skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you have no idea what AGI will lead to

Neither do you? None of us do, in fact I’d imagine the people trying for AGI right now would have a better guess than you or I.

> there would be an immediate and total power vacuum caused by the advancements. these advancements would be so huge that it would change the geopolitical equation beyond recognition.

This sounds like you’re assuming someone will flip a switch one day and the most powerful mind in history will be let loose. I’m not sure AGI will advance that fast. We might have alot of incredibly “stupid” iterations of AGIs first, for many years before a clever one rolls around.

> this is intrinsic and unavoidable. it cannot be disproved or denied.

Were all just making assumptions here, I don’t think yours get to be called “intrinsic and unavoidable”.

I understand the concerns here, but if you’re willing to claim the end of the world, I would suggest basing your claims on something, or atleast making your assumptions explicit. E.g. “assuming we achieve AGI, and its equipped to rapidly become more powerful/intelligent than the whole of the human population…)
36 bits is very neat, and used by several machines including the PDP-10. The smallest unit doesn't have to be a single character.
You already live in that world.
(Clickable) Call Graph for Apache NuttX Real-Time Operating System
The comment you are responding to did a great job of explaining the situation. I don't know what you are trying to say.
Just writing a string in a python doesn’t output that string to stdout
OpenAI is more like Apple than AWS
It is even worse. It has been captured from for the past 120 years or so. The railroad companies tried to manage their own collusion, but repeatedly failed. So they helped farmers to get Congress to regulate the railroads with the ICC. Very shortly, the railroads had their people doing the regulation which very effectively managed the rates to eliminate discounts and other means of competition. With the end of such competition and stabilization provided by the government, it is easy for a big entity to take over and thrive.

They even got it to take control of the trucking industry for decades, mandating such things as being able to only have the truck full in one direction.

A government run legal system is just as ineffective as any of the other government run systems. The hope is nimble, private arbitration. Trust needs to be built up and reputations paid attention to.
I get that, but it’s hard to type accurately.
Huh, TIL there's an official GitHub desktop app
I don't ever take anything without at least making a concerted effort to understand the pharmacology of what I'm ingesting. So I'm at one end of the spectrum. She's more at the other end where "they wouldn't sell it if it was bad for you." It leads to some interesting conflicts. Admittedly, we're at opposite extremes...
Stopped reading after the patently false “communist inspired universal basic income”. A casual knowledge of the topic would lead one to understand it’s a capitalist, Milton Friedman inspired, idea.
You might want to take a look at your PSU. That seems like a suspicious amount of RAM failure to me. How old is it and what model, if you don't mind me asking?

PSU is something I never cheap out on. Always pays for itself in the end. A bad PSU can kill your whole system.
Favorite comment on HN this year ;)
I wrote a bit about how to re-engage with your dreams here: https://superbowl.substack.com/p/active-dreaming-methods-hab...

There are a bunch of different methods for stimulating dreams.
DIY Linux Kernel Rootkit Detection
An adversary is an adversary, law enforcement or otherwise. If you crowd source a list of that's useful in limiting your adversary's skulduggery, they're going to figure out how to become part of that crowd and "contribute" to your list in ways that make it useless.

The fix is to get the crowd to participate in some kind of hygiene/self policing activity: Not impossible, but if we had a readily available solution to that problem we wouldn't have governments that don't follow their rules in the first place
> Ox bile

Why is that weird? Prior to synthetic insulin, diabetics were taking pig insulin. Proteins/peptides are proteins/peptides.
It's funny to see editorals by people who are upset that any river water is "wasted" at all by letting it flow into the sea.

Out in NY we are told that we shouldn't eat any fish from inland waters thanks to PFAS, PCB and other PoP contamination. It is a shame because fish from Lake Ontario are so tasty!
Heh im French, and when time came to emigrate because I had become fluent in English and tired of France, the choice between the US and China was trivial: I chose China. It's more atheist, safer, more optimistic generally.

I think we ignore it right now, but there s a little migration wave towards China that goes beyond "rich executive parachuted in Shanghai branch", and while we re far from democracy or any kind of "Chinese dream", well, I think I ended up much much better in China than I would have in the US...

