skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's one of the few things I miss from Windows as a Linux user. Some of it can be done using xdotool and other utilities, but nothing works the way AHK does.
This was super interesting, and it would seem Bill Gates absolutely predicted the effect that not Java, but ultimately interactive web apps in a broad sense would come to have by making it less important to have one operating system or another.

Interesting that the reply mostly implied that there wasn't much reason to worry, and that the future and dominance of web apps was still uncertain. But we are reading this email exchange now I think largely because of how well placed Bill Gates's worries were. I wonder how many technologies he and other executives lost sleep over that did not amount to anything in the long run.
Prepared VM Function Calls
i don't know... we don't deviate much from what we eat so it's really about that initial tracking and seeing the results. after that you can kind of "eye-ball" what you are eating. the hard part is just being brutally honest with what you are actually eating and tracking at the beginning.

tbf it's like any learned skill, it sucks at the beginning but over time it gets easier. when i started getting serious about my fitness i was tracking it meticulously but now i rarely do.
I've spent the last half hour skimming through some of these videos and I'm only sure of three things:

- This guy is either mad, a genius, or both.

- I am not smart enough to figure out which it is.

- I need a swarm of monitors on my wall.
Admittance of ignorance is undoubtedly better than a lie, in general.
I think that this is the paper mentioned in the linked article:

An Upper Palaeolithic Proto-writing System and Phenological Calendar
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeolog...

The lead author is Bennett Bacon, corresponding to the "Ben Bacon" named in the BBC piece.
The Underwater Topography and Marine Life in the Komodo National Park
> embrace, extend, and extinguish is alive and well

???

you can clone Github projects and move them on every other git repository you want

if Github removed the support for git, Github would be dead in a week.

Not only because git is literally in their name, but because every programmer tool that deals with code (editors, IDEs, etc.) has embedded support for git, the protocol, not git the Github version of the protocol.

Remove interoperability and you killed the golden goose.

At MS are not that stupid.
Yes. I’m 100% sure about that :)

Is there a chance you’re thinking about Opera? That didn’t kill Internet Explorer either but it was around before FireFox gained traction.
> held in the last few centuries by the majority of people

I suspect that India and China either individually or collectively might like to challenge you on that assertation of "majority".

I'm guessing that was a deliberately self aware foot shooting comment crafted to highlight Anglo-centric myopia?
Show HN: I made a site that lets you create your WhatsApp Wrapped 2022
Insights like who text's first, who text's more and many more can be generated in a fun story format. No data is stored and the code is open source. Would love to get feedback and feature requests.
If AGI is a class of problems that require AGI then AGI hard only refers to the hardest problems that any AGI problem can be translated to.

If we assume that humans are in AGI then AGI hard would be at least as intelligent as humans but possibly even more intelligent than humans.

I don't believe most people have "superior over humans" in mind when they say AGI-hard. They just mean a hard problem that is also in AGI.
There can be a model where every time a bot goes to a website to get info, a payment is immediately made.
I mean, Genesis has people that are 900 years old, a talking serpent, a boat that can fit every type of animal, and you take issue with giants lol?
It wluld be interesting to send one beam alternatively throught a linear or circular polarizer. Then you can check the polarization on the other beam and see if you have faster than light information transmission. With all the implications about causality.
JScript / JavaScript is a different language entirely from Java but another good example of how Microsoft tried to control the market.
The Ethiopian Orthodox Bible.
> being forced into it by the parents will make him hate it for life

And possibly the parents too.
Yes, and that is probably true for a lot of other things that we assume as cornerstones of Western culture (e.g. Homer).

Many people would be surprised at the realisation that Christianity is a eastern religion (having originated in what we call “the Middle East”).
May I ask why „30 years ago“?
JScript was their version of JavaScript

You could also use VBScript in the browser if you wanted to, it's been an option up to IE 11

IE had pluggable scripting engines, which wasn't a bad idea per se and anyone could write one, it was a simple COM component
Is the economic recession taking a toll on working from home?
EU is first, with foolishly predictive tech regulation before it emerges. Like e.g. the requirement for AI to explain itself. GPT can surely explain to you very elaborately how they came to the wrong medical conclusion

But what you say is actually accurate, the globalized world (excepting russia) has settled to these roles for these 3 players. EU is more of a legacy player without an army (or strong production base) that still "upholds ideals" and sells this image for worldwide PR. But you see where this ends up, countries bribing EU politicians to improve their world PR by association.
> Food, as anything, is unique, so the idea of comparing it to other willpower exertions isn't relevant.

So, you're backing away from the idea that people who struggle with weight lack willpower and are shifting to the stance that they lack some hunger-specific willpower that's unrelated to anything else meaningful?

