skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our current "AI" does only interpolation, not extrapolation.

You feed it a large input corpus and it digests it in clever ways. Then when you probe for something contained wholly within the space described by that corpus, it is amazingly good at fabricating something plausible to match the point in that space that you requested.

Which covers a lot of stuff and is very useful, but does very little for problems that require extrapolation. It can't expand the edges, it can't come up with anything truly original. It can't solve problems that people haven't already solved and written down the solutions somewhere the AI could find them.

Another way of saying it: AI today is much better at memory than thought.

Career advice for young people today: specialize in pushing the edges, not in filling in details. There will be some areas where applying existing stuff will hold out and be useful for a long time, but you'll always be racing against the AI. Colonize the parts of problem space where AI doesn't have the imagination to go.

(Of course, humans are notoriously bad at correctly recognizing what does or doesn't require originality. Hell, we think we're making decisions about what to do every minute of every day, when in fact we're just a bunch of dancing meat automata following ingrained patterns 99% of the time.)
I think fine artists and others who make and sell individual art pieces for a living will probably be fine, yeah. (Or at least won't be struggling much worse than they are already.)

There are a lot of working commercial artists in between the fine art world and the "cheap novels and low-end advertising agencies" you dismiss, and there's no reason to think AI art won't eat a lot of their employment.
Absolutely multiqueue is on the list. What that would in theory allow us to solve well is rss/xss. As mentioned above, we would still have to fan out crypto, which means we need to solve for numa aware queue processing, which isn’t immediately solvable with the current go runtime APIs. Lots of interesting things to work on!
> if you are vaccinated before you catch Covid you cannot develop an immunity to the nucleocapsid

Do you have a reference?
The C++ reflection improves a lot in C++20, but it's still very limited compared to that aspect of Nim, or even Zig. The std::meta::info and "splices" based on Haskell for C++26 are incredibly exciting to me. I have many use cases in mind. Splices in combination with std::embed will make C++ basically just a bad Racket (but one with inline assembly!).
I dont think this is what most people think of when they say deduplication. There are quite a few systems which will just scan for duplicates and then automatically delete one of the duplicates. In such a system sha1 would be inappropriate.

If you are just using sha1 as a heuristic you dont fully trust, i suppose sha1 is fine. It seems a bit of an odd choice though as something like MurmurHash would be much faster for such a use case.
https://mubert.com/ might be what you're looking for.
I saw this featured on an item I was looking at that my wife wanted ("Sili-Seedlings Seed Starter Trays", if anyone wants to see it directly). Apparently, Amazon is passing along the cost of fighting commingled inventory fraud by charging the sellers $0.01 to $0.05/item[0].

[0] - https://tinuiti.com/blog/amazon/transparency-by-amazon/
Companies with good climate intelligence tech tend to evolve in to marketplaces because that gets them closer to the money. Climate projects can't afford SaaS, but offset buyers are willing to pay a premium for offsets re-verified by high-tech climate intelligence SaaS.

Example: Pachama https://pachama.com/
C++ overtakes Java in language popularity index
So the argument is that if the vaccine causes this the same way COVID does, the risk of death would have been higher had they got COVID?

You’ll have to excuse my skepticism, because setting things up so that we end up in a situation where it’s entirely unfalsifiable if the vaccine caused net harm in an individual has been par for the course. I reject the premise that even if it’s an immunological response shared by with COVID we should run with that to the assumption that catching COVID would have yielded a higher risk profile. That takes a far leap ahead of the science.
Non-paywall link: https://web.archive.org/web/20221215195859/https://www.washi...
Reach out to Hanselman.com
I had the same reaction. Why not improve on a platform with immense adoption and data history rather than starting over again.

Microsoft has already proven this model with their investment in Git - git works today in large part because MS refocused their TFS team into oss git, long before the GitHub acquisition.

Agreed about the seemingly rudderless direction of OSM. Hopefully there will be some transition path between the two.
Yeah, it sure ought to be.

But the same people who believe that evolution and climate change are hoaxes are also convinced that COVID is a hoax. (The disease is a hoax, the vaccine is a hoax, the hoax disease that doesn't need to be cured by the hoax vaccine is an attack by China -- and the coverup is a hoax.)

And those people are ~40% of the US population, with an outsized thumb on the scale of elections due to accidents of geography and history. So instead of talking cogently about tradeoffs, we're barely fending off turning conspiracy theories into policy. And by "barely" I mean "succeeding slightly more often than we fail".

Yeah, we ought to be able to discuss things cogently. That ship sailed a long time ago.
Would this actually have any effect on Russian civilians? I would guess that this jamming doesn't prevent operation of GLONASS, and most Russian civilians would primarily use GLONASS.
> It requires social and behavioral changes, mainly centered around consumption.

