skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think AGI requires different topological/conceptual paradigms rather than pure speed/processing capacity. But the latter is necessary to experiment and create recognizable results.

A lot of the current excitement around AI image construction and SD's availability is the intuitive sense that these tools have succeeded in emulating some key aspects of our visual cortex - given a set of object classifiers they can create imaginary views that are recognizable to us. It's sort of an illusion - Stable Diffusion has no aesthetic or experiential preferences of its own and so its activity is reflexive rather than conscious, and we don't understand if or how consciousness is emergent from complex reflexivity.

But the key point is that it's doing such a good job at this 'narrow' task of visual synthesis, and other models are doing such a good job at the 'narrow' tasks of textual or audible synthesis, that it's competitive with a human in an idiot-savant kind of way. And we know from our own experience that skill and learning are protean - we may disagree on the value of different types of learning, but don't question the similarity of the underlying mechanism. Thus I might think that becoming an expert on, say, the fictional universe of Star Wars is a waste of time, but the process of knowledge acquisition, recall, and synthesis are not fundamentally different from those used to learn history or engineering ('experimentation' can exist in terms of consensus establishment in a fandom about whether an innovation is canonical or parodic).

So if we can train models with a billion semantically-tagged media objects and have them generate new media objects that meaningfully reflect the tags we supply, it means we have a decent general environmental-feature detection, recall, and resynthesis tool. Being able to take an existing model and tune it on workstations instead of needing a whole datacenter substantially widens the field of possibilities. So what happens if we connect it to sensors and actuators and train our model to navigate a dynamic landscape, which includes 'internal' signals that can't be directly responded to? Consider a virtual or lab environment which is complex and dynamic, and includes energy units (batteries). Our model has internal batteries and feedback mechanisms, but their state can only be altered through external activity and their signals are heavily weighted. Sensory subsystems attached to the model have some precomputed models of their own.

My idea is that the brain is a 'system of systems' and that consciousness emerges from the instrumentation of the time cost of model tuning vs the rate of environmental variation.
Generic Associated Types

https://rust-lang.github.io/generic-associated-types-initiat...
You're not seeing the bigger picture. If we pull our work together, we can all collectively lose significant weight, and all it would take is a few measly kilometers of the earth's crust being thrown off into space - this is what this thread is all about!

Discussing fat loss is really short sighted when ejecting a little bit of mass could help the entire population lose some weight forever.
Not sure in what context the word "elite" is used when it comes to claiming there is a hiring bias. It may be thought that those schools have very high fees to attend but I would argue/claim (with no data in my hand) if it was looked deeper into their background, it is very likely that majority of those professors attended those schools via a sort of scholarship to start with as a result of their success prior to universities they got accepted.

Therefore, although "elite" indicates mainly a social class, majority of those people are very likely coming from mid-class families and they just happen to have a good academic record.
With that in mind, I wouldn't call this a bias but just a normal and beneficial outcome of the academic system.
Only in relation to a thread about how much time people are spending on the socials. It's part of the conversation. That's kind of how the work.
Unfortunately not yet, but I am actively investigating.
Records are classes with a canonical constructor that lists every field it has. The fields themselves are not public, but a method with the same name is automatically generated for each (basically a getter, just not getName(), but name() as the former is not consistent (what should be the getter for field Xx?). This result in records being shallowly immutable.
This misrepresents what happened and what was said. Which is easy to do.

From April 2: "The prime suspect is ‘natural’ transmission from bats to humans, perhaps through unsanitary markets. But scientists don’t rule out that an accident at a research laboratory in Wuhan might have spread a deadly bat virus that had been collected for scientific study.”"

Couple that with the admission from Cotton: "Now, we don’t have evidence that this disease originated [from the lab]"

Numerous experts in the field backed up the idea that the virus was engineered or came from a lab.

Even Cotton followed up with further clarification of his original tweets.

"I am pleased to hear you now distinguish between possibility virus was engineered bioweapon (which can be dismissed) and possibility virus entered human population through lab accident (which cannot--and should not--be dismissed)" - From Feb 16, 2020 (referenced in Feb 17, 2020 in Washington Post.

This timeline covers it well: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/25/timeline-...

Is it bad that people update their thinking when new evidence presents itself? No.

But that doesn't mean people who pushed an idea without evidence should be lauded. A broken clock is right twice a day, after all.
interesting perspective. Is there nothing you would want better ? at a fraamework level, not language.

just curious - i have heard comments of people looking for a simpler framework. And especially cloud integration/deployment.
Fair enough. I'm guilty of skimming the article, but I saw this: "The soleus pushup looks simple from the outside, but sometimes what we see with our naked eye isn't the whole story. It’s a very specific movement that right now requires wearable technology and experience to optimize the health benefits”, and some statements that made it sound like something requiring specific tech not available to the public.

