skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... loneliness is more common than ever.

But it's also very profitable if you're the advertising delivery system, or somewhere sucking money off that pipeline, because you can convince lonely people to spend money to buy things that might help with that!

The whole "isolated, atomic person, only interfacing with the world through a screen, with every interaction intermediated by for-profit tech companies providing a service for a fee" model is very profitable. It's just horrid for everyone who's nothing more than a wallet and set of eyeballs to be tapped for as much as they're worth, then given loans to keep consuming.

I utterly hate the characterization of people as "consumers" these days - I'm trying to be more deliberate about using "citizen" or something along those lines. There's more to life than consuming as many "consumer goods" as possible.

Unfortunately, the wealthy end of the tech industry makes their money from this sort of social destruction, and so I don't expect many changes while people are still willing to pay for the chains of their cell phone. Fortunately, I think that's changing.
They're saying the "nearest star other than the Sun", but with some geek-in-group-signalling with the "not" syntax and referring to the Sun as "Sol", which some science fiction writers (and some non-English languages, of course) use as the Sun's name.
>The podcast is missing this healthy type of acceptance and appreciation of truth.

The podcast is grounded in science and only speculates about the consequences via the data and the studies it cites. The people who were interviewed are psychologists who empirically study this scientifically and their conclusions are more well developed then yours given that they've spent a huge amount of time dedicated to elucidating these findings.

Your conclusion on the other hand was not formulated on data. It was formulated in attempt to fulfill your bias. You took the data and tried to mold it so it would fit your current world view instead of adjusting your world view according to what the data straight forwardly implies. I mean you are trying to push the conclusions of the study toward a positive outcome when reality in essence doesn't care about positive or negative outcomes. It can all be negative and that is a completely valid outcome.

I mean where is the data about people who healthily accept the truth? You would need that data to formulate a scientific conclusion. If no such data exists then where did your conclusion come from?

Perhaps the subject of podcast was talking about something you're doing right now.

I ask myself in attempting to get at the absolute dark truth... is what I'm doing good for either of us in terms of mental health? Probably not. I take it back.

You're completely right and I'm wrong.
It's a request to the owner of some reference in a Git repository to pull in some changes from some reference in some (possibly other) Git repository. You can do this via email, but centralised Git hosts like Github have their own interface to this basic workflow.
web.whatsapp.com requires you to be already logged in the mobile app.

Unless you install the Whatsapp .apk on a desktop (ChromeOS?) I don't think you can easily use Whatsapp without a smartphone
It's not about it being impossible. I guess the major issue right now is that people are focusing on the wrong aspect of it. They should be focusing on how most LLMs are currently only controlled by bigger coroporations. Democratizing the LLMs and Giving access to people would resolve the x-poly we have currently.

This also solves the "safety and regulations" issue to an extent - Do you really trust that Microsoft, Google, or govt-entities will not have their own biases and will want to regulate the citizens who want to use their products more, sometimes in unethical ways (because we all know, corps and govts never do anything bad)?

This "Open letter" reeks of "we are behind, let us play catch up, you cant take all the money!" or, of baseless fearmongering where LLMs and future assistants could be used to help countless people with disabilities for example.

"Make the world a better place, but no, not like that, not by democratizing it, but under OUR CONTROL" seems to be the motto here.
Not sure why this is downvoted it's a common opinion and one I've also thought about a lot.

I am actually about to do it, I think it's actually trivially easy if you give up on the phone number being the same for voice calls. If you have two iPhones then you can still get iMessage on both. And like who needs voice calls. If you really care you could forward one to the other.

The "dumb" one you set up MDM on and disable the browser if you want to really mean it. Just have text messaging, Kindle, spotify/music, and google maps. Seems like a decent compromise.
In the 1940s uranium enrichment was indeed the "difficult path."

Here's a cost breakdown for the Manhattan Project:

https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2013/05/17/the-price-of-the-...

