skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting thoughts. I was having a very similar chat with a friend about this recently, including exactly the question of "what should the reward function be", or at least the most minimal one.

Some aspects we thought of:

- pain (minimal reward): this should probably be hardwired straight to the artificial brain, though it can't be enough as otherwise no activity would take place. The agent would learn that the best course of action is to sit still

- so we also came up with curiosity being a necessity. Encountering an unseen or hard to predict state leads to positive reward

- although I am not sure whether pain is not sufficient by itself. E.g. in nature, actions are still necessary. Otherwise, other pain signals (hunger and thirst) start showing up.

- what is tricky to figure out is how this works for more complicated intelligence such as humans. Let's be honest, most babies are fed whenever necessary by their caretakers. What causes them to learn? What causes grown ups to learn?

So something important that we'll have to figure out is what needs to be hardwired versus what emerges from 2nd order things such as chemistry, hormons, gut bacteria, upbringing, role of parents etc., and whether there's a difference between non-conscious or simple intelligence versus complex ones w.r.t. the necessity of these aspects. E.g. you might talk about aspects such as "love" (towards your partner, children, born or not, future generations) but it is much more unclear how necessary this is, and how to quantify it.

Perhaps indeed this emerges from the basic reward function but only after a meta-simulation:

> I don’t think there’s a way to learn it aside from millennia of multi agent survival competition.
Not fiction, but based on true events.

Netflix series - Billion Dollar Code. The Google Earth court case fought by the a couple of German hackers
https://www.netflix.com/in/title/81074012

AMC TV series - Halt and Catch Fire. Follows some players in the 80s technological revolution that lead to information society.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543312/

Apollo 13. When Apollo 13 sustains hazardous damage mid-orbit, NASA works to devise a plan to lead the spacecraft back to Earth and spare the lives of the astronauts on board.
https://www.amazon.com/Apollo-13-Tom-Hanks/dp/B001JI5DRC
It takes effort to make money to buy things we don’t prepare. Everything takes effort; it’s the trade off that needs evaluation. “Takes effort” is a given.
It’s hilarious that internally googlers always used to poo poo vendors in private conversations but imo you’re absolutely right - samsung essentially holds the whole brand afloat. Although not by choice - they tried replacing android and failed miserably
So why should I stop caring about the physical realm especially given YOLO (who knows you might be reincarnated as a bug for those who believe in that)?
I think this was probably more true in the past than present. US nuclear targets for the Soviet Union were declassified some time back [1]. And the Soviet targets probably looked pretty similar. And like you proposed the top priority was indeed for air superiority, because that's primarily how nuclear weapons were deployed. But ICBMs changed the game. In modern times our nuclear silos are intentionally spread out far and wide, not only in America but the entire world, and specifically designed to withstand a nuclear strike. This is without even mentioning the weapons deployed on mobile platforms such as ships or submarines.

Nuclear war in modern times is going to go for the second tier of targets: industry/economic, civilian population, and medical resources. A bomb detonated around a nuclear silo in the middle of nowhere would most likely have next to no impact on the US. A bomb detonated in the economic center of New York or California would have an unimaginable impact. The scary thing about this sort of stuff is that a "small" blast could easily have the exact opposite effect, and create a rally around the flag effect such as 9/11. And everybody knows this. So should this ever happen, the attacker is going to make sure to leave more than just a mark.

[1] - https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb538-Cold-War-Nuclear...
Weird, I haven't noticed any of those issues and I bought my 6 pro used. Am I just lucky?
Sounds more like the matrix than the metaverse. And almost nothing in it can replace the real thing, and the things that could be are already digital, like books or movies.
Here's the HN discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20882783
The Lenovo ThinkVision P27u-20 27-inch Monitor is Thunderbolt 4 and cheaper, but also smaller and the ethernet port is still only 1Gb/s.
I think there is quite some ambiguity on purposes. They try out a few ideas and look for companies in the VR space to acquire. Once they got something which works they will retrofit the Metverse strategy to be describing that from the get go.

