skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your goal is to reduce your attack surface, then yes, even a modem without a SIM is too much.

The modem in your phone isn't like a modem from the days of dialup, it's more like a cable modem. More often than not, the modem is its own entire microprocessor, ram, i/o, etc and then communicates with the device's CPU over a mixture of serial, i2c, spi, or other busses. For instance, in my Pinephone, the modem is a Qualcomm MDM9607, which is a single core arm cpu that has 256mb of ram and 256mb of nand on its package, it literally runs its own entire operating system (linux in its case) separate from what the CPU of the phone does.

This CPU can also have its own connection to the battery, which is how, for example, iPhones can remain 'findable' even when the phone's CPU is otherwise powered off and at rest. The modem sips at the little remaining power in the battery to power itself and the GPS chip to report the devices location.

As for 'removing the sim' that doesn't prevent the device from connecting to a network, just authenticating with it, typically. Your sim card is just a standard identifier and a little bit of storage that the modem can read and write to for things like storing contacts and SMS messages. All of which can be done in software as well (known as an eSIM these days).

Edit: Here's a link to the wiki page on the Pinephone's modem, just to give you an idea of what a cell phone's modem can be capable of, and keep in mind, it uses a rather old, outdated, and unpopular modem, other modems may have more features: https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PineModems
SIDS is very poorly understood, but highest probability seems to be that it’s not germ related but related to breathing (more like complex sleep apnea for infants, where sometimes a baby has a messed up breath response. This tracks with SIDS seeming to have a strong genetic component). For what studies we do have, yes sleeping with the parent seems to have a marginal increase in SIDS, although less of one than things like having a loose blanket in a crib.

Ultimately risk falls off around four months though, so yeah maybe 2.5 months is a bit early to try weird things.
That would be difficult. The GCs share a lot of code, and have a lot of code to deal with Java specific things like class unloading and soft/weak/phantom references. It's easier to run other languages on top of the JVM runtime, which is what projects like Truffle and JRuby do.
New Covid origins data suggests pandemic linked to raccoon dogs at Wuhan market
I don't believe Ukraine had anything to do with blowing up Nordstream.

But to your reasoning I would point out that the reason Nordstream was built in the first place: to bypass Ukraine in supplying Germany with gas.
i'd watch a movie in this blog format
"Say the line, HN!"
Microsoft Semantic Kernel – New Open-Source Library for LLMs
I stopped reading news a year ago for this reason, having left social networks for much longer. Of course I still have some exposure through HN, but overall I'm happier and don't miss them one bit.
I was a tech lead on one of the testing analytics data platforms by one of the "commercial firms" mentioned in the article, and I used to plead with/yell at/cajole various groups of people to not ship uncompressed CSVs around by email/FTP :(
Most other forms of entertainment do not negatively affect the lives of the consumer and everyone around them.

Porn, prostitution and shopping/hoarding are the three main exceptions that come to mind.
OP has a good point I think, even if it does not refer to LLM, which to me is too strict of a requirement.

I think emergent behaviour happens in a lot of videogames. Famously in Dwarf Fortress, with the cat getting drunk, but also in general, where game designers play the game to see if emergent behaviour of the game rules "feels" good.

Yesterday I was reading a book about designing games, and it literally has a section called emergent behaviour.

If by emergent behaviour we refer to something like Ghost in the Shell, then it happens less often :)
Take stock of how willing people are to believe in the miracle of technology. Add to that the desperation with which we try to improve education. Multiply by track record.

I don’t like those numbers.
> they realised there's a good reason the legacy code is the way it is. I was certainly guilty of this too when I was a junior/mid.

