skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter is now too big to fail and paid verification is a very smart business move. Those displaced by the changes will just move to platforms that are a better fit. I don't see what the problem is.
There's one big weakness in all current language models that I feel holds it back. There's no way proactive way to have it be persuasive.

Weak AGI will be the first language model that is able to somehow influence the thoughts of the person communicating with it, I think that is the milestone of AGI. From my experience with GPT-Neo and OPT and using it to help write stories or make chatbots, the responses are still very reactionary. In that sense, adding more parameters helps the model give a more coherent response, but it's still a response.
Consumer protection is not "destroying a business"
Could an AI Shrink help with this?
Yes, free lunches exist but to see them you have to measure in utiles rather than straight-up dollars.

At-will is a huge risk for the individual, since they're going from roughly 100 % employment to 0 % employment.

On the other hand, in a decently sized organisation (where employee protection is typically enforced), being stuck with a bad employee and asking them for meaningless work that bothers nobody else means paying for 100 % capacity and only getting, say, 94 % of it. Over a large number of employees, the organisation can be fairly confident of what this percentage will be. Much smaller risk.

In other words, the utility cost for the employer of employee protection is smaller than the utility cost of at-will for the individual.

(Homeowner's insurance is a similar type of situation. Makes no sense to the individual if you look at the dollar costs, but in terms of utiles it does actually work out for both parties in most cases. Another case is hedging major business expenses -- costs more, but you and the counterparty both lose fewer utiles from it.)
elementary kids are using Snapchat? holy shit. please tell me you're making this up
None of which are necessary to operate the brakes, steering, or throttle which is kind of my point here.
Assembler is low-level C. Also probably easy to learn compared to Rust. ;-)

What impresses me though are old Atari games that were implemented in hardware without a microprocessor.
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You get most of the economic value from the first few divisions. Going from 80% yield to 90% yield shaves 14% off your cost/unit. Going from 95% to 99% only saves you 4%.

I'm not an expert at how they combine chips. Like I said for AMD, they also wanted their units to be composable w/ small number of chips, so they basically have a die w/ a few cores and different die w/ memory, and I believe they have a proprietary communication mesh for connecting them. I think there is some considerable signal/energy overhead to communicating between chips. The cost of masks and interconnects is probably high enough to make a high number of diverse chiplets inviable, but I wouldn't say it's impossible in the future.
Mastodon should stop mimicking Twitter (or TweetDeck, to be precise) and go for the internet forum revival.
But God, being all-knowing, already knew which fetuses would be aborted, and which people would be murdered, before he even created the Universe. Therefore, it's all God's plan, no matter what.
I would personally be content, but I’m thankful for the advances made possible by faster computing, especially in medicine, and I’d like to see more. If we keep advancing computing power, today’s research supercomputers will be tomorrow’s personal computers in the hands of researchers of all income levels all over the world.
I don't think it's completely impossible that some kind of wild trip like this happened -- maybe the Norse were captive, sailed around the coast, whatever. Weirder things have happened.

Reading any kind of greater significance into that is of course nonsense. The Vikings didn't settle NA in any meaningful way. If this happened, it's fascinating but just a weird quirk of history.

(to be clear, it's almost certainly a fraud)
How to fix these common issues in AI images
their ads hurt my eyeballs. feels like there's an ad every damn second. how can people tolerate this
Hmm, is it Poe's law or some sort of generalization thereof if I wasn't actually trying to mock any widely-followed religion?
I’ve been reading the pills (tutorials) and it’s actually been pretty nice. You just have to realize it’s more complicated than mapping JSON <> YAML.

https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/
Escape from Reality
In the same sentiment of 99% of companies are not Google and do not need Google's infrastructure.

99% of web applications are not Figma and probably do not need any client side JavaScript. The amount of JavaScript that's actually just wrong is incredible.