China is frigging great, the people are amazing, and we all will build this country despite the communists and the americans doing all they can to fuck it up :D Come back!
Of all the "cites" you named Chicago is the most affordable and an actual city. Te big difference is the tech scene isn't nuts like in SV, Austin, etc the money is a lot smaller and the expectations are a lot higher -companies that don't make money aren't funded very long. That said Chicago is ranked the #9 city in North America and # 19 in the world for Startups and as I said compared to other startups in other cities our startups tend to make money. Having been in IT in some capacity for the last 35 years I'd say the IT scene in Chicago is strange and lagging behind other cities for reasons I just can't understand but if I was 24 and from a small town looking for city life Chicago is where I'd want to be- NYC is a close second and it would be number one if the housing was cheaper.
What happens if somebody just puts the car up on some blocks?
Weird, I think the exact opposite, ie. malloc/free is terrible for beginners. Fine grained resource management is hard.
I used DALL-E2 to add illustrations to a Short Story posted on Hacker News
In recent years there is a diagnosis "schizophreniform" which I believe basically means "looks like schizophrenia but we're not jumping to conclusions if this is the first episode".

I don't know if that is universal or resulted from the influence of the paper in the article, but it is a thing, anyway.

The other thing is that hearing voices is not something universal or essential among people experiencing psychosis or schizophrenia.
Nightmare as opposed to what I wonder. Ended up reading "how to ruin your credit score" and realized I didn't know half the rules of this mini game.

> you have a card with a $15,000 limit and you're carrying a $2,000 balance on a card with a $5,000 limit, you have $20,000 of available credit and your ratio is a comfortable 10%. If you close the $15,000 card, your available credit plummets to $5,000 and your ratio skyrockets to 40%.

Maybe it is more fun of a game if they just give you the keys, you make payments, eventually you own the vehicle. Or you don't pay and they won't let you drive their vehicle... Or should other people be made to pay for it?

> If you stop using credit altogether, you'll eventually cease to be scored.

the "self repossessing" thing might help with the credit score - if you don't have any.
Get through the PhD as long as there is no imminent risk to your health. After that, just take a year to decompress. Travel, cleanse yourself of the relationship, and once you have space, meditate, think, reflect on what you want to do next. If you have some minor savings then just use that and then come back and re-enter the world. If you don't, work a simple job for a few months to save some cash (like a simple analyst type job) and then take off and then re-enter the world.
Lost over 70 pounds in 16 months going vegan. It's the only thing that worked and stuck (for me - YMMV). The ex150 looked interesting
That's how to do it in screen, but not a local terminal GUI I know of.
> one that stands out to me is disabling the AC

Wouldn’t this be an argument for driving the car home over disabling it? (I’m not sure, but I thought ignition lock prevents ignition. It doesn’t turn the car off if it’s already on.)
And BeOS (Haiku now): https://www.haiku-os.org/
Open source, as we understand it today, barely even existed when Commodore collapsed. If you did find someone who was familiar with the concept, they were likely to view it as a radical new idea. Those who understood the history of computers would likely see it as a quaint reflection of computing's roots in academic environments.

For most people free software meant freeware, software that was both free of cost and free to distribute but rarely included the source code. When source code was shared, it was usually for the benefit of other developers (e.g. examples and libraries). Those who did may have put it into the public domain, requested money for its use, or left it in legal limbo by saying nothing at all.

Yet the idea of distributing the source code as a means of collaborative development or to extend the life of software, few outside of the academic world would have accepted such notions. Such notions had been purged from the commercial world at least 20 years prior.

And that's even before one considers the personalities of the people running Commodore.
Open Core basically means try-before-you-buy. That is a great deal for the customer, they will know for free whether they can actually benefit from the product. If they can it means it brings them monetary value. If they get "hooked" into that monetary value, it is not a problem.

It is good that people realize Open Core is part of marketing not some highly ethical save the rainforests project. If they are companies they have a duty to know what they are buying, Caveat Emptor.
I don't believe that you've never tonight about the concept of unintended consequences and applied it to the idea of genetic modification of humans.
Show HN: Llama-dl – high-speed download of LLaMA, Facebook's 65B GPT model
Your explanation of structural sharing makes sense but there's a lot of nuance there:

1. Elixir strings are Erlang binaries (byte arrays), not charlists. Charlists are becoming rare nowadays even in Erlang because they're so memory-inefficient.

2. Comparing two lists for equality requires traversing them, you can't just look at the first node. If they were built independently they won't share structure.

3. HTML templating is (reasonably) efficient because of iodata, not charlists.
They're not though - the regulations keep getting stricter. Housing (building), for instance is expensive because the requirements tighten to match what people can afford. Remember when single glazed windows were legal? 2000 standard healthcare would probably be cheaper today if we were allowed to use it. But now we have newer more expensive (and better) treatments. Cars go like that too with safety growing.
Real-time just requires bounded pause times, but higher pause times necessarily excludes applications that require latencies below that threshold.

