skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People often confuse the Shell for the OS.

The Shell is the outer layer, the interface between the user and the system.

This should not be considered a solved problem, more research and experimentation is welcome.

In practice, systems should be designed for better Shell modularity, in many cases they can hardly be swapped.
One, because it’s absurd, so in making this assumption, you are painting them as absurd.

Two, because they are willing to tell you if you spend some time talking to them.
Damn, this is really good.
Most visitors don't need visa stamps in their passport.
So like if the user input is "I want to ** your **" it would change it to "I want to enjoy your presence"? I'm pretty sure that would leak (be parroted back and not caught by a filter, thus exposing its happening), but it might work. It might put <censored> or something like that instead, which the model would take into consideration and censor itself.
i was curious what the splashy page looked like:

https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/2023/05/01/pornhub-largest-po...
In 1970, Menlo Park was 17.4% black. Wikipedia says in 2020 it was about 3%

http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/cities/MenloPark70.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menlo_Park,_California
As Seattle businesses welcome back Amazon, workers guess at future
Ben is doing a fantastic job creating that same computing learning ramp so many of us grew up on.

Anyone wanting to get into computing at a low level could easily do worse. Ben's kits are fantastic!
Yup. Very nice to see.
You Can’t Do That on Television aired on Nickelodeon in the US and was a staple of my childhood. Degrassi came later and was also popular.
Because changing one thing that has a huge impact (the manufacturer) is a lot easier than changing hundreds of millions of things with each a tiny impact (people's habits).
I really wonder what kind of organizational structure the Mayan astrologers had in order to develop and propagate this knowledge in their society over generations. Getting vibes of Neal Stephenson's Anathem.
> And while the US managed in the 20th century to avoid the instability which plagued Latin America, maybe that was just good luck

Ok, my degree is in political science and I, too, can go on and on about the significant impacts of political structure but I simply can’t imagine blaming Latin America’s 20th Century instability on local presidential systems and then topping it off by suggesting that maybe the US was just lucky it, with a presidential system, avoided the same fate.

At some point, you have to consider the international/geopolitical context and not assume everything is explained by domestic constitutional structure.
God, the fact that stealing focus still exists in 2023 is maddening. Please just let me open windows and apps in the background while I continue to work uninterrupted in the main focus window in the foreground. Even web browsers let you open tabs in the background, why haven’t OS’s caught up to the yet.

That said, I like the concept of this OS design. It reminds me a little of the theoretical concept behind Star Trek’s LCARS interface, where the interface adapts to the user and the task at hand. As a power user I doubt I’d use this myself, unless it could be installed on top of NixOS, but it might be more intuitive and accessible to a more general user base.

It will be hard to get rid of files and folders though, even for general users. As messy as that can get, it’s a simple abstraction burned into just about every human’s brain at this point.
Large companies have price signals to work with. Command economies do not.
Gain of function.

Yes, strong actors will have further access to AI, just as they have to everything else. I believe that on net, scaling properties in this domain are such that proliferation of AI democratizes the world rather than the other way around. The core advantage of strong actors is being able to employ capable (smart) people, after all, and AI diminishes that edge.

> I doubt Jeff Bezos has issues getting his hands on anything really- including the materials needed to make one lab?

Precisely. If he wanted to kill us all with super-Covid, he probably would have pulled it off. Which is my point: it's not the lack of AI that prevents this scenario.
I feel that this has things inverted. People generally don’t care about the packaging or even the materials in the product. Those choices are made almost entirely by the seller.

Why should the buyer be responsible for cleaning up the seller’s mess?

If it’s possible to economically create products that don’t produce waste then this should be mandated, because otherwise there will always be some asshole corporation who is willing to undercut competitors on price by externalising costs to the environment.
> maximizing energy waste is the goal of proof-of-work

No, it's not. You can't mine inefficiently and remain profitable. There's a market after all.

This is such a ridiculous comment. I have to wonder why we have such gleeful wilful ignorance whenever the topic of Bitcoin or crypto comes up.
So the users don't have to self-moderate to maintain conversations.
US judge declares mistrial in Apple-Masimo smartwatch trade secrets fight
IBM is like that creepy recently divorced old uncle you have that thinks he is the epitome of cool after getting a tribal tattoo a few years after they went out of fashion
Very Large Array to Search for Extraterrestrial Signals from Other Civilizations
You may want to read what I wrote again. I did not accuse you personally of falsely portraying trust in expertise and science, not in any way. It's rather aggressively wrong to take personal offense at such an accusation you imagined.

