skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In short, in software engineering, we acknowledge that failures happen and we measure them, characterize them, and compensate for them. We don't aim for perfection.

If software engineering revolves around writing software complex enough to have bugs not understood, or accepting memory safety errors as a natural byproduct of programming (rather than programming mistakes to be exterminated on sight, and made impossible by design unless it prevents writing useful programs), I'd be more effective and happier practicing applied math than engineering.
How much intelligence in AIs is required to create emotional attachment? Noam says we’re pass that (per dogs)

Also makes sense given empirical evidence of Replika obsessions
A couple of other things that AFAIK aren’t special cases of the ones in the list:

- The idempotent (“tropical”) Fourier transform turns out to be the Legendre transform;

- The fractional Fourier transform, known to physicists as the propagator of the quantum harmonic oscillator, is a pretty fun thing to consider;

- The Fourier-Laplace transform on Abelian groups seems like a fairly straightforward extension of the idea of plugging in a complex frequency, but I haven’t seen a textbook exposition (only an old article);

- The non-linear Fourier transform (with Ki xi + Lij xi xj + ..., finite or infinite sum) seems impressively obscure (I know of a total of one book reference) but occurs in quantum field theory as the “n-loop” or “∞-loop effective action”;

- The odd (in the super sense) Fourier transform turns out to underpin stuff like the Hodge star on differential forms;

- On a finite non-Abelian groups, the duality splits into two: every function on conjugacy classes is a linear combination of irreducible characters; every function on group is a linear combination of irreducible matrix elements; this is probably also doable on Lie groups but I’m too much of a wimp to learn the theory.

(Also, generating functions should by all appearances be a fairly elementary chapter of the Fourier story, as electronic engineers with their “Z-transform” also realize, but I haven’t seen that implemented convincingly in full.)

See as well Baez’s old issue of “This Week’s Finds” where he started with sound and well all the way to spectra of Banach algebras and rings—as in Gelfand duality, algebraic geometry etc. (Can’t seem to locate the specific issue now.) Of course there are also wavelets (there’s even a Fields Medal for those now), but I don’t know that they fit into the representation theory ideology (would be excited to be wrong!).
Their paper is probably also a useful cite here https://research.google/pubs/pub43231/
The only unique part of this is that it's in the trademark policy itself rather than in a supplemental events policy when you ask to be authorized to use the trademark for your event.
I'm surprised not to see tonic water in this list.
Sort of? Having a friend with a phone number that required several full rotations made them deeply irritating.
RAM does not get wiped when you power off[1] and cold boot attacks[2] are possible.

[1] https://github.com/arekbulski/Cameleonica/blob/master/docume...

[2] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/sec08/tech/full_papers/h...
> Said process could silently insert code into repos, corrupt the build environment, replace packages in production, or whatever.

So just like pretty much any package from public repo out there ?
> For example, the latest MacBook Pro can have more than 60G+ unified GPU RAM that can be used to store the model weights and a reasonably powerful GPU to run many workloads.

...for $3.5K minimum, according to the Apple website :/

Is there any chance WebGPU could utilize the matrix instructions shipping on newer/future IGPs? I think MLIR can do this through Vulkan, which is how SHARK is so fast in Stable Diffusion on the AMD 7900 series, but I know nothing about webgpu's restrictions or Apache TVM.
This has been reinforcement learning for decades. People say "OMG! The agent is acting and learning and getting better all on its own!" And they're right, in the beginning. Eventually the agent plateaus or collapses.

Supervised learning is much more stable. GTP is supervised learning. Once you start letting the agent choose or modify its own training data, then you're moving towards the much less stable realms of reinforcement learning.
'Zero Capacity to Save': Argentines Buckle Under 103% Inflation
In the early days of social media, most people got an account on the nearest BBS. When it went mainstream in the 1990s, most people automatically got a Facebook account and a lot of older people still rely on that for social media. Then along came independent free social media services such as Twitter/Discord/TikTok...