So far it seems these changes are going to be impossible to achieve. Like you say we just don't want to do them. Current levels of consumption will continue, and increase.

So given that as a prior what are how do you approach the problem? If we can't change human behaviour can we innovate our way out of the problem?
I, and I think probably most people that are aware of it, would like to know why the US funded (not worked on) Gain of Function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Stop trying to turn this into an argument against science rather than an argument in favour of investigating ethical misconduct. It’s transparent, everyone knows you’re doing it, and it’s bot effective.
Would hazzard a guess, matches service provider account limits.
(hopefuly not because got billed for exceeding account limits)
I think it’s an excellent sorting mechanism
SHA-512 is faster only on Skylake derivatives up to Comet Lake and on older Intel Core CPUs.

On Intel Atom starting with Apollo Lake (2016) and on Intel Core starting with Ice Lake (2019) and on all AMD Zen CPUs (2017), SHA-256 is implemented in hardware and it is much faster than SHA-512.
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If it was one general noisy correlation, I would agree. But there are multiple spikes that go up and down and match almost precisely with the multiple waves of covid, persisting through many shifts in other factors (like downstream effects of different levels of lockdown) with almost no change in the trends for all other deaths beside it. It's about as close of a correlation as you can ever hope for with real-world data.
I think that programmers here have a lot riding on the naive belief that all new tools are neutral, and there is no pile of bodies under these advances.
Depends on the images. For photographs, a digest is enough. For "random images downloaded from the web", or when you're deduplicating lots of user's data, sure, you want data appropriate digests, like SIFT prints. But then we're back to "you had to bring network content back into this" =)
You don't get to dismiss an argument by just declaring that it "didn't pass the smell test." That guidance was exactly in line with every counter-pathogen campaign since, Idk, before germ theory?
Yeah, I used virtually all Z-Wave switches and dimmers in our new house (and motion sensors, temp sensors, etc) and haven't had an issue. The one time things seemed a bit laggy I had to "optimize" the network, which I realized I had NEVER done until that point. All issues went away.

We have well over 100 Z-Wave devices spread over 4000 sqft.
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You can say the same thing for any other advancement in software engineering. Did good IDE tooling reduce the number of programmers? Explosion in open source libraries? Cloud computing?

A single programmer with a laptop can do in minutes today what it took entire companies of hundreds of professionals and a large amount of funding a few decades ago. Yet the size of the industry hasn't shrunk in the same period – quite the opposite in fact. There is more need and demand for programmers today than ever before.
I remember in maybe 2011/2012, Ubuntu did have embedded ads in their Unity DE.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-am...
Thank you for this information, I'm interested. Does Gala let you bind keyboard shortcuts for window moving/resizing actions? That's the main reason I'm still using OpenBox with XFCE.
How do those numbers change when you adjust for presence or absence of pre-existing conditions such as obesity and type-2 diabetes?
Your understanding is wrong. Vaccinated and unvaccinated people with symptomatic COVID shed at comparable rates, but vaccinated people are less likely to get symptomatic COVID. The difference wanes considerably if your last shot was > 6 months ago, but is still present.
In Scala, eg 2.13 is a major version. Scala 3 is like a super-major version and still it's backwards compatible with 2.13: the new syntax is fully optional.

Which languages don't make any changes to syntax over major versions?
I design email systems for a living.

We used to care more about oversaturating users with emails, but the introduction of the Gmail tab system for sorting out "Promos" was the watershed for a different approach (most other clients now have some sort of automated "clutter" folder for not-quite-spam).

Our user testing basically showed that users only bothered looking at one out of every dozen or so emails. But on the flipside, because users don't really care what ends up in a clutter folder, we don't get nearly as many unsubscribes either.

So unfortunately it kind of is what it is at the moment. There are increasingly diminishing returns in email budgets, so until companies abandon email as a channel altogether the pressure is on maintaining a constant presence in those clutter folders.
True, it does cost money but it's by far the most flexible approach long term. I've been on the fence about buying it, but I'm super tempted.
counterexample 2: Now the trumpet summons us again--not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need--not as a call to battle, though embattled we are-- but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"--a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.

https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-k...
I guarantee the OP could have asked GPT to expand on each of those and it would have done so flawlessly.
If this is a real thing then maybe I feel there is hope for at least a small pocket of society. Good on them for taking back some control of their lives. Color me impressed.
Well we can replace everyone with AI and not even need to exist at all. Until that happens, we'll still need good old fashioned managers and software.
Excellent article.

The "experts" very rarely take enough time to actually understand the paper and question its assumptions, and often aren't even qualified to do so.

