skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thoughts that come to mind as I read:

- why has increased energy availability stopped increasing cognitive ability in the massive leaps it used to?

- I definitely know there are things that I struggle to grok that a few people rapidly do, and there are things that I rapidly grok that others fail to - and often this appears monotonically so general intelligence appears real

- is modern intelligence just the result of sufficiently diverse training? i.e. do we have similar brains to our ancient ancestors just with far superior stimulation?

- I suspect that all sorts of models will arise from the same base machine (our brains) scaled up (more neurons with more density and more energy). It's likely that physical constraints - energy use, mother birth canal - are bigger determiners since we have decoupled high intelligence from gener survival now

- I find the simulation discussion tiresome. It seems masturbatory because it is so indulgent but does not advance thought. No one ever provides future hypotheses that are useful from a sim perspective or future thought experiments that go anywhere or testable experiments. I think the sim theory is a philosophical dead end and we'll conclude that one day.

- If new cognition is needed, is it possible from the brain scale-up I mentioned before? Or is it like an aleph0 to aleph1 transition? I suspect there is a Turing completeness to cognition - in that there are some base laws which makes access to all math possible.

- however, if scale-up is possible and if math is all accessible, we could imagine set-sets who are specialized optimized intelligence. Does the general absence of these imply that we haven't yet decoupled general intelligence from individual outcome?

- I don't think direct experimentation on the limits of our intelligence will yield any outcome. I do think that we will eventually invent either biological or electronic super intelligences and this will likely result in conclusions that reveal something here.

- I do notice that on psychedelics I become more susceptible to the idea that there is some greater truth out there that I'm just barely missing but considering that I never produce anything from that - perhaps this Missing Greater Truth feeling is actually a lesser form of consciousness - I.e. it's what you get when you leave intelligence and full consciousness behind. It's what bootstraps things. Anyway, I subscribe to that side because I find a slightly losing-myself feeling when I attempt to fully chase the "ideas I can't hold" concept.
But those "force multipliers" have also eradicated the usefulness of huge parts of the skillsets of those skilled individuals. For a salient example in another field, printing, that was bulldozed by new technology: 90% of a typesetter's skillset was made irrelevant by Word/Illustrator/InDesign etc. It wasn't a force multiplier, it was a qualifications decimator. Now anyone could become a adequate typesetter by learning that 10%, plus the new entrants wouldn't be burdened by having to unlearn a lot of things that were now better done in a different way.

Not saying this is bad, or that typesetters or illustrators deserve a living. I am saying that being able to draw used to require being able to draw, and that instead being a fan of drawings, being good at describing imaginary ones to a computer and iterating them into a finished product is a mostly, if not entirely, different skill.
You may be interested in Cassowary https://constraints.cs.washington.edu/cassowary/
Nice UI. Which GPU are you using? Seems to be really fast. I have 3090 and it's not that fast. 4 images with 20 timesteps takes 7.4 seconds.
It seems like the return to the office call is really about multiple issues. First, there's the sunk cost fallacy that some companies have with regard to their office leases or buildings which keeps them trapped in the idea that they must have said offices or buildings or they're not a real company (as if the cost of existing as a firm should incur a dead weight such as unused or underutilized office space). Second, there's some companies that are perpetually in the panopticon mindset. They think if they measure, spy, and constantly monitor their employees then those employees won't slack off. The problem is that often the process adds more dead time than it removes. So many meetings, so many reports or email summaries to write. So much paperwork that is fundamentally unnecessary to the process. Third, there's just some people in charge that don't want to acknowledge that everyone is a little different in significant ways. Some folks thrive on just being given their duties and producing output that helps the process with little interaction with other employees. Some really need that watercooler talk time to get going for the day. And some just are a mix. In any case, this is something that all companies will have to face in the future since it can't be just all or nothing. The old ways aren't going to work for you and the new ways are yet to be understood. Ultimately, I'm going to say that work from home is going to be a permanent aspect of work and attempts to stifle it rather than figuring out how to integrate it is just delaying the inevitable.
>A lot of people are undervolting their RTX GPU's because for an only about a ~3% performance loss you get about 10C less temp which translates to far less fan noise

Bah, this is brilliant. I just upgraded a 1070 to a 3070 and am flabbergasted at how much heat it dumps into my room. One of the reasons I did not go with the 3080 was the ~100 watt lower draw.

Do you know of any good tooling to assess the impact of undervolting or is it a manual guess-and-check process?
The challenge will be that it’s somewhat straightforward to model beneficial agriculture climate geographies but challenging to model catastrophic volatility. Note how calm the Gulf hurricane season has been; very unexpected.
This is absolute nonsense.

