skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it can act

How exactly can it act?

I should add that I'm more and more opposed to AI for a number of reasons, but there's no reason to suppose that Bing can actually act in any way other than shooting its mouth off.
ChatGPT describes ten ways it can train humans to become more intelligent
Me
If ChatGPT were used to train humans to become more intelligent, what ten training strategies would be most Central to this technology?

ChatGPT
Active learning: Encourage learners to engage with the material actively by asking questions, seeking clarification, and applying new concepts to real-world scenarios.

Metacognition: Teach learners to think about their thinking processes and reflect on their learning strategies, strengths, and weaknesses.

Practice and repetition: Provide ample opportunities for learners to practice new skills and concepts repeatedly, reinforcing them over time.

Feedback: Offer constructive feedback that highlights areas for improvement and reinforces successful learning strategies.

Collaboration: Encourage learners to work with others and exchange ideas, leveraging collective knowledge and skills to promote learning.

Multimodal instruction: Use a variety of instructional methods, such as videos, audio recordings, visuals, and interactive tools, to cater to diverse learning styles.

Scaffolding: Provide support and guidance to learners as they tackle more challenging tasks, gradually reducing support as they become more proficient.

Transfer of learning: Encourage learners to apply what they have learned in one context to another, fostering the transfer of knowledge and skills across domains.

Self-regulated learning: Teach learners to set goals, monitor progress, and adjust their learning strategies based on feedback and performance.

Growth mindset: Encourage learners to adopt a growth mindset, believing that intelligence and abilities can be developed with effort and persistence, rather than fixed traits that cannot be changed.

These training strategies are not exhaustive and can be tailored to meet the needs of different learners and learning environments. Ultimately, promoting intelligence growth requires a holistic and personalized approach that takes into account individual strengths, weaknesses, and learning styles.
I know that this is the case in Netherlands. I think they are over reacting to those and under-reacting to cars. As long as the speed is sufficiently limited, they not more dangerous then bikes.
This is sort of true of owning a car or a home or basically anything. Of those things, my server requires by far the least amount of maintenance (even considering needing to take a day to do something more invasive maintenance once two years or so).

I also think it's perfectly fine if my site is down for a day or so because I'm away on travel and it's gone offline. 89.9999% has five nines as well.
Only if by "modern Java" you mean Kotlin.

C# has top-level functions and even top-level code these days, but it evolves a lot faster.
The execution of rulesets needs to be performed synchronously and as fast as possible, since requests are blocked until they pass the permission checks; but it doesn't need any sort of replication since each request is validated independently.

Request logging can be performed asynchronously and has much more relaxed latency requirements, but data needs to be aggregated and replicated for durability.

The extremely different requirements pretty much guarantee that these will be two completely separate systems; by Conway's Law, this means two completely separate teams. In practice, logging is more aimed at business analytics and billing.

You're right that the information should be available, and there's no technical reason why it can't be made available, but there are technical reasons which influence the social reasons why it's not available.
Yes, if you can make do with a single atomic-sized object, you can perform any RMW on it with either a CAS loop or a special-cased atomic operation (like add or subtract) and not need any further synchronization. What the GP commenter described as being potentially dangerous and nedding expert knowledge is going in any way beyond that. It's really easy to e.g. trigger ABA problems and other issues without realizing it. So just use a mutex to synchronize access instead.
Y axis are Github stars. They sort of mention it in the preceding paragraph.
I've quickly read the blog post. Indeed, every comment here agrees on the recipe : wealthy family, private/personal tutoring and gifted children to begin with.

But it seems, when asking if it can still be reproduced nowadays, no one here mentions the negative factors, the "inhibitors".

I think social medias, tv (less nowadays), an education system less focused on core knowledge and more on "social" trivia, without mentioning a society that just is/seems giving less praise to smart people or intellectual achievements is not a soil from where geniuses can grow.

People love to mention "low hanging fruits" but for music, philosophy or writing, there are no "low hanging fruits", yet I hope no one is gonna question the fact we don't see new Platos, Mozart or Hugos emerging...
Very nice project! Wondering if a 4$ RP2040 microcontroller would be usable for this...
Ehm, stop the snakes boarding the plane(!).

I know it's Python and it's supposed to be all snakes and games, but for someone who suffers from ophidiophobia (fear of snakes) when I see one unexpectedly my whole day is ruined (that's it: I see snakes everywhere attacking me).

I've been programming in Python for 20 years (the current logo is from 2006..), and while snake pictures included in articles about Python programming are rare, they trigger that fear in me (and possibly other folks).

