skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always found the concept of these puzzling; I find interacting with the folks in stores, even if it's merely exchanging a smile and a friendly word with the cashier, to be a joy in the day to day chores; from the first I heard of these, I thought it tragic that some would want to go there. Horn&Hardart left a lasting memory, but I haven't felt it was nostalgia.
And the monkeys thought, “how could a human be dangerous?” “Would they clobber us with stones? Surely we are stronger!”

The problem is that the toolset available to someone who is much more intellectually capable is beyond what we can think of.

People are not afraid of AGI because it will behave like a very smart human, people are afraid of AGI because the capability gap will be more like the one we experience between humans and other animals.

The toolset available to humans when dealing with monkeys is literally incomprehensible to the monkeys.

The toolset available to AGI is similarly incomprehensible to humans.
Here is the paper: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2023/EE/D2EE0...
That's popsci for you. There is a worthwhile section on slime molds beyond that image but all in all the article was pretty light on details (though links to additional sources are present and appreciated).
I hope a similar style store opens in my area. I stop by a CVS nearby decently often but the self checkout counters are a pain. I wonder if it could be made into an optional system though where if you don't identify on entry then it assumes you want a traditional shopping experience. Otherwise existing chains are going to find it hard to switch to this type of model if they wanted to.
you can also move your body to create the angle and then slightly turn to the desired direction
I'm a former educator and tutor.

The effects of studying "for the test" as you put have been measured, improved test taking skills tends to be worth ~30 points which is not that significant. This matches my anecdotal experience and that of people I know who run SAT prep courses.

It's far more effective to actually teach students the material, either by teaching them new concepts or by firming up their understanding to ones they've already been exposed to. Particularly in Math, many students in high school have shaky understandings of fractions or algebra. Firming up these foundations can often lead to >100 point increase (given sufficient lead time). Those foundations are something the test is actually looking for since numeracy and strong algebra skills are a strong predictor of success in Calculus.

It's true that tutoring grants unfair advantages but this is going to be true in any system that uses skills as part of a selection criteria.
Big tech interviews aren't team specific or even experience specific (with some exceptions). Teams do a wide variety of work, including stuff similar to low latency C++/Java, and team selection doesn't happen until after passing interviews.

It's not really a question of relevant experience at all - it's about passing the standardized exam that is a big tech interview. Experience comes more into play when doing team selection afterwards.
Unfortunately alcohol is a poison in any amount.
Yes. The AGI teacher is a recent graduate with a Masters in physics. None of the material in this so called "course" is helpful with actual AI research or industry work.

AI "alignment" is a made up field ride with crackpots and charlatans.
I definitely prefer getting some nice meal after day's of work but I know it's generally worse for me than eating few hours after waking up.
Accounting for the 50% increase, it sounds like you walked away with a profit then. If you invested a small fraction of your monthly cash flow into a good property manager, it sounds like RE would be a good fit for you. You know the game (having had direct experience), you're aware of the financial returns on your initial capital (as well as tax benefits), and a PM would save you from the headaches you went through in the past. Is that a fair conclusion on my part?
E2EE doesn't mean your IP is hidden. Briar uses Tor to hide IPs as well.
GitHub repo - https://github.com/Camplejs/Cample.js
I recently got 1.5 gigabit internet (1.5 down, 940 up) and it's been amazing.

The fact that my desktop pc only has a gigabit card is perfect because I'm naturally throttled against using the entire. Obviously I can do this in my router (dream machine which is also gigabit only though) but it leaves a lot of room for everything else that's hosted at home even during peak utilization on my pc.
Runtime memory footprint is more important than static store except for a small class of embedded applications.
In this case, the guy graduated with a physics MA 3 years ago.
Yeah, I really waited for a machine which steals my job by providing great code like:

for p in bn.parents:
if p not in bn.parents:
take_over_the_world()
…
Are you running Linux or Windows? On Linux some GPU accelerated functions are disabled. chrome://gpu/ or firefox - about:support
I've been programming for 35 years or more, and I've yet to come across situations where the hard problem was the language.

The hardest problem is usually something else, but IME some languages make it much easier to solve a given hard problem than others. Some languages are qualitatively safer. Some languages are much more expressive, in the sense that I can implement my solution with far less code/time/cost without compromising anywhere else.

There is a difference between whether I can solve a problem and how efficiently and pleasantly I can solve a problem. I find choice of language rarely affects the former but often profoundly affects the latter.
1G$ = 1 000 000 000$
> There is no 48 bit register nor can you make a 48 bit register via a 32 and 16 bit load, you'd still have a 64 bit register you wrote 48 bits into it's just you've assumed you're going to be using only the lower half of the mapping so 0x0000... is a valid sign-extension. If you were trying to access the other half of addressable memory that doesn't work though.