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

Apple has the led the conversation on privacy far before anyone else was. I remember them get vilified from sharing their stance 10 years ago.
One farmer anecdotes are not very useful when talking about global trends. Though painful for the farmer on a human scale, of course.
White House estimates coin mining in Texas will require 47 new nuclear reactors
Not possible without being a monopoly.
The Mystery of Why Some People Don’t Get Covid
Bezos’s Blue Origin Rocket Suffers Failure Seconds into Uncrewed Launch
What's the legitimate use case for using cryptocurrency mixers? What would be this kind of activity that would grow and encourage "pro-social economic activity?" What harm is encountered by these innocent people?

From my perspective, an economically rational actor would want to minimize overall money transmission costs, so they'd avoid cryptocurrency mixers unless they had a particular reason to.
> so that they can sell it for a markup

If they start selling your data, they'll quickly eliminate the very market share that gives them such power. And why would they want to give up that data anyway? Better to use it themselves. A lot of people will accept the data collection as long as it doesn't go to third-party companies, we have ample evidence for that already.
> The unacknowledged Apple Car (the “Titan” project), Augmented Reality (AR) devices, and forays into the healthcare market, none of which is a feasible candidate

So wrong. PDAs were replaced by smartphones. Smartphones will be replaced by AR glasses. It is the next big thing hardware-wise. Many new services will be built upon glasses and watches, and many will be health related. You'll still buy a phone - it'll have the battery and the supercomputer powering the other two. I doubt that it will even have a display.
It would be nice if people stopped saying "On Mastodon" and said "On ActivityPub" instead -- there are a number of ActivityPub servers and I really hope Mastodon as a name doesn't eclipse the fact that it's just an instance of an ActivityPub server.
Hit your stride on new trails
It never happened in a decade of App Store. Why would it happen with an ad network?
It’s okay to feel relief you can put your oxygen mask on before helping those nearby put theirs on.
Maybe we should call it Quasi-real time. We get the data from the GitHub API[1], and GitHub delays the public events feed by five minutes. So the PR you see on the page actually occurred at least five minutes ago.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/rest/activity/events#list-public-...
Correct, and Google makes gigantic fuckloads of money doing that. It's no wonder Apple wants to do it as well. Apple having direct hardware access and aggressively locking in their customers makes this an extra degree worse for the consumer/better for Apple. At least with Google, it's easier to stop using it.
> I’m struggling to reconcile that take on events with a desire for thawing hostilities and mutual prosperity.

My point is that I think the argument that trade by itself brings about mutual understanding and prosperity is fatally flawed. The West collectively made that mistake with Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. We looked through the fingers at all the warning bells that were ringing, well, pretty much since Putin became the leader. Hopefully our leaders have learned the lesson. There must be much more focus on democracy, human rights, and respect for the sovereignty of other countries. Once those basic pieces are in order, we can talk trade. Until that happens I'm perfectly happy with Russia isolated like North Korea.

Peace in Europe can happen when Russia GTFO of Ukraine, not by appeasement and restarting trade as if nothing happened. Currently dropping sanctions would only help Putin rebuild his war machine, leading to more death and suffering of innocents rather than bring about some kind of trade-induced Kumbaya.

> It’s certainly more complex but nothing i said contradicts Tainter’s view.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you but from what you wrote the implication was that civilizations chose to focus on self sufficiency leading to collapse, which really mixes cause and effect and not what Tainter is arguing.
that's it?? that's not enough to even power an electric stove
https://wolftickets.ai/ , right now 1600ish MRR, started as a way to really dig into machine learning on a problem I found super interesting. Has evolved into me learning more and more about making products. Lots of work to do still!
It's a tv show. The criminals and cops aren't real. The episode in question they were just trying to narrow a search space. Anyway, I don't think the real FBI is using TV mathemagic to solve crimes, so I think it's okay to have fun watching a TV show.
Properly cooled workstations don't throttle, ever.

I run simulations which use 100% of all cores for endless hours.

You just gotta use a decent thermal paste and cooling fan. In my case it's water cooling so I don't even hear the fans.
You've named all the European monarchies other than Luxembourg, Spain and microstates.

I don't see that these countries are any more or less stable than Ireland, France, Finland, Portugal, Switzerland, Italy, Austria etc.

See map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchies_in_Europe
Alright, so there is no proof that Tornado Cash was setup to facilitate money laundering, yet so many here on HN keeps saying "was designed to launder money". What does "designed to X" mean if not that the tool itself was intentionally, purposefully and explicitly made to do X? And if that's true, why isn't there any public evidence of that being true?
A Bad Year for Crypto Is a Bad One for Crypto Miners
Do people actually buy berlingos to drive their family? I thought they were more intended to transport items / tools
They should also ban creating digital art, as digital art takes less effort than paper.
As I said, this is only a first order estimate, but even that is over hundreds of millions. I am sure the FBI has a much more detailed forensic account of tornado that they will bring up in the courts, which will then rule according to the law based on the evidence.