No problems with cartoon snakes etc.
While I like Proxmox and have used it in a startup, I wouldn't recommend it for enterprise simply due to how flaky the Terraform integration was the last time I checked. Probably a year or two ago. Regardless, the Terraform integration was done in the typical open source fashion of a single developer, where I'd question the amount of resources put into getting the software past 80% completion. The company behind Proxmox does not seem to prioritize the enterprise market segment.

We ended up using the REST API for automated provision management and there are certainly warts. It's a far cry from being a turn-key solution, which I'd argue is preferred by a large enterprise.

It's great for click-ops if that's your use case, but that also wouldn't qualify as an enterprise use case.
The problem is the relationship between what those people do and what they gain. Why should videos in which you throw eggs from a bridge wrapped in drinking straws give you millions each year?

this is just obvious wrong allocation of resources in the market.
Here's a practical example: I hire people from California. I had to fill out multiple forms and now pay extra tax just for those guys. I don't have to do this anywhere else.

California is famous for squandering wealth on huge projects, aren't they? Wasn't like 60k per homeless person spent? We live on different planets.

It's awful to do business in/with California, sorry. And yes their taxes are awful. The worst in the USA dude, I'm so confused..? Who is worse?

Good luck.
Maybe someone "fishing" to get comments approved so they can post comments in the future from the same alias and get auto approved?

There's a WordPress setting to auto approved comments from previously approved authors
It can be a lot easier if resources are more pooled. Society has decided as a whole to adopt isolating philosophies and lifestyles but small groups can reject this and form communes. I know many people raising children in groups like this, and their quality of life is so much higher than friends who chose the "traditional" American lifestyle of a nuclear family I struggle to understand how the nuclear family idea wasn't laughed out of the room the first time someone tried it (it's definitely a new idea, even in my white bread swedish Midwest heritage. I hear stories from my grandparents about how larger families used to live together to raise kids, working with neighbors and etc).

The hard part is of course finding people with roughly the same child raising values as you and your partner, but then again, is that that much harder than finding a life romantic partner with roughly the same child raising values as you? I think most people don't even do that, in my experience a lot of people and couples are totally winging it and marriages occur out of convenience or necessity.
Very, very, very cool and informative! It's an excellent reminder of how much we take gobs of memory for granted.

I never knew about issues with ethernet interfaces being too busy, so this finally explains things I saw way back when and never properly understood.

Interestingly, SuperH is one of those architectures that still has good toolchain support even though most people aren't even aware of its existence. The most recent quarter's NetBSD pkgsrc directory for SuperH has 5,900 modern packages, all built on a SuperH system with just 64 megabytes:

https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/sh3el/9.0_...

It's wonderful to see preservation efforts like this. Now I wish I had a Dreamcast!
Yeah, I also wonder this is a sign of a change in strategy. DigitalOcean was always developer friendly. Maybe they want to double down and start selling direct to enterprises. (I'm out of the loop, maybe that's already happening)
This is delightful. I wonder if anyone there could have done anything if they had known what they were dealing with.
> Digital advertising

> obviously suboptimal outcomes

I find targeted ads obviously superior to generic ones. And "surveillance capitalism" is so far just a derogatory term for which I am still waiting to see any actual, real-world downsides.

Unlike, say, "surveillance state" which is a horrifying nightmare I had the bad luck to experience.
> one Einstein contributes more to the world (on average) than one garbage worker

And so does one Putin. Your point about scale is valid but the implied value judgement of choosing Einstein is not (whether you intended that or not, choosing Einstein ensures everyone will read it that way).

One software developer or engineer working for a big nasty corporation like Shell or Facebook does create more change in the world than one garbage collector, undoubtedly. But it's fully possible for the change they create to be entirely negative. An engineer who creates a faster rainforest cutting machine, for example, or a better method of catching fish that results in destruction of an ecosystem, or a developer who writes ever more sneaky ways to invade your privacy. More change does not equal more value.
No, it doesn't. That's not written anywhere on the page. And even if it were, the obvious interpretation of "outside world" would just be that it's available outside the container. And maybe that it's bound to the external network interfaces, but not that it bypasses the firewall.
Hetzner is a good provider, but you can get some resources for free as well. https://paul.totterman.name/posts/free-clouds/
Wouldn't looking only at successful people be running right into the survivor bias?
>> The total “amount” or “supply” of a financial asset is the total market value of it in existence: the number of shares outstanding times the market price.

Isn't this assuming 'mark to market' - the assumption that the entire supply of an asset class could be sold at the selling price of some (usually very small) fraction of the supply that has most recently been traded.