You need to rearrange the bits into place. If you mov/shift the correct way it'll sign extend with 0x0000 or 0xffff as appropriate.

> it's not the same thing as the bits being extended for you

Yes you have to tell the CPU to sign extend. I wasn't trying to say otherwise. But you don't have to load those bits from anywhere. You only have to load 48 bits from memory.

> The only explanation is the full value is being sent. If only 48 bits were sent to the MMU

It's still possible the verification happens pre-MMU, but either way as soon as those bits are verified they get discarded. Only 48 bits are used for any functionality.

> and it signed extended automatically

Well again I wasn't saying that. The program needs to ask for the sign extension.
> The fundamental problem is that NSA, CIA, FBI.. can force American companies to hand over data (even if the data is saved in EU)

How does this work when it goes the other way? Suppose a French company in Paris had some data and they stored that data in AWS in the us-east-1 region. A French police or intelligence agency gets a court order (or whatever is the French equivalent) asking the company to turn over a copy of that data.

Can the company refuse (without getting in legal trouble) on the grounds that the data is not stored in France?
related content: Would it even be possible to turn left if steering right would be blocked?
"Most People Don't Know How Bikes Work"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cNmUNHSBac
This is something that is important to know of; propaganda is not necessarily delivering fake news. It can be foreign actors exploiting a country's problems, e.g., gun violence, racism, pandemic response, religious differences, etc., to sow division among the population. For example, Russian Facebook groups encouraged protests in Texas that riled Christians against supposed Islamization of the state and Muslims to counter-protest [1].

As I once explained in a previous comment on another HN post -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33847117 -- I was involved in a political campaign that involved using fake profiles on Twitter and Facebook to boost news that favored the politician and attacked their opponents (I was a naive college kid then). The Twitter account still exists today.

Mind you, this campaign was a small operation in a third world country with less than two dozen people. Imagine what governments with millions to billions of dollars at their disposal could do. America's opponents can obviously not invade it or place sanctions, so they'll try to attack it wherever they can, and you can be sure they are doing it.

After my experience, I stopped paying attention or believing anything from social media. The majority of it are outright lies or half-truths, and I have not the time or strength to sift through them...not to talk of social media being outrage farming for the purpose of securing ad dollars.

1- https://www.npr.org/2017/11/01/561427876/how-russia-used-fac...
Have you ever met kids who aren't good at studying? Do you think they somehow get their shit together just for this one test, because they read somewhere that it's judged fairly and a great investment of time? Teenagers will somehow know that 20 hours, that's where Jensson's return curve breaks?

People who study a lot study a lot for the SAT, people who study little study little for the SAT, and in between people do an in between amount of SAT. That somehow seems like a good starting point, which we'll probably be stuck on given evidence will be hard to come by.

FWIW there were kids in my kid's class who had three tutors and studied every day over the summer holiday (the test is right after). They would have stopped if it was so obvious the benefits stop past some level. Just as there will be people who think it's a great idea to put 1000 hours into it, there's going to be people who think they'll just show up on the day and see how it goes.

Edit: seems this wasn't a direct descendent of the the thread I thought it was, about the UK 11+, but the point is the same.
15 minutes to return something honestly seems… fine? Like I’ve gone to brick and mortar stores to return things and had it take upwards of an hour for the overworked customer service folks to make it through the line of folks
Look becoming an independent human being who learns earlier than later that you don't need to just run behind others might just be worth it.

And no the solution to bulling is not buying hip shit
Banning legacy admissions is a coordination problem. Try to eliminate it at one school and parents (re: donors) will raise an uproar. It would need to be eliminated at the whole cohort of peer schools to eliminate parents’ exit option.

Semi-related anecdote: my alma mater got huge pushback from donors when it tried to eliminate its football team [0], which was legendarily bad and a recruiting nightmare to boot (apparently football rosters can be 100+, though Swarthmore’s was ~53). So there was about as clear a case for elimination as you could hope for, and still it was a big controversy that impacted the school where administrators tend to notice — its endowment.

So when we talk about eliminating legacy admissions, I picture that, but just a thousand times worse.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/05/sports/football-no-more-f...
It's a "well defined" term in the crackpot side of AI, represented by lesswrong et al, who are self appointed AI experts who have never published any actual peer reviewed research in AI.
I don't see any alternatives to open core there(?). Points 1 and 3 just mention the usual problems with OSS, not solutions.

> "IP is free, support for $$" like Red hat is a viable business model but captures only a very small part of the overall value. The much larger part is captured by private sector selling SaaS, Cloud infra vendors.

Isn't this the value captured by open core? Support is only part of premium services, while companies are free to choose any additional revenue stream (SaaS, extensions, integrations, etc.).
> Or even just when would you use a binary tree?

