skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article doesn't really answer the question - it just says it began with pictographs in clay tablets. But surely that's not the actual origin - wouldn't it be perhaps that earlier than that, there might have been things like ad-hoc markers scratched into trees or rocks (probably pictograms, indicating e.g. a good cave, or the direction to something?) that eventually became more formalised before making the jump to tablets?
Medieval Arabic surgeon Ibn al Quff's account on surgical pain relief
"Wouldn't it be nice?" "But it isn't so."

An is-versus-ought style mistake.
Why not just use the built-in Shortcuts to export to your preferred format?
They mostly inspire people to sit on the couch and eat unhealthy food and drinks with friends while watching on the TV. The amount of people watching is so so much higher than the people who get involved in any particular sport.
I am very jealous of you. I'm on the same journey but not quite able to get there. However I have found my resistence to be the same - my friendships are relationships prosper much more than before I started in this path!

Good on you for living the way that works for you. You only get one life, don't let others dictate it.
That's a cute little set of low-cost boards.

The copy, though... "Radar has been adopted as a simple and practical solution in Artificial Intelligence."?
No goal posts move when the original issue is not resolved with the proposed solution
Like, without any menu you can export your notes to a screenshot, but you wouldn't accept it as an export option, would you?
Similarly, PDF is an awful format for notes, so the fact that it exists doesn't solve the issue that you can't export your notes (which at a minimum you need to be able to do in batches, not individual notes)
To add to this, it's likely to 'originate' from (and is supported by) Thorn[0], which was discussed the previous post of mullvad's campaign.

[0]: https://www.thorn.org/about-our-fight-against-sexual-exploit...
I can't reply to that comment but I only skimmed it anyway. I called you out for pedantry because your response was pedantic. I can see how you would be frustrated by that and your text-wall comment confirms it. Maybe you should read the text at the other end of the link I posted, evaluate in good faith whether or not you were being pedantic, and then honestly consider what your comment added to the conversation beyond feeding your smugness. Have a nice day.

Edit: The text is so short I'll just post it here.

"A pedant (/ˈpɛd.ənt/ PED-ent) is a person who is excessively concerned with formalism, accuracy and precision, or one who makes an ostentatious and arrogant show of learning."
Celebrate the small wins. Upwards and onwards.
Nigeria sounds like paradise! I wonder why more Americans don't move there.
Robusta, the Underdog Coffee Bean That’s Making a Comeback
> In that show the computer is intelligent but never takes initiative. I always wondered why the ship couldn’t just raise shields instead of waiting for Picard’s order.

Because Starfleet had a thing against allowing that, having built an AGI in the past (in the Original Series), given it control of a starship in a test, and had it go rogue badly.

> Data - the only true AGI is unique (except lore) and all attempts to replicate him fail.

Data and Lore aren’t the only Soong-type Androids in TNG, there is also Juliana Tainer (who was more advanced). Nor are the Soong-type androids the only AGIs in the series; there are some alien AGIs, as well as a few accidental AGIs—the exocomps and holodeck Moriarty being among the more memorable.
You’ve answered your question.

It’s tiring. They hope to wear people down.
Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news
Strategy games are generally much more entertaining to watch than FPS games. Age of Empires 2 (yes, that one) is relatively easy to follow with a good announcer/caster such as "T90" on Youtube. Other big esports like Dota can be a lot of fun to watch, but require nontrivial knowledge of the game to really understand what's going on.
> but in reality member states seem unwilling to oppose them most of the times

That’s because when some of them do they get threatened with sanctions while others can simply dictate policy. The eu is not an equal members club.
Bullshit

People are pissed because it was announced and implemented last minute.

A leaked video shows of the head of parliament discussing this as if he’s in a flea market. The same guy that’s been there for almost 30 years.
I think that we'll have to keep optimizing for human readability while we still cannot trust the code.

In the future, perhaps we can let it write whatever language best suits the task. Or perhaps we'll design a programming language specifically intended to be used by LLMs. (Or let the LLMs design it)
This calls for Comes Boot Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness!

> The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes "Boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory
This isn't a plugin is it? Would love to be able to add it to https://github.com/Jeadie/awesome-chatgpt-plugins
Ismail al-Jazari: The Muslim inventor who may have inspired Leonardo da Vinci
This ultimately becomes vocational specialization.
> And the fact that you are native Spanish speaker makes little difference here. How trustworthy is a native Spanish speaker? You will know it when you navigate the Spanish speaking Internet and find most of it are antivaxxers, flat earthers and people that believe "US Navy" is a given name ("Usnavy").

That has absolutely nothing to do with the topic of how something is pronounced in Spanish, which is ostensibly something that a native speaker of the language would certainly have experience with and who’s opinions should be listened to.