That's completely indistinguishable from the idea that some people feel hunger more than others.
Cloudflare is king
I think that the expectation that "ground-breaking" discoveries in science should follow some linear or predictable timetable is not reasonable. Is the time period between "ground-breaking" discoveries supposed to be every 5 years, every 10 years?

The volume of papers has increased significantly, and publish or perish kinda stinks, but it's not just an issue of funding, but some (many?) researchers publish and exaggerate about the importance and difficulty of their research to receive an "I am smart" badge on social media. Although, despite this increase in volume of crap tier papers, the article seems to think it's not correlated:

"Declines in disruptiveness are also not attributable to changing publication, citation or authorship practices..."
Surprised this point not realized or discussed more in this thread. Android is famously claimed by linux fans but for all practical purposes its a Java device which factually made this technology among the most impactful on the planet.
Amazon to axe 18,000 jobs as it cuts costs
The environment and our food sources have radically changed in the past hundred years. My grandparents ate a mostly organic diet because that's all that was available back then. They didn't eat food made in a factory. They didn't drink water filled with plastic microparticules. Their work was manual labor. I could easily continue with other environmental factors that are different.

What seems absurd to me is to jump to conclusions instead of taking a scientific approach to eliminating factors until we find causation.
I've rather used the Gravis Ultrasound Max, the better variant of the simple soundblasters, which had hardware soundtables then, patchsets, and Doom support.

I've created a lot of Doom VR those times with this card. Good old cheap VR times
The capitalist free market is something that would reasonably he understood as free markets as they exist in the real system called capitalism under which coeporations have special legal protections.

If the original commenter meant something like "ideal free market" I imagine they would use those words instead of refering specifically to capitalism's free markets.

The real system known as capitalism would collapse immediately if we did away with the special legal protections given to corporations (chief amongst them being limited liability), so I think it's a pretty fair assessment to understand these to be inherent to capitalism, even in its most libertarian possible interpretation.

Another important distinction is that there are various ways of theorising free markets which may not be compatible with capitalism either.
> You can still always fall back to the government if disagreements occur.

Does the government have an override mechanism on the blockchain? If yes then what was the point of blockchain. If no, then will the government fork the blockchain?

Does the government just put someone in prison until they give up the keys? Most countries don't have true "life in prison", and what are the implications for the wrongly convicted in the ones that do?

How would you invalidate an illegal smart contract where one party is the estate of someone who died, are in a coma, or gets put under conservatorship?

> The advantage of smart contracts is they automate away the need for costly lawyers in the good case (which is most of the time). You don't need to pay so much overhead for "protection".

Most of lawyer work is clarifying intent, and legal compliance. Smart contracts try to replace the former with coders, but without a common sense safety net. And without the knowledge about what contracts are even legal. As for compliance, that's still needed.

E.g. writing a smart contract to pay someone automatically needs to support garnishing a salary due to various court actions.

What lawyer work exactly becomes automated? Do you know lawyers, and what they spend time on? Every example of smart contracts seem to me to be incredibly arrogant, and even more ignorant about what lawyers do.

It has a smell of "I don't know what they do, which means it can't be hard. I can write a twitter clone in a weekend, so surely I can write a script to replace a lawyer".

You can write a "bucket shop" web app over a weekend, but you need a lawyer to tell you it's illegal, or under which circumstances it's illegal. That's the real "protection".

I mentioned FTX and Tether to point out that the industry is built on a house of cards. E.g. if Tether implodes then that affects your BTC. I'd say it's more likely that Tether implodes than that the US government implodes.
It’s not clear to me that the bottleneck for simulating the universe is intelligence. Our measurement capabilities are limited, and our computational power is limited.

When I say our measurement capabilities are limited, I mean that there are subsystems which are fundamentally chaotic. Small measurement inaccuracies will lead to large prediction inaccuracies, which in my view has little to do with intelligence.
> I was laid off 2 months ago and I’ve never even seen a severance letter

Sounds like he never got any documents to even begin to agree to it....
Perhaps if current oligopolies like the United States were to turn into democracies. That would have led the way.
My doc is trying to get me on these kind of meds.

I'm on high dose (60 mg) mirtazapine motivates immense weight gain as a side-effect.

I'm +30% overweight (260 lbs vs. 200 / 117 kg vs 90) and the hunger for carbs is beyond ravenous.

Stimulants are nonstarters because I'm already on a beta blocker for inappropriate sinus tachycardia, and other meds for "physiological" anxiety (can never relax).
Go 1.20 Release Notes (ongoing draft)
Do the "Poll's app" from their tutorial [0]. It's quite basic comparing to bigger app but it covers enough of the necessary content to get your started.

[0] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/intro/
He is likely to plead guilty.