There are probably at least a dozen GC algorithms that provide sub-1ms pause times though, so very few applications wouldn't fit the latency requirements, as long as the other requirements are acceptable (typically higher memory use for forwarding pointers, copying, or delayed collection).
Man From Earth. Surprisingly all three of my kids were riveted to this sci-fi bottle movie. And the youngest was 10 or so at the time.
Diceware - A Golang library and password generator
Say if every year Humans publish eight million books. And every year A.I. is trained to be the knowledgeable gestalt based on that training set and functions at a table of philosophers in conversation. Year to year how do the A.I. differ? Are there thought directions the A.I. can pull the thread on when y20-ai discusses topics with y21-ai leading to an original substantial position before y23-ai is trained?
They can also get the pin through fake keypads.

PINs could be bluetoothed to the attacker.

The main problem here is not requiring proof of the card for each transaction.

This is mostly all on the bank.
That sounds horrible, something I don’t ever want to experience. I’m sorry you had to go through that, you’ve just convinced me to start including more lemon juice in my diet.
> People don't exist they are made up of cells.

> Humans don't run themselves: cells do.

> There is no such thing as a non-cell entity running humans.

Biology don't exist, they are made of atoms

Cells dont run themselvs, atoms do.

There is no such thing as a non atom entity running cells.

We has a species have a hard time trusting atoms, they make up everything.
So maybe we should take extra care with even more permanent and entirely optional changes.
The best part of capitalism is “the cream floats to the top.”
I'm not sure if I'm expressing myself poorly or we just disagree on this point, but for the record: I understand why someone might destination shop in a place like NYC, LA, Tokyo, etc.; I can't imagine why someone who lives in Vancouver would destination shop in Seattle.
This is my life long dream. To get to work on gen1 of something like this.

In place of paid mechanical Turk tutors I want to create an epistemological engine consisting of 3 main things: an inventory system of composable pieces of collected knowledge about the game world, a set of story writing design tools to create vignettes and connect pieces of narrative… a kind of narrative procedural generation system, and finally a set of original ui elements to showcase how the “knowbits” can be used to interact with the games narrative. AI will be used for character actors.
Just donated. Thanks for posting. I think it is both impressive + admirable that you undertook that kind of work. I donate to a lot of rescue charities and this is a whole totally new area I had never heard of (Chernobyl dogs specifically)
A Chinese spacecraft has been checking out US satellites high above Earth
The article and I expect the sentiment on HN to be cynical of “manifesting”.

But how is this any different from telling kids they’re gifted, which I presume most of you were told, and that becomes a self fulfilling prophecy ?
I am "shocked" how much human collective time is wasted on inefficient software and configurations, including:

- UI animations sliding/folding (e.g. 1Hz interactivity vs 120Hz interactivity).

- MS Windows default keyboard settings with slowed down key repeat rate.

- corporate firewalls configured to DROP instead of REJECT the LAN traffic.

- latency to access office documents in the cloud.

- MS Teams bugs frustrations.

- increased number of mouse clicks in WIN11 to reach common functions.

- other software bugs/annoyances we cannot fix, c.g Jonathan Blow.
I'm sorry, but this is a bad article and a horrible photo. Kirtsen should go talk with someone on chemo and find out a bit more. Chemo is indefinite, usually given "as needed". Some cancers don't go away, and some come back. (I speak with anecdotal experience.)
I'm not convinced colored functions are a problem, personally. You either color an async function with a Continuation argument and place yields, or you can mark it as a CPS function with a keyword, so it's not like coloring goes away by omitting the keyword. And making async pre-emptive introduces a different kind of complexity that can be just as hard, if not harder, to reason about for anything more complex than "park this thread for IO".
How about you stop being an apologist for trans genocide? Try that.
When capitalism gets to the point that it has rid itself of consumers, I fear it means it will get 'rid' of consumers.
Not really. Not under OSX, brew makes this simple. Under Linux, worst case, you just download the source and compile it. (Not sure about Windows though.)
Ford has found a way to get poor people to discriminate against themselves. Why buy a car from the if you have any fear at all that it might get repossessed?
Happy to see Louis Rossman in hackernews!
The real solution for laptops ~ just disable boost! (Granted, you might have to disable it via /sys every boot, but that can be scripted...)

Laptops shouldn't be using boost anyways, because their form factors and CPU coolers just can't handle the heat output.
This rings so true. It seems socially acceptable to either be a regular social drinker or a renounced drinker.
I was equally confused, it just needs a paragraph at the beginning explaining the context
Devices actively supported by vendors on LVFS tend to be Linux-friendly. The vendors with the most firmware updates pushed to LVFS in the last 6 months are Dell (796), Lenovo (364 combined), HP (35), Star Labs (29), and the Pine64 community (3).