You can see that the cost of the uranium enrichment program dwarfed the cost of the plutonium production program. All of the costs were higher for the Manhattan Project than for subsequent nuclear weapons development programs, because the Manhattan Project had to try everything at once (including dead ends and overpriced methods) at large scale to quickly guarantee a usable bomb.

Fast forward to the 1970s and more uranium enrichment methods were known and costs had come down significantly. South Africa built (but later voluntarily dismantled) several uranium based nuclear weapons at a cost of $400 million (1994 dollars):

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2013/ph241/baxevanis2/

The unique enrichment process used in South Africa was still more expensive than modern centrifuge based techniques, assuming that a would-be proliferator has the technical base to build working centrifuge systems.

The really cheap option remains a graphite or heavy water moderated reactor, fueled with natural uranium to produce plutonium. That's what North Korea uses -- a tiny 5 megawatt Magnox type reactor:

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

It's an open secret that nuclear weapons are now technically easy to manufacture. Preventing further proliferation is 95% from monitoring/diplomatic pressure/sabotage and about 5% from inherent technical difficulties.
Tailwind is a bird's nest in one place instead of a bird's nest in two places with hidden abstractions.
Uh, no. Pickup/delivery frequently delivers my food cold and unpalatable. I'm not going to trust that these folks know how to pick fresh vegetables correctly.
> if there was a human that was 27 times smarter than anybody else (and could self-replicate at will), how long would it be until that individual took control over the world?

Sometime in the mid-90's. The problem is, what do you do with it? Tiger by the tail, eh?

- - - -

He lived in Seattle. He was fourteen when I met him, and approximately the size of a brontosaurus, mostly neural tissue. He had cracked nanotechnology though manipulating his own cells, his "nanites" were single cells riding in tiny spaceships, like diatoms but with artificial shells. If you were alive before 1999 you had tens of thousands of them in your body.

He grew his own brain into this vast hulking thing, with artificial life support systems, cyborg intestines and continuous aeration based on "book lungs". This was of course after he was already the most intelligent human to ever exist, eh? He used that huge pile of Lovecraftian brain cells to control the global network of minions (that's what he called his cellular remote drone critters.)

The thing is, he was keenly aware of his limitations, and he refused to exercise any control over anyone else beyond what was required to hide from the rest of humanity.
He was also a huge Tom Baker Dr. Who fan. SPOILER ALERT: You know that scene where the Doctor is deciding whether or not it's moral to destroy the Daleks? That fucking scene is the reason he didn't enslave humanity or anything wacky like that. He told me that it had affected him profoundly, and that's why he declined to "fix" humans against their will. Funny old world, ain't it?

Anyway, he got sick of the weirdness and uncertainty, built himself some sort of fucking UFO, shed his exo-brain and nanites, and split. AFAIK he's still living in some weird contraption of his own design out there in the Kuiper belt.
The language on what constitutes a violation is vague, but it does appear you could face hefty fines and jail time for this behavior under the current draft of the act.

"Hence anyone using a VPN to access TikTok would be in trouble—specifically, subject to up to $1 million in fines, 20 years in prison, or both."[1]

[1]https://reason.com/2023/03/29/could-the-restrict-act-crimina...
I don't know if it's a smarter strategy, but you can send a travel agency your list of requirements and they'll send you back a quote. My parents' generation are probably the only people that still use agencies, but it works for them.

It takes longer than a search query, but they don't want the hassle of coordinating logistics, and have some peace of mind that they're getting what they asked for.
I don't think it is. It starts with the design phase, which is arguably the hardest part, especially if you have no clue how printers work. It's much easier to just start printing pre-made stuff and then learn how to design your own, also taking inspiration from the stuff you've already printed.
Please don't take HN threads on generic flamewar tangents, and especially not sensational ideological generic flamewar tangents. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
To me that speaks of the possibilities for LLMs to solve a lot of big problems
Check out the gtk-rs project which provides the Rust bindings.
Compartmentalization might make chaining the exploit more difficult, but it's certainly not unheard of. There have been exploit chains in the past that manage to jump from the baseband to the main CPU, for example.

