skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I also don’t like how they are jumping on the AI bandwagon and splitting their efforts between search, a pointless new browser, and AI. It’s like Google all over again.

I’m happy to give them $10 or $25 per month for excellent search and privacy. But I’m really not interested in funding their other junk.
Getting Past “Ampersand-Driven Development” in Rust
A little mental model I used to explain ownership and borrowing to someone who is new to Rust. I hope others find it helpful!
> What if the algorithms have errors?

Errors will always happen.

> What if a cosmic ray flips one bit of memory?

Run it several times and compare results until you reach the desired level of statistical certainty.
> The Cortex-A CPUs can access more than 2GB but because that memory requires more than 32 bit addressing, the other processors cannot easily access it.

What's preventing the 32-bit CPUs from accessing the full 4 GB of a 32-bit address space?
I presume he's talking about the collapse of the Soviet Union, which caused a huge amount of upheaval in that area.

But I'm a poor student of modern history. Just throwing out a guess for now.
I wrote about this years ago:

https://magarshak.com/blog/?p=169
Writing a Kubernetes Operator
The simple fact that a LLM is trained on a gigantic corpus of data and humans learn from a relatively tiny number of interactions with other humans shows that they obviously learn differently.
> nor are they precursors to what we might consider AGIs
Erm, native WinUI apps are GPU accelerated and render at vsync.
That’s double what I pay for ProtonMail…
Given that it seems to be companies like Google that have created this problem....maybe we don't want a new Google...
I was hoping for something tiny in resources, not just window size.

I miss Billy - https://www.sheepfriends.com/index-page=billy.html

I really wish we could see a low-resource-usage development movement akin to the lofi / retro gaming trend (playdate etc) . I have MS Office 2003 installed on my thinkpad and it starts instantly. It's very satisfying. I feel like apps just grow and grow in size and memory usage to match the average spec of machine instead of being truly thrifty
> Yes, that's granted. The issue is that indistinguishable isnt good enough.

It starts to remind me of "Yes! But it doesn't have a soul!"
I remember writing about this exact issue years ago:

https://magarshak.com/blog/?p=169

As a left-libertarian I am concerned about not just states but corporations too
Isn't ordinary tax a "luxury" problem, as it's just a ratio of gains, so shouldn't be a surprise or a problem in the first place?
I don’t think you need to love video games to love Obra Dinn, a lot of what makes it weird and hard to play are the things that make it unlike any other video game.

It’s definitely a game for people who love complex puzzles and have a lot of patience. I think someone who loves super complex puzzles who has barely touched a video game before could still like Obra Dinn. (Countered to Outer Wilds which, while a more generally accessible great puzzle game, has a control scheme that would he incredibly painful for people not already somewhat familiar with 3D game movement)
I did a master's thesis on visual inertial navigation just a few years ago. Around the time when ARKit and ARCore got released (what a time to be robotics researcher). At that point global shutter cameras were significantly more expensive. Basically you had to go for what is called "machine vision cameras". They were very robust, deployment ready and highly capable and configurable. A camera with similar parameters to this one could cost you anywhere in the neighbourhood of 1000 - 3000 USD.
It is great to see that they are getting very affordable. I think this trend will help bring visual or visual-inertial navigations to the arsenal of average makers. Before, you had to have a very advanced software to compensate for imperfections of your sensors and the calibration complexity meant that only professionals could have them running reliably. We will se what people make with them.
I can't speak to all distributions but Debian and derivatives are actually pretty good about not leaving the system in an unrecoverable state. The only times I hear about an `apt update` breaking is when someone runs out of disk space or has created a FrankenDebian with third-party repos. These failures are not always straightforward to fix, but they are generally recoverable. The systems are knowable because they are open source and lots of people are familiar with their inner workings.

Contrast with Mac and Win, which are essentially black boxes that only the company's developers understand (if we're lucky).

It's been more than a decade since I used Win or Mac for anything important but back then the standard advice before any major upgrade was "make a backup" because these had a reasonable chance of putting your system into a state that required a reinstall.
I'm pretty sure "due process" means being tried in a court of law. Buying data doesn't skip being tried in court.

I assume you're implicitly referencing that the FBI is skipping getting a warrant, but why do they need a warrant? Your information is already publicly for sale.

As other's have mentioned, it's not really an FBI issue, it's a general privacy issue - that companies are collecting, compiling, and selling this information and it's all legal. Which is darned hard to get people to care about - because it's convenient to give your information away. I know about these things and still use google for almost everything (I finally moved my business email to fastmail... but didn't yet bother to move my personal email.)
That makes it sound as if he bought _the consent of all parties_.

This Wikipedia paragraph is pretty clear IMO:

> Tesla was incorporated in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning as Tesla Motors. The company's name is a tribute to inventor and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla. In February 2004, via a $6.5 million investment, Elon Musk became the largest shareholder of the company.
Yeah, privacy is what's keeping me away right now. I'd also like to know more about the person I'd be handing such sensitive data over to.