- LVFS vendor list: https://fwupd.org/lvfs/vendors/

- LVFS supported devices: https://fwupd.org/lvfs/devices/
This guy seems to the the Fredo Corleone of tyrants. “I’m smart…not like everyone says…like dumb.”
Nowhere has an unlimited number of bathrooms.
He also doesn't acknowledge that regulations exist for a reason. Sure, there are some onerous or silly regulations. But TVs are cheap/unregulated and medical devices or aviation equipment are expensive/regulated for very good reasons.
the idea that this man is a billionaire is mind-blowing. this article is absolutely vapid. picking it apart is more for sport than anything else.

We had two such anti-technology jobs moral panics in the last 20 years — “outsourcing” enabled by the Internet in the 2000’s, and “robots” in the 2010’s. The result was the best national and global economy in human history in pre-COVID 2019, with the most jobs at the highest wages ever.

most people refused to believe that the internet would change anything at all. there was no panic. when bill gates went on letterman and was asked to explain how the internet was different than what already existed, he couldnt. letterman taunted him, saying "ever heard of a tape recorder? ever heard of a radio?" and he was oddly not wrong. thats the extent of the panic in the case of the internet.

AI is certainly different. it is extremely different from all other technologies because it is the only technology that replaces the human mind completely rather than just augment it. the argument of these reverse-luddites is that technology has always been good therefore it always will be good. there is no deeper analysis of whats really going on. there cant be, because it will always lead to the conclusion that our way of life as humans cannot co-exist with AGI.

one must understand that human society is held in place by an economic and technological equilibrium. if AGI were to be created, it cannot be denied that science and technology would almost instantly surge forward by trillions of man-years. we would be transported instantly into an environment where fundamental economic and technological factors are no longer valid. rules would be so different that the very concept of a country would no longer be geopoliticaly tenable. new meta-organisms would be at the center of the new equilibrium and the old human-based meta-organisms that we call countries would cease to exist. in essence, once the singularity happens the most severe and profound power vacuum that has ever existed will be created and the world will transition into a new version of itself where grotesque machine-based meta-organisms find a new equilibrium. this will involve what we call "war" and the idea that the human race could survive this is immediately dismissed. on the other side of the war will be a world where human industry is not just redundant but cosmically irrelevant. if by some miracle we survived the singularity, if our existence posed the slightest inconvenience to the machines, we would all die. this is not true currently because the dominant meta-organism is always human-based. thats the difference.

the absolute best case scenario is that humans somehow manage to parasitically attach themselves to an AGI meta-organism. they would lead lives devoid of agency or purpose except to ogle the machines. except that wouldnt be very interesting because the machines will immediately embark on doing things that a human being could never, ever understand.

people have this delusion that natural selection wont apply to AGI or the singularity. the singularity wont be about you or your fantasy. it wont be about humans or human society.
> selection of embryos has a far greater distributional impact in the limit.

Can you ELI5?
You, the reader, are not the only audience for blurbs. They get used all along the sales and marketing chain, because many of those people are never going to read the book, and only want to see that someone has vouched for it. Those people also know how the game is played, and that the blurb might be the author’s friend, the editor’s friend, and so on. If no one is willing to speak up for a book, it looks bad.
Event Loop in Go
Being told you're gifted often isn't a self fulfilling prophecy, and can easily lead to failure or giving up when being gifted isn't working.
I distinctly remember reading a very positive review of Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard by Howard Taylor (professional writer) where he described it along the lines of "yet another stellar book by my very good friend". Well, I had a flight coming up, so I bought it.

Mistake. The "very good friend" part was a qualifier, not an endorsement. The book was trash! But Howard, the old pro, was boosting the sales of his bud. Learned to never, ever trust a book review done by a writer.

And, sure enough, checking the Amazon page again there's no fewer than seven blurbs, as well as a tagline that describes it as "The Sixth Sense meets Planet of the Apes". Barf!
Is it?

Last time I tried to use t480, which is listed as officially supports Ubuntu, I had to use rather ugly hack to fix CPU throttling:

https://github.com/erpalma/throttled

It affects other models as well and not fixed up to this day (at least not by vendor)

Lenovo had a post in their blog acknowledging it, but after some time it mysteriously disappeared

EDIT: Lol, there are HN post about this "fix" happened few hours ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35025838

By quickly checking comments seems like better solution is already available:

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/54923.html
Black coffee has negligible calories, not zero. Espresso it turns out has about twenty.

Coffee comes from a bean. It’s going to pick up a couple calories.
Does nanboxing affect the precision of the Boehm GC in any way? I can't see why it would but I've never tested it and I'm not familiar enough with the internals.
Ocean treaty: Historic agreement reached after decade of talks
1. If yesterday you had not had breakfast or lunch, what would you be by dinner?

2. Can you read in your head?

3. How are you writing your comments?