If they are precise an d that idea fails they have a lot more explaining to do, while now Zuckerberg is a visionary you simply don't understand, yet.
There is a pretty strong relationship with HPV and a few different cancers.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5120915/#:~:tex....
Yeah… FBs experience with Portal would prove otherwise.
That sounds absolutely horrible.
Wholesale rates are set in a free market for a variety of reasons, but it is true it is ultimately up to governments whether to let residents suffer in the heat or freeze in the dark, either by discouraging new, adequate generation or refusing to allow retail rates to rise to pay for it.
I really want to put one of these in my Dell Precision workstation, and I share similar concerns. I have an older Quadro in it now and could use a proper upgrade, but I really want to wait for the 4000 series cards due in a few months.

Craft Computing on Youtube has the best information from what I have seen so far. I don't like watching Youtube videos for information like this, but I understand why creators have moved to this medium in general. Linux should be much easier to configure for using the K80 to capacity.
I’d say they need to make a product people want. Look at Fortnite, Minecraft. The closest things to successful metaverses that exist. They’re both things that people actually want to use.

Who’s going to want use a blank slate platform from Facebook of all places?

(I think Carmack expressed part of this so credit goes there where appropriate.)
That’s true, I’d add something more. Your reasoning about hardware differences would only justify implementation-defined behavior, not undefined behavior. The distinction is important here: undefined behavior is when the compiler can make surprising optimizations in other parts of the code assuming something doesn’t happen.
> Here are the Chinese characters for concave and convex: 凹凸

Really? Funny that neither of those shapes is convex.
> because the tap water was not deemed potable

So what were they doing in France before bottled water? Just going thirsty?
One thing I'd really echo here is the emphasis on "realistic". And not "realistic for somebody else" or "realistic for your imagined optimal self" but realistic given not just your current fitness level but also your current level of skill in following through.

As an example, travel and illness threw me off my regular schedule this summer. One I haven't exercised for a while I get kinda miserable, so exercising seems impossible and I have a hard time getting back to it. I couldn't just set a goal of 3 solid workouts per week; I would have failed.

What I picked was a daily streak of at least 10 minutes of elevated heart rate (zone 2 or better) per day. A short, brisk walk would be enough to qualify. The first days sucked and I had a couple false starts, but yesterday was streak day 18, and now going out for a 3-mile run or doing 30 minutes on the indoor bike actually feels good. So now I'm ready to commit to something more serious, but it took a ramp-up to get my brain ready for 3 real workouts per week.
do you realize how dystopian that is?
> The researchers used ‘unsafe sex’ as a proxy for cancer risks associated with human papillomavirus (HPV) and other sexually transmitted viruses. Cervical cancer, which is caused by certain strains of HPV, is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women in sub-Saharan Africa.

HPV also plays into a variety of other cancers (throat/mouth, anal, penile, vaginal). Though cervical cancer has by far the strongest link.

Throat/mouth/neck cancers are actually strongly correlated with smoking, alcohol consumption, and HPV (https://www.cancer.gov/types/head-and-neck)
Questions to ask a prospective employer during a job interview
Here is Wikimedia's 2021 finanical report: https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/annualreport/2020-2021...
>You've missed the problematic point of where we are now.

I don't think I missed anything on the phone charging part, I think you're looking at other issues.

>If I had a USB port, and a cable that fit, it would charge my phone effectively. Somewhere in the transition to USB-C ,we lost that.

I don't know what you think we lost, but every type-C plug I could find in any household or office, always
managed to charge my Android phone, just like micro-B before that.
This is a project I'm really excited for. It seems like it has a chance of potentially replacing Sublime Text for me some day, which is something I've been trying to do for a while with zero success.

