institutional entities doing crypto, right? At some point you must hit "7 degrees to Wells Fargo" or whatever, right?
This 'flow typing' / TypeGuard approach is really awesome and probably the best part about languages like typescript/mypy. I wish that other languages would follow suit so that I can incrementally narrow the types in my program through conditionals.
I don't have any data to have this up other than personal observation, but I would wager that CNN (for example) covered trump much more than other candidate simply because he was their best seller. They are a for-profit entertainment company after all.

I'm not necessarily saying that they set out to help him win, but they sure did help him win.
I've moved a few projects I really liked from solderless to these:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/571 because they have the same form factor as the solderless breadboards.
I think there were a good number of us who recognized that Intel was a bad fit for Apple. The lackadaisical progress of PowerPC simply forced the issue, and Intel was the only real option at the time.

Intel is like Mike Brady with his architectural designs that all look suspiciously like his own house.

They refused to compete with themselves and kept x86 as 32 bit so they could promote Itanic, and therefore lost the lead to AMD for years (it wasn't just 64 bit - actively REDUCING instructions per clock with Netburst was... well, legendary - just in a bad way).

It just so happened that the kick in the ass Intel got from AMD came a few years before Apple needed Intel, so Intel had finally started trying enough that they had a product line that would work for Apple.

But really, is Intel suitable for low power? Could anyone seriously imagine an x86-based phone? Their one-hit wonder is only barely keeping up with AMD and ARM when Intel throws hundreds of watts at their chips and turbo-clocks the heck out of them. Even though Ryzen has been showing up Intel for years, they've floundered so long that there was practically zero chance Apple could stay with them long term.

But even in 2005, Intel wasn't necessarily good - they just happened to be the least bad right then.
I'm not sure GCP really comes up in discussions about "either major cloud". Distant third place, looking more like becoming fourth before they get to second.
> In the same way that The Pirate Bay was just code, its is how complicit they were in the offence that will get them.

Can you explain what you mean by this? To me, publishing code that can be used to do something is very different from running it and allowing people to use it.
To make the point more clear, the female golfing Unicode “character” is encoded as follows in various UTFs:

UTF16 (12 bytes total):

\ud83c\udfcc\ufe0f\u200d\u2640\ufe0f

UTF32 (20 bytes total):

u+0001f3ccu+0000fe0fu+0000200du+00002640u+0000fe0f

UTF8 (16 bytes total):

\xf0\x9f\x8f\x8c\xef\xb8\x8f\xe2\x80\x8d\xe2\x99\x80\xef\xb8\x8f
Also, Khan made the mistake of signing a weapons deal with russia, I think literally 24 hours before Russia invaded ukraine. Within a week he was pushed out of power despite being wildly popular both domestically and internationally. It's not provable, but sure looks like a Very Popular politician being ousted via fast was regime change and he was being made an example to other leaders looking to make unapproved arms deals. I can't make any claims but if you look closely at what happened, the timing, it does not look great.
Now the clock begins on Apple switching to RISC-V
Falsehoods programmers believe about falsehoods:

* Something is a falsehood because it's not true in every context

* Something is a falsehood because it's not true in many contexts

* Something is a falsehood because it's not true in any context but the one the programmer cares about

(and the correct context is often “whatever deals with the company's bullshit problem with the least effort”)
> this never happened

One of Near's last public social messages directly calls out Kiwi Farms abuse as a cause of their suicide.

https://nitter.42l.fr/near_koukai/status/1408940057235312640...

It is pure revisionist history to pretend otherwise.

Edit: I just realized that the actual assertion here is apparently not just that Kiwi Farms didn't cause Near's death, but also that Near didn't actually die and is still alive today? Which is such a ludicrous claim to make that it's probably not worth dignifying it with a response.
If that's true, then it can't launder money very well can it?

Definitely feels like a false narrative has been created by the fact they're able to point it out.

Like pointing at someone and accusing them of hiding, but the very fact you can point them out means it's either not actually happening or not happening very effectively.
Ignoring the exogenous energy expenditures implicit in industrial agriculture is a foolish oversight, especially in light of the upcoming shortages in fertilizer and other inputs due to supply disruptions from Russia, Ukraine and China.

We may see billions malnourished within a year.

Additionally, if Russia's gas infrastructure is allowed to freeze over, due to demand restrictions, they might not be able to recover. The last supply disruption (When the Soviet Union collapsed) caused damage that took until 2021 to repair.