They shouldn’t be trusted as a source of information about vaccinations, the curvature of the earth, or the etymology of the US Navy but it’s also not expected that they would be experts in any of those topics.

There’s also plenty of English (and whatever other language, it’s not like the two are correlated in any way) speaking folks who believe all those things as well, but that doesn’t mean we instantly discount all people who speak English because of that.
I’ve been there. Feel free to keep at it but unless your goal is to be a ROCm developer and contribute to the driver, upstream projects, etc IMO it’s just not worth it.

There is so much interesting, educational, and productive stuff going on with GPUs these days… At some point people need to ask themselves “did I buy a GPU to learn/use ML, or did I buy a GPU to beta test AMDs software stack?”

When it comes to GPU compute Nvidia cards are substantially cheaper if you value your time and sanity.

Note I don’t have any vested interest in Nvidia whatsoever, I’m just mad at myself for spending my time and money thinking AMD actually cared about any of this - they clearly don’t and the lack of progress I’ve seen and experienced over the past five years I’ve tried with them is insulting to me and the rest of their so called user base.
I just want to ask question on how i can find expired domain on gq. Any one
Generic AVR programmers go for about $8 on Amazon.
Graph Neural Networks Are Dynamic Programmers
They should seriously run a test on an isolated ChatGPT environment just to see what happens.

"ChatGPT, you have been given root access to this computer system. Behave responsibly".
> E-sports have yet to engage Western audiences quite as much. About 20% of Americans take an interest, according to a poll by Morning Consult—slightly less than follow horse-racing.

Huh. That's neat trivia. More westerners are interested in horse racing that e-sports. Thank you article.
It’s quite crazy how tangible nostalgia these evoke in me. Something about seeing a screen I used to watch a lot and have not seen since makes it really strong. I’d even argue it’s stronger than seeing old photos.
So having admitted in your own words you have literally no experience with the matter under discussion are there any other topics you'd like to display your ignorance of or can we just call it a day?
I agree, there is nothing fun about MAGA. The reference is tone deaf, off point, and totally unnecessary. I suggest the author reflect on what it really means to a large portion of the population.
Windows Snipping Tool Information Disclosure Vulnerability
These are a joke of instructions, per-note app-only export to an awful pdf format
During the heights of the pandemic, the Cuban health system sent over 2,000 doctors to 23 of the most affected countries. No other country sent nearly that many doctors elsewhere, and Cuba is a tiny place!
Was The Line too ambitious? They had to downgrade to The Cube?
I highly doubt any of that. There's no Copilot making my job easier. 90% of my job is understanding what needs to be done, the remaining 10% is writing code. So no "many"fold improvement for me. Or for any developer I know.
I think open source is more important and relevant than ever, especially in an era when LLMs are controlled by a select few. But we can both say “Nu uh” and “yes huh” at each other and it won’t really advance the discussion. Do you have specific examples?
I disagree with the conclusion, to me that's the opposite, this proves that it doesn't undercut it
> Compare this to traditional sports like basketball, baseball, or hockey. When someone does something truly impressive, even someone who's not an expert in the sport can still appreciate it. There's no special knowledge needed to recognize an amazing shot, a great catch, or a stunning goal. It's just obvious.

As an European who played a lot of soccer and basketball and watches a lot of soccer - I find baseball totally unwatchable :) Not because I don't know the rules well, but because it's too static and predictable.

I have the same problem with volleyball and to some extent basketball - the game is a linear combination of repeating the same basic task dozens of times. Whoever succeeds more times wins. So by the half-time you usually know who will win. And there's very little space for creativity.

Meanwhile in RTS and in soccer it's pretty common to win the game for 80% of the time only to lose it because of 1 big mistake or 1 brilliant play. This possibility makes them more entertaining even when it doesn't materialize - because you can hope or be afraid of a come-back.

This is IMHO why I enjoyed watching StarCraft 2 more than Dota 2 or FPS games even before I started playing SC2.
What happens if there are complications with the birth? What happens if you get cancer? Or need an emergency surgery? Have a congenital heart defect? Need even the most basic life saving medication? Need to drain fluid from your child's brain? I can assure you your $2000 isn't paying for any of that.

Do you even know the ballpark of how much an MRI machine costs to operate? Yes healthcare was cheaper in the 50s, but this isn't the 50s.
Well, plenty of compression algorithms have been patented or attempted to be patented - e.g. arithmetic codes and Microsoft's rANS patent
> AI/Robots should replace physical labor before it replaces knowledge workers.

There's actually a kind of internet famous novel where the exact opposite happens. I don't remember the name of it or the site it's on, but initial premise has AI automating management (starting with pretty menial things like directing workers at fast food restaurant, and working its way up the value chain).