One of my favorite exploits [0] was from Project Zero where the chain began with a vulnerability in the Apple wireless stack (Broadcom? maybe, but that might be a different exploit I'm thinking of), and ended in arbitrary kernel RCE. In other words, it was "a wormable radio-proximity exploit which allows me to gain complete control over any iPhone in my vicinity."

More relevantly to your question, here's a writeup about exploiting a GPU. [1]

[0] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/12/an-ios-zero-c...

[1] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/09/attacking-qua...
Drills at least give you an action to do and a hope it will work out.

Meanwhile global warming propaganda does neither. There's no easy to do action and no realistic hope it will be fixed.
I think from context it's pretty safe to assume "to us". Especially since the nearest star to us, Proxima Centuri, is indeed about 4ly away.
I came here to say this. The Antidote was the last “self-help” book I needed, personally.
Analyzing the Different Versions of the Gameboy Link Cable [video]
I’d go further. Declarative programming is deceptively hard. It only seems easier at first
It was a joke that your reply wasn’t exactly persuasive.
Ah thanks for the elucidation. I'm too ignorant in this subject area to compare or contrast this paper with the corpus of literature from any point of expertise or reference.
The problem is caused by vertical-align. The default value for vertical-align is `baseline`. The flexbox container inside pill2 "hides" the inner text, so pill2 is treated as having no text at all (for layout purposes). This is treated the same as a font having zero height. So the browser aligns a 16px font (or whatever) with a 0px font, and it comes out misaligned.

My two solutions in order of preference would be:

1. Get rid of the inner flexbox, so the layout engine can see through to the text inside and use its baseline for alignment. Rely on the pill's parent for vertical alignment. I don't think I've ever come across a double-nested <span><span></span></span> (or div) that couldn't be flattened out.

2. Give .pill `vertical-align: middle` so its baseline is not used for alignment at all--but then the other non-pill items will need `vertical-align: middle` too in order to line up.

The author went the opposite way as #1 and added dummy text inside the pill, but outside the flex. Since the text is not inside a block element, the layout engine can see it. It has the same font size as the outer text, so with `vertical-align: baseline` both baselines line up again.
> Apple MacBook Pro

Notchville? :-)))
Pixel art from “classic” adventure games: 320x200 or 320x240?
Thanks! "How to catapult your productivity" is still too linkbaity, though. The second half is good. Can you/anyone neutralize the first bit?
Nvidia chips are designed and manufactured in Taiwan, not "the west."
I tried the Nokia 225 4G. Unfortunately, it saves the SMS and MMS to the SIM card, not internal storage, so you quickly run out of storage for SMS/MMS, and you'll need to constantly delete SMS.

So I switched to the Punkt MP02. It has a lot of other problems, though, but at least those are more passable.

I did also try the Mudita Pure. But it froze on the second day I had it, so I switched back. Edit: My plan is to give the Mudita Pure a fair shot in the future.

I'm generally disappointed in the phone market, smartphone and dumb phone. Maybe I should abandon it entirely and get a landline.
They could have John Wick stay there...
Elon Musk has publicly spoken at length about his ongoing struggle with the “woke” crowd

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-says-wading-into-p...

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2021/12/22/elo...

https://nypost.com/2022/04/29/elon-musk-says-woke-progressiv...

And has publicly voiced his support for a language model that supports his political views

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/fighting-woke-ai-mus...

Now that this comment thread has been flagged because I said LMAO, has the quality of discussion about the future of LLMs been improved by suppressing publicly-available posts by one of the most influential figures in AI?

How is strictly policing tone to the extent of suppressing actual information useful here?

