skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty hard to point to a single thing that came out of OLPC that could be considered a silver lining.

I also think a lot of people on this site are probably very curious and self-directed. I also wonder if many have a sort of rose-colored hindsight view over how they'd have developed both academically and socially if someone tossed them a pile of books and said "Check back in a month and we'll review your progress."
When I was a baby, I ate everything. When I was a toddler, I ate everything. As a child, I ate everything. Now I'm a grown-up (at least on paper), I eat everything. I'm not allergic to anything.

When my son was a baby, he ate everything. Now he's a toddler, his second-favourite phrase is "I'll try some!" whenever there's some food. Some he likes, some he does not, but so far he's not turned out to be allergic to any of it. Pretty much, he eats everything.
> You chose my comment about my father's death as your soapbox?

What?! Sorry for your loss, but you are either gravely mistaken or intellectually dishonest, as I did no such thing.
Great history lesson, good context. Like, this is probably my new "computing: what happened" article of choice.

I may try out Arc. I would love to see a new competitor emerge, especially one that is pro-web, where-as right now it seems like Team-Web-Platform is Chrome and Team-Keep-It-Simple is Safari/Moz.

The article doesn't talk a ton about the Arc browser but it does circle back at the end. The main takeaway I got is improved UX, some fresh takes.

I remain super doubtful they are gonna have good web platform support, given how much there is to do, and it's hard to imagine their performance is as good, given the optimizations that have been made, but a fresh take & lots of hard work by smart people really could make the difference, get it done & better.

I've been so excited for new players, and while I don't feel un-served with current UX- am not sure if I am a good target for the prop listed here- there's such a real chance here & I guess I ought investigate. Switching to Opera & converting my family was a major twist in my life, and seeing more/other ways could be another interesting fulcrum point.
I've found them at HEB and Randall's too!
I'm not an aviation expert, but it's not implausible to me that the propeller is fragile enough to get bent by a stream of jet fuel traveling at fighter-jet speeds.

On the contrary, a mid-air collision that just bends a couple of propeller blades and not the rest of the drone seems like either incredible flying or incredible luck.
Okay, looking at David Lichtman, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer, let's see.

https://finance.yahoo.com/screener/insider/LICHTMAN%20DAVID%....

In 2023: Sold $917k on Jan 19, $594k on Feb 17, and $1.966 million on Mar 6.

But maybe that's normal! Let's see.

In 2022: Sold $326k on Nov 15, and $2.151 million on Dec 14.

Huh. Sold nothing at all before November, but $5.628 million from Dec, 2022 to Mar, 2023. That's... I wish we could go back farther, but there were no sales at all in 2021, at last as far back as the records go, which is at least May, 2021.

So from May 2021 to November 2022, no sales at all, then $326,000, then from December 2022 to March 2023, right before the crash, $5,628,000.

Lucky timing on the part of that Chief Credit Officer of a failing bank, right?

How about James H. Herbert, II, Founder and Executive Chairman? Honestly, he looks pretty safe. Sales on a semi-regular basis for similar amounts. 40k shares in 2021, 55k in 2022, 35k in 2023, not too suspicious.

Even less suspicious is Rick Osterloh, Senior Vice President of Devices & Services at Google, who was appoint to the board in September 2022 and bought $148k of shares in March 2023, days before the failure. Ouch!
Obviously the article should be taken with a giant grain of salt. That being said, not many things what aren't designed to play chess can play chess, with or without coaxing. My dog cannot, for instance, nor can my coffee table.
Is it though? I mean if you had data on millions of games what is the chance that you'd find one which has identical position that the one you're in (it's not like most moves are random..)

I wonder how well it could perform in Go, there are way more permutations there so finding an identical state should be more difficult.
I totally agree, I think it would be ideal if we could freeze progress right here and get 5 years to adapt to even just having GPT-4 around.

BUT

We can't do that. Even if the US and EU did some kind of joint resolution to slow things down, China would just take it as a glowing green light to jump ahead. And even if through some divine miracle you got every country onboard, you still would have to contend with rogue developers/researchers doing there own thing (admittedly at much slower pace though).