It's one thing for a junior dev to do this. But try working with a bunch of amateurs that somehow got promoted to lead because they kind of worked with some technology at their prior job. It's amazing watching a company replace domain expertise with superficial framework-of-the-day knowledge. Especially knowing that these devs will move on in a year escaping the consequences of their actions.
"Don't worry about the things you can't change"

More specifically the things you don't have control over.
For me it's more of a diary that catalogues all my projects, but I've also had people reach out for with job/colab opportunities after checking it out: https://www.hackyexperiments.com/
In a past life, I worked in prostate cancer ("PCa") clinical research. To drive home the point about how large of an unmet need this is:

A) In addition to 1/6 men being diagnosed with PCa, an ~equally large percentage of men have undiagnosed cancer at the time of death, it just wasn't severe enough yet to be the thing that killed them. (1)

B) Because treatment carries a 50% risk of sexual and/or urinary dysfunction side effects, the standard of care in the US for PCa is literally to leave the cancer untreated and monitor it closely, until it develops into an aggressive cancer. At that point, we treat the entire prostate (the opposite of "focal" therapy referenced in this article) and all bets are off re: side effects. Also, often by that time, the cancer has spread outside of the prostate and is much more difficult to treat.

(1) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S246829422...
Matrox G400 (also 1999) had dot3 bump mapping as well. IIRC, they advertised it as a first in the PC 3d accelerator space, so I'd guess they shipped earlier in '99.

The G400 was generally lackluster at 3d performance, so the feature didn't really get used by games.
Every profession has its own language and jargon. Even the offices I've worked at each had their own unique jargon.

For example, there was one office where the engineers were affectionately known as "swine". (I'm not sure how that came to be.) If an engineer did some particularly clever piece of engineering, the ultimate compliment was to call it "swinish".

To an outsider, this made no sense at all, but it worked for us.
> If you wanted an ideal way to ensure that he will never give up, this is it.

He will never give up, that’s already guaranteed, much as other actors have diplomatic reasons to pretend that that is not as certain as it is. Russia can go on after losing the war, Putin cannot (even without this ICC action.)
The artisan of old created one bowl at a time and made artisan pots. A machine that makes bowl can automate the artisan's job away.

However, the next challenge is that the machine itself is now an "artisan" device.

I'm sure the first bowl printing machine ( https://youtu.be/bD2DNSt8Wb4 ) was purely artisan... but now you can buy them on Alibaba for a few thousand dollars ( https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Printing-Machine-Cera... )

I am sure there is a (bowl printing machine) machine out there.

But if you say "I want a bowl printing machine that can do gradient colors" that first one (and probably the first few until it gets refined) are all going to be artisanal manufacturing processes again.

This all boils down to that at some point in the process, there will be new and novel challenges to overcome. They're moving further up the production chain, but there is an artisan process at the end of it.

The design of a new car has changed over time so that it is a lot more automated now than it was back then ( https://youtu.be/xatHPihJCpM ) but you're not going to get an AI to go from "create a new car design" to actually verifying that it works and is right.

There will always be an artisan making the first version of anything.
> Tanks for granting old bachelors a moment of yelling "then don't have any!" at cloud.

Everyone has to learn the lesson for themselves. I can prepare them for it as best I can, however. So I don't really worry about this insomuch as lament the cultural fetish for "more tech = better."

> Every bad turn that had ever happened before has at some point been unprecedented and would have been clearly ruled out before by apppeals to "pessimists are always predicting worse than what actually happens"

I mull over this frequently.

My objection stems from constant tablet use/availability during school hours. Being a tablet zombie in 4th grade is not healthy even if you're only using learning apps. I'd much prefer kids to binge tablets at home for 3 hours after school occasionally than have it at hand 8 hours a day, everyday. If tablets were something that were occasionally trotted out at school for specific tasks: no problem. Assigning kids tablets and making them an integral part of the teaching workflow really bothers me.

This is part of a larger strategy of mine: controlled exposure to high-stimuli things alongside building a full enough life to try to avoid addiction. My kids will eventually play video games (probably not trashy mobile games), use tablets, watch TV (they already do) and eventually, correspond with AI. (I am hoping social media dies a fiery death before they get old enough to think it is actually important.)