The FAQ for Kagi says it's https://vladimir.prelovac.com/ which might be same as this guy https://cleverplugins.com/interview-vladimir-prelovac/ who works in SEO and was:

"developing real-time web analytics service with special attention to SEO. The project is called Cleveritics"
Nobody claims that ChatGPT is AGI, but plenty claim that LLMs may be the the path to AGI.
In moderation, isn't that a potential upside of space based solar farms?
> As this incident demonstrates, errors can easily creep into mathematical proofs, even those written by experts. The only way to mitigate this is to use computer-readable proofs, (...)

Ironically, computer programs seem to be a lot more error prone than mathematical proofs. Yes, errors in mathematical proofs happen, but they're rare enough that the they're widely reported in the (mathematical) community. Errors in computer programs on the other hand are a virtual guarantee.
Loads of people have intimated that ChatGPT shows we're on the precipice of a breakthrough in that direction. Chomsky says we're not. If Chomsky's argument is a strawman, Aaronson could write a blog post saying that, instead of a blog post stuffing his own strawman. Anyways, I'm summarizing Chomsky's argument as I understood it, you can read it yourself.
That doesn't mean it's doing any kind of GPU acceleration of 2D graphics.

Given that they don't talk about it in the README, I'm pretty sure they don't.
If you had said that there are consumers who want long battery lives and long operation lives and are willing to pay a premium for that, then Dell and Apple might have something to learn - but the existence of consumers who want a low cost option for that is irrelevant, since serving that market would just lower your profits by cannibalizing your sales to the people who are not only willing to pay $600 every 5 years but $1000+ every 3 years.
So you corrected by ensuring to censor genesis as well?
Add a comment explaining each section. Hopefully that is where your mini essays end up!
The case for female mice in neuroscience research
No one but Japan got the GB light.

Everyone had either the GB and many more people had the GB Pocket because of Pokémon.
Yes, making GUIs responsive isn't as simple as just "don't run stuff on the UI thread". There are good reasons to run stuff there even if you're going to hang up the app for a brief period, namely, the user won't see partial/incorrect updates like non-syntax highlighted text or incorrectly clipped shapes, and - especially important - it means you can't end up with invalid GUI states like the user pressing a button that does X and then immediately pressing another button that does the opposite of X, where you should have disabled the other button but didn't get to it in time. Web apps have this sort of problem if they aren't using enough JS, and it can cause all kinds of weird bugs and errors.

The reality is that moving things off the UI thread is always a calculated engineering decision. It can be worth it, but it complicates the code and should only be done if there's a realistic chance of the user noticing.
You just have to touch some fires yourself to learn the lesson I guess :)
The big 5 are also terrible though, they needed to invent new statistical methods to get it to replicate.
JSX is overrated. Why copy HTML, which is a pain to write? I much prefer regular old function calls. Or even s-expressions!
I'm nostalgic for the excitement. I don't believe things were better. I think things are about to make a major leap that will turn the past 25 years of development into a blip.
Hmm... In Outer Wilds your ship is moving in 3D space, close to objects with gravity (some of them moving) and you control thrust and rotation on multiple axes while looking through a small porthole.

In Flappy Bird you repeatedly press a single button to flap.

I don't think they're remotely comparable, but YMMV!
Yep, this type of thing happens all the time in ChatGPT. I've more than once had ChatGPT suggest that I use something deprecated and sometimes if you poke it and tell it it'll figure it out but I've seen it make the same mistakes over and over.

I was working with JWT tokens in GoLang and the library I was using didn't validate expiration by default. I asked ChatGPT before I dug into the library code and it suggested a solution that that bypassed the built in validation of the JWT library I was using and introduced a fairly big security issue.

That was the moment I got a little nervous about folks using ChatGPT.
" Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society." Mark Twain
Should be arranged in chronological order. That way you can listen to the entire history of the world.
> an electronics project book, a breadboard and some simple components are all you need to get really really far in combining electronics like this.

Well, don't leave us hanging, do recommend a book to start with
(1) As it is with humans. It's not possible to attach a debugger to a human brain and determine the nature of understanding; you have to ask the human questions about that understanding and interpret the response yourself.

(2) This is a strange one to me. It's a bit like saying an essential quality of a human is to experience the world as a human, and therefore nothing except a human can be human.

(3) If only all humans met this arbitrary standard of secular scientific rationalism.

(4) I'd say 5% of humanity fail to meet this criteria.
Physical Knobs and Elixir
> I wouldn't say our infrastructure is good

I meant, at least there are sidewalks, designated crossings, and pedestrian lights at intersections. Can't really say the same for other states.
For one that's not entirely true. standard windows gui calls are backed by a shared surface and accumulate drawing instruction on the system side of the render surface,managed by the cpu render pipeline, so that they can keep a dirty rectangle list and only update the dirty areas of the gpu side of the shared surface. From there composing runs on the gpu.