I worry about the plugin system though. It is using WASI for plugins, so people can use any programming language they want. That seems like it could lead to a horribly fragmented ecosystem. It also means plugins are limited to accessing only the system resources exposed by the WASI runtime, which may make sense for security in, say, a web browser, but for an extensible editor it just feels like an unnecessary obstacle.

IMO, any application for editing/powerusers with a plugin system should be using Python exclusively. Not only is Python available everywhere (and often preinstalled), but it has the richest ecosystem out there that supports the most varied domains. And in the rare cases where a plugin does need to do some number crunching that's too slow in Python, it can be implemented with CFFI using C or any language that can expose a compatible C interface.

Also, the typical systems programming stuff you'd likely need to do in a code editor/IDE plugin are extremely easy to do in Python using nothing more than the standard library. Imagine trying to maintain a set of plugins all using different programming languages and build systems and package managers. That's a maintenance nightmare.
Aren't the creators of this multiverse trying to embed artificial scarcity into it already?

In any case, what's a giant garden in which the sun isn't warm, the flowers don't smell, and the grass doesn't brush against your skin?
Geohot has some bias to believe AGI would have to exist in meatspace, he has invested years into cracking self driving cars and dealing with the messy real world.

He does plug open pilot at the end.
use "reader" mode if it exists in your mobile browser.
george talks about "A banana peel? Did you put all those things in your simulator?" -- it doesn't matter if it's in the simulation yet, the generalization of your algorithm is what matters... once it's ready to act with new objects by itself, put it in there to see if it can generalize around it. Humans dont know what a banana peel is until they've been exposed to it, and they work with it.

smart of carmack to say "almost anyone", clearly smart people are working via the humanoid aspect and I'd guess they'll have some discoveries before the simulation people, but not necessarily because they're going from the humanoid approach
Its funny that things like running videos while sliding window out of screen and live task switch all worked. But somehow package management was the problem. When I developed for iOS I was shocked how non of that existed.

Seems to me they had something really nice to go forward with.
Yeah I can respect that. For me it’s more about living for yourself or sacrificing for others. You can choose either whether you have kids or don’t have kids.

Kids just happen to be the easiest way to force yourself to stop living for yourself.
The GDPR says no such thing. I can guarantee you that if the bank or any institution that has any financial dealings with you suspects you’re doing something illegal based on an automated system. They are going to lock you out first and then investigate.
Most (actually all) dishwashers that I've encountered are designed to not get hot water coming in. Where I live a high-pressure hot-water outlet is not the norm at all. And yet, we don't have a catastrophic country-wide problem with dirty dishes. I'd argue that something else it at play.
Pretty sure when the Switch launched it's 15V 2.6A spec wasn't part of the PD standard. Not really any different from the myriad of phones out there with their own custom fast charging protocol like OnePlus. Mainly where they went out of spec was the dock side to make connecting that easier. The Switch charges fine with other chargers, running the dock is a bit trickier because of the 15V 2.6A requirement but some like the newer MacBook ones will do it.

That said I have several cheap devices that refuse to be charged/powered by a PD charger like an Apple charger. For instance the Neo Geo Mini, only likes basic 5V 1A chargers for some reason (I guess looking at the MB charger it doesn't support 5V 1A). If the charger doesn't support what the device wants it won't work. My phone happily will charge with what the Switch charger puts out.
Fats come with their own issues too, especially the shelf stable fats that processed food uses as opposed to a bit of real butter.

The truth is less exciting: avoid too much sugar or fat. Some is fine. Your "fine" and your "too much" may be different from someone elses.
There is a deeper question here ;;

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At what point will we doubt reality and truth in favor of the AI provisioned one?

We talk about singularity being an AI that surpasses human int... but its goig to happen much sooner and via a diff vector, such as AI images.

the fucking speech by biden the other day looked like a deep fak to me - his mouth flapping was way exaggerated, and the fact that he could hold a salient sentence were the tells...

singularity isnt about AI being able to fool us that hte __*AI*__ is a human - its that we FOOL OURSELVES...