Obviously, these are all plans in the abstract. All we can do is give our kids the cognitive tools to see how technology use affects their life.
Did you document any part of it on your blog? Or was it just a personal memory for you alone? Either way, fucking dope.
Same here, nearly killed our son at 5 months with a few crumbs of peanut butter cookie. Other kid no problem. Really seems like there’s more to it than simply early exposure.
Dune is a great example of that! After their AGI goes sideways (in the Butlerian Jihad) human civilization shifts entirely to using human supercomputers (Mentats and the Bene Gesserit) juiced up on mental enhancement drugs (Spice).
Drinking and smoking would be on my list.
i am a doctoral student in math and this kind of ramsey theory is the main focus of my dissertation! it's a bit niche and its cool to see a result like this featured in quanta!
I’ll second that Community Impact is an excellent paper and a real service to the community. Wish it was typical instead of such an outlier.
I would argue that factual past is unprovable without some sort of visual evidence, and even that can be manipulated...especially with AI on the rise. The problem with your point is that EVERYTHING is parsed through your perception, and you can just as easily make the point with the same logic that you can't prove that what you are currently experiencing is present reality.

What actually happened is unprovable without some layer of trust once the event leaves the affected. For example, I ate a grapefruit for breakfast. That is a fact. However, I have tossed the peel away and I am communicating that I ate it with a stranger over the internet. For all you know, I could have eaten cookie crisp. If you and enough people get together and collectively believe that I ate cookie crisp, the public belief will be that I ate cookie crisp. However, that does not change the fact that I ate a grapefruit.
The end is not unlike the beginning, in that it has been written to exactitude. “The pen has been lifted and the ink is dried”.

Side note: does anyone remember when Vice was “fringe” in its content? I mean, ten or so years ago…
On the contrary. The more advantage you want to squeeze out of AI, the more people you need. AIs need a bit of hand holding and judicious application to shine. Your competition will assign more people and get more out of their AIs.
Same here, no peanut allergies on both sides of our family but one of our daughters has a peanut allergy. We are the same mix.
Sorry, buy posts like these aren't productive.
Except I didn't write that and I will quote myself:

>"I can tell you this. I do not know future iterations of LLMs can take over our jobs"

I wrote that I don't know which is the best answer we all have at this point.

Given the evidence, completely denying it, as many have is simply not realistic.
Obviously you just formalize the interface for exchanges API contracts... and do pre-delivery validation...

Also, ChatGPT would likely be able to extrapolate. It would just need to write an email to XXQ to confirm the change.

Cope harder... the fact that you can write an email won't save you.
Yeah, that's what you have to do these days. Maybe I'm just hung up on archival, but loads of the `.swf` files are no longer available from their original source. Itch.io is awesome, but if it goes under, or is forced to change it's business model, all of those embeds that nobody thought to independently save become defunct.
It’s mostly been useful to capture big things I worked on - the exercise of distilling what I did into words really helps make it concrete in my brain. Helps a lot when talking about experience at job interviews for instance.

Honestly I’d love to blog more but reality is it is a massive time sink. Writing is hard, writing technical things in a clear and concise way is extra hard. I’m not sure how the regulars manage it! A single post can take me 10-20 hours. I’d have to sacrifice something else in my life to really spend the time I need on it.
Tutorial Topics from StackExchange Questions Using ChatGPT
Counterpoint: marginally lower chance that Putin continues to run Russia through a hand picked stooge of a successor.

It's always possible to come up with reasons to not act because acting might rock the boat. It's appeasement. Why should the ICC appease Putin?
If causality is broken, that means hard indeterminism.
Amazon Go Store Accused of Violating NYC's Biometric Surveillance Law
Still 100x better than the average person!
where to start... first the other commenter is correct. If you need to run to the connivence store that's 250 yards away, what is more efficient? Firing up a 7,100hp Union Pacific Diesel locomotive and plowing through everything/everyone to get there, or taking a electric scooter? A smaller heap means less to scan, meaning less work, meaning lower latency. Now G1GC removes some of this penalty due to its algorithm, but in general, less memory is less memory scanned, meaning better best-case performance from a GC. Let that Adaptive GC Boundary do it's thing.

and now, rant time: well, Xms allegedly improves start times. Is that really important? No. Is that really true anyway? Not really. Xms hides problems... Yes. Give that memory to the OS. Let it fill it up with things like disk cache or COW artifacts. Xms is an attempt to help people that aren't planning properly or testing. Yes. Instead, Test your systems under full load with Xms off and adjust, measure, experiment, repeat.

