skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree the stuff any five year old can do is well beyond current AI/robotic tech.

Let's focus on actual intelligence, though. What, exactly, would a 100-mind AGI be able to do that a 1-mind human can't? And what can a 1-mind human do that the 100-mind AGI can't?

My guess is that the 100-mind AGI is capable of building nearly perfectly accurate internal models of the 1-mind humans. So the AGI runs the model, and figures out the exact stimulations needed to get the 1-mind human to do what the AGI wants. You will not be able to resist.

The 1-mind human might be able to come up with physical theories that the AGI has no way to deduce. Maybe. (These physical theories may need experimental corroboration. If the AGI doesn't have access to the inner details of the latest ultra-LHC experiments, it may not be able to properly theorize.)
Your bank conducts the investigation. They have a lot of control. Good luck recovering $96,000.
> It has been interesting to learn over time that much of this was inherited from Indian scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians (and it has been disquieting to learn what “inherited” is a euphemism for).

This is a fairly standard line in the Indian middle class. However, apart from the decimal system none of the Arabic contributions are of Indian origin, and I am not aware of any philosophical ideas being borrowed at all.

For instance, the key contribution - the invention of algebra is clearly of Arabic origin by Al Khawrizmi.

This is a fairly comprehensive list of Arabic contributions. Which of these (apart from non fractional decimal systems) are if Indian origin?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_in_the_medieval_Is...

Also, it would be helpful to clarify what was disquieting about the confirmed borrowed idea - the decimal system. Most of the time I only come across vague references with nothing concrete stated.

There is also a lot of speculation about ancient Indian mathematics being borrowed from Sumerian sources (where the first Pythagorean triples were observed etc)
I use Twitter for multiple hours every day (I'm addicted) and have never seen child porn.
Can anyone explain why eSIM was the stopgap solution and we didn't go straight from physical SIM to iSIM? What special requirements does a SIM card have that it was easier to put it on a seperate chip? Now that we've moved to iSIM, does this remove the artificial limitation on the number of SIMs a phone can support? Can I buy a phone in 2030 and load it up with 50 different PAYG SIM cards?
There is overflow-checking math in GCC/Clang and standardized in C23, but I'm not sure if there's anything opt-out. If there is, I don't know how to write it.
Three Monitors with Linux (Slackware)
> A single state spanning most of the Indian subcontinent wasn't a political reality prior to colonial times. There were many individual kingdoms and territories prior to that time.

Never said it was. It came closest to the current boundaries under the Mauryan empire and Peshwai rule, however.

> The political structure set up by the British was a major contributing factor behind the partition.

Yes, the political structure that forced the majority of Muslims to vote for a separate Muslim state to be carved out of India. So sad, that the British did this to Indians. Without the British, there would be no enmity between the Hindus and Muslims. Truly a travesty.
That is pretty slick !!
Okay, and accounting for the risk is exactly why there is a significant down payment.
Yes.. I used one when I helped out after a birthday party with 80 guests. Getting the dishes through the washer wasn't the bottleneck.. everything else was slower.
By all accounts Twitter has lost something like half its revenue and yesterday had regressed technically to the point where they couldn’t serve a hyperlink.

So there’s that.
I'm reading this as I listen to my noisy ass dishwasher in my small apartment running for over an hour now while I'm trying to go to bed.

Yes, I very much wish it ran faster.

It also matters when I have to run 2 loads because I let the dishes pile up.
Congratulations on using your stuff. But I really like my web browser. Thanks.
Worker asks Elon Musk on Twitter: Have I been fired?
Yeah, and that something for most people is the search box.

For another example of this "I refuse to file-and-folder" phenomenon, try and recount how many people go to Amazon by going to the address bar, typing www.amazon.com, and hitting enter instead of going to Google, searching Amazon, and clicking the first listing.

Fact of the matter is people don't fucking care for file-and-folder, people don't fucking care for locators. For most people, a given something is "in the computer" and that is as far as they can be bothered to care. Abstractioning of file systems and similar constructs to improve end-user usability is the correct decision, given this situation.