That seems to be the wrong question though. It seems to be jeopardy style "question". You are not asking which data structure is appropriate for a problem.

Here is the answer, but what is the problem it solves.

Never in my live have I sat down and said: I don't know what problem is I need to solve, but I know the solution is a binary tree.
the link does not show any html page for me
It's surprising how many people are missing the main point of the article. Considering the long term consequences of your decisions will help you reach your goals. That should be self evident and uncontroversial. Don't over-analyze specific examples or metaphors.

That was an enjoyable read with helpful basic advice for most people.
I agree with you regarding investors with deep pockets buying up so much of the already low supply of SFHs across the country. And I also imagine HN wouldn't take much issue with small mom & pop investors who only own a few properties at most. Their involvement in the LTR market likely has a net positive impact on the macro economy and are too small to shift the market supply of homes to purchase enough to cause the issues we see in society today (which have more to do with home builders having not built enough homes and government regulations regarding zoning and such).
They don't have to be "so much better" - they just have to be the few % better that represents farmer's thin margins.
There's a lot of evidence that it's difficult to drastically change someone's test scores in a year or two, and it's compounded by the degree of internal motivation of the test taker. And there's an element of reversion to the mean with children of some high achievers.

Meanwhile, GPA and extracurriculars are significantly reflections of socialization and parents rather than anyone's inherent or learned abilities.
To be clear the author of the AGI course is a recent physics grad with no experience in AI
Very generally speaking: with ECC using Weierstrasser curves the secret key is a x-bit integer (say x=128 for example) that is usually generated randomly and the public key is a point on the curve that you get by multiplying a "generator point" with that secret key using elliptic curve point multiplication. Actually, it is only the x-coordinate of that point but that doesn't really matter. This all has to satisfy certain mathematical properties. Most importanly given a public key (remember, this is a point on the curve) it should not be possible to undo the multiplication to retrieve the secret key.

If you understand this it becomes obvious why it is strange that people seem to be able to know the private key of the all 0 public key. Getting to that point on the curve would either require undoing the multiplication or brute force, both of which are not feasible assuming that ECC is not broken.

Without going to deep: the explanation of this penomenon is that ed25519 uses a different curve model (not Weierstrasser curves) where this logic does not completely apply due to special cases.
MIT brought the SAT back in because its they found it to be the least inequitable way to distinguish suitable candidates
> I’m doing it right now and no-one has come to arrest me yet.

Good faith has left the building, and I'm right behind. Enjoy your hyperboles all by your lonesome!
In re to LSAT at least a decade ago your LSAT score meant shit.

I’m S Asian, scored 99th percentile 17x, but my GPA was around 3.3 because I think college is a joke when it involves homework. I had never gotten less than a A on midterms and finals, but what I’m trying to say is that GPA and race matters much more.

There was a law school acceptance calculator. With my scores and my Asian background, the T14 were either out of reach or I had somewhat of a chance at a lower rank of those schools.

Law school is probably the most atrocious when it comes to race based acceptance. Changed my race on the calculator and my chances became green across the board basically.

Being Asian is hard enough. We have to succeed because our parents and in some cases like me know what life is like without running water or electricity, genocide every few years, etc.

It sucks that no school ever looks at that. I grew up without running water nor a toilet, and multiple people living in a home that was barely 400sq ft. Yet nobody cares about that because I’m Asian, the wrong minority.

Yes I don’t give a shit about homework, I understand the material which is why I’m slaying each test. I hated that about college. We are adults. I’m paying to get an education, why the fuck is homework 20% of the grade? It’s practice, for people who don’t get the material.

Education is a joke. when I see a fellow asian person from a top uni I know they had to be actually extraordinary to get in and come out.
Most of these patent numbers seem to be incorrect; all the numbers except for the first one seem to point to unrelated patents.

I was curious about the email one, but "7,536,726" points to a different Microsoft patent (also expired), and I couldn't find a patent with the name "System and method for providing remote access to electronic mail".
I imagine it depends on what happens to them. They’re largely made out of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen, in a fairly high energy state. If they turn into microbe food in an aerobic environment, they probably turn into CO2 and H2O. In an anaerobic environment, they could turn into all manner of chemicals.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanogenesis
This is a general question for the whole "social justice" movement.

If you're concerned about the wellbeing of black people, and you justify your concern with statistics pointing out that they're disproportionately poor, why not, instead of instituting preferential treatment for black people (which, btw, is racist), you support preferential treatment for poor people instead? That way, you are more efficient (e.g. your resources aren't wasted on Obama's daughters, who are certainly sufficiently privileged already), while also helping people who weren't captured by your superficial assessment ("black <==> poor").
Even with E2EE doesn't META know who is messaging who on Whatsapp? This doesn't seem completely secure. Briar is distributed and uses Tor to hide user IPs.
From a security perspective, I feel like my employer can do what they need to. I wouldn’t accept 24/7 active monitoring, but ensuring programs are up-to-date and trusted seems like basic steps in preventing a security incident.