If my understanding is correct, this is the fallacy that has underpinned the inflated valuations of many crypto assets (SBF etc)
Ask HN: How best to deal with the loss of a brilliant friend to heroin?
An extraordinary friend of mine, IMO a genius of a rare sort, struggled with addiction for much of his life and recently passed from an overdose. He had an overfill of talent to share with the world, eaten by this horrific disease. I know this is not uncommon, so hoping for some pithy advice on making sense of it, which at the moment I'm struggling to do.
Read Double Fold. It will make you hate librarians.
> “using only the information available for that function in the translation unit defining it, which includes the annotations possibly provided in function declarations.”

> So, in the examples, when something calls "read", what does the analyzer know about "read", and how much of its "char " buffer it overwrites?

As the text says: “the annotations possibly provided in function declarations.”*

The PDF also says “the large part of the result is obtained without any annotation at all, thanks to the fact that the C Standard Library and the POSIX Library have been annotated once and for all (and the same can be done with any commonly used library).”
Yes, I use both.
I remember Microsoft making an announcement more than a year ago -- saying they are developing a way of passwordless authentication. Wonder what happened to that initiative. Have not seen much about that in recent times.
Even $1 million is enough to not worry about those things, at which point we're in the range of what many tech workers working for hot startups or big tech have made in the past couple years.

They're often not saying who is being laid off. A bunch of engineers? Sales & marketing? I doubt that any of these companies (besides Amazon) even employ significant amount of low-wage staff, they get those via a staffing agency to avoid benefits and public responsibility for mistreatment.
From around the same time, in French there is the TV series with Bruno Cremer, which is also very good. Quite a few episodes are available on that popular videos website as well...
Not necessarily security. Maybe just not having to deal with reports for self hosted illegal content. They might be more than happy to let other companies deal with that. Their competitors are probably doing the same thing.
Neither does ChatGPT. It just appears that it does to a machine (human brain) that can do it and assess if others do it too.
I work on a research project related to better understanding bacterial resistance. Concretely, we want better tooling to search for plasmids, which are sub-genomic replicants that can enchance their host (bacteria) with various abilities, most importantly for humans, antimicrobial resistance.

In this study, they fail to breed resistance. Fair enough, but in the wild, bacteria will eventually obtain a new, perhaps unknown plasmid with new genes. This cannot be detected in the lab. So I'm somewhat skeptical that resistance will not crop up quickly in the wild.
correct. They say so in the paper.
I don't think people usually complain about it being too much work in a sense that you have to put in several hours a week. People usually even like the initial setup procedure because it's fun. When I was studying self-hosting things was just another hobby.

For me it's now more about always having it in the back of my mind that I should do regular updates, make sure the disks are fine and everything is healthy. If something goes wrong the first thought will be "something broke" and not "oh I guess the provider has some issues, let's try again later". Or if in a few years I don't want to do it anymore I know I'll always postpone moving it to a provider because it'll be a hassle.

There's just so many other things to worry about or work on that I don't want to also add time to make sure my email server is running.
> Then he continued with a threat and illegal activity,

"Do you know I might have the hacker ability to shut you down?" is not an "illegal activity".

You should calm down. This chatbot is not some intelligent, vaguely menacing creature with immense power as you seem to imply.
InDepth from 'First Round' VC investor

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Series of very well conducted interviews (without any meandering) with founders and execs of startups.
I can send you some ios screenshots
The issue with Oracle JDK is you _have_ to pay even if you don't use it. If there's just one person in the company using Oracle JDK they bill you for the entire company headcount.

Earlier licensing practices were not much better; my company did a 'hard purge' a few years ago and everything using Oracle JDK+RDBMS is now running on OpenJDK with a PostgreSQL backend.

Don't know what rooting for Google and/or IBM would help. All companies that size do have their shady side and will sometimes do questionable things. They didn't get to be so big just by being nice...
> which is why so many find 'adulting' hard.

Being an adult is hard. Its so much harder than being a student living with your parents. It does require a dedicated skillset that isn't taught to minors anymore, and it requires owning a lot more responsibility, all at once. When I was in school there was no HomeEc, no woodshop, no financial literacy, and the closest thing to health info I learned was that men are gross and need deodorant while women should stay a virgin.

There is a real stress and challenge with maintaining a home, saving for retirement, etc as a young (and likely lower-income) person. And that's to say nothing about the growing income and affordability gap present across generations, making it harder for younger generations to achieve the life their parents had.

A generation ago most women didn't work and everyone got married at a young age. Consequently, most adults lived in a shared household where one person spent their entire day cooking and cleaning and preparing the household.
sounds interesting- thanks for the pointer

I am not familiar with cloudlflare and if it has a free tier like AWS

will explore
But that machine cannot decompress that at real time. The comment I replied to said that would be solvable by adding a few minutes of buffering, but that requires a buffer to hold uncompressed audio.
> Probably was some dude’s L7 promo project in AWS.