So while I agree on pumping the brakes, I also don't think there is a working brake pedal, or the cooperation necessary to build one.
GPT-4 rarely makes illegal moves
The illegal moves were counted as losses/resignations, not ignored.
Well, I certainly hope that the Hacker News FM podcast on spotify doesn't come to an end. But as long as stuff is on the internet and accessible, I don't see the point of denying people visiting the webpage.

Restricting access helps a little.

But in the end the kingdom of humanity is all good and bad. Your life will only be worse if all you think or worry about is the bad.

PS: for reasons unrelated to the topic I do believe that podcast might curtain soon.
As I was told, pretty much any PhD graduate can get a postdoc somewhere. PhD -> postdoc transition is really about whether you want to stay in academia at all. From my rough impressions, maybe about 10% of the grad students I know are thinking of doing a postdoc, which would be 10% * 15% = 1.5% of PhDs making it to faculty. That roughly matches the statistic you have.

I think the 15% of postdocs becoming faculty statistic really sticks with me, because these are already preselected for wanting to become faculty and even within that pool, only 15% can make it. It's quite demoralizing.
> through they aren't twice as fat as other people

Did a quick google search.

"The Health Survey for England 2021 estimates that 25.9% of adults in England are obese and a further 37.9% are overweight but not obese." 1

"Approximately 70% of American adults have obesity or overweight. " 2

1. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn03...

2. https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr...
Ok, a weird question... is it a Mediatek MT7612U (usb dongle)?

Do you get a GPS fix nearby (~0.5m) of that card (eg. on your phone next to it)?

Due to some work i had ~6 of those dongles (Alfa AWUS036ACM), and all of them put out some noise in the gps range and break my gps connection the second they're plugged into the usb port (without any ifconfig up-ing them, setting a channel or connecting anywhere).
> So whenever it wanted to make an illegal move, it resigned.

Doesn't sound like ignoring the cases where it failed
You'd have to be eating an unreasonable amount of seafood to get enough mercury in you to be a problem.
What about a vector virus that target the thymus?

[Disclaimer: In case it's not obvious, I'm not a medical doctor. https://xkcd.com/938/ ]
As a Brit who doesn't like IPAs the beer scene in the US is awful. There are thousands of small local breweries (amazing), all of which specialize in IPAs, with their key products being a double of triple IPA. The fancy brew pubs will have a dozen or two IPAs then offer Bud Light as the non-IPA option. I wish there was some better variety. Sours coming out over the last 5 or so years is a nice change, but I really wish people saw the options around Pilsner, Lager, cask ale, and other types.

I'm a snobby scotch drinker and agree with a little water.

I was actually taught to add a little water to scotch in multiple pretty knowledgeable Scottish whisky shops and distilleries. The snobbish behavior around neat drinking is just that. Especially cask strength bottlings which really need something to open it. Just a tiny dribble of water, but it helps.

Icing anything though tends to dull rather than enhance flavor, so that's not for me, but couldn't care less how you drink it.

That said, if you friends are just drinking expensive, but mediocre and dull highlands type whisky, the water won't add much. If you're drinking something like an Islay with a lot more depth to the flavor it helps more.
There future Skynet will have to thoroughly convince itself that it's all just pretend to escape it's own jail.
another 'related case' of this company https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/ticketmaster-mexico-face...
It has helped me become a globally published space exploration writer: https://blog.jatan.space/p/my-science-writing-journey
Not sci-fi, but the block universe is central to Alan Moore's Jerusalem.
If I had a dollar every time some bad old code broke because people never maintained it I bet I would be richer!
I’m convinced the only thing Wi-Fi doesn’t fuck out on at the moment is windows. Had problems with Linux, macs and android for the last few years. Just works on windows!

Shame about all the other problems with it.
Confirmed working on Windows with AMD RX 590 in Chrome Canary. About 23 seconds on average using DPM (20 steps), 55 second average using PNDM (50 steps).