Thank you, gotta say with that description of the move now it doesn't sound that hard.
> 20% of PhD-granting institutions in the United States supplied 80% of tenure-track faculty members

80:20

The Pareto Principle at work. All these figures show is that universities have the usual distribution of quality.
> To see HDR content at its full dynamic range, you'll need an HDR-capable device or display.

Not exactly - you need an HDR Mastering display to see HDR content at full dynamic range. There are essentially no high volume consumer-level devices, with the exception of maybe Apple's XDR lineup (MBP, iPad, iPhone, Pro Display) with the capability of displaying non-windowed HDR content at full brightness.

Everything else relies on tone mapping, even the latest 2022 OLED & QDOLED TVs.
I never do.
The muscle is activated constantly during walking and running for example; I once strained mine and it took a long time to heal because it fires so frequently.

The point here is that it’s non-trivial to activate it on command while sitting. The special equipment is likely meant to activate the muscle for all users on command, making their research far more reliable.
I think it’s more than that, Julia exists and adoption is still slow. Lua and torch were plenty fast and they were still replaced by pytorch. I think to compete with python you need at least a fraction of the de-facto corporate sponsorship for python in the ML space.
When we implemented CCPA lookups, one of the many necessary lookups was through a decade of glacier'd request logs (necessary to hold onto for compliance).

Even ignoring implementation cost, there was a significant computational cost that's pretty hard to avoid.
> Depends on the equities and your definition of a functioning society. It's more likely to be flat, at least in real terms, over the next decade.

I am under the assumption that the US’s leaders have every incentive to keep broad market equity values going up, even if it means the USD loses purchasing power. There are a ton of leaders with equity ownership that want to see it go up, as well as political support from constituents with IRA/401k/etc, as well as the innumerable underfunded defined benefit pension plans across the country that rely on broad market equity values to keep rising to meet their projected expenses.

For that reason, I consider an SP500 ETF like VOO or even VTI to be relatively safe and track inflation over the long term.
> Thanks for proving my point. "Inflict[ing] collective punishment" is not what anyone was trying to do.

Maybe not, but it's what they did do.

For some reason, people mix up intentions and consequences all the time. The intentions may have been good; the consequences were not.
I have wanted to implement a link shortener with a couple of monetization ideas to avoid that:

* Allow you to "buy" transparent clicks for your URL (e.g. 1 cent per "transparent" click)

* Implement "ad gateway" like what adf.ly does for non-transparent URLs

* Give you X small amount of "transparent" clicks for free

* Use something like IPFS or (gasp) Ethereum blockchain for storing the data... allow you to keep your URLs alive by paying for them (this last one is not that clear)

* [Don't kill me] At some point (back when it had started) I though of putting a WASM miner in a frame when visiting a page.

My main problem is that I have not been able to get a good domain name.
what do u mean here ? the JVM ecosystem has more choice here ?

i thought the JS ecosystem was crazy full of packages.
Up to now, I have vigorously shielded my toddler from marketing - as far as he knows, the TV occasionally shows holiday church services and election results, and "his" laptop shows fairly non-violent excerpts from BBC animal documentaries and bird-watching videos (he's taken to asking to watch by making the slurping sounds the desert rain frog in his favorite video makes as it's eating termites, then exclaiming "froggy!").

I know he needs to be exposed to some marketing while I'm watching along to talk about it so he isn't completely defenseless against it later, but I don't think that time is quite yet. So far, I'm going with his being able to separate "real" from "pretend" as a minimum.
I used to pay for the MIT Tech Review printed magazine until i realised its basically useless, devoid of novelty and everything in it could be found online. I see no benefit in printed magazines, they follow the exact same trends and chase the exact same outrage as online.
This is very mean! But I did laugh out loud, thank you
Even intuitive things should be studied. It’s valuable to know the scope and context and magnitude of impact. “X is bad” followed by confabulation, which is how many of these discussions go, is not helpful.
They also say though that the end goal is to teach people how to do the movement with no equipment.

So maybe not so BS
"new" keyword is basically introducing side effects, everywhere,

I don't think that's what it does. Unless you're talking about putting side effects into the constructor?

confusing generations about how to do testing.

Doesn't follow from the first part.

The primitive/object combination of int/Integer, et al is noise.

Somewhat agree.

The reliance on annotations for modern development

Sure, the Spring ones are horrible, but the Lombok and Jackson ones are pretty decent.

put syntax in the language to codify obvious things

What new syntax would you want? I guess I'd want to clean up the flatMap mess with some nice do-notation and <- arrows.

The final keyword. The idea that you should sometimes take away developer agency, because you know the future, better than anyone. Classy.

Final as a method keyword? Fair enough, but I don't think I've ever come across a method that I wanted to override but couldn't (I hate inheritance)..
Final is also to try to make things immutable, but making things immutable in Java also takes more care than it should.