Then again the issue is the focus of rendering at 120fps.the rendering context should be paused between the vast nothingness that happens in between user keystrokes, that happen at something like 4kp, and in burst.

The insistence on 120fps is the issue here, not the rendering pipeline.
The concept of a narrow waist is really interesting. It is the common layer that the editor and package authors talk though. Emacs’ choice of string attributes is simple but also powerful. This is contrast to other editors that try to use something more structured like JSON or a DOM, which is probably easier for the editor, but is less hackable then attributes.
Interesting. I think those are all very plausible and yet oddly we also now live in a hyper-sexualized mainstream advertising culture in the West.
Chomsky's article really seems to show the results of decades of living in an echo chamber.

>On the contrary, the human mind is a surprisingly efficient and even elegant system that operates with small amounts of information;

True, but then

> it seeks not to infer brute correlations among data points but to create explanations.

This is such an odd dichotomy, and feels really wrong to me. Explanations are to me just further correlations.

> a young child acquiring a language is developing — unconsciously, automatically and speedily from minuscule data — a grammar, a stupendously sophisticated system of logical principles and parameters.

Chomsky apparently has children, but clearly may have forgotten what it's like for them to learn language! It's years of trying to communicate, constantly, failing, and learning.

Now, go ask ChatGPT to Write an ode to <obscure topic> in iambic pentameter and I bet that it will be as astonishing, creative and fluent as a native speaker.
Not any of the people who developed it. But some of the lay-public is under this impression, so it’s an important clarification to make.
Sad to see this. I just cancelled my plan. To stay on an unlimited plan is over a 100% increase in price and that's just unacceptable to me.
At one point in the Times article, Chomsky and his colleagues have ChatGPT make their arguments for them.

ChatGPT: "I am not conscious, self-aware, or capable of having personal perspectives. I can provide information and analysis based on the data I have been trained on, but I don't have the ability to form personal opinions or beliefs."

ChatGPT itself will tell you the limits of its capability.
This is a claim I hear repeated both in meatspace and online from people who I generally regard as really smart.

I agree that AGI is quite a ways off.
I like the "Reverse CBT" framing of the problem. Interesting insight.
Not sure, think it's the default Windows 11, haven't noticed any differences. Usually login takes sub-second, just after this specific update that it took long time. After logging in once after the update, subsequent logins are as fast as before.

I have no custom startup scripts what so ever. Everything works just fine during normal operations, just that Windows updates suck and wasting my time, just like macOS.
Thanks for the detailed reply, really appreciate it! This sounds super interesting :)
The absolutism of some of their statements when we have 30 years of GPU research at our disposal is pretty eye-opening. I get that maybe this stuff didn't exist as a crate for rust but c'mon! Splines and shapes, glyph rendering, I wrote a game engine in C# back in 2007 that did all these things, and more. I like the explanation and the breakdown of SDFs for primitives but they are standing on the shoulders of giants and act like they're on an island.
It depends on locality as well. Currently a GS-15 step 10 in the DC maxes out at 183500.
You are assuming they violate these rights out of a need to seek justice. Most of the times it's ego or just bad police. There are hundreds of examples; so much these channels reporting on them have a lot of content.

Junkyard News:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMCSd9ZNL0nshOhXwtfIJBA

Indisputable:
https://www.youtube.com/@IndisputableTYT

There are many, many other channels, most of them local to where the person lives. It's gotten so bad an entire industry has spawned reporting on it. I have hope though, now that all this is out and body cameras are almost everywhere, you're starting to see prosecution of some of these bad police.
The irony of it is that Chomsky’s ideas are the foundation of parsers for programming languages. That is, you can make a link between the semantics of arithmetic and logic and the kind of grammar Chomsky talks about and you have… C, Pascal, Python, etc.

And people understand it!

The semantics of natural languages is over the experience of an animal and if you think of it as a “language instinct”, that instinct is a peripheral of a animal’s brain which has considerable capability for cognition (particularly in the case of mammals and birds) without language.

From that point of view natural language competence is a cherry on top of animal intelligence and you can’t simulate a language-using animal without simulating the rest of the animal.

ChatGPT does a surprisingly good job of faking linguistic competence with nothing but language so it certainly looks like a challenge to the Chomskyian point of view but I’d remind you that animals, pre-linguistic children, aphasics are all capable of cognition without language so “language is all you need” is still an incomplete position. (But boy there is that strange fact that transformers work for vision although research may be showing that is accidental?)

What does it mean for the mind?