It's exactly comparable, just a few years down the timeline from email.
My Dad, born in the early 1930s, said that on any lengthy drive (I'm guessing > 100km), you just assumed that you would have at least one puncture or other minor breakdown.

He and his cousin were given a car with a wooden body; once the engine overheated and it burned to the ground.
Is the Keychain DB (SQLite) stolen in encrypted form? As I understand, the Keychain DB is stored on the file system, but the DB's key is held in the Secure Enclave.
I'll pass. If it's worth knowing about then there'll be a paper on it that isn't generating someone money as a commercial podcast with sensationalist takes.

Hypothetical obsolescence is not the same as being killed by a hypothetical superintelligence. We would be no more hypothetically obsolete than the overwhelming majority of lifeforms.
The original strain of covid was not worse than the deadliest strains of influenza, but "common" circulating strains of influenza kill tens of thousands almost every year. I would say every year, except deaths from influenza plummeted in 2020/2021 due to masking and social distancing.

2020 and 2021 are the root of my claim that Covid is "worse". Millions died of covid during this time, but deaths from influenza dropped to minuscule levels. Some strains of influenza may have gone extinct.

Influenza that makes you sick for a week or two isn't a trivial thing either! If you're lucky, you'll just feel awful for a week. If you're unlucky, you're part of the chain of transmission that kills someone's grandparents. Get your flu shots.
For me it played music for two seconds and then said “feed down”
On the flip side, nearly all groups in the VFX industry author their apps with Qt and deliver across Linux, macOS, and Windows. The "native" side of things is where people usually end up having the most debate, typically around appearance. VFX and creative apps tend to choose to look and behave consistently across platforms within their own context, rather than trying to utilize the human interface guidelines (HIG) of each respective platform. The standard place where this differs is usually on the file picker component.

That being said, even with these toolkits you can make applications that are themed and behave similar enough to the native runtimes that most users wouldn't notice. But that's a developer's choice to do so, or to completely customize the app for themselves and the UX they're looking to deliver.

To me the concept of cross-platform desktop applications is pretty interesting, as when you include the Linux ecosystem into the fray it's not macOS, Windows, and Linux (Qt/GTK), but rather macOS, Windows, GNOME (libadwaita), KDE (KDE Frameworks), etc etc. And that is significantly more difficult to support "native" for, even if the latter are using GTK and Qt under the hood of their respective platforms. Apple can make first party applications that abide exclusively by their HIG, and the same with Microsoft, but asking vendors targetting multiple platforms to do so and essentially support multiple versions of their apps to achieve "true native" when "seemingly" or "close-to" native via the toolkits widgets, built in theming capabilities, and backend abstractions are available can be a bit of a tall ask.
As a business owner, the Rust Trademark Policy is a bigger problem than this post says.

I personally wouldn't feel comfortable using any Rust in my business's software if this goes through.

I mean, when they go so far as to say that the GCC frontend is not a Rust compiler, but "GCC compiler for Rust," and you can't even give stuff away for free, it becomes a minefield for any company.

More ranty details about my misgivings are at [1].

[1]: https://gavinhoward.com/2023/04/rust-is-dead-to-me/
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> I sure as hell wouldn't attend a conference where firearms were permitted, and I'm fairly sure even the NRA have organised events where carrying firearms or other weapons is prohibited.

in most states, the decision to permit firearms on-site is made by the facility owner and must have legal posted signs

so if a hotel in Texas doesn't have legal signage disallowing carrying on-site (no signs means you can carry), you can't just impose those rules for your own function (the correct course of action would be to hold your conference at a facility that operates policies you agree with)
That would need support in dawn: https://dawn.googlesource.com/dawn

Dawn and WebIDL is also an easy way to add GPU support to any application (that can link C code (or use via a lib)). And Google maintains the compiler layer for the GPU frameworks (Metal, DX, Vulkan ...). This is going to be a great leap forward for GPGPU for many apps.
So you want everyone to be defenseless in the even that a criminal decides to ignore your rules?
The sign-up/activation email is getting flagged as spam in GMail

"open-assistent" is mispelled and the domain doesn't match "open-assistant.io"
> > There is no way in hell Nintendo still makes significant revenue from selling, say, the Super Mario Brothers NES cartridge, or its software image.