I had one article on the Xerox Star, way back in the day, that passed peer review for TOOIS with just some reasonable suggestions to cite related work.

However, this one: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/results.cfm (which was cited in an amicus brief to SCOTUS for the CLS Bank case)

was rejected by CACM, by an "expert" review at Microsoft Research who admitted he knew nothing about patent law. Microsoft is a big believer in software patents, so he's hardly unbiased.

His comments said at one point, because he talked to a patent lawyer "the patent law has changed!" while clearly not knowing that the laws on obviousness had not changed at all.
The problem is when you get things like:

var someLongThing <application.someHierarchy.someLongAssPackage.someLongThing> = new application.someHierarchy.someLongAssPackage.someLongThing()
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I'm in. Lets do this.
This is groundbreaking! All other attempts at AI generated music have IMO, fallen flat... These results are actually listenable, and enjoyable! This is almost frightening how powerful this can be
It’s not arbitrary. A car with his child in it was attacked. The account was already against the old ToS if you define it as abusive use of public data, the new policy is clearer, and it applies to everyone equally.
I’m not sure what you’re complaining about.
Nobody forces you to rely on type inference. It’s perfectly valid Rust where you type everything if you so wish. This might actually be a good way to learn the ins and outs of the type system.

EDIT: Also, what do you mean by type ‘coercion’? As far as I know the types in Rust are never silently coerced to anything. They just are what they are.
I agree with the easy part. The low hanging fruit has mostly been discovered. If you want to invent something new you’re probably going to need a team of SMEs working on it.
This feels like pure revisionism. The purpose of the vaccination programs for children is not to prevent severe disease or death, though that is a nice benefit. The purpose, and manifested effect, is to maintain population herd immunity due to the fact these vaccines radically reduce the chance of the child acting as a vector. The consequence is a vastly reduced incidence rate across the whole population due to this network effect vs a scenario with no mandate. This was widely understood to be the ethical justification for mandating these vaccines: it led to a collective benefit, counterfactually preventing massive suffering across many individual, a benefit which outweighs the risk to the individual from taking these drugs. This fundamental premise is entirely not the case for this vaccine program, which does not come close to helping with herd immunity for a disease we now acknowledge is endemic, and also happens to have a wildly different relative risk profile for children vs the other vaccines we mandate.
When verification is possible, the interpolation machine starts to extrapolate.

There is a process that generates ideas/solutions, and a process that tests them. An artist and a critic, a scientist and a lab. Together they form the experimentation loop.

Let's take the game of Go for example. Testing who won a game is trivial. AlphaGo managed to beat humans in a few days of self-training. In other words, those edges you speak about can be pushed with massive search and verification.

There is no reason we can't do massive search + verification for math and code. This is a good way to create training data where it doesn't exist in sufficient quantity.

Other things can be simulated with expensive computation, and then "distilled" into fast neural networks. Then we apply the neural net to fast-search solutions. In the end we need to verify some of them (thinking of weather simulations, new materials, new drugs, ...)

Also reminded of the recent AlphaTensor who leveraged massive learning from verification to beat Strassen's algorithm who was state of the art for 50 years. The is no reason neural nets should remain purely interpolative if we can manufacture good training data by running computation or experiments.

Ideas are cheap, verification matters. Generative outputs are worthless without verification.
My idea is for everyone to have their own personal website/app/space (could be very basic, prebuilt templates, drag and drop, something your grandparents could set up). That would then lead to the development of social networking protocols or being able to subscribe to web content modules. Basically, I want RSS feeds for web components/modules, but then a personal portal to interact with the items i subscribe to.

I, as userA, with site www.squarespace.com/userA, could subscribe to all or part of userB's site www.wix.com/userB or www.userB.com/photos but not www.userB.com/crazyBlog. Then, on your own site/app, you choose the things you are subscribed to that you want to "re-publish" or add comments to or share. userB could also choose to not let you follow their space.

This decentralizes away from any particular company and should limit the unintentional crazy that is broadcast across current platforms.
If such unreasonably good music can be created based on information encoded in an image, I'm wondering what there things we can do with this flow:

1) Write text to describe the problem
2) Generate an image Y that encodes that information
3) Parse that image Y to do X

Example:
Y = blueprint, X = Constructing a building with that blueprint
types are not coerced in rust? you have to implement explict `From` traits and call `into`.
I'm having flash backs to talking to some guy on a BBS and him informing me that cops can't say they are not cops, or it's entrapment.

25 years later some guy at a party was telling me this last month. It's amazing how this silly myth persisted.
In an environment where my fellow trans people are routinely degraded and smeared as "groomers", creating a thing like a 'registry' for trans people but not for handguns tells you exactly who the AG thinks the enemy is.