On the other hand, if you don't trust FBI, the law, or the courts to do the right thing, you have a different problem entirely, at which point none of what I say should matter to you.
Their new weather forecasting service is also intriguing. They will soon have millions of thermometer-equipped Apple Watches in the world (IIRC the Series 8 and AWU will have these), allowing them to create an incredibly detailed mapping of temperatures around the world (or at least places where people can afford expensive watches...).
As of 2002, Ireland consumed 3.4 tons of fertilizer for every ton it produced, that is to say it is extraordinarily reliant on imports. Keep in mind that the limited domestic production is itself heavily dependent on energy, the vast majority of which is itself imported. Additionally, more recent reports suggest that Ireland has become more reliant on imported fertilizers over the past 20 years.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.CON.FERT.PT.ZS?locat...

https://thatsfarming.com/farming-news/chemical-fertiliser-im...
The icebreaker looks cool too, and small. I see they sell an HDMI output PMOD for it too. I wonder how that works (not that it's necessarily related to this VGA output example, anyway)
Is there some docs on how to use it after I've compiled it? I'd like to try it out... Evaluating solutions like these right now, could be really useful for us
But a type of non-classical data can be sent. See quantum pseudo telepathy.
Research papers are weird as hell
At my office the rhetoric is: we have green technologies, working here is more energy-efficient than working at home, even when including the commutes.
Nothing is slow with my config I don't think, it's just some font and keybind changes. I actually just checked and it's 38 lines, way less than the 100 I had guessed.

Emacs is slow. Even with native compilation. Even with the default or a minimal config. Opening files or switching buffers, imenu, isearch, etc especially in files of a few thousand lines or more, have a noticeable UI grogginess to them.

It's probably only dozens or maybe hundreds of milliseconds but it's very clearly there and always has been on every system I've used emacs on for nearly 20 years now. I do not understand emacs people who claim it isn't, or try to make it a "you're using it wrong" matter based around my config. Your config can certainly make it much worse, but you can't config it out of emacs it is part of the software.
> If there was a Borgesian book containing, say, all possible 512x512 images, one on each page, then surely two people having the same copy of that book wouldn't need to exchange images, they could simply exchange page numbers, and see exactly what the other one is referring to.

If that were the case, the page number would be as long as the image, and exchanging one or the other is the same. Heck with proper order arrangement, the page number IS the image, in a known format.

In other words, the information content of such book is exactly 0.
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The worst part of those is that most of the time the HTML isn't even HTML. It's encoded in some some sort of weird email-html-specific content type. Base64 if you're lucky. Something far more obscure and email-html specific if you not.

When that happens I then have to copy the raw encoded "text" into some shady website $email-html-specific-content-type to text converter just to get the html in it's natural character set to manually find and copy the <long-url-with-lots-of-tracking-guids>.
Yeah I admit that there are cheaper water coolers than Noctua that perform better. But the main issue I have is with water cooling itself (can burst or leak if unlucky or with poor maintenance, has a more limited life span, etc...)
I think they are more worried of a Cisco style backdoor.
> Look at their recent BNPL (buy now, pay later) announcement for example. Managing the whole caboodle, including the finance itself, entirely internally.

For what it's worth I think BNPL is simply an attempt by Apple to get some yield on their insane cash pile. Last year they had over $0.2T on hand. [1] They're making it faster than they seem to be able to return it to shareholders.

BNPL is a pretty bad business - margins are low, buyers are generally not qualified in the same way as other lending, ticket sizes are low, and collections aren't worth it (you really gonna repossess my $20 gently-used socks?). However, if Apple has a better way to qualify the customers (a big if)...

They can take ~3-4% of the transaction, net like 0.5% for a 6 week loan, which is like a 4.5% APR. Their margins may be better than peers since they can use their own cash instead of raising debt. Maybe 6-7% APR. It's also short-term debt that turns over fast so it's highly liquid.

My wholly uninformed opinion is that this is more of a cash management product that happens to be built on their data for Apple than a data product per se. After all you can't just roll up at BofA with a $0.2T check and get that kind of APR.

[1] https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every...
I asked you to cite an instance but you declined. An example would be a reasonable basis for discussion. Accusing me of bias doesn't more the debate forward.
Welcome to the world where every blog has a vaguely painterly smear of a header image that falls to pieces when you actually look at it. Kinda tacky, really.
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Case in point. Ginsu knife - not regulated. Switchblade - regulated. One is intended to slice a tomato, the other is intended for concealed carry and stabbing people (who are not a tomato).
So PlantUML
Criminals are most certainly going to get away with it regardless of how many restrictions and surveillance you apply to the little people, as they have the means (capital) to do so. I don't want to stretch it too far, but the current rules seem nearly purposefully pointed towards the least effort category. There's quite a lot of coverage on this matter, some (and a lot in the cryptocurrency scene) like to cite works from Ronald F Pol who has done a lot of heavy handed criticism on AML et cetera (as far as claiming less than one percent of real-world regulations effectiveness), these claims can be disputed, but it's apparent even to mainstream publications most unlawful flows are uninhibited and the approach is ineffective, expensive and dangerous.