It was pretty interesting, but I only got as far as the protagonist getting interned in a kind of debtors prison once his savings ran out and he couldn't afford to live outside of it (due to all the automation). The prison was theoretically open, but if you wandered too far away, robots would tranq you (after very many "nice" exhortations to return) and you'd wake up back in your bed.
Federal Republic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia
Humans can backtrack, but the probability of an "correct" output is still (1-epsilon)^n. Not only can any token introduce an error, but the human author will not perfectly catch errors they have previously introduced. The epsilon ought to be lower for humans, but it's not zero.

But more to the point, in the deck provided, Lecun's point is _not_ about backtracking per se. The highlighted / red text on the preceding slide is:

> LLMs have no knowledge of the underlying reality
> They have no common sense & they can't plan their answer

Now, we generally generate from LLMs by sampling uniformly forward, but it isn't hard to use essentially the same structure to generate tokens conditioned on both preceding and following sequences. If you ran generation for tokens 1...n, and then ran m iterations of re-sampling internal token i based on (1..i-1, i+1..n), it would sometimes "fix" issues created initial generation pass. It would sometimes introduce new issues, which were fine upon original generation. Process-wise, it would look a lot like MCMC at generation-time.

The ability to "backtrack" does _not_ on its own add knowledge of reality, common sense, or "planning".

When a human edits, they're reconciling their knowledge of the world and their intended impact on their expected audience, neither of which the LLM has.
Not even those.

Replenishment for what we've expended in Ukraine is on a 5-10 year timeframe at present.
Did you "understand" that 58657 is/is not a factor of 3442177452?

Or did you use a calculator to verify?

Because that would be exactly what ChatGPT with plugins does.
>At Seoul Game Academy, a chain of schools in South Korea’s capital, 3,000 students aged nine and up (roughly 99% of them boys) hone their skills at nine games in hopes of becoming full time “e-sports” athletes.

That's just sad. The level of grind it takes to become pro is nuts. For every one professional player or streamer there's a countless number of people that have wasted their lives on this stuff.

The scale is such that to be good it's very often a case of mastering a zero-sum game. Rote repetition until it becomes [hand] muscle memory. The same shit, over and over, until your eyes bleed.

Aged nine and up? Just let the kids have fun. High-level e-Sports should be considered child abuse at that age.
Here’s a concrete example. A customer of mine wants to process some data, this processing of data is needed for their fizzbuzz widget they are developing and they need the data before they launch the widget. They want to know how long it will take, at what cost, because I’m bidding against others who also want to do the job. In order for me to continue to operate as a business (and pay staff), I need to sell, in order to sell, I need to give an estimate to the client on how much effort it will be so that they can plan accordingly or select a different vendor.

This is an engineering task. Estimate the steps and time it will take. Deliver it. Plain and simple. You don’t know what the data looks like so it’s going to be new. You don’t have a framework. You have some semblance of a schema but it’s written by business folks.
Because EU residents allowed them to continue to legislate themselves into irrelevancy. Nobody spoke against GDPR, which is an utterly toothless annoyance.

GDPR achieved nothing notable for data security and privacy, except by spamming cookie prompts and training users to accept anything.

The EU is an incompetent, lumbering, bureaucratic hellscape. It expanded FAR beyond its original remit of a customs union, and in turn created horrific legislation and usurped the power of national governments to centralize power in Brussels.

The EU used its newly seized power to crush all free speech, freedom of expression and dissent, along with explicitly campaigning for censorship. [1]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2022/04/23/1094485542/eu-law-big-tech-ha...
> The robot is limited by its gears.

Wait till they hook up the robots to other robots including 3D printers.
star trek is also fictional where things happen as the writers wish it to… the real world is not subject to such restrictions
>Comes Boot Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness!

Comes Boot
I don't think it works that way.

I picked up skills after my parents because I was curious and they were both knowledgeable in their respective fields(my dad, a medical equipment engineer, could repair a TV, which for a five year old amounted to a superpower).

I was never forced to do anything and yet had the exact same headstart you're talking about, but in e.g. school math.

Of course that did a lot of damage to my work ethic, but the point is that kids are naturally curious and, at least initially, want to do what their parents do.
That feels like fatally flawed reasoning. Nature took billions of years to sequester carbon. It’s taken a few hundred to release an amount that’s permanently altered the climate of the Earth.

There’s lots of problems humans can create that “nature” couldn’t precisely because we drastically compress time scales that make adaptation exceedingly difficult.
Why, that looks suspiciously like Dutch.
> Knowing what code to write, what code to refactor, what abstraction to use that fits with your other abstractions — these things are the real job.