1. I don't care what your client side validation thinks. That is my email address.

2. Why are you serving people all of the news story if you are going to then hide it? We can block the JavaScript and read the news.
The Onion once joked that this may be more due to the public they’re appealing to than inability:

> In a serious miscalculation that may prove devastating to his bid for a second term, President Barack Obama neglected Tuesday to simplify a statement to the point where it could readily be grasped by anyone with the vocabulary of an 8-year-old. "Instead of saying, 'There are many global variables at work here, and unless they all fall into place, we could find ourselves back in a recession,' he should have just said, 'Times are hard. We gotta be strong,'"

https://www.theonion.com/in-major-gaffe-obama-forgets-to-dum...

Of course, they also joked about how absurd it would be for George W Bush to show literary depth:

https://www.theonion.com/bush-regales-dinner-guests-with-imp...
Possible, but I don't think mega apps will ever take off in the US.
> Case in point: I'd argue that HTML is a great markup language.

By what measure? I'd consider HTML an awful, awful markup language.
Never Trust Management
More likely WeChat makes a clone for the Western market.
Blows my mind that just as everyone was crazy to return to normal life, Meta was like, hey wouldn’t it be great if we could do more of that?
I may not be an expert but it seems intuitively obvious to the most casual observer that they were carved by a Sasquatch and describe when aliens visited Earth and taught the Egyptians how to build the pyramids.

Sarcasm aside, in the top picture you can see tool marks flanking the downstrokes on the closest runes. Truly, I am no expert but they certainly don't look like they've withstood 1,000 years of Oklahoman weathering. Then again, "layman" is just a polite work for idiot.
I'm not trying to catch you with some gotcha trick question. I am trying to find some consistency to your opinion. Are you saying your definition of tolerance is purely based on action or at least incitement to action and not based on speech? Any speech that stops short of calling for action qualifies as tolerant? Does that mean someone can be an open bigot and still be considered tolerant if they don't act on that bigotry or incite anyone else to act on it?
Hi.
Medical professional here.

You are high if you think we are better off with paper than an ePCR.

Sometimes we have to default back to paper, some times the pt record system goes down.

When that does happen, it's a literal fucking nightmare in the ER.

We plan on it happening and we train for it happening, but ePCRs have made our lives so much fucking easier. Simple fucking fact.

Have you ever had to read the pissed off notes in a hand-written chart from the last nurse who has been working 48 hours straight, taking care of 12 critical care pts? Huh? Give that a try sometime.
Conversations and photos people want deleted from local history
Babies learn a ton of things way before they understand and use even single words. It takes them years to use sentences but they will have learned a shocking amount by then relative to a newborn.
For timezones, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timekeeping_on_Mars

For networking, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet

There is no 'instant' messaging between Earth and Mars. Not possible.
2FA Mule is the proper name for his "phone in a drawer" method:

[1] https://kozubik.com/items/2famule/
I'm hoping it would not get replaced. There are no mannerisms at all. For example: HN tries to cultivate intelligent posts full of information, fosstodon looks for kind, easygoing posts. Twitter looks for (and finds) the worst kind of sarcasm and toxicity. Self-moderation is discouraged, because it is not a site-wide rule.
Reduced network latency when communicating with Earth.
Every network is unique, I don't think you could ever replace Twitter. Anything not Twitter is going to be different. Twitter itself is constantly changing.

A better question might be, what are you CURRENTLY using as a place to find communities (if this is what you're looking for) outside of Twitter? Answers to this question are going to be the most useful.

Every community is unique. FB is useless to me for most things, but there are some communities which thrive in FB groups. Some communities have a thriving Discord, other communities in adjacent domains might be more into Slack. Finding the right spots requires a bit of hunting. Reddit is great for some communities, dead to others.

What I like about Twitter vs any other network tool, is the random interesting stuff I can come across which is still somewhat related to people I follow. I don't see that replaced by any other platform. Niche places have more utility in some ways, but less randomness.
AI has a problem with branding. I don’t know how to fix it, but we need a way to delineate “ai” as in bots in a video game, “machine learning” as in alpha go, and “agi” as in skynet.