Yes, the small handful of us that understand and use file-and-folder and Universal Resource Locators hate the abstraction, but we are Nobody. They (most people) are Everyone.

The Photos app dumping all photos into one singular location with no hints as to where it's located in the file system is better usability for everyone. That's the brutal-to-nerds reality.
It's crazy to see the jingoistic Indian comments here, and anti-Muslim sentiment. Why attempt to rewrite history just to show the Hindu people were capable? Let's appreciate both their achievements
Just ignore the fact that someone higher up the foodchain signed off on this and wont be held accountable, for their deliberate exploitation of the law if not the spirit of the law, knowing legislators write the laws and sign off on them.

Why do people keep voting for people to be their democratic representative again?
If you look between countries you would see that it‘s usually around 15-25%. So it‘s around 20%, almost everywhere.
All the sims I have ever received(US) come as a credit card sized item(looks like a smart card) and you break out the size you need. (sim, mini sim, micro sim)
Yeah AFAICT this article is just: Qualcomm is now a certified producer of eSIMs. They put them in the SoC.

Everything else including the term "iSIM" just seems to be marketing cruft?

Perhaps I'm missing some detail but it seems the only people who would have any reason to care about this would be Qualcomm's customers in the mobile OEM space.
Find a neutral source of financial planning advice. It's important that it's free of tail costs. So either pay fee for service or talk to charities in the debt consolidation space. (who may well also expect fee for service) -just avoid anything tied to a specific financial product or investment company and where the person or company who advises you gets a tail of income from their recommendations.

Don't rush into specific products. Do your research.

Find a grief councillor. Don't expect a quick turn around on your emotions. There are things you need to process your family can, and can't help you with. A councillor is private, and is your advocate, against competing pressures. Good advice will include the not always helping options, the do nothing options, with their up and downsides.

Some choices may hurt like hell. Some choices may tear the family apart. Nobody can really judge which are the best choices but you, with information you can try to make the best short and longer term choices.

Do not seek short term consolations in alcohol or drugs.

As an athiest I can't easily recommend faith based support networks but its possible they can help here, bearing the lead concern in mind: do not accept advice which appears to serve the interest of the advisor.

It's a hard road. You're growing life experience which nobody seeks but at some extent everyone has to undergo.

I'm sorry it's now, and I'm sorry it's hard. Truly, it gets different with time, but it's always going to be a part of your life now, and that's OK, and normal too.
This guy, and apparently most people, get it all wrong. AI is not remotely close to having sentience or even a will to survive. It's the fact that it's a powerful tool that can be abused by evil people that should scare you. Here's a single example that is simultaneously trivial and extremely potent: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/17/22983197/ai-new-possible-...
Something I don't get. What does it mean "you need to be there for the whole duration"? Is it some kind of house arrest? I've rented places where I was absent the whole day except a few hours at night. How would anyone know I was or wasn't there at all? It's not the business of the host anyway to tell me where I should be present. I paid money, I rent the place, where I am physically present is not their fricking business.
I think Meta really doesn't get the whole gaming console business. They got too excited with the technology for technology sake, and drank too much of the Snowcrash-esque kool-aid to realize that the most obvious target audience to drive meaningful usage is harcore gamers. And the novelty of Beat Saber will only go so far; you really need AAA titles and publishers.

But this would mean investing heavily in tools and SDKs, 1P titles, and publishing deals, neither of which is a world that Meta is very familiar with, and - given the track record - doesn't seem very excited about.

The launch of Meta Quest Pro was abysmal (my comments here at the time [1]), but unfortunately things haven't improved much since then, other than the price reduction. I ended getting the Pro at the launch day, but returned after a few weeks, given the underwhelming experience. It was disappointing, because I wanted to love the device, but it just doesn't deliver.