The combination of Class Access Modifiers (which are for mixin property selection) with interface definition (what's this object's interface?).

I don't get this at all.

The much acclaimed "java ecosystem" reinforces bad practices. 10 years later, PHP is derided for bad language choices but bad Java is handwaved as a series of missteps that has been corrected.

Maybe the language, not the ecosystem?
Application extensions/plugins

Edge computing/serverless

True polyglot environments (unlike Graal)

Really anywhere you want AOT/JIT compiled code running fast in a sandbox.
I don’t know, it seems to be a significant reason why java codebases, no matter how bad and written by how many almost completely separate teams chug along for decades. Empirical evidence does show that Java is very good on the maintainability front:
I agree that we're not going to see a US privacy framework that's identical to GDPR and where all players have the same obligations and enforcement mechanisms. What is extremely problematic, IMHO, is the US having _no_ privacy framework to speak of while the rest of the world does. Beyond HIPPA and COPPA (and CCPA if you happen to live in Cali), there's really not much recourse for US citizens besides their collection of company-paid credit monitoring after each security breach.

If one outcome of GDPR is that 10-15 years later, the US adopts some sort of national privacy framework that motivates industry to reevaluate their data monetization business models, that's a good outcome.
Professor-level pay is not acceptable for people who attend the Ivies and MIT.
You'd know if you had isolated the soleus. It feels weirdly (but noticeably) different to activating the gastroc. Much deeper and more centralized.
Apparently it stops in SF and the duration is 20h50m:

https://www.frenchbee.com/en/destinations/tahiti-islands
Things I Have Learned in My 40 Years
So when's the product release to provide specific soleus pushups coming out (as I do my soleus pushups at my desk)?
gotta do communications over radio, if only cell phones had that access during an emergency situation. i know that would need more power and a bigger antenna to have a radio broadcast mesh network. i know there are issues with that but it’s better than no communication to the outside world especially during a crisis situation, people really should have the freedom to communicate.
Yes! Through CO2 to be precise.
Blue Noise Dithering
Is the harm really on that level? What is the magnitude of harm?
No I think what they’re saying is if you do this exercise for hours while seated, you will have the increased metabolism and its benefits the whole time without getting tired.
GDPR doesn't disallow cookies, it disallows tracking cookies, afaik. Tracking data is not yours too see, so how could you use them? Do you mean that you want personalized ads?
Writing random values to freed memory would mostly work, at some cost to performance.

The memory could get allocated again before it is re-used, and whatever is put in it might be less trappy than a random value. And, of course, a random value might not trap.

Better is not to do things that result in referring to dead memory: easy in modern C++, apparently difficult in C.
People are generally compensated for providing goods/services people get value out of. I doubt in 100 years this will be an alien concept.
This statement applies to pretty much every form of physical activity though
Plenty of people have mislead others online with nothing but text! Ultimately we're going to have to just accept the fact that you can't believe everything you see on the internet.
> So, in C++ you as library writer are empowered to make the use of your library correct by construction: what compiles is safe and correct

Empowered? Sure. But it seems no one likes using that power for long stretches of time. Rust gives the same power and it gets used far more usefully IME.

> Almost every C++ feature is designed to enable delivering more powerful libraries, and they compound.

Well, we can take `std::variant`, `std::optional`, and `std::expected` out of that pool because the committee hamstrung them from their better alternatives that already existed in Boost for silly, misguided reasons.

> Rust makes the compiler responsible for memory safety, but offers much less to make using your library pleasant and foolproof.

C++ libraries have, historically IME, been far more likely to ask you to juggle live grenades while dancing in a minefield than Rust libraries and APIs have.
Yes, when someone acts like a complete idiot and acts with such bad faith, I always respond the same. The person wasn't here for intellectual discussion, he led with a downvote of my original post and posted that "UMMMM AKTUALLY" reply, while being wrong. He's a troll and trolls shouldn't be treated nicely.

People who do that, as well as leading with the downvote, "AKTUALLY UR WRONG", hamper a sites intellectual discussion and drives away contributers and people who want to have an actual interesting conversation, and should be treated with no tolerance. My responses treat him like the child he is, one who is closed minded and doesn't want a discussion.

Feel free to look at my profile, and I had a longstanding profile before I forgot the login to when I changed jobs. First time i've ever encountered a troll on this site, and first time i've ever had a dismissive tone with someone. He's unique, he's a troll, and he doesn't want a discussion, he wants to troll.
Earthquake in Mexico triggers tsunami in Death Valley
This incident shows just how mysterious is the inner structure of the planet that we inhabit.
it isn't exactly the fact that you got your phd from harvard that makes the harvard degree so valuable, it's that your thesis director is a Harvard professor and your letters of recommendation are from Harvard professors and other top schools, and the labs you worked at were lead by harvard professors etc. You could remove the fact that the applicant was themselves graduating from Harvard and all of that would still give them the repuation by association of a Harvard PhD.