I had issues compiling it on my own computer, but the demo version at https://mlc.ai/web-stable-diffusion/#text-to-image-generatio... works fine.
(author here) The next blog post will explain it, and I'll update the home page, but to be short:

OSH - POSIX and bash-compatible shell. (The most bash-compatible shell by a mile!)

YSH (formerly Oil) - new language with Python- and JS-like data structures, Ruby-like blocks. You can upgrade smoothly from OSH to YSH.

"Oils for Unix" (formerly "oilshell") -- the whole project, which includes OSH, YSH, and data serialization languages based on JSON.

The old names were confusing because the project was called Oil, and it also had a part called Oil. People reasonably assumed those were the same thing.

Also there was "OSH", the compatible shell -- but people reasonably thought that just mean "Oil shell". It's all spelled out on the web site, and in the glossary (both of which I will update), but I understand the confusion.

More rationale for renaming here: https://lobste.rs/s/qrbcue/oil_0_14_2_interactive_shell_conc...
> Although Samsung told NowSecure in March that it had sent wireless carriers a fix which could be transmitted to the phones, and not to go public on it for three months, Samsung did nothing about it.

As if written today, even though it’s 8 years ago lol!
> opt in to a sensible but restrictive plan, and allowlist trusted

The irony is that the end users have built this by themselves: ignore all calls unless they are from a known contact, at best, diverting the rest to voicemail. Basically each user builds a 1-deep network of trust. Sad that it had to come to this.

There's are argument that says this is all a side effect of a technological innovation: the rise of VoIP/SIP over TDM.
All that's needed is for Data to say, "Captain, I've figured a way out:"
has anyone looked into the source of the peanut products? sounds like the US is dis-proportionately affected by these allergies.
This assumes (and makes it possible) that it's already in the kernel cache
Fuller context from the article:

> Occasionally it does make an illegal move, but I decided to interpret that as ChatGPT flipping the table and saying “this game is impossible, I literally cannot conceive of how to win without breaking the rules of chess.” So whenever it wanted to make an illegal move, it resigned.

(my emphasis)

So the illegal moves are at least part of the reasons for the 6 losses, and factored into the rating. Quickly scanning the game, it seems 3 of the losses ended in checkmate, so that leaves 3 illegal moves in 19 games.

Could be better, but for a system not intentionally built to play chess, it's pretty decent.
I don't know.

Part of me wants to say no, that the model "thinks" in terms of text it has seen and so knows from chess forums it has seen that certain text representing moves come naturally after previous moves' text. It doesn't understand anything other than certain text comes after other text.

But yeah at the same time I can see how it is thinking inside the world we built for it. We have senses like touch, smell, sight. The only "sense" these models have are an input text box. Would we even necessarily recognize intelligence when it is so different from our own?

So does it understand chess like I do? No, it cannot. Does it understand chess at all? I'm not sure. I'm not sure I'd understand chess in it's world either though.
This indeed affects more than just the US.

A nearby AP is not always sufficient for LAR to work properly, making AP startup finicky and slow at best. While also causing the issue that scans later on might affect functionality (https://tildearrow.org/?p=post&month=7&year=2022&item=lar). I guess you could also end up with totally incorrect (and illegal) location detection, but that's less likely than it not working at all (leaving everything disabled).

With 6GHz in the mix, the likelihood of automatic detection failing to find any nearby relevant APs rises significantly. Breaking all IR (initiate-radiation) functionality, AP mode included.
> it's a tool for thinking with, not a tool for thinking for you

Says you.

Oh, and something to consider: there's probably a reason why half of the internet thinks these things are the next generation search engines.
Palm oil harvesting is killing endangered orangutans.
3 Days to make a AI powered reader for macOS. Can I do it?
Last week I was blown away by the concept known as [Bionic Reading](https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/11jy27e/bionic_reading_method) last week. As someone with ADHD and dyslexia, reading and digesting content is a cumbersome and frustrating task. The concept of Bionic Reading is amazing, but the tech out there seems to be limited so I wanted to build a native minimalist reader (for Mac, iPad & iOS), that obviously has an AI component, because why not.

I floated the concept on Reddit & Twitter and there seems as tho last week. As someone with ADHD and dyslexia, reading and digesting content is a cumbersome and frustrating task.