I received the PSVR2 last week, but didn't have time to unbox yet. Really hoping it gives Meta a run for their money, and sets the bar high (despite being tethered).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33166291&p=3#33170171
It is fairly standard in Indian right wing media to be dismissive of anything positive of Islamic origin, by constructing a short alternative history as per the writers imagination.

So any post Islamic Arab contributions to math would have to be stolen from India, using bloodshed - as if math is a treasure that can be lifted or looted or were existing amongst Arabs before Islam.
The Jellyfin of the hoi polloi?

Plex is why Jellyfin forked away.
I have two sims in my phone, neither carrier even supports eSIMs yet. The technology is extremely slow to roll out around the world for some reason.
My guess is that the French SIM companies put all kind of artificial limitations on esim so they could keep their marketshare and continue earning money on licensing and patents
>My dishwasher has a beeper for when it’s done like a microwave.

You'd hate my LG then - it texts me to tell me it's done.
> Yes, I very much wish it ran faster.

Or more silent.
Security.

SIMs are smartcards - separate systems storing cryptographic material and performing trusted operations. A TPM that can be plugged and unplugged, basically, using the same standards as a chip-and-pin credit card.

Equivalent keystores haven't been available built in to cell phones until the last few years.
One of the big problems with trying to fix history(which is impossible as past can't be changed) as a means for emotional relief for your current pains due to bad politics is you run in all sorts of contradictory situations, where any principle you take today will be in total opposition to a principle you will have to take days from now.

Wars happen because any political power over any region looks at war as a means to expand administrative control. When such wars happen they have to pull down power centers in conquered lands and rebuild their own ones. In many such contexts the seat of political power to a significant degree rests with the land's religious authority.

I guess if you took a step back to shoot a panoramic perspective of India's history you would find everybody was attacking everybody.

It is also stupid to blame the rulers of the past for making decisions that give you emotional pain in the present.
Maybe it’s covered and I just missed it, but why disassemble the Arduino when it has perfectly serviceable serial ports?

I mean, unless for fun, which is a valid reason in the context.
> An engineer with no such customer awareness and instead an incessant obsession with optimizing everything that can be optimized, might try to optimize for speed…

Bugger off with that. No one is optimizing anything these days. Please do optimize for speed. Speed is a feature. I don't want to wait for more than 200ms to do anything. In a world where we can render video games at 100 FPS at 4K...yes, I want my websites to load in under a second. And I want my IDE to be responsive. And I want my autocompletes to complete before I've finished typing the whole thing out.

The computer responding to my inputs should never be the bottleneck. It should always be faster than I can think. I hate to stop and wait for 60 seconds twice today as my computer choked while trying to render a chat app. Chat. Really messes up a conversation.
When my dishwasher still worked I did actually care about the speed. Of course cleanliness is the number one priority, but I also cared a lot about how long it took. Having a dishwasher going chunka-chunka for three hours in the kitchen, which is next to the living room (open solution) is absolutely unacceptable.
Not true https://onlineshop.smt.docomo.ne.jp/sim-card/index.html

I'm on docomo and I only have a SIM from them, I brought my own iPhone from abroad. When I turned my iPhone in to Bic Camera to have the display swapped, I could just swap my SIM into a spare old phone quickly and it worked seamlessly.
> Discord is a horrible echo chamber

Mastodon is the same yet most people want that, smaller communities where they tagalong with others.
I can swap sims in about 30 seconds. With eSim I need to ask my carrier for a new eSim registration code to be generated which takes 48 hours. It's insane and I have no idea why we agreed to this standard.
Said feedback loop would start with discovery of any benefits. Anything amazing probably would be expensive energetically to select for, let alone the stupid odds of developing an intelligence increaser.

Ironically the hypotheical smart mushroom would probably be mostly "betrayed" if synthesizing is more efficient post discovery, relegating it to a niche curiosity at best.
https://www.linen.dev/
Maybe so but there are definitely technology choices that have vastly different "initial reliability". What would you expect to be more reliable - a bash script or a Rust program?