There are just too many additional factors that go into faculty hiring that continue to rely on reputation gained from association with prestige.
> The "Strengthening Exercises" for the soleus muscle would be a way to target it? Unless it needs a specific interval to get it into some sort of oxygen deficit or something?

They specifically perform a concentric contraction of the soleus _and_ "passive drop" of the heel.

So without more detail of the paper it's difficult to tell but it seem that the benefit is in performing concentric contractions _without_ eccentric contractions of the soleus.
The opposite of simple is not difficult, it's complex. The opposite of difficult is not simple, it's easy.

Simplicity has to do with the effort needed to understand something, difficulty has to do with the effort needed to perform an action. It's not unusual that something that requires little effort to understand requires a great deal of effort to execute.
Surely you don't think it would be legal for Congress to pass a law preventing newspaper publishers (whether persons natural or juridical) from, for example, endorsing presidential candidates?
Thanks. I never heard that term, just reading the first search result it definitely seems to be right in the domain of what I'm figuring out.
watched a documentary about blind-interview band players as people accused the selection committee is race-biased.

after a true blind interview is done, the result is way more biased than before, so they cancelled that immediately, and replaced it with a process called 'holistic review'.
Even HDR mastering monitors can only reach 2000 to 4000 nits [1], whereas PQ gamma goes up to 10000 nits. This is why most hdr streams contain metadata containing mastering display peak luminance.

[1] https://www.usa.canon.com/shop/p/dp-v3120
> Additional publications are in the works focused on how to instruct people to properly learn this singular movement, but without the sophisticated laboratory equipment used in this latest study.

Since everyone’s harping on the previous paragraph and saying “they’re just trying to sell us stuff!!” I figured I should put this quote in a top-level comment as an anti-inflammatory aid.
>I don't understand the evil-capitalist rationale for that.

Reddit's anti-evil team is not evil-capitalism, it's AI wokeness run amok: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/u374pf/reddits_...
Right! That's the problem with streaming services today: it's not a better experience for many people/use cases when it comes to consuming games. It only really works for someone who (1) plays mostly popular AAA titles as soon as they come out, (2) who plays _a lot_ of games relatively regularly, and (3) is OK with losing access to older games eventually. Clearly these people exist but I don't think there are that many of them...

I'm a very casual consumer of games (I play a mix of big popular titles as well as small niche indie titles) and Steam is an amazing experience for me compared to all the alternatives. I can get games during discount events and play them when I have time, knowing that the games in my library will be there available for me to download even years into the future on whatever PC device I happen to have then should I want to re-experience them. Having a monthly streaming service makes no sense to this kind of use case where (1) games are diverse (2) usage is bursty not regular (3) on-demand access to old titles is desired.

I think one way to get more people onto streaming, is to, like mentioned above, (1) make available a new pay-per-use $/hr model as an alternative to subscription, (2) keep the roster constant, do not cycle games out every month, cycle them out every decade if you have to, and (3) use actual compute pricing for the actual type of compute used: games that need a high-performance GPU? charge cloud GPU prices, indie titles that can run on a potato? aim for just CPU instance prices.

Of course this is never going to happen. The industry is hungry for that sweet, sweet, MRR. Nobody* is selling perpetual licenses anymore. It's all about showing that you have perpetual faucets of revenue these days.
That's not quite the best example as someone else noted, you could better of write an API where converting to Future can be a shore of in places where await may work in the Future.

Say, `for await x in connection.item {}` not real syntax but something similar might be in Rust's future.
Amazon Routinely Hired Dangerous Trucking Companies, with Deadly Consequences
https://youtu.be/TVezHTlPMw8

This is the act I meant. Judge for yourself, but I believe we're close to bridging the uncanny valley
> C++'s option and result types are much larger, uglier, and harder to use correctly than Rust's.

What's your rationale for claiming in a swiping generalization that implementing a data type, regardless of all options or approaches and design, has no other option than doing everything wrong?
Yes. The Yamanobe Road is easier to get to, the endpoints are each close to train stations (Tenri on the north end, Sakurai on the south). These are well connected to Nara and Osaka. Alternatively, you can start at Sakurai and walk all the way north to Nara (about 30 km).

The henro-michi is harder to get to, because Shikoku in general is harder to get to. If coming from Kobe or Osaka, you'll probably want to take a bus to Naruto, Tokushima, or Takamatsu. (Naruto if you're starting from the beginning.) A bit more of a schlep, but still not bad.

If doing these walks, then not driving is a big advantage -- because you don't have to worry about where you parked your car! In particular, you don't need to end at the same place you began.
Shadow is much better (not as cheap as GeforceNow), you basically get a PC with a dedicated GPU, you can do what ever you want with it

https://shadow.tech/