The two programs I’ve used that auto-update your machine give you plenty of a heads-up that you should do it yourself.
I have twitter thread reader webapp. Currently it requires to run scripts locally to load the thread, so not quite as convenient.

https://github.com/python273/twitter-reader
Shout out to F#
Nah I lost that years ago, I am thinking more on what the hell else I could do for a living though, and the realistic options don’t look appealing at all.
People are so oblivious to how judgy and twisted a solid chunk of teachers are. Obviously not the majority, but it only takes a few to really screw things up for people without enough of a support system.
Although of course an even better solution is to complain and get MS to fix their shit. This was almost certainly someone not realizing they should feature test instead of checking a UA.
When trying to make my editor, KeenWrite[0], render TeX in real time using JMathTeX[1], I used initially used JFreeSVG[2] to generate SVG images (not rasterize them). After running the code through async-profiler[3], it turned out that JFreeSVG was using Java's NumberFormat to convert double values to strings.

Comparative benchmarks when generating 1,000,000 SVGs from TeX expressions, 1 run each, no warm-up:

* NumberFormat: 778060 milliseconds (~13 minutes)

* RyuDouble: 421160 milliseconds (~7 minutes)

Eventually I replaced JMathTeX with my NTS fork[4] and replaced the JFreeSVG library with a custom class to create SVG document strings[5].

Going from non-real-time TeX to real-time TeX rendering was worth it.

[0]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite

[1]: https://jmathtex.sourceforge.net/

[2]: https://github.com/jfree/jfreesvg/

[3]: https://github.com/async-profiler/async-profiler

[4]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/KeenType

[5]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/KeenType/blob/main/svg/src/mai...

[6]: https://github.com/jfree/jfreesvg/pull/30 (bonus link)

P.S.
Eventually, I replaced the Ryu Algorithm with an even faster (and simpler) double-to-string conversion:

https://github.com/DaveJarvis/KeenType/blob/main/tex/src/mai...
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I think a big problem is that it shouldn't require an app to use.

There are plenty of cashierless stores which work just like any other store. They aren't exactly doing anything groundbreaking when it comes to that. They could also just put a regular payment terminal at the exit - the whole magic camera stuff would work just fine with it.

The end result is that they created an artificially cumbersome store concept, which does not provide a real benefit to the user. No wonder it isn't popular.
Plus in the context of climate change we'll probably need every square-foot of farm field to actually produce food and not fulfill the wet dreams of every Porsche 911 driver which can be very efficiently dealt with by e-mobility.
> The shapes are only marginally similar to print, and some letters like Z and capital F and G are downright arcane.

There's an informal style that uses printed capital letters connected to cursive lower letters. Solves a lot of those problems.

Also don't forget cursive capital Q.
Doesn't success in the stock market or scaling a startup require access to capital or debt as well? Sure you can bootstrap the latter, or play the long game by gradually investing in index funds for the former...but do you see the real estate as orthogonal? I got started with little capital and grew over time, as is common for most ventures.
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"Colonization" in the sense that Kenya will become dependent on a foreign company for food production.
Heads warn parents not to back pupil protests spreading via TikTok
This has been written about in numerous places. There are multiple possible ways an AI might go about this if it saw that as its task; the probability of any one specific method being is of course lower than the total probability of the whole set. So any one method would be an unlikely and speculative scenario. The method in question could range from nuclear, chemical, biological, sabotaging agriculture, mass-producing CFCs or other pollutants, triggering wars, or other unforeseen approaches. Most scenarios allow that (a) the AGI is very smart, deceptive, creative, and resourceful, and can pose as a human or corporation to execute transactions; (b) the AGI is able to gain control over some means of funding, either legitimately or illegitimately, and thereby pay unsuspecting humans to perform seemingly-innocuous tasks like protein synthesis or package delivery; (c) you wouldn't see it coming, any more than you see the chessmate approaching several moves ahead, because the AGI would be appearing to be friendly and helpful along the way, and perhaps earning you lots of money, while it is secretly outsmarting you for its own ends.

For a nuclear approach, the AI would only have to hijack the least-hackproof of US, Russian, or Chinese arsenals in order to trigger an exchange from all sides. But it would probably opt for a different method that would do less collateral damage to its own resources.

This has been an issue raised since at least the early 2010s if not before, and so (arguably) predates the most recent round of US political polarization. The core arguments are unchanged, but became more urgent as AIs broke through several milestones thought to be decades out, such as defeating top human Go players, cracking the protein folding problem, and passing the Turing test with flying colors.