Actually a former CS prof at Maryland moving to industry. https://mhicks.me/
I don't think it is possible to read only browse the internet. You can insert stuff into urls and make stuff happen server side.

this ai can browse the internet, it can open urls, therefore it can act. Also, I think it is even able to do some more advanced stuff than just simple curl on websites, but idk for sure.
Can you provide specific data points and examples for this 10 year hypothesis?
Australia considers banning engineered stone products to reduce silicosis
If this turns out to be safe in humans, it will be amazing news

Antibiotic-resistance is incredibly scary and this seems to offer a new class of antibiotics, with a potential of more variations from the class being discovered. Though in case of resistance there's obviously no guarantee that the way bacteria overcome the resistance won't work on all variations of the class
True, but it's not like there's only one spammer or that they're coordinating.
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'if you're not paying for the product, you are the product.' is a form of logical implication !A => B (where A is 'paying' and B is 'I'm the product), Your phrase 'If I'm paying for it, I'm the customer' is effectively stating A => !B, which unfortunately does not follow.

You can validly infer "if we're not the product we must be paying", but more realistically you'll be both paying and the product (i.e. paying a subscription and receiving ads, a la cable tv).
> They would however need to find people that can sell bitcoins to them.

I hope you don't think they'd go around writing "zdrastvuite zis is putin can you sell some bitcoins" with strong slavic accent :)

> Let's say a corrupt dictatorship wants to turn their $1T of criminal/stolen assets into BTC. How are they gonna do that?

Give somebody ruble in exchange for bitcoins. Maybe even have a handy russian in charge of a crypto exchange (that's probably what got localbitcoins shut down in the first place).

Remember how they made it impossible to store or withdraw lots of foreign currency? I bet it helps demand for ruble. Pegging ruble exchange rate probably helps too, remember how after rising to more than 100 rub somehow dollar is now worth 60 rub (only in Russia of course, good luck selling ruble anywhere else).
Small groups sticking around for generations is what you find in rural areas, because the surrounding environment is conducive to it. Urban environments have always been population sinks throughout history, and the modern age has only made this even more apparent.
You can simulate a policy with AWS IAM Policy Simulator
Humans will interact with at least four types of digital people, including Kardashian-style celebrities custom-built to influence consumers and companions for elderly patients receiving care in the community, new research claims. These computer-generated digital people mimic human behaviour and are used as sales assistants, corporate trainers, and social media influencers. For instance, Lil Miquela, an Instagram influencer with almost three million followers, is entirely virtual.
How much of the region history do you know? Russia has been invading countries for centuries. You are fooling yourself by reducing the complicated history and relations between Russia and Ukraine to some kind of semi-conspiracy theory about proxy wars and what's not.
This photo is a composite. It wouldn't live stream at this resolution. So at this distance there wouldn't be any privacy implications
> You gain no privacy

You do:

1. You don't reply to many incoming emails, so they would never be seen by the MTA

2. Even when replying, you don't necessarily include the whole original email in your response (though that's only a very minor improvement)

3. MTAs normally don't store emails, and it would be expensive for them to do so as you aren't paying them for storage. This protects your past and present emails from the MTA turning evil (or being hacked) in the future.

> by not opening up your firewall, you will have a much more secure home network, especially if you're not a security expert, which many people are not.

Even consumer-grade routers support DMZs. With the right instructions, it's possible to only open the firewall to the server and keep it out of the home network.
I also don't think throwing a basketball really really well should earn you millions, nor do I think that creating new fashion styles should earn you millions. And lots of people don't think that Shakespeare's plays are any good and that he should've earned anything off of them.

Maybe the world would be better off if I (or you) were a dictator and could impose our views on everyone else. But I don't really trust anyone to do that, so a market mechanism is better than anything else. And whether we like it or not, more people find watching MrBeast or Michael Jordan "worthwhile" than other things that we care about more.

(If I were a dictator, I'd put most of our resources on advancing scientific discoveries, with an emphasis on figuring out how to make humans immortal, and a huge part of our resources would go to figuring out AI safety, then to AI. That is the correct way to allocate resources in this point in time, IMO. How many people would like to live in such a world?)
I really want -> in Rust too (or perhaps .*). I don't see why such a thing would be controversial.
Researchers scramble as Twitter plans to end free data access
> CXXFLAGS: "-std=c++20 -g3 -O2 -flto -Werror"

-Werror without -Wall or -Wextra is pretty lame. It just errors on all suppressed warnings.
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