Like seriously, “criticizing a billionaire that’s very public about using technology to further his ideological goals is the same thing as using technology to further your ideological goals is genuinely funny. Like ROFLMAO funny. “Everyone is equivalent to Elon Musk, even in the context of discussing the future of LLMs.” Is a cartoonish rule that serves no purpose whatsoever aside from quelling legitimate criticism.
What's wrong with just using extreme power saver on a Samsuung phone to switch between those modes? One tap, gives you exactly what you want.
>International treaties are very common

and US isn't signatory to a fuckton of them for example. Nothing stops PRC from going "Yeah nah fam get wrecked." What are you gonna do, stop Chinese imports in retaliation? lol.
The fix in the article seems very strange to me. For something like a horizontal list of tags/labels, you would want to use flexbox. Using `display: inline-block` and the default text spacing creates an inconsistent layout.
Just get a point and shoot camera. If you also need a GPS, you can get one of those TomTom devices they used to put in cars.
Dedicated MP3 players are also still a thing if you want a soundtrack for your life.
Now all you need is that sweet candy bar phone, throw all this in a large fanny pack and off you go.
PS: an old school wallet would also be useful, Symbian OS doesn’t have Apple Pay yet.
We use Postgres as a Datawarehouse, once AlloyDB Omni is stable there is virtually no reason for us not to use it.

Obviously, we use Postgres not for its performance but for its ergonomics, first class dbt support and unbeatable extension ecosystem. Now if you're telling, I get all that with no compromises whatsoever and with a 10-100x analytical query performance increase, I'd be crazy not to use it.

From my perspective, Postgres just keeps on giving.
Sorry, do you think ignorance is an excuse for a crime? I don't believe there is an intent requirement, so their mental state at the time of receiving the money is of no consequence.
If AI successfully progresses to AGI, then that becomes a potential reality. However, from the current point until then is a vast gap of uncertainty.

There is a lot of focus on creating an "aligned" AGI. Theory being that it will be benevolent and helpful.

However, there is little focus on the societal ramifications that will happen on our pursuit towards AGI. Before we even make it there, the question is can we maintain a stable social order? Can we keep sanity as we enter an era of unverifiable truth and reality?

There are so many possibilities I have began writing about them more extensively here in much greater detail FYI - https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-end-to-all-things
Dumbphones are 4G. 4G voice service requires VoLTE but mobile operators have to whitelist phone models, the phone has to have the IMS in the internal database... all in all don't expect VoLTE to work. So voice downgrades to 3G. But 3G is being shut down by many operators and more to come. So voice downgrades to 2G, but 2G has a very low limit of concurrent calls, let's say a few dozen. So it's possible that your dumbphone won't work at all.
It's more a side-effect.

Qt is a C++ toolkit, and Qt-based projects are either C++, or use the QML markup language, or both.

Projects that use Qt for the GUI or use other Qt modules often also use other C/C++ libraries (for example, in-house stuff) and they're often hacked on together.

Therefore the free IDE you can get for Qt also happens to be a very good C/C++ IDE/editor.

Qt uses CMake as its native built system - arguably CMake was popularized in general when KDE adopted it, a large FOSS user of Qt. CMake is not Qt-specific, and many other C/C++ libs use or integrate well with CMake. Therefore Qt's free IDE is also very good at general CMake support.

Qt is often used for embedded or heavier IoT projects, therefore the IDE has useful features for deployment and remote debugging that also work for other stuff. And so on.

The Qt Company doesn't really push/advertise Qt Creator much as an independent product, but the utility is really not bad.
Man in India is first to have caught a type of plant fungal disease
Yes and computers are perfect at math but that doesn't make them better thinkers than humans.

>scores higher than most humans at complex abstract reasoning

This statement is meaningless without a whole lot more context on your testing methodology
S.85 – No TikTok on United States Devices Act
The main FDM 3D printer patents expired at around the time the first iphone came out. I've been involved with them since those early days. If you ask me, the pace of improvement in usability, quality, reliability, and functionality of 3D printers has been as good if not better than smartphones. And it continues today. These upgrades in first-layer sensing and nozzle exchanges are a bigger relative improvement than the incremental increase in smartphone camera resolution. And the ecosystem of filament suppliers, G-code slicers, and 3D models available for download for people who don't want to do their own CAD has also grown.