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/04/12/t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danske_Bank_money_laundering_s...
Because in the extremely broken system we're living under, poor neighbors decrease land value.
Keep in mind that the chip is only the chip. You will also need casing and an electricity source, so won't be as thin as it might look at first
...even if you're the one who made the plane crash in the first place.
yes, that is what i am saying. there are people who avoid smoking cigarettes or take alcohol for all their lives even in the face of freebies. they aren't swayed by them but then there are people who are swayed.

if cigarette makers and breweries can continue and expand their business, so can apple and it would be just the same thing imo
Aren’t those thermometers pointing the wrong way (towards the wrist)?
Can heroin addiction be treated with heroin intake management?
very thought-provoking - people think only a portion of what they’re doing is shared, but government sees all
This!

My dream job is to have none-to-few meetings and to have my head in code all day.

I do have something close to this right now, but I really hope that in 10 years I can still be writing code.
There's also ImplicitCAD (https://github.com/Haskell-Things/ImplicitCAD) which produces STLs, as it is designed for CAD. It uses implicit functions, which I believe are similar to SDFs (I believe the idea is not to necessarily correspond to the distance function).
Plain text is plainly unusable for a significant amount of people. Mobile? Have fun with a small font size to accommodate 80 chars. Ultra-wide? Same flowing problems. Right to Left language? Learn to 'work' with zero-width characters or you're SOL. Want to give more data to screen readers (sometimes the table is actually a table)? Hah.

Some people need to understand there are more use cases to email than mailing lists and that the 90s aren't coming back.
I wonder what the storage requirements for video from multiple traffic cameras for weeks is? A few TB per day?
Wouldn't they only be able to make a detailed mapping of the temperatures of people's wrists?
Well many government officials (especially those in the planning departments) can imagine that future, as can many younger elected officials.

And honestly, I take it back, there are nearly as many older folks punching for changes to city design to allow waking and bikes as young people. But in genera the older generations have the time and money needed for local political involvement in a way that younger generations do not, so we tend to get a future shaped by those who do not want change from the status quo (which is a radical departure from the eta of urban growth focused on cars).
On a similar note, The Netherlands are descibed as food importer. Sure we import a lot of food, but we export a lot more[1]!

[1]
https://bestfoodimporters.com/food-imports-in-the-netherland...
I guess you are the one who received pip.
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The steps they took to squash Facebook and the like (good riddance, fuck them honestly) all of a sudden have terrible optics if they push their own first-party ad platform.

I'm not sure even the most devoted Apple fan could fail to see past that bullshit maneuver. It's one thing to stomp out little players, but when you can crush other giants under your thumb, the monopoly is clear.

The operating system is all that matters, and whoever controls the leading operating systems wins. All the products some of us work on are absolutely useless compared to what the OS can deliver - we're all just services waiting to be swallowed up, ripped off, or pushed out.
It’s easy to go over when you start factoring in other things like monitors etc

A beefy CPU, GPU and a couple of high end monitors can take you to the edge of that and over.
> Mobile? Have fun with a small font size to accommodate 80 chars.

Whoever said the column width has to be 80 chars everywhere?
Thank you. Let me know if it meets your needs :)
>Apple has the led the conversation on privacy far before anyone else was.

So they can make more money by selling access to a userbase they withhold from all other advertisers. The notion that Apple cares about anything other than the money-printing ability of their phone users is clearly and obviously wrong.
I am not sure, it could be that they are listening on tools that output result publicly (Midjouney's Discord bot for example).

Edit:

Yep, that's it:

"you can't (yet)

this is reiterated here like a 100 times at this point

images and prompts were scraped from dicord bots

on the official discord

as there's no copyright on the images"
> They don't actually care about user privacy, but rather want exclusive rights to all of your data so that they can sell it for a markup.

Anyone who seriously thinks Apple are going to turn into another Google or Facebook needs to give their head a wobble.

Look at, for example, their recent pro-privacy improvements to the App Store where developers are now forced to state in black and white what data their Apps collect.

Look at, for example, how pissed off Facebook were with recent privacy improvements in iOS. If Zuck is pissed off about a privacy improvement, then it must be a good thing !

If Apple didn't give a shit about user privacy and wanted to sell all your data, they would have done so a long time ago.

Fact is that Apple has many moats. One of their biggest moats is their stance on the privacy of their user's data. They know that if they backtrack on that, many people (including myself) would vote with their feet.
Thank you! You've just made my day!
> Apple spies on its users, and helps others spy on them.

https://stallman.org/apple.html#spying