I'm not that familiar with setting up global network infrastructure but I imagine there are similar choices that can vastly affect initial reliability.
Thanks I'm always looking for good sci-fi.
My favorite is when I buy something from Prime and it says two day delivery once it ships in two weeks.
I think the carriers probably do not like it, as it allows their customers to easily switch service. I also think it could possibly be part of the reason Apple released an eSIM only phone, as it forces the carriers to use eSIMs.
Prime Video, though that isn't worth the cost.
The virtue signaling in this thread is hating on Jira because everybody (especially in the dev space) does it.
But I don't have to pay extra for those Netflix shows. If you don't have Apple TV+, those cost extra, making it far more of an ad than Netflix simply displaying other shows on their service.
With streaming services increasing their prices significantly and the hunt on password sharing, I think if this study is repeated 3 years from now the results will look very different.

I canceled 2 subscriptions and switched down one tier on another subscription last month. I bet the clueless execs will blame it on piracy...
There are only two reasons why I still have a few Alexa devices in my home:

- It can handle multiple named timers, which is really handy when cooking, something that HomePods with Siri can't do
- It has a display version that I use as a clock in a few places

If Apple would release a HomePod with an iPad mini taped to it, I'd immediately throw away all Alexa devices.

I used to have a Google whatchamacallit I got on sale, but it had an insane false positive rate and connecting it to a non-google smart home is really tedious.
I mean, all top end Samsungs are proper dual SIM phones still(they take two physical Sims). #1 reason why I'm still buying them and not any other brand. iPhones also support dual SIM but only with one physical card and one eSIM.
Interactive Microservices as an Alternative to Micro Front-Ends
[TRENDING ON INFOQ]

Qworum is a front-end PaaS that brings all the benefits of microservices to the UI layer, and makes web UIs fully compatible with microservices architectures.

Qworum is positioned as an alternative to micro front-ends. As you may know, the rate of adoption for micro front-ends have been tepid so far, and as a result monolithic front-ends remain a significant impediment for microservices architectures. Qworum is a solution to this issue which plagues large-scale software systems.

Qworum is pioneering several industry-firsts:
▶ a new type of microservice (the interactive microservice),
▶ a new type of web API (the multi-phase web API),
▶ a platform for distributed web applications,
▶ a new type of web (Qworum’s Service Web is about interlinked microservices, whereas the World Wide Web and the Semantic Web are about interlinked content).
We use todoist for our home shopping (grocery) list. Connecting this to Alexa has been one of the better quality of life improvements for us. After a bit of trial and error we figured out that you don't have to say "Alexa, add milk to my todoist shopping list", just "Alexa, add milk". So, for this specific purpose I don't think there is a better interface than voice.

It does occur to me that taking my shopping list on the phone to Tesco and putting things in a basket manually is probably not the future that Bezos had in mind for Alexa. But ultimately I don't trust Alexa / Amazon to actually do the buying.
India Impressions
I have never understood people who place dirty dishes in dishwashers. You have to rinse first. Dishwasher essentially sanitize, rather than clean food off your plates.
I was trying to join Discord, not having any memory of having used it before. Didn't realise I had an account already, so I made a new one. I was then flagged as "suspicious"(I was on my home network...) and told I had to provide a phone number, to verify my humanity. So I did.

It then tells me that phone number is already tied to an account, bans the new account, the old account, and blacklists my phone number. And there appears to be no recourse, no way to explain that I simply forgot I had an account already. So now I guess discord is just off limits to me.

I see people defending discord for lacking search because hurr durr so does IRC. Well, IRC at least doesn't ban you just for trying to use the service.
Here in UK you get that from most carriers.
That would also help. But then I probably wouldn't trust it to be blasting the heck out of my dishes. But if they came out clean, I certainly would not complain.
Ooh ooh! And the fact that EVERY ALEXA IN THE HOUSE will rotate a mysterious yellow light if you get a special Amazon notification. Took me a good while to figure out wtf it is.
Before I got a job as a developer, which happened by chance because someone noticed that I was a hobbyist programmer, I actually worked as a kitchen help.