Elastic is sort of a special case because it's a 'database', but, I'd rather know the minimum Xmx my system actually needs by experimentation, and you can't find that with Xms enabled. And even then, I don't see MySQL allocating 100% of its InnoDb bufferpools at startup.... :)
Over-the-Rhine?
It seems to me that they're only "hard to persuade" because they are constantly bombarded with these mental viruses. There was (books/telegraph then?) radio, then TV, then internet, social media, scrolling social video... While it's true that each generation eventually develops some immunity to their entertainment afflictions, it does seem to be accelerating, and those not exposed as youth have less immunity (grandpa on facebook). It also seems to have continuing impact even if most become functioning members of society.
An excellent starting point for dealing with heads of state initiating wars of aggression over false pretenses, and there is absolutely no reason to stop there.
"Allegedly responsible" and "innocent until proven guilty" are not in contradiction.
How crazy was Silicon Valley Bank’s zero-hedge strategy?
https://archive.is/kFghM
I'm disappointed in the follow up to Poe asking for the inclusion of a raven. It says "nevermore" one time and totally misses the excellent opportunity to spin that into a line about nevermore working for the company.
“I have a truly marvelous proof that your code is incorrect…”
Interesting. Related: I’ve seen pigeons using the subway to travel here in Stockholm. (https://www.thelocal.se/20111110/37278/)
>On the contrary. The more you want to squeeze out of AI, the more people you need.

You'd be very surprised...

>AIs need a bit of hand holding and judicious application to shine.

You can have 1 person do the hand holding, and get rid of several others, as the AI still lets the single person do their work far faster... e.g. instead of a week for the person to write a program, an hour or less to get the AI to write it with appropriate prompts, and then a day or for the human to clean it up and fix any gaps...
Hypothalamic Menin regulates systemic aging and cognitive decline
I've taken to having the default behavior of a CLI program be to display the URL of the documentation. This seems obvious to me, but it was a long time before I thought of it, and I haven't seen it elsewhere.

I didn't see a need to add a GUI as a web browser will do nicely.
Consider creating an AI stakeholder that speaks for the client. This approach would allow the client to provide input that is wordy or scattered, and the consultant could receive immediate responses by asking the AI model most questions. Better yet, they can ask in a just-in-time manner, which results in less waste and lower mental stress of collecting all possible critical information upfront.

As the project progresses, the AI model would likely gain a better understanding of the client's values and principles, leading to improved results and potentially valuable insights and feature suggestions.
Yep. We used that with our kid and he seems to have avoided peanut allergy. It also tastes pretty good! But, it didn't stop him from developing a walnut/pecan allergy. Probably because we don't really eat either of those in our house.
Yes, granting a Masters after the completion of required coursework is commonplace on the way to a PhD, regardless of whether you leave or stay in the program.
Reminds me of this concept from Ender's Game by OSC:
https://enderverse.fandom.com/wiki/Mind_Game
I've always wanted to play it after reading the book, and now it could become a reality.
It could just mean causality has more dimensions than we can perceive. It doesn't mean it is nonexistent.
You won't need this to-and-fro. GPT-X will generate both sides for you.
It's just this:

p, .conversation-chat, blockquote, em, strong {
font-size: 1rem;
font-style: normal;
font-family: Menlo, monospace;
}

That's really the heart of it. I've wanted to try using a sans-serif font like Inter, but I'm stuck in a pit where people expect me to use a monospace font and any attempt to move away from that means I basically change a huge part of the site's visual identity. I'm still trying to figure out how to find some middle ground because I am told that the monospace font is hard for people with dyslexia to read.