No one is asking how he would be able to pay his lawyers if this goes to trial.

This is not Ghislaine Maxwell.
> Microsoft was taken to court for their own proprietary implementation of Java

That's correct, they tried hard to fracture Java by making different implementation with their own classes and packages, runtime behaved a bit different too. While whole sales pitch for Java was to write and compile once, and run reliably anywhere (which was the case for every C/C++ app especially UI).

Embrace part done, extinguish attempted. Everybody was very glad seeing them get burn, courts did their job and MS rolled back any Java participation. The rest is history (and present)
Solana's Roadmap for Mass Adoption: Mobile, Reliability, and Scalability
I note with interest (having personally spent several million line kilometres in the air doing low level continent wide geophysical sensing exploration work (and written a few million SLOC of related code)) that the option rarely talked about or seriously raised is

consume less.
Hero pushes biz cart proj for QC vendors
Looks like an art installation of the game of life, I think
This may have something to do with one of my other pet hates - projects with submodules using git:// urls. If you don't use SSH keys for github you can't do a "git submodule update --init" without first changing the submodule urls in .git/config to https:// style.
> If you work as a chef at my Mexican restaurant, it seems fair to bar you from opening another Mexican restaurant within say 1 mile. For a year.

I would argue that's not fair at all. Think about what you're saying: you're saying that your Mexican restaurant should effectively not have to worry about your competition providing a better job to your staff than what you offer. That changes the dynamic so that you don't have to worry about doing your best to retain your staff.

This problem is the crux of why Silicon Valley is so successful (where you can't do this there) and tech hubs in other locations aren't anywhere close to as successful (where you can do this there).
TBF, when JScript was born, JavaScript wasn't public nor free, it was Netscape's

Javascript came out in 1995, JScript in 1996, the ECMAScript standardization began in 1997 and the first release is from 1998

They reverse engineered the language and named it differently because they had no rights over JavaScript at the time

And good lord they did it, they could have adopted another language as the default one (they had VBScript too) and the story of the front end programming could have been very different.

Even MS is not evil all the time
Gem5 Simulator: modular platform for computer-system architecture research
I can see you are bamboozled. But you should have seen the writing on the wall for CircleCI for quite some time now.
You just don't want it bad enough. You like food more than you like being thin. That's all.
>If I collect the dust from your car, I can (in abstract) place where it's been with 99% accuracy too.

If you picked the dust from a person you could make this exact same discovery.

>That doesn't mean if it has pollens from one place or another that it's significant in any meaningful way, or that you can make statements about a car based on that.

You can make statements on where they've been, but not what they are. You can look into a car and see it's a V-6 with a CVT, and you can make a lot of statements on its actual performance, how large it is, how it accelerates, etc. This is the same as looking at the DNA of a person.

>Most of the differences we know about account for things like skin color (which, in turn depends on vitamin D versus cancer for a given latitude), local diseases immunity, and similar things. Some account for random things which have no impact on natural selection (e.g. aesthetic details like hair color or thickness).

And height, and lactose intolerance, and how well alcohol is digested, and baldness, and everything that makes a human human.

>We have no evidence for things related to personality, intelligence

This is extremely wrong. Intelligence is something like 70% inherited, it is directly related to your DNA. Tendencies between groups for suffering from things such as schizophrenia are also inheritable and different between races and smaller ethnic groups.

>or anything associated with classic constructs of race and racism

There are generally true statements to make between different ethnic groups, and different races that still match classic constructs: East Asians are more likely to be lactose intolerable, Black Americans are more likely to have sickle cell, Ashkenazi Jews are more likely to be schizophrenic, White Europeans are more likely to suffer from melanoma, etc.
There are conduit actions (like dedup, sort) that require all the previous action's output to be ready and available before they can start producing any output. All the discussion of GC-friendliness of caches makes me think that there aren't any conduits that have more data than can fit in memory on a single machine.

If you had conduits that were too big to fit in memory at once, would you (channable) stream them to local disk (either explicitly or just using virtual memory)? Or would you be able to distribute work between multiple machines with a cluster-aware Conduit type?

Your scheduler could split the job up into multiple machines and run the same Conduit pipeline on all the machines, and only the conduit steps that need to communicate with each other would do so.

Separate question, do you have any actions that produce more output than their input? I could imagine some customers might find it useful to generate the cartesian product of two inputs, or the power set of one input.
To be fair, quite a few music synthesizer companies of that era died. Moog, Sequential, Oberheim, PPG, Synclavier, …
I had luck getting it to give me one when providing answers
in JSON form.

For example:

> I'm going to share some information, I want you to classify it in the following JSON-like format and provide a responses that match this typescript interface:

> {
> "isXXXXX": boolean;
> "certainty": number;
> }

> where certainty is a number between 0 and 1.