These terms are too confusing for most.
> What was the best-selling product of dr. Sigmund Freud? I will point out his name is still revered by current psychologists.

[citation needed] -- a hobby of mine is watching Psychology and Neuroscience courses on youtube. One from 12 years ago that I rewatched semi-recently, the professor explicitly called out Freud as a fraud, but needed to talk about his one theory anyway.

The only people who give a shit about Freud are laymen, honestly. It's just that we've already had 2 or 3 decades where a lot of publications disproved Freud, nobody gives a shit to do that all over again, and most things that can be said about a guy from 100 years ago, have been said.

> The brain is understood well enough to totally discredit 90% of psychology. It has just never been the intention of psychologists to be accurate.

[citation needed]

In the case of ADHD, neuroscience and neurochemistry feed into and complement Psychology. They aren't all done in a vacuum, and many colleges for... many decades now, have neuroscience courses as mandatory for psychology undergraduates.

> For example, a claim that you will find well supported, but not in psychology is that abused people ... are very likely to abuse others. It's of course a controversial claim, but it's pretty well supported. Psychologists will not accept it.

Err... what? This is taught on Therapy/Counselling 101 courses.
The thing is, speaking as a total non expert here, people have been taking about VR since the 90s, and it’s always kind of sucked. It’ll get much better over the next decade, of course. But even then, how many people want to sensorially sever themselves from the outside world? Lots of people who Meta thinks might use VR for work have, you know, other human bodies to take care of.
He seems almost certain to accelerate it - Twitter is estimated to now owe over $1 billion per year in debt service payments due to the leveraged buyout: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-12/musk-s-tw.... If true they'll almost immediately be in a severe struggle to not fall into default.
In that case they literally almost always only get involved long after the stabbing is over.

So by that argument allow the merger and if it turns out antitrust fine the ever living shit out of them.
A year or so ago I stumbled across the A-normalization code discussed here:

https://matt.might.net/articles/a-normalization/

I've got a fairly good grasp on recursion, but it took some effort to get a mental model of what was going on (k is what to do with the inside thing), because it's doing both recursion and continuation passing at the same time. It feels like a technique that could come in handy someday.

Not code/codebase, but I also want to mention the transform behind bzip:

https://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/Compaq-DEC/SRC-RR-124.pdf

I understand how it works, but it seems magical that you can sort all of the rotations, take the last column, and still be able to recover the original text.
So should we be doing demos in Bash, with an ncurses or gum workflow before going back to write the proper system in C?
Problem is Mastodon has been around since 2016. It's got some attention, but never to the level that it could challenge Twitter. Reminds me of challengers to YouTube. Some YouTube challengers like Dailymotion, Vimeo, Twitch, etc... have got some media attention and hype, and have done OK, but just not at the level where it can be seen as a replacement. Get the feeling that Mastodon is in the same category, in comparison to Twitter.
but typescript and module inclusion?
I also had this thought. Something I read about semiotics gave me (or spelled out) the idea that the brain communicates to itself using language, however abstract.

https://mcgovern.mit.edu/2019/05/02/ask-the-brain-can-we-thi...

Turns out, that might not be the case-i.e. understanding is probably not a linguistic phenomenon.

Sometimes, after I put down the crack pipe, I think that understanding and experiencing are two names for something that's fundamentally the same. When I'm thinking about code or a proof, my brain filters out the spacing of the letters, the smell of the paper, etc-which are things I'd do while I'm reading it for the first time. There's these common tools/filters - intuitions - that are exactly the same in thinking and experiencing.

I don't think GPT3 can understand color, for example. But if we fed it a bunch of RGB transforms and raw data, and it generalized and applied them perfectly, could we say then that it's generally intelligent? IDFK
What’s the success measure for consciousness?
"You can register your phone on its home network near a tower and go WiFi-only forever after."