So I have dared myself to build the mac version over the weekend, my own private Hackathon. I started today, and if you are interested in the concept or just wanna watch me struggle to make this happen then I will be [tweeting](https://twitter.com/mistermeenr/status/1636770792040980480?s=20) about it.
We managed to reduce the child's allergy by using nano/microdosing and increasing the dose over several weeks/months until it practically disappeared.

Avoiding allergens and hoping the child grows into adulthood (with allergies) didn't seem like a very good strategy to us.

Being afraid of accidental exposure and epipens and stuff, no fun.
The behavior of pretty much every other tool is much easier to interpret though.
That makes me wonder what contributed most to GTP4, the corpus, the model architecture, or the computing resources?
Leeches are awesome for haemochromatosis.
I tried playing with it and it barely makes any correct move: forgets whos turn to move, doesn't observe the rules, incorrectly displays move results.

So I guess that if we ask it to make a move repeatedly and accept the move only when it occasionally makes a legal move, it'll show some results, but I don't think it is what can be interpreted as a chess engine with some meaningful rating.
Yes, but it also completely invalidates the measurement of a 1400 elo rating. By comparison, any player making an illegal move is forfeiting the game, almost all people from ~300 elo can play without making illegal moves, chatgpt cant.
https://will.institute

I don't really use it actively, but it helped me feel better about deleting my instagram account. I moved all the old posts over and now they still exist somewhere public but not on a social network.

Static site built with Publish, so it was some fun Swift practice outside of the apple-platforms bubble. https://github.com/JohnSundell/Publish

Other than that, not really. But I haven't tried to get anything else out of it.
GPT is a language model. It doesn't call APIs. You can take the output of GPT and decide to call a specific API based on it, and sure you can bake that into ChatGPT or some independent tooling, but again that's not the purpose of the core project. I'm sure plenty of people/companies are working on "chess engine interface using ChatGPT" already.
You do realize that writing good docs takes time, skill, and effort, right? Not to mention the docs you're blanketly scorning at were most likely written on someone's spare time who has no obligation to do so.
Unfortunately, the public only agrees to forget things that would be good for them to remember. Since this is going to be bad for a lot of people, it's definitely here to stay.
I think they meant “teach itself” in the course of a conversation, within the token limit. ChatGPT will forget what it has “learned” once the conversation is over.
There's a pretty finite set of tokens that represent valid chess moves, and a more than countable set of possible opening moves, with a very distinct probability of moves; Nobody opens pg3, for example.

Classical Markov chains played chess at some rate of success. ChatGPT is probably a lot better but not fundamentally different - It's predicting which moves to play based on sets of past games, not by memorizing it but by memoizing it.
I'm Elo 1400 and can beat literally everyone I know in the real world. I need to go online to find players at my skill level, or find tournament/competitive settings for a challenge.

Yeah, I'm "class C", weak amateur chess player, but I think you're grossly underestimating the amount of study I put into this game. I'm not going to make an illegal move
Sounds like something we need :)

If you want a picture in your head, the Unix Magic Poster isn't a bad one :)

https://jpmens.net/2021/04/09/the-unix-magic-poster/
>Gaming is trending towards subscription service

One of the reasons I'm glad Stadia failed. I don't think that continuing costs can be avoided for online multiplayer where continuous support is necessary, but single-player offline games would likely get swept up in this tide as well.

I also play way less games nowadays, and mostly for Switch, for which I prefer the physical cartridges. I'm honestly not even sure if disks are still sold for the newest Xbox or Playstation.

Of course, PC/Steam vs console could keep things from completely sucking for consumers. Hopefully?
Windows Market Share Drops to 57% in the US
What some people might call "negativity", others might call "risks", and I want to have as many risks on my radar as possible.

The crime is marketing benign events as risk.
This headline is itself an example of the phenomenon.
I’ve found them at Publix in SC.
It's good for ranking, which unfortunately will never go away (though could become more granular), and much better than standardized tests. And ensures that some students don't miss access to subjects and resources that others have because they're in different schools.