> I mean, I bought it for the Wii Virtual Console, I got the mini NES, I got the mini SNES (that has all-stars right? although that's a port not the ROM, I suppose), I've paid for switch online from time to time which provides it. Mario 35 was pretty neat and I'd pay for it to return if it was offered; again, that's not really the ROM, but still.

Sure, but to reiterate how I read GP:s post, did you buy it "to get the game" or did you buy it to play it on your Wii? I think that's the crux of it. Even if the old games were in public domain, Nintendo could still sell it to you in a product/service that makes it playable on the Wii, which it otherwise would not be, and that would still be worth it to some people.

> It's not yet 40 years old, which is pretty young to be considered an old work, IMHO.

IMHO your HO is likely based on learned behavior, not how things should (whatever that means) or could be.
First question I asked who is mayor of Baltimore and the police commissioner was completely wrong
The Great Myths 7: “Hitler’s Pope”?
nutmeg overdose? where’s the research
The smaller nuclear reactors used on submarines and aircraft carriers would be of the appropriate size, but they generate electricity using steam turbines. I don't think that would be workable in space. You'd need massive radiators to radiate away a lot of that heat to recondense the steam.

If you're generating that much heat, then you're probably better off using the nuclear reactor to directly heat the propellant.

Joe Scott has a new video up about Nuclear propulsion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5UU0GA5GAU
Dawn flies rocket-powered spaceplane
There are lots of totally well meaning reasons to put unique ID'S in hardware: asset management and theft mitigation, security by locking SW to particular HW, etc. Not saying those are good ideas, just that a well meaning person could come up with them on service of reasonable customer benefits.
I created an account but can only access OA_SFT_LLama_30B_6 model. Since that's not completely open due to FB licensing restrictions and the video mentiones Pythia, I wanted to check that one out but can't select it anywhere in the chat interface.

Does anyone know if (access to) other models are hidden/restricted somehow?
1. You believe Covid no longer exists?

2. It's not, you just don't want to accept it.

3. Would it surprise you to hear that people are still wearing face masks for that same reason? Your "magic invincibility cloak" is a strawman argument that nobody has ever made.
I keep thinking one day we will discover a new compute substrate and one of these esoteric languages will come right in.

Imagine a hexagonal crystalline structure with special physical properties that allow electrons to move a certain way. You never know.
Things that obviously fluoresce under normal visible light conditions can turn much more brilliant under visible laser light (eg. 532 nm green)

Orange and green fluorescent dyes (such as on tennis balls), white clothes washed in detergent, etc.
This was very insightful, I hadn't thought of it this way before. Thank you for your comment.
> IME exists because Intel’s big customers want it and the people who don’t want it don’t have enough money for a custom SKU

I addressed this - systems without IME exist, but are not available for purchase, for any price, except for governments. That's not economics.

> TPM exists just because it’s a good security feature that the industry has demanded

Industry demands it, and OS and CPU manufacturers collude to make sure every user gets it, whether they want it or not, so that when they start pushing remote-attestation and other user-hostile technologies in the future, they won't lose any market.

> Mainstream phones run non-privileged

I specifically said "non-rootable", i.e. non-privileged by default, but that can be unlocked. So mainstream phones would remain non-privileged except for those motivated enough to follow an unlock procedure. But it's a common tactic to excuse deliberate lock-down with "few need it, so we will invest resources into making sure they can't have it, when our previous models allowed it". If MS prevented users from running any compiler except Visual Studio on Windows, would you excuse it because those that need it are a niche market, for whom the more expensive Windows Pro licenses are made?