This is how it works on paper. You may have had success with this.

It does not work universally. It won't take long to find a bank / FAANG / service provider that refuses to accept anything but a bona fide mobile SIM talking to a base station.
"Person stuns other person for weapon with GTA IV move"
Having a browser be just WebGPU+WebAssembly is basically just Flash and all the dog shit UX and terrible performance it forced on people. Responsiveness entirely up to the developer, giant binary blobs of content mixed with code, and 100% CPU usage all the time.
They're slow and use licensed bands
This is one of the endgames of the ad blocking arms race (another being server-side rendering.)

In both cases ad blockers become computer audiovisual processing systems.
but the probability of 16 completely random bytes is extremely low..
> That's precisely why car races are boring these days. Everything is forbidden and over-regulated so there's no space for innovation anymore. Look at F1 and its bloat of regulations.

Does rally (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDGJoPmR_8U) count as car racing?
Feigned certainty is often a indication of the opposite. In many cases people just absorb someone else's opinion on topics just in an effort to feel informed.

I'm not going to say I'm never guilty of it myself, but often asking even for the slightest bit of further explanation collapses that or otherwise just leads to repetition.
not to mention, probably the more crucial fact that just because a language model might be capable of reproducing the entire gamut of human thinking, doesn't mean that arbitrary elaborations via that model have any correspondence to what we are referring to as thinking, or consciousness or learning
Much, much easier to deploy a 2FA Mule with the excellent "SMS Forwarder" app and a $8/mo tello plan:

https://kozubik.com/items/2famule/
I've watched this happen to human minds. there are entire industries predicated on making it happen. Advertising comes to mind.
Nothing new here. People always thought they already know "everything that's important" and "only a few details are missing". We, as a species, are quite arrogant and entitled to our perceived "large knowledge".

That's why real progress is so slow even "things are obvious"—at least afterwards.
No it blocks MFA too
Disagree completely, the deke is my favorite play in baseball.
I'd much prefer if our future robot workers weren't conscious. There's no animal cruelty laws for AGI.

Either you get a robot uprising, or you don't, and both of those sound bad.
Near the Future of Python (a.k.a. Dave Live-Codes a WebAssembly Interpreter)
Classic counterintuitive anecdote where measurement increases productivity: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect “The Hawthorne Works had commissioned a study to determine if its workers would become more productive in higher or lower levels of light. The workers' productivity seemed to improve when changes were made, and slumped when the study ended. It was suggested that the productivity gain occurred as a result of the motivational effect on the workers of the interest being shown in them.”.
That said, similar to GP, I'd definitely recommend it. Browsers give you a lot out of the box now, and life without builds is sweet - fast iteration time, perfect in-browser dev tool support, and vastly reduced codebase complexity.
I live below the poverty level. I receive Section 8 funds for housing. The Section 8 inspections and quality standards are so important to me that I hire a cleaning service about 6 times a year to make sure everything in here is spotless, because I'm really not that psychologically or physically capable of cleaning everything, even if I had limitless free time to do it. The maids cost about $130 a visit and they're worth their weight in gold, just so I have peace of mind and a consistently clean place to live. The City thanks me for it, too.
I get a timeline algo reset when I log in after clearing cookies.
The key to a great fake is to fake it NOW and leave it to be found two hundred years later.

When the profit motive is removed it becomes harder to track down.
Because it only takes log(n) digits to represent n.

9 is 1 digit, takes 9 steps.

99 is 2 digits, takes 99 steps.

999 is 3 digits, takes 999 steps.

An input d decimal digits long takes O(10^d) steps.