So I think that the whole AI art thing is going to make reality so elastic in our minds that it will be likea dream, and we litereally cannot trust a single fucking thing online. period.
Didn't Blackberry go with WebOS?
We have plans for adding a keyboard interface [0] at least, though it's still an open discussion. If you're after straight Neovim support though, perhaps nvim-treesitter-textobjects [1] might tickle your fancy?

[0]: https://github.com/cursorless-dev/cursorless/issues/710

[1]: https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter-textobjec...
"Approximately 39.5% of men and women will be diagnosed with cancer at some point during their lifetimes (based on 2015–2017 data)."[1]

Many lives will experience cancer, but not the majority. So it seems to be more complex that immune inadequacy (unless 60% of immune systems are working really well, which would be noteworthy). It seems like a reasonable hypothesis that environment is playing a larger role than individual genetic variations. So encouraging people (or even scaring them) to not smoke, not drink, eat better and exercise more seems like a reasonable approach - it won't cure cancer, but it could reduce rates?

1: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/understanding/statistics
This is a nice article, but one this that's not quite right is that you can go from a histogram to an eCDF (basically view the bucketing as a loss in measurement precision).

I mention this because histograms, especially HDR histograms, are a very compact way of measuring distributions, and it's nice that you can keep those benefits and still convert to an eCDF.
With current technology it can't replace the real thing. But:

- people make better technology all the time; VR of today is at a quality and immersion level that was unimaginable 200 years ago

- a lot of people in the world live in pretty poor conditions (relative to the lifestyles of rich programmers on HN); at the margin there will be people willing to trade a loss of fidelity for an increase in quality of life, and the amount of people making that trade will only increase as the immersion level improves
Fructose also has different glycemic profile - it doesn't trigger the same big spike is blood sugar that glucose does. It has to be metabolized by the liver first, which is the rate-limiting step. Although, too much can lead to a cirrhosis-like condition called non-alcoholic fatty liver disease [1]. Sugar is bad, even fructose.

With that in mind, there's no such thing as a minimum required daily intake of carbohydrates.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-alcoholic_fatty_liver_dise...
While eating healthier things would probably help to an extent, nothing's stopping people from just eating more of those healthier foods and still becoming obese. Healthy or not, food is calories and a surplus of those calories will lead to weight gain.
> European T-Mobile users reported the fastest 3G Download Speeds: 1,822 Kbps on average.

Getting 8Mb was rare, hence the link. The other poster is taking the theoretical maximum for 3G, and understating 2G, rather than just admitting that his original statement - that the first iPhone didn't have mobile data at all - was just wrong.
> Telugu has a different lineage

True. But of all South Indian languages, Telugu shows the most Sanskrit influence.

> Sankrit is alien to Indian Sub-continent

This is a bizzare assertion. Classical Sanskrit was developed in India. That is likely true of even archaic forms of Sanskrit and the Prakrit substrate.
UK forces crypto exchanges to report suspected Russian sanction breaches
Transparency should always be required to allow intelligent individuals to make informed decisions about how they spend their money.
The metaverse is a place where you're supposed to spend a lot of time, interacting with media, friends and family, shopping, web browsing. All the while FB is collecting your real-time emotional responses during all the activities. What other kind of system could deliver as hard-hitting ads?

> Zuckerberg said the upcoming, yet unnamed headset will offer “the ability to now have eye contact in virtual reality, have your face be tracked so that your avatar is not just this still thing, if you smile, or you frown, or you pout, whatever your expression is, to have that actually in real time translate to your avatar.” His remarks sound a lot like what's already been shown at SIGGRAPH and in other, earlier Meta research demos.
There is also https://www.healthywage.com, which is sort of a "battle royale" version of https://www.beeminder.com
hyper-palatable is the word that has come to be used
Drought.gov also has interesting graphs, historical context and descriptions of the various severity levels.

https://www.drought.gov/states/california
Echo Rita? From the context I assume it means large. Is that correct? What is the origin of that phrase?
It's really not. I've got a Dell USB-C charger that continually drops out when I try to charge a Lenovo laptop with it, and a USB-C hub with power passthrough that won't at all charge two laptops out of three with USB-C. My laptop's charger causes my phone to overheat. When I plug my laptop in to my phone's rapid-charger, it sometimes trickle-charges and sometimes does nothing.