> subsidized TV with more features sell better than more expensive TV with fewer features

There are no non-smart TVs on store shelves next to smart ones, just for a higher price, despite demand [1]. In fact it's a challenge to find one at all.

Saying it's just about money is technically correct in most cases, but very misleading. It hides the fact that in most cases it's not just about offering a cheaper product, but involves backroom lobbying from other interests to restrict consumer options, like forcing them to watch ads on DVDs [2]. It's "about money" in the same way that robbery is about money.

[1] "This question of smart-TV data privacy and security is by far the most-asked among Ask Wirecutter readers." - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35484594

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_operation_prohibition
> Physicists are able to produce small quantities of matter and antimatter, which then annihilate each other, releasing energy. […] If the two particles travelled different directions in time, how would they meet?

The anti-matter would travel backwards in time from the event we see as the “mutual annihilation” to the event we see as the “creation of paired particles”, while the matter would travel the other direction. Simple.

When they don’t meet is a little trickier to explain, but its still the anti-particle coming back from somewhere in the future (possibly where it coincided with a different matter particule coming forward in time) and coinciding with the particle at the point we consider the “creation” point, and the same vice versa with the matter particle.

I’m not saying it’s right, I’m saying that’s how you explain them “meeting” in the “anti-matter goes back in time” framework.
Exactly. It's still a serious infection! It makes otherwise healthy young adults super ill for a week or two, and kill the elderly and the very young.
> "combine designation with authority"

This is a fantastic comment for someone (like me) hungry to learn about security concepts. Do you have any more pointers to useful info about security topics?
The reserve currency isn't where power lies.

It's convenient (at most) for people in the USA to have the dollar as the de facto reserve currency. It's also convenient for people outside the US to have a dominant reserve currency -- having a small number larger than 1 would be OK, but not especially convenient and in the end would still converge back to the largest one, which would be the incumbent.

The convenience for the US is simply that if you do any foreign transactions you can easily see their value. Also, domestically, if you borrow you have a lot of predictability in interest rates. That's basically it.

If you are, say, Australian and use aussie dollars the same is basically true! If you're a very small country, or your economy is a basket case and there is no real lending in your currency then the reserve currency doesn't help you much -- you have to borrow in some foreign currency so currency fluctuations hurt can hurt (or help) you, and you have no control over it.

The USD is a good choice because foreign exchange is a small part of the size of the total amount of money, and the amount doesn't fluctuate a lot. It might feel like it does when you live in the states, but really it's like swimming in the ocean: there's some surface chop, but the big waves have such long wavelength you don't even notice them.

The real power is in control of the banking forex interchanges -- you can see them being used against Russia and Norks, for example. In reality the US doesn't really have a lot of control over them except by persuading other important economies to go along. It's like a very weak form of nuclear weapons: their value comes from not using them. And for forex -- well let's just say the US control over that is negligible, specifically because it's the reserve currency. So not much of a weapon at all.

It's pretty easy to not use the dollar as an exchange currency -- think of hawala, with perhaps, say, its own private set of AED/PKR exchange rates (notice the plural!). Or china and iran selling oil without the dollar. These work for small sums, but at the end of the day people work out the exchange rates...by comparing vs dollars, the same way a translation between Maltese and Estonian probably goes through English or French. This is why having more than one will regress back to the incumbent barring a major, and very slow (decades/centuries scale), problem.
I send myself a message on Telegram in Favorites. There is a lot of memory. And files are sent without quality loss
This is really the only Mac security advice anyone needs.