Permanent loss of a large fraction of the worlds fertilizer supply is a very real possibility. Much marginal farmland would be lost as a result.
>while he makes the list sound as complicated and insurmountable as possible, it isn't.

This is a really great point, and ties into what I was saying. I made the transition when I had to. I am not a genius/wunderkind. I just sucked it up and did it.

I have a hypothesis about this, actually. JavaScript used to really suck. Like, people don't even know who weren't around in the 2000s. It was not at all the language it is today. And there was no StackOverflow or Github or MDN with perfect documentation or coding bootcamps or Udemy courses or any of the other numerous resources on learning how to code. Your options were W3Schools and posting questions on the #javascript channel in Freenode IRC. I think a lot of people doing front-end development simply decided they just couldn't do "real" programming because the resources weren't there to assist them and they didn't have a normal CS background. I definitely had that idea in my head for a long time.

The people who were decent at writing JavaScript in the 2000s were software engineers with computer science degrees who probably mostly wrote Java. And they were doing it holding their noses.

When you look at people that had such an immense impact on how the look and feel of websites developed, like Jeffrey Zeldman and Chris Coyier. Those were just guys. They weren't software engineers. But they are hugely important figures that I worry will eventually be lost to time.

He wants the other skills to be as highly valued as the programming skills - but they just aren't. You aren't going to get paid $250k a year to tighten up sloppy CSS. That CSS is probably CSS-in-JS shit anyways with a framework added to it like Tailwind. A lot of companies probably don't even realize what they lost in this transition. They perhaps weren't even cognizant of it happening.

>I hope you write your blogpost

Oh, it's for sure happening. I've sunk too much time into it. However, I'm going into extreme detail in several areas. It's more of a manifesto/conceptual framework I guess so it's taking a long time to put together.
correct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdYzVaC6HSQ
I think that still falls under more than "putting a few triangles on the screen".

If you're doing anything advanced with OpenGL, yeah, debugging it is a pain and the statefulness isn't fun. But if all you're doing is trying to put some textured quads (two triangles) on the screen and you're not wrangling multiple framebuffers, there's not much to go wrong.
I love me some python, it's my favorite and most-versed language by miles, but typescript definitely gets the W when it comes to its type system. Idk exactly why - both js and python "bolted on" their type systems (syntactic superset), both are highly dynamic, yet python really struggles with typing systems and JITing. I think python is simply "more dynamic" than js. Js has a much simpler data model.
> Somewhere on Apple’s campus, ARM-based Macs are already running OS X.

Okay.

NeXTSTEP originally ran on the Motorola 68030, then the 040. Then NeXT fully ported the operating system to run on the HP PA-RISC, Sun Sparc, Intel 486, Motorola 88000, and at least tentatively to the IBM RS/6000. This was as diverse a collection of processors as one could imagine.

When NeXTSTEP was transformed into MacOS X, it was just one more minor step to include PowerPC in that list. When iOS was developed on the iPhone, it was obvious that it was little more than a modified version of MacOS X, and primarily NeXTSTEP. Surely that's how they developed it: Apple just ported MacOS X to ARM and did development on top of it.

I guess what I'm saying is that it's not at all interesting or surprising that someone in 2014 prognosticated that MacOS X had been ported to ARM. It was clear as of 2006 that Apple had already done that. And given that NeXTSTEP had been ported to at least seven processor families prior to that, it was hardly a big deal.
Falsehoods hn'ers believe about dang…
"Cultural norms" and "diverse values" like the oppression and subjugation of women, or mass government censorship as above? Some nations don't deserve the sovereignty they have. I don't think anyone would shed a tear if the UAE was taken over and replaced by a government that actually guarantees some basic human rights.
Said it elsewhere- do some research on Checkout.com
Young startups have more desire, fresher perspective, thoughts, and views, and no legacy to hold them back. Everyone is hungry.

We should make sure there are stronger antitrust, anti-monopoly laws and judgments so that startups and newcomers can thin the herd. It should be easy to tear into 20 year old markets, not impossible.

The business world needs continual new blood.

Hulking old giants like Oracle and IBM should be picked off. The other aging giants - Apple, Google, Meta - ought to be seeing signs of sluggishness and an inability to capture new markets. Something's wrong when these old giants can use their former advantages to hold new markets captive and hostage.

Tech doesn't need Proctor and Gamble equivalents. It needs 2008 Googles.