I'll figure out something, I'm sure.
I would have liked to see one in the style of Joe Biden and Putin.
It would be a shame if Putin decided to follow Washington's lead and simply criminalize the ICC itself [1].

Yes, were Putin to wash up at Plymouth Rock, it would be a federal crime for any LEO to comply with the ICC and arrest him. Not that that would stop them, but it's funny to consider.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pr...
> The Wii, when it was launched, was similar to a 10-year-old PowerBook G3, in a white box.

True for the CPU, but quite unfair to the Wii's ArtX GPU, which was substantially faster and more featureful than the ATI r128 in the PB G3.
Yeah, it doesn't seem to be hereditary, both me (European Caucasian) and my wife (Chinese Asian) have 0 problems with nuts and can crunch them as much we want (same with everyone in direct line), but both of our kids have very strong nut allergy (not just peanuts, also pistachios, walnuts and especially cashew nuts) with immediate swelling, whole body red, very dangerous, even just piece of peanut. Also interestingly son spent 1st year of life in China, while daughter was born in Europe and it doesn't seem to make any difference.

Before I had kids I heard in Europe about peanut allergies only from US movies and TV shows and never met person who would be allergic to them, so was shocked to find my kids having such "made up" US allergy.
Ah yes but those who control the models control the content.

It's like the print and TV media. It's just a propaganda and/or money machine because if it isn't, what's the use of all that power?

The power concentration that's about to happen will blow the socks off governments and the public alike.
This is the first time I've heard of Maria Lvova-Belova.

I'm aware of the forced deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia. Can someone shed light on her role in this (other than her title of Commissioner of Children's Rights) and why she's being singled out?
Been blogging since 2003 but my current blog helped me to learn new stuff, gigs, jobs, Ads, affiliate and guest blogging earning.
I majored in maths, did as much computing as I could (even getting special dispensation along the way to drop statistics), and passed on the philosophy and business options. It worked out well enough (I got a 1st), but still, nearly 40 years later, if I had my time again I might make different choices.
The most interesting part of this is that ChatGPT can create content with more "whimsy" and "humanity" than many tech leaders.

IMO The purpose of such announcements is to maintain the leadership (willing followership) role by reconnecting with followers with a hard-to-fake heart-to-heart. Without this, the warmth is gone. Followership becomes cold and is based primarily on health insurance, salary, visa, greencard, etc...
My advice would be: focus on conceptually difficult but economically useful areas; and try not to spend too much time on the easier stuff if possible (even if the syllabus/grading system values those things). However, if the entire curriculum seems too insipid given new developments, then the opportunity cost would suggest cutting further losses. Hope that helps.

Fun fact: Even Issac Newton was forced through an outdated syllabus; he somehow swam through it, while simultaneously building up the new intellectual framework, which became the new physics. The intellectual climate keeps changing almost every 100 years in some significant way, it always has.
That's actually a little bit surprising to me. I have some family friends who are doctors (one's a dermatologist, the other an internist). They each pay somewhere around $50k per year in malpractice insurance premiums. Now sure, in the grand scheme of things, the 50k extra your doctor demands is likely not transformative for health care costs, but I also wouldn't imagine it is nothing.
There is no AI system today that can take high stakes decisions without human supervision. Not even invoice data extraction bots unless you want it to send 1,000,000 dollars from your account every now and then, instead of 1,000.
The parent isn't wrong. Even assuming you have superhuman AI with unlimited funding, your bottleneck will be human prompting and curation. The person who assigns more workers to that sector will scale faster and eat more of the market.
>across many objective measures, many things seem to be improving

Are they the things that matter to the people who have the perception, though?

I don't think it's all about the news.
They are if you arrest someone in response to mere allegation.
Probably not all countries use peanut oil as an adjuvant.
The Design of Stack Machines for Compilers