Reliability is a huge, huge deal. Back in 2009 we were dealing with constant nozzle jams, delamination from the print bed, print errors, drifting, ooze, extruder slip, and all sorts of other problems. You had to keep a constant eye on the printer, and manually tweak the G-code generation parameters to get good results. It's come a long way and still going.
Ok, I've edited my parent comment.
Claiming that things are OK because they are pervasive makes William Willerforce cry.
Besides the hypothesis in the essay, an undetermined link to smartphone use, proposed causes from the comments include:

-declining quality of education

-poor sleep from late-evening screen use

-social media use

-influencer culture makes ones own situation look dull

-overmedication

-state of world (wars, ecological risks etc)

-measurement artifact

-electromagnetic fields

-health issues that cause inflammation

-junk food/poor nutrition

Did I miss any others?
I asked GenZGPT "what's your name?" and she said something like "I'm a lim, but you can call me whatever you like." So I said "pick a name", and she said "how about you call me Zephyr, queen".

My immediate reaction was to figure out what to name this thing.

I also love that it can run locally. I need to get some hardware so I can have it run locally, and screen out spam calls. And maybe have it schedule appointments for me.

An AI butler needs a number of interface points:

- browser

- shell (cuz I might want it to SSH into a box and do stuff)

- email (browser could take care of this)

- phone

- text

And also IOT access, so she can call my cellphone and tell me when someone breaks in.
> Beauvoir

It's funny when they bring up that Simone de Beauvoir quote "one is not born a woman, but becomes one", as the rest of the passage it is from completely undermines what they assume it's about - Beauvoir talks about "the figure that the human female presents in society" and then goes on to critique this:

« On ne naît pas femme : on le devient. Aucun destin biologique, psychique, économique ne définit la figure que revêt au sein de la société la femelle humaine ; c'est l'ensemble de la civilisation qui élabore ce produit intermédiaire entre le mâle et le castrat qu'on qualifie de féminin. Seule la médiation d'autrui peut constituer un individu comme un Autre. En tant qu'il existe pour soi, l'enfant ne saurait se saisir comme sexuellement différencié. »

To Beauvoir, "woman" is a harmful social construct that is forced upon all females, so this doesn't apply to males who call themselves women, because firstly, they are not female, and secondly, they are not forced into womanhood. It's comical how so fundamentally they've misunderstood her point.
Trickle Charging it caused something do go really wrong with the display circuitry and over half of the screen was randomized color-static looking garbage. The phone itself seemed to operate fine, but the display issues rendered it useless.

I later learned that if you use a portable solar panel battery pack, let the pack charge and then plug in your phone. Don't plug a near-dead solar panel battery pack into your phone and let. There's something about the low-voltage trickle-charge that can be terrible for electronics. I'm not an EE, so I don't understand the details. Perhaps someone else can explain it better.
How much do you think Asilomar slowed down DNA research? Do you think without it we'd more more than 10 year ahead? I doubt it. Optimistically we'd maybe have 6 months to a year of additional progress in those fields without it.

And this would only slow it down in a handful of countries. That's not going to keep China from trying to build AGI. If we are in a world where building an AGI is possible and near, I trust OpenAI far more than the CCP to both align it with it's creators, and for that alignment to match up with my values.
A landmark skyscraper held as a tenancy-in-common, a forced partition sale, a rouge bidder, ... some lawyers are having a field day with this.
>Consider the legal principle of "innocent until proven guilty" - a fundamental pillar of the justice system.

Let's not put the cart before the horse. It's the law firms obligations to make sure they aren't participating in a crime, it has nothing to do with assuming someone's guilt.
So let’s use the AI to determine your banana factors after buying in store so it can select them for you for delivery.
I deleted a bunch of apps and ignore the pocket screen unless I have a specific task to accomplish.

I have too much desktop-laptop screen time with work and substitutes for true leisure.
Well, assume we knew exactly how it is trained. What would be the implication in practice?