And the next Uvalde is right around the corner. But no. The attention is on what's in my pants.
There's a good take on this study here: https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/the-unvaccinated-had-more-...
>>In the short term yes, in the long term, that is not known.

Same can be said about the vaccine. The full story has not been written yet.

Investigate everything, make it available to the public, let people decide for themselves what to put in their body.
> You already implies you agree with my claim about it not being unreasonable when you said “as well.” I guess you retract that?

Yes, I was trying to show polite respect for your point and not actually endorse it, but to be clear, I don't believe there is enough evidence to assume that tens of thousands of young people died, especially not with this article, and especially when you consider that the acknowledged gap in your knowledge is the fatality rate.
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Where do you live that COVID vaccination is compulsory for a seven year old?

In the US, the 5-11 age range has only 38% having had even the first dose. https://www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19...
> entire generation of young "programmers" who don't understand basic computing principles, stacks, interrupts, I/O operations

Why would software engineers who work on web apps, kubernetes, and the internet in general need to understand interrupts. Not only they will never ever deal with any of that, but also they are supposed not to. All of those have been automated away so that what we call the Internet can be possible.

All of those stuff turned into specializations as the tech world progressed and the ecosystem grew. A software engineer specialized in hardware would need to know interrupts while he wouldnt need to know how to do devops. For the software engineer who works on Internet apps, its the opposite.
No because those S's don't mandate any particular algorithm; HTTPS has changed from SSL to TLS, and SSH often throws up mismatched cipher or version errors when connecting to older servers, so they could still be secure 10 years later.

I would however be fine with removing "unlimited" from the name of services which are limited, 'Simple' from protocols which don't need subjective comments about their complexity, 'Ultimate' and 'Supreme' from the names of things which are neither the last nor best, etc.
Sure. It's not "money making" by any stretch though. It's a very expensive hobby.
> making art is vastly more difficult than the huge majority of computer programming that is done

Creating art is not that much harder than programming, creating good art is much harder than programming. That's the reason that a large majority of art isn't very good, and why a large majority of Artists don't make a living by creating art.

Just like the camera didn't kill the artist, neither will AI. For as long as art is about the ideas behind the piece as opposed to the technical skills required to make it (which I would argue has been true since the rise of impressionism) then AI doesn't change much. The good ideas are still required, AI only makes creating art (especially bad art) more accessible.
I truly wish I could get Opaque Types (Newtypes?) in Typescript. Great writeup!
Why is it so hard to find data showing how often people are dying, no matter the cause, broken down by vaccination status and age? Surely that would help clear things up. Lots of countries publish COVID-19 mortality rates which show benefits for vaccinated but that's really not helpful for understanding overall risk of vaccines. The UK is the only country I could find that publishes this data and unless I'm missing something things look really bad. Table 2 in [1] shows a 2-3x higher mortality rate for vaccinated vs. unvaccinated in almost all groups this year. Perhaps the unvaccinated are healthier on average, maybe, but 2-3x healthier? Yeah, don't think so. What's going on?

[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde....
Is this different from 'compiling sql'?
I looked at this page, and I left mostly confused as to what, precisely, "Overture Maps" actually is (or will be). Is it...

a) A geospatial data revision control system? [Collaborative Map Building]

b) A new way to do geospatial indexing, or some metamanagement layer on top of one or more existing forms of geospatial indexing? [Global Entity Reference System]

c) A quality control process, tool, system or review board/certification standard? [Quality Assurance Processes]

d) Specific SQL or NoSQL reifications for binding to specific datastores? [Structured Data Schema]

You can read into these tea leaves all you want, but at the end of the day, it's all just marketecture with no actual "stuff" behind it. At least as far as you and I as rubes on the Internet are concerned. The page is very, very light on details.

Moreover, I am 100% positive that the $3,000 price tag for individuals to just poke your nose in the tent, or $300,000 to actually to have voting rights is about as anti-open source-y as you can get.

Is it just me? Is this how people expect good open source results and progress to actually occur?
The issues with social networks aren't single dimensional.

The fundamental issues that arise have to do with the medium of the internet itself.

What happens communities when they can reach limitless scale and the communication channels which limit emotional understanding?

Those are the difficult problems to solve.
> Problems & Ideas:
> Home pre-wiring

Ductwork for cables?

The problem unsolved in practice is post-wiring. A neat device would be a robotic remote controlled drill that can work itself through brick walls vertically from floor to floor (including steel-reinforced concrete ceilings) and in curves if needed.

Hugely expensive toy, but creating no dirt, compared to classic methods of adding more wires.