A large chunk of that was cleaning and dishwashing.

Let me tell you that if I didn’t have a very fast dishwasher, I couldn’t do my job well. I was already juggling the time between supporting the cooks, keeping stuff clean and the dishwasher going. I used a fast and effective dishwasher, but any speed improvement would be welcome, among other things.

Engineers sometimes optimize for the wrong things, if they’re not involved with decisions and out of the loop.

But the reality is that there’s many more things that could benefit from optimization than things that don’t.

People definitely care about fast feedback loops and less time spent waiting. They might not always tell you in advance, because they assume it is like it is, but they _will_ tell you after the fact.

People who don’t care are typically disconnected from actual usage.

Whether that’s bosses and consultants who tell stories about “man hours vs cpu clocks” or engineers who excuse themselves with “premature optimization...”: they have that thing in common where they don’t know how it feels to wash a mountain of dirty dishes by hand, because the dishwasher cannot keep up.
Ask HN: Sci-Fi Book Recommendations
Some of the best sci-fi books I've read have not come from good reads or other sites dedicated to book reviews. Instead most have come from HN comments that I've stumbled over. In quest to find even more I'm asking this question.
> I have 4k streaming from Netflix, Disney, Prime.

No you don't. Disney and Prime both only stream in HD in the browser/Windows App and Netflix requires Edge or Safari to stream in 4K and is limited to 720p in Chrome.
And is it enabled by default?

Also is it mathematically unique not to cause any potential conflicts.
Any US carrier, in my experience.

https://www.flyamz.com/storage/2020/03/USA-SIM-Card-New-ATT-...

https://images5.tanganetwork.com/prod?bucket=tanga-fetched-i...

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61bYyPhpYoL._AC_SL1200_....
I don't need to swap a physical thing to log into my bank on another phone if my main one dies. I'm not sure why this is the answer.
Agencies are completely full of them.
> manually managing object pools to remove most of the GC overhead, but then you're essentially back to manually managing memory using compile-time lifetime decisions.

But those very firms will use ordinary normal Java for the initialization part and only switch to the more restricted “manual memory managed” Java on the hot loop — you are still much more ahead in productivity/manageability. Especially that it is not rare at all to just manage a huge ByteBuffer from Java - for indexing that’s what I would use with some sane abstraction over.

Oh and mind you, in case of low-lat trading where Java is not sufficient, nor is C++ -> the next step is ASICs.
So true. The main use case to solve is unpacking the damn thing - a cause of a lot of friction in my household.

A great solution to this was created by a firm called Fisher and Paykel who made a 2 drawer dishwasher designed to permanently house your crockery. While one drawer is washing, you fetch your stuff outa the other drawer.

https://www.fisherpaykel.com/uk/dishwashing/all-dishwashers/...
I'm sorry for your loss and the difficult circumstances your family finds itself in.

Not sure what to advise you. This is a very challenging set of circumstances you are in.

Two thoughts:

1) You must keep it together as the alternative is unproductive.

2) I believe a defining power of humans is our ability to adapt. You will adapt. So will your family.

Just do the best you can. Work hard to earn but be careful to not self-destruct. Think of an engine that is pushed beyond its limit. You must not damage yourself through too much stress and work.

Don't make false promises such as "Don't worry ... I have it all figured out" .. especially if that is not true. Discuss the reality of the situation and your plan. This could mean no new iPhones or anything beyond the bare necessities of life (not forever but at least for a while).

Remember, you will hopefully earn more money and have an easier job as time goes on. Upskill yourself as you get the opportunity and avoid bad habits.

Best of luck to you.
Asimov is also quite handwavy in how these laws are implemented within the robots, making them out to be written in stone. I haven't encountered an LLM with a premise that cannot be broken out of.
at&t refuses to give me a esim for the pixel6 i bought though them on the same account

the concept itself is fine the implementation is a downgrade since it gives the carriers more control
I think you meant to post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35048279