There are two categories of Mac malware: Ones where you have to enter your admin password into something that should have already raised several red flags by the time you see the prompt, or zero-days that are so stratospherically expensive that if you are an individual who would be targeted by one, malware is only one part of your overall threat model.
Yep, and for one spreadsheet that prioritized some work, we had to show the FDA that the spreadsheet didn't materially affect the devices we were manufacturing. Basically, this particular one just told us which lots of goods to inspect first, so at worst case it would have just slowed down our line, not affected the device's quality. We still had to take 1 hour to walk some inspectors through our use of it, and why it wouldn't fuck things up.

I also started a project to upgrade some software from some old in-house developed stuff to an SAP module (gross, but effective) and it took about 18 months just to make the development and rollout plan, since it was incoming inspection software so it was super important to get right. I left before I saw how long it took to develop, but I think that's the easy part of the whole process.
This is utopian thinking that disregards how software ecosystems actually work in practice. Take the opening sentence:

> In the world of mobile development (though likely also elsewhere), we sink so much engineering talent into making tools that are great within-ecosystem, but as we don’t bother making them available to other ecosystems, everyone ends up reinventing the wheel.

I get the frustration with software churn and substandard tooling when you have to code for multiple platforms, but this is a very hand-wavy admonishment. Leaving aside who "we" are and what our cross-platform responsibilities are for the moment, how would this even work? Different platforms have different capabilities. Cross-platform tooling will therefore always be more complex and less capable than platform-specific tooling.

One could then argue that we should consolidate platforms, which generally will be more efficient, but who will be responsible for this platform? Whether closed or open, you are now in a situation where one platform has to be all things to all people, and that means there will be tradeoffs that hurt someone. I'm a happy iOS user, but I'm sure glad Android exists because diversity is healthy.

Technology will always trend towards consolidation because bits are cheap and easy to move, and there's always an incentive to harness economies of scale. The problem is mono-cultures are brittle. Some amount of "reinventing the wheel" is just the cost of a healthy and diverse software ecosystem. The OA should be careful what he wishes for.
Do you trust yourself to use Linux, even though it has no equivalent to SIP?
Carrying firearms around is a non-issue in most of the world because in most of the world, civilian possession and use of firearms is strictly regulated if not outright banned. Obviously this is not the case in the US.
This is interesting but what problem does it solve better than CTRL+F-ing a transcript? It seems like this would be a worse solution for when the precise way someone says something could be important (ex. journalists parsing an interview, students studying their recorded lectures) and that it would be most useful if you were working with a large volume of recorded audio, such as customer service calls. This makes me somewhat uncomfortable, but perhaps I am not fully understanding how it works.

Edit: wording
That quote was made by a very important (at the time) person in the tech industry, about 16 years before Trump had even announced his run for presidency.

His present-time support for Trump doesn't have much to tell me about the events that happened close to two decades prior, in an entirely different context.

P.S. Among many others, one of the reasons I was excited about Trump's presidency ending was the hope that I won't have to be digging through "orangemanbad" quips in conversations about entirely unrelated topics anymore. Oh boy how unreasonably optimistic I was about it.
What beautiful garden? Are you completely ignoring the fact that OpenAI is made possible because it scraped the entire Web (the actual garden) and made a query index out of it?

Do you not have any respect for people who actually spent their time and creativity to provide the information necessary for this model to even work?

Ignorance is bliss I guess.
What's wrong with it is that it's nothing the Rust Foundation should ever be concerned with.

I sure as hell wouldn't want to attend conferences where firearms are forbidden. I don't want to be an easy target.
Anyone have a link to whatever this post is talking about? I can't find one in the article and don't pay enough attention to rust to already know the context

Might be this https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1ErZlwz9bbSI43dNo-rgQ...
Of the mica? There's probably others, but I have direct experience with Lemon Cupcake from Mad Micas

https://www.madmicas.com/products/lemon-cupcake-mica?_pos=5&...
> In my opinion, this is one of the most secure options.

Only if you disregard that pass doesn't encrypt file names.
I kind of agree but I really don't see Tesla self-driving as even aspirational to AGI. It seems like the poster child for a domain specific AI that nobody has an interest in making general.