However, I got either 0 or 1 for the certainty every time. Not sure if it was because they were either cut-and-dry cases (certainty 1) or not-enough-information (certainty 0).

I'm actually trying to think of a good example of text I could ask it to intuit information from and give me a certainty
FYI if you don't want to manually convert to a SSH URL, you can use a insteadOf setting in your gitconfig to make git do it automatically: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config...
I’ve been into developing mobile apps and testing GPS navigation software for quite a while. And what I love most about testing location-based apps is how they behave in real conditions. Simply put, the main challenge is reproducing the real speed a chaser reaches when driving the expected distance. Let's understand the specifics of testing GPS location-based apps.
So why don't you play rock blues or whatever now? Is it because of trauma?
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- Grant funding

- Tenure requirements

- Job duties (both requirements and limitations)

- Elimination of corporate skunk works like PARC

- Credentialism

- A "Pain point" focus would tend to be more incremental than truly disruptive

On the good side there may be some decrease of disruptive inventions and discoveries because we are also focusing on eliminating the externalities of current and previous inventions and discoveries. It's a lot easier to make wildly new things if you aren't worried about their side effects.
I agree, I think we're discounting genius insight as the primary driver of innovation and ground breaking science, and we can't expect genius insight to occur in some predictable time frame or a time frame even within a lifespan.

I think perhaps we've also partially lost the meaning of ground breaking research given the constant news articles on "ground breaking science" and the constant overinflation and exaggeration of one's papers and achievements.
I have also noticed myself and my partner gain weight when we live in the US. I'll make it a little more concerning: I mostly don't eat processed foods. I buy the raw ingredients and cook myself.
Unfortunately you can't transmit information this way, even in theory. The polarizer has a 50-50 chance of testing one way or another, and the other beam will has the opposite polarization.
It's text, so no proprietary binary format. Text-based formats survive OS changes, death of applications, updates of either. Many learn that the hard way over time ...

It's my notebook, structured text, an outliner with programmable extensions, can accommodate snippets in any programming language (via #+BEGIN_SRC foo ... #+END_SRC tags), searchable with text-based tools like grep.

It's local data, but easily shared with all of my systems (synchronized).

It's available on my Linux machines, my Macs, my Android devices (e.g. via the Termux app)

Last but not least: It's working in my favorite editor. ;-)
Those binaries might also just be statically linked with MUSL (at least that's how I'm building my distro-agnostic Linux command line tools). Same idea as Go binaries though (except that I haven't noticed that such binaries are particularly big versus binaries that link against glibc - of course you need some 'meat' in the tool, not just a plain 'hello world', but the difference is measured in kilobytes, not megabytes).
It was written in 2016, so I'm less critical than I would be otherwise. Regardless, there are too many examples given that are quickly proven wrong.

1. Strong Einstein and the cat. If a man (other than Stephen Hawking as mentioned in the post) wants to get a cat in a cat box, he can do it.

2. Great emu culling of Australia. So, yes, in the 1930s, emus surprised armed military cullers by adopting a guerilla warfare-type of response. Post said that this stymied Australian farmers forever. Post linked to Wikipedia article, clarifying that a different, less brute force approach (i.e. granting hunting licenses and awarding bounties) solved the problem with grace and finesse.

3. Scott Alexander and Art Bell. I occasionally listen to Art Bell's successor, George Noori. I doubt that Scott is still so gullible as to believe everything on Coast to Coast AM. Maybe Scott was a teenager then, as Art Bell hasn't done Coast to Coast AM for ages.

Granted, worrying about AI excessively can be a waste of time that tends to captivate smart people and distract from productive work. Regardless, I don't like posts such as this, concluding that people would be better off if they weren't so intelligent and inquisitive. Smart people generally DO realize when fringe ideas are fringe, e.g. note the mention of Kurzweil as a Google employee. This is true. He is (or was?) When is the last time you've heard anything about Kurzweil? It has been awhile for me.

The images were well-chosen, and perhaps the entire post was meant quasi-facetiously. If so, I apologize for taking it literally.
The T2 Tile Project homepage is at https://t2tile.com/

"The T2 Tile project is an attempt to build the world's first indefinitely scalable computational stack. First, we suspend the idea that we must be bound to an architecture based on correct and efficient deterministic hardware and software. Instead, much like the physical world around us, we look to robustness as a foundational requirement, building living systems as vessels for digital computation that is firstly robust, then as correct as possible, and finally, as efficient as necessary."

Unfortunately, it seems to be devoid of textual documentation, instead comprising a long series of videos.
That seem to be it. They talk about compiling a database of cave art. I'd love to access that !