Basically, I have to carefully choose chargers for devices and can't just use any of the USB-C chargers available. Throughout this thread, there's people pointing out similar cases.
Why are we deluged with such low quality, low interest, low curiosity articles - about some screenshot of Mark Zuckerberg's avatar of all things - when plenty of really fascinating and intellectual-curiosity-satisfying information exists out there about the metaverse? For instance, this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6AOwDttBsc

Especially on Hacker News, of all places! This article is the equivalent of celebrity tabloids.

(This comment is probably not written with the best tone, but I am upset. PR mishaps aside, the metaverse is extremely technically interesting. Why HN skips all of that and just does reruns of Zuckerberg's avatar or whatever is beyond me.)
For me, setting a goal was the key. I've been messing about with kettlebells for a couple of years, but 16 weeks ago I started a goal to get to be able to complete a set number of lifts with a particular weight. I'm most of the way to that goal now, driven by meeting it and have been working out 6x per week since then. Previously, a normal week was maybe 2x.

When I do reach it, I plan to set a new goal around maintaining that.

For the other kettlebell nerds: the goal is 100x 32kg swings in 5 minutes and 10x Turkish getups with 32kg in under 10 minutes (the "simple" part of Pavel's simple and sinister)
Just fyi the author of that comment is Bangladeshi and is pretty familiar with the region and it's history.
I read somewhere (I don't remember the source, but it was some medicine journal) that 4% of smokers are genetically more inclined to die from lung cancer; while lung cancer is correlated with the number of cigarettes (intensity and length of time), these people will have lung cancer even with a very low number of cigarettes.

I know a few anecdotal cases where entire families of smokers died from lung cancer, while their partners, also smokers, had no problem, but I don't put much weight on that. Also I heard that smoking can cause other cancers like colon cancer in specific genetic conditions, but I don't know more details.
Apologies - I'm not a lawyer or policy expert. Cloudflare personnel asked a friend at the FTC to initiate an investigation into someone they perceived as a critic. If lobbying is not the correct term for that, then I misused it.
This is incredibly dishonest. It took me less than 1 minute to find anti-semetism+transphobia (the t slur cries out as they strike you), and the n word (hard r) was one of the first comments.

I get why this site is so infamous.
Just get an iPhone. They are for better or worse the BlackBerry of the 2020s.

Samsung is the only rival in terms of hardware. Google lacks the attention span to execute. Everything else is even less baked.

I’d experiment with nerdy Android distros with a tablet. I used to have a Linux smartphone (whose name escapes me, which is driving me nuts) back in like 2006/7, it was fun but not a “daily driver”.
They might be; in that case they're not building my personal vision of the future.

With better VR, the sun is warm, the flowers do smell, and the grass does brush against your skin.

Your current experience of "reality" is not as real as you may think it is. Everything you've ever done or experienced has been communicated to your brain through sensory neurons. If we make a VR that can connect up your sensory neurons to the virtual world, your experiences can be just as "real" as "reality" is.

And if VR is where all your friends are, and where your work is, and where your leisure is, who cares about "reality" any more? It's just an alternative plane of existence where resources are finite, you get cold in bad weather, you need to clean when the place gets dirty, you need to wait for things to arrive, etc.
Oh no, jokes, how horrifying…
agree that this lens is a useful one; secondly there is a massive capacity to build "digital twins" of the civilized world, with enough faux painting of pure nature to make it look good while riding past in your premium tourist seat. E-Tickets, anyone?