Every generation of new blood should overtake the old lazy incumbents. Young predators and forest fires alike are healthy for the ecosystem.
A temporary stop-gap solution for this (if you are using Stripe Checkout) is to disable tax calculation.

https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_...

session = stripe.checkout.Session.create(
automatic_tax={'enabled': False},
payment_method_types=['card'],
mode='subscription',
line_items=[{
'price': price,
'quantity': quantity
}],
)
You can trade your green paper USD for a Ferrari. But after you drive it home, the IRS will still come knocking, because you didn't launder your money.

You can trade your Tornado Cash ETH for a Ferrari. But after you drive it home, the IRS will still come knocking, because you didn't launder your money.
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Ah, yes that makes sense.
Could this be an artist doing A/B tests to find the best samples to inject into a broader composition?
I mean, the other poster "guaranteed" it, so I don't know who to believe here.
I agree. That’s why my focus is not on being native sounding but conveying meaning. If I say “I want to buy a seal.” The most native sounding translation that says “I want to buy a gasket” is useless if my meaning was “I want to buy a (marine animal).” Obviously that’s a blatant use of an ambiguous word but there’s a surprisingly large number of words we don’t think about as being ambiguous but translators can alter the meaning.
This is almost certainly not a Stalin quote. The second part doesn't really make sense as a Stalin quote but I doubt any of it is.
If you go to the playlist's "playlist radio," you can find even more variations; I figured > 100 was a good number to stop at. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4pyIM5We0dd01U4KQyVmkU
> Could anyone seriously imagine an x86-based phone?

You forget about Atom?
2nd year clinical psychology doctoral student, have an “ADHD” diagnosis since high school, it’s also an area of academic interest.

In my very humble opinion, the diagnostic category of ADHD isn’t particularly helpful, it’s too broad, one person with ADHD looks completely different from another. Additionally it’s very easy to identify and over-identify with diagnosis to the detriment of your personal potential. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy and all to common trap.

As other have said, you can go see a psychiatrist and they’ll evaluate you and maybe you end up with stimulant meds. Attentional issues are not just due to ADHD, they can be part of anxiety, depression, PTSD, etc.

If you do get an ADHD diagnosis, The meds help some people (actually they make everyone focus, i.e. why they gave them to fighter pilots). They also suck for other people.

What I believe will be helpful is learning how to live your life with your unique mind. If you can find a therapist who practices mindfulness-based interventions, (ACT, MBCT, DBT) it could be incredibly beneficial. Good luck on your journey!
Can probably add another falsehood: that timezone information (in particular DST & UTC offsets) will never change. In reality, timezones are very much political and can change at any time with sometimes very little notice. Last major change US folks may remember occurred around 2007, when daylight saving time was expanded by 6 weeks. I know of clocks that are still wrong from that change.

At a previous job, I spent over a year working on a library for timezones built on top of Boost. The handling of historical timezones was a particular pain in the ass.
Automation doesn't eliminate jobs. As such this automation won't eliminate your job, QED.

(It's bad monetary policy that eliminates jobs. The US has very very low unemployment right now so it doesn't appear that's been happening.)

Go ahead and try it. It'd be impossibly harder to create one of your own pictures with it than it was for your to make one. Instead what's going to happen is you'll get more efficient ways to do backgrounds and unimportant bits of an image, just like Blender CSP provide 3D models to do layouts with.
> This is how some graphics engineers, including myself, continue to ship ...

The snarky response would be "you're not a graphics engineer if you're still using OpenGL" (please laugh at the bad joke)

But seriously, knowing how GPUs actually work, OpenGL is pretty horrible. Full OpenGL has 20 years of cruft hacked and glommed on to it. As someone who's job is to write OpenGL emulation it really needs to die and people need to stop using it.

If you don't care but want cross platform OpenGL ES then use ANGLE, or if you want something more modern that ditches most of that 20years of cruft look into one of the native WebGPU implementations (dawn, wgpu, ...)
The porting was obvious, the switching was not.
Possibly only a small fraction use Stripe Tax to automatically calculate it. If you're selling internationally it's woefully incomplete, so often not that useful.
As an Android user, https://history.google.com used to be pretty frightening.
Ha! I wonder if we worked at the same place ... it's in the travel space, because when I worked there someone wrote a plugin that did this, and it was a real eye opener at times!
Google admits its Google TV software is too slow
“Star Trek“ vs. peak TV (2015)
To be fair, it only takes out the core feature for people using Stripe Tax, which is apparently a small fraction of customers.