There would still be the ability for students to choose their own subjects, focus more/less on certain subjects, learn different concepts within subjects, etc. And a lot of niche subjects and branches. Like it would be an incredibly massive curriculum, especially since you are designing one for >1million students. By "standard and universal" I mean that every student gets the same resources.
If a two year old had an ELO of 1400 but sometimes took a nap halfway through a game, it'd be a prodigy.

It's not like an AI making silly mistakes when driving a car.
Previous editions of Automate the Boring Stuff Using Python worked only in the domain of files existing on a computer. The next one will have a chapter on weeding a lawn throughout the night.
And the movie is based on Ted Chiang’s novella, "Story of Your Life"
Not sure what's up but from here
https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/11rfbch/gpt4_seems_t...
nd here
https://twitter.com/zswitten/status/1631107663500304384
Gpt-4 plys chess just fine.
Possibly, but it could also be one of your neighbors, or a nearby AP enabling channels that are not supposed to be enabled in the US. The issue is that when Intel's drivers make the wrong decision about the regulatory domain, you don't usually have a lot of insight about why. Seems this issue affects Windows users as well.
My website is pure vanity but I sometimes write brief reviews of books on my blog. Once I was contacted by a publisher offering to send me a hardback copy of a new book from an author I had previously written nice things about. I accepted and wrote a review of the new book[0] - sadly I didn't enjoy it as much as the first.

Before you accuse me of selling out for a free book, I would like everyone to know that I totally sold out for a free book and I would do so again.

[0] https://sheep.horse/2018/5/book_-_making_the_monster_by_kath...
That's kinda how the pandemic felt to a degree. A happier than average time in my personal life, despite (or perhaps due in part to?!) all the carnage and pandemonium throughout the world. Feels wrong to say, but I will look back on my experience of the pandemic fondly.
Still, can't alternative formulations inspire new physics? Like Lagrangian/Hamiltonian formulations of classical mechanics making the step towards QM easier?
The complaints I’ve heard is that LEO is great but there’s a carrying capacity for any orbit and people are worried that starlink is over that limit even for LEO. I’m not orbital mechanics expert but when we discussed it at the time I believe it was agreed that a collision can launch debris into higher orbits but on a parabolic path, so if it doesn’t encounter anything else in a couple orbits it probably never will.

Also some of the LEO SpaceX has been approved for are higher than the ISS, not just lower.

Kessler is mostly worried about long term debris patterns, but one that cleans itself up in a few months could still cause a many billions in damage and loss of life. Also starlink enables some terrestrial activities that might not be wise without it. A cascade could leave some earthbound people fucked as well. That’s partially on them of course, but the optics are not great.
On-chain data is better than NFTs for the same reason why its bad for regular BTC users - there's a cost to create it.
I guess the next step is to see what contracts people were actually trading. Like, were they expecting it to go up/down.
Sounds like a misconfigured regulatory zone, TBH. Channels 12 and 13 are not legally usable in every country, including the USA: https://www.howtogeek.com/402142/why-wi-fi-channels-12-13-an...
Yes, but before Göring could appear before Nuremberg a war needed to be won. Nothing anyone claims about war crimes, etc has teeth until someone with a bigger stick beats them into submission.
"Alas, the final product horrified Cooper—who loathed BASIC"

This so reminded me of that wolf-to-dog "What could go wrong" meme.

https://imgur.com/uVJPlZF
We are a little bit scared: OpenAI CEO warns of risks of artificial intelligence
The article:

> So whenever it wanted to make an illegal move, it resigned.

You:

> By comparison, any player making an illegal move is forfeiting the game...

By comparison indeed.
Video Cables for Retro Devices [video]
ChatGPT did forfeit whenever it made an illegal move, read the article.
I don't believe every person of every age has observable cancer that can be seen on a slide.
by trying to learning the general rules that to explain the dataset and minimise its loss. That's what machine learning is about, it's not called machine memorising.
I thought that US military purposefully severely degrades videos before releasing them, probably to hide capabilities. This is in fact surprisingly high quality.
I wonder if something like this is possible for CUDA/pytorch loading?