A major part of animal behavior involves sequences. Think of tying a knot or a bird migrating, or for that matter serializing and deserializing mental structures into words. In the 1980s I read books about the brain that were lost at sea about how a neural network could model sequences and artificial neural networks have come a long way since then.
they are more offended at the algorithm of tik tok. And one need just to confront the chinese and Global algo of Douyin to undersand why. It is a digital addiction machine, with "probably" some top-down interference. Hoping it become a step to regulate the whole social media industry as more sideffects to their damaging practices are surfacing[0]

[0]https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/01/social-media-linked-t...
Yeah they can just prevent unilateral access. If there's a conspiracy between however many members of the group that is required to give permission there's not much you can do about it, but I'm just saying it's unlikely a single employee can do anything.
Amstrad Emailer, the UK’s first smartphone
That is ultimately the sad nature of this debate: exaggerating the capabilities of certain algorithms and diminishing the capabilities of the human intellect, for... monetary gain

It is deeply immoral and it will rekindle the disturbing image of evil technologists and mad, power hungry scientists at a time where we need as much trust and confidence in the use of technology and science to absolve us of problems we ourselves have created.
most of the time I just run it in a debugger and step through the code.
Sending information on how young people communicate and what they're talking about to the highest bidder if I had to guess.
> Words have meanings.

Yes. Here's the meaning of "domestic violence" according to some authoritative sources:

- - -

https://www.un.org/en/coronavirus/what-is-domestic-abuse

> Domestic abuse, also called "domestic violence" [...]. Abuse is physical, sexual, emotional, economic or psychological actions or threats of actions that influence another person.

- - -

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/violence-ag...

> Intimate partner violence refers to behaviour by an intimate partner or ex-partner that causes physical, sexual or psychological harm, including physical aggression, sexual coercion, psychological abuse and controlling behaviours

- - -

https://www.justice.gov/ovw/domestic-violence

> Domestic violence can be physical, sexual, emotional, economic, psychological, or technological actions or threats of actions or other patterns of coercive behavior that influence another person within an intimate partner relationship

- - -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_violence

> It can assume multiple forms, including physical, verbal, emotional, economic, religious, reproductive, or sexual abuse.
Does Amazon really have a monopoly on custom printed tshirts? I didn't even know they offered such a service, and can think of plenty of other alternatives.
If a digital thermometer reads 100C, connected to a black box, are we thereby required to believe that there's boiling water inside the box?

Science doesn't deal with the "indistinguishable". We cannot, on earth, simply distinguish between whether we go around the sun, or the sun goes around the earth.

Does the solar system have a soul?

The world exists, and it has properties, and those are independent of how dumb apes happen to be and what we are in a position to "distinguish" or otherwise.

A system generating text is acting as-if its having its intelligence measured. Each sentence we take to be a symptom of its: having a theory of the enviornment, having something to say about it, having some intention, etc.

When I say, "I don't like what you're wearing!" that sentence itself isnt somehow "intelligent". It is only a valid measure of my caring, preferring, speaking, intending, thinking... because that is why i said it.

A shredder which happened to assemble those words is likewise not intelligent.

This is basic science: measurements arent objects; and measurements have validity criteria which is, at least, the causal properties of the system give rise to those measures.

In the case of ChatGPT no relevant properties give rise to its ouptut. Its sentences are not caused by any intelligence, and aren't valid measures of it.

There is no boiling water. Your digital thermometer is broken.
60% of Germany's 5G network is Huawei, says Chinese embassy
EUV Requirements Halved? Applied Materials Redefines Lithography and Patterning
Buying data alleviates the need for parallel reconstruction. You don’t need a secret, unconstitutional case if you’re legally buying data.
£2B in UK taxpayer cash later, and still no Emergency Services Network
You’re talking about games that have extremely limited axis of movement, while yes anyone can eventually go extremely fast with them, initially your options are so limited that learning is trivial.

Outer Wilds is one of the few games with truly 3D movement as part of it’s blood. Not just a jump but a jetpack and ship that demand traversal of the third dimension. And I’ve taught enough people who are new to games over my life to know how hard they find using a controller in a game with more simple set ups initially. Outer Wilds…a casual gamer could probably learn it, but to someone who has rarely used a controller or mouse/keyboard movement in a gaming context it would be quite a bit more difficult.

Game is totally worth it though.
I think there are a couple of big differences:

1. Equifax collection is more or less voluntary. It's triggered on taking out loans, carrying debt, etc. The reason I said more or less is people need to do these things to live these days.

2. The FBI can abduct you, put you in a cage, and/or kill you.
I think that’s been the default up until now.

But like any group of teens, some can handle it, some see the errors of their ways, but others literally fail out of high school because they can’t handle the distraction.

It’s the latter that I’m seeking solutions for.
They've reinvented Papers, Please with food and light switches instead of documents and bombs!
Singapore admits it should have explained Covid app data could be used by cops
Remember: if you rewrite it, you own it.
Smells like corruption to me.