The runtime is exponential in the "size of the input", because the size of the input is usually taken to be the length of the binary or decimal representation of the number rather than the magnitude of the number.
In terms of pushback, you can definitely see an almost desperate public surge toward any "odd" or "quirky" restaurant / bar / hotel space that opens in a major market now. The twofold problem is that, like small eastern european nations after WWI, these can't survive and retain autonomy between great powers. They either need to be designed from the ground up as a franchise model geared for expansion, with all the marketing, paraphernalia and impersonal management strategy that implies, or else if they're locally popular they'll be quickly assimilated and watered down by the larger many-faced corporate hospitality industry. Vanishingly few local or regional restaurants, bars, coffeehouses, etc. flourish for any length of time before they're co-opted.

To me, the biggest single change wrought by the rapid spread of trends globally is that the cycle of co-opting has gotten shorter. Circular references to culture have become bounded by smaller and smaller time frames, and present an increasingly impoverished and banal version of wink-and-nod. What was once stepping into the past became ironic, and what was ironic is now unacknowledged and treated with a straight face. As a result of superficializing everything about the past, original ideas have dried up for lack of historical knowledge to fuel them, as nostalgia-mining tapped out the entire 20th Century.

Look no further than the food-truck to brick-and-mortar to Whole Foods pipeline, or the same that's happened in the music industry from YouTube to Top 40.
"I have an AT&T number ported to Google Voice. There isn't any service out there that thinks it's a VOIP number."

This 'lookup' script that I wrote will properly identify your number as being owned by google voice:

/usr/local/bin/curl -s -X GET "https://lookups.twilio.com/v1/PhoneNumbers/$number?Type=carrier&Type=caller-name" -u $accountsid:$authtoken | /usr/local/bin/jq '.'

... given any phone number, I can see, using the twilio API, where the number currently terminates to and who "owns" it - including subscriber name (ie., your name).

I'm glad it continues to work for you because it should and you should be able to use a gvoice number in this fashion but ... you've just gotten lucky so far.
Yes, and if you are an actual motorsport fan creating a 'mario kart boost' mode makes your sport look dumb.

At least the way F1 does KERS is more controlled and logical (maximum amount of charge = maximum amount of additional horsepower you can deploy per lap)
Maybe soft porn is a bit of a reach or possibly not the best way to describe it, but it does seem people come for the visuals, not the text. Instagram comes off as much more sexualized (even if indirectly) and female oriented.
I'm a web developer, and about 2 years ago my company implemented a new note taking policy that takes up a very large portion of my time, makes me feel like I'm untrusted and I just don't feel as happy as I did before. We are required to write a note of everything we do through the day with time spent and submit it by the end of the day. This is in addition to our project management system where we already track our time and write our detailed notes on what we do for each task. Prior to the policy I was able to finish work on time, now I dread the note portion of my day and I usually end up spending an hour or so at the end of the day to write up my "journal" of the day. I also have zero extra time which I used to use to learn new skills and techniques. It's an absolute waste of time and is destroying my urge to learn new skills that used to help improve the company's processes and efficiency.
What browser did you use? The images do have 180 degrees exif rotation flag if you check the exif metadata. Maybe your browser doesn't respect the flag?
There is no free speech, really. It is just various forms of preferred speech. This moniker has been hijacked by right-wingers recently. What really scarce is a reliable speech. Noise to signal ratio is really bad in social media. Especially due to state actors with their amplification of disinfo.
What is "feels" and what is "the need"? Does a virus, biochemical or digital, also "feels the need to survive"? And also, why would an AGI care about survival? Perhaps a higher intelligence than ours will contemplate how doomed the planet is, being evaporated by the sun in circa 5 billion years [1], and how doomed the universe is, being evaporated by proton decay(?) in 10^100 years [2], and once the AGI internalizes how hopeless everything is, they simply commit suicide.

It's also revealing of our times how our definition of intelligence is being able to do work: transform raw materials and free energy into tools and toys, handle the tools and toys in open environments. An AGI could perhaps want nothing to do with this strifling struggle.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_timeline_from_Big_Ba...