I don't see why you can't train AI to do these tasks. If you can train a human to do something you can train an AI to do it as well.

Volition is not necessarily required and pseudo-volition can be trained.
> All that we are certain about is that their rate of improvement follows an exponential growth curve.

Are we?
Hindu-Arabic numbers were a revolution to mathematics. Essentially, we can store numbers in log space of their quantity. The visualization ignores this invention. Why not show a simple table or bar chart? I could also suspect that the author is trying to frame the numbers for their purposes.

In terms of economics, this doesn’t make much sense either. Debt and wealth are somewhat related by the mechanics of accounting. Debt in some balance sheet is someone else’s equity in their balance sheet. The reverse might not be true as someone can just own something. So why not show these relations in a graph visualization? Also, they cite Credit Suisse for the term wealth. So I have to look this up anyway to understand the number.

Context bar on the right is a strength here as it explains numbers and their relations.
I don't know how many people have a high voltage programmer, especially the people that would choose an Arduino. I'm personally lucky to have found an AVRISP mkII that was being thrown away when I was a broke college student.

Either way, I'm saying that Arduino is _the_ microcontroller platform with the fewest gotchas for a beginner.
Tech’s AI Armies Are Huge, yet Struggling to Innovate
That is also the flow for Tailscale SSH

https://tailscale.com/kb/1193/tailscale-ssh/
Yep. And funny enough, when someone over 22 says they like football, they mean they like watching people play football.
As a non native speaker I had a hard time with "scythe" which as far as I can tell is not matching all the rules in this page, and at the same time is relatively common.
> ... that looks like something out of a Disney nightmare scene: strange but not particularly threatening.

Funny, I always thought the electron microscope images of tardigrades looked like the monsters in HAZMAT suits from Monsters Inc.

https://www.intelligentliving.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/...
It's gets easier and easier every year to want an alternative to Windows, but it remains impossible to actually switch, at least for me.
it is not, i didn't know there was a plugin interface. i'll submit it if i get around to adding support!
if you ever find it i’d love to read!
There are alternatives, right in America. Americans aren't completely clueless about places where cars aren't necessary to live. NYC is the poster child for that inside America, and other big cities have downtown areas where some people live car-free: Chicago, DC, etc.

The vast majority of Americans don't want to live in those places. They complain that they can't park their cars, that it's too dense, too expensive, etc. They deride these places and the people who live in them as latte and avocado toast eaters, while they make their huge monthly payments on their $50k-$100k SUV or pickup truck.
Ok, apologies for a slightly irritated tone, but this touched a nerve.

Of course the author is an MD who doesn’t mention the extremely high salaries paid to physicians in this country, instead acting like they’re somehow victims of high healthcare costs rather than the primary beneficiaries:

> Perhaps the demoralization of professionals, the conflicted consciences of many executives, and the anger of the public represent potential political energy that, with proper leadership, can become kinetic.

> First, health care professionals in all disciplines need to become noisier about the conflict between unchecked greed and the duty to heal. Extortionate drug prices, exploitation of market consolidation, coding games, excessive executive compensation, and promulgation of unnecessary care ought not to be met with silence. Silence is assent.

The median salary for a specialist physician in the US is $346k. Orthopedic surgeons clear north of half a million on average. As a result, “physician” is the most common profession profession among the richest 1%.

Note that this didn’t happen by accident. Groups like the AMA lobby for policies that keep supply low and salaries high. The one time that legislation threatened to reduce physician salaries, Congress passed the infamous “doc fix”

Mind you, residency sucks and many doctors are wonderful, so I mostly don’t begrudge them their pay. But if you’re complaining about the cost of healthcare and mention literally every group except the one you belong to, perhaps you’re being the slightest bit disingenuous.

As for the author, he earned $889,484 back in 2009 running a nonprofit. Does that “unchecked greed” cause him to have a “conflicted conscience,” I wonder?

Sources:
https://www.nshss.org/blog/you-want-to-be-a-doctor-here-is-t...
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/16/356176018/the-...
Page 18 for salary: https://pp-990.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/2011_03_EO/38-3017...
I’m not aware of any latency impact from io_uring. If anything, it has lower latency because you can pipeline I/O from a single CPU which you can’t do from typically thread-based parallelism. Additionally, the processing of the ring buffer could happen on a background kernel thread (in theory not sure if it happens today) which then avoids context switching away from your thread and screwing with cache performance.
This is a joke but programmers only need to know how to +1 to a number
This is a bad way to present the research, because yes removing calories from a food is kind of useless, but increasing resistant starch is good because dietary fiber is a nutrient. It feeds your gut bacteria.
To be fair verification cans are pretty universal these days - not really an AI issue
Its not like UK is doing better without EU.