You seem to have jumped from me criticizing those who do (particularly those who are anti-science and anti-expertise), to an accusation that you personally did so. There was nothing in my comment, even implicit, that would lead someone fair to this conclusion. If you aren't doing it, the criticism doesn't apply to you.

This assumptive leap typifies the persecution complex I'm talking about: emotional thinking which short-circuits reason, and harms genuine scientific thinking. Consider re-reading your own comment if you don't see that.
Sophisticated being key. Quantity * quality almost indiscernible from mediocre human input.

Currently we tend to understand bad information on the stream as a function where quality is linear and quantity is exponential, and individuals or human filters can still identify reject the lower 99% as spam. Every point closer on the graph the quality comes to resemble human-made content represents an exponential degree of further confusion as to base facts. This isn't even considering whether AI develops its own will to conduct confusion ops; as a tool for bad actors it's already there, but that says nothing of the scale it could operate at eventually.

The sophistication of the misinformation is exactly the point: That's the mass multiplier, not the volume.

[edit] an interesting case could be made that the general demand for opinionated information and the individual capacity to imbibe and adjudicate the factuality of the input was overrun some years ago already... and that all endeavors at misinformation since then have been fighting for shares of an information space that was already essentially capped by the attention-demand. In that paradigm, all social networks have fought a zero-sum game, and LLMs are just a new weapon for market share in an inflationary environment where all information propagated is less valuable as the volume increases and consumption remains static. But I think this is the least worrisome of their abilities.
Should be able to do a lot with an HF link anywhere running at like 1200bps or 2400bps, which should be reliable on the same continent. (Not supposed to do that in USA, and won't work if everyone does it, but HF is kinda dying and different places have different rules, sooo...).

terminal, HN would be fine, a console reddit and the carbonyl chromium browser for everything else you need 'live'.

Too bad things have moved onto Discord from IRC.
I’m not an old person, but I know I’m going to sound like a curmudgeon saying this.

I think it’s just moral decay. I can’t think of any other meaningful reason.

In Phoenix, which I consider the national capitol of bad drivers, in the span of less than 10 years, I’ve noticed a staggering number of people in the metro area who just blatantly run red lights now. Sometimes seconds after they’ve turned.

It’s straight up ridiculous, and now I spend time actually checking both sides of the road before driving away from stoplights in an active intersection.

I wouldn’t have thought to do that before. People just obeyed the law here. Not consistently mind you: no soul drives the 55 speed limit on I-17, but it’s getting measurably worse.

What else do you attribute to that? I guess you could say less traffic enforcement, but I don’t think anything’s changed here in this part of the country.

People suck.
Writing an RPC from Scratch (2021)
If you are familiar with Git / Github, you could consider using dedicating a repo to your various articles.

I am a big fan of Markdown myself and used it for my entire teaching career. Perhaps you can see if this tool meets your needs? I built it for my own lecture notes and presentations, and am currently adding new features: http://lectureapp.io/
Are they a drain on public resources though? I’ve read that non-smokers have higher lifetime health cares costs because smokers on average die so much younger.
Plus, it's been shown that there's plenty of equally talented musicians as Bruce Springsteen. He just edged the others out by a process that we might as well call luck.
Ok

A) It's not possible to build a machine that knows the absolute truth, that's fundamentally impossible; induction is impossible, and there are hordes (well... dozens?) of Epistemologists concerned with finding and defining the very small corners of knowledge that we _can_ be certain about, such as "a triangle has three sides" or "an orange is an orange".

B) If that angered/interested you, you should look into Standpoint Theory! It's a very interesting discussion on how humans operate with significant bias at all levels of thought, and pretending otherwise is a disservice to science. And this is using "bias" in a very broader sense.

B) Are we allowed to berate/report/etc. ""race realists"" on HN? I know the rules are big on positive interaction, so I hope it's not out of ine to say that's some obvious scared-white-man bullshit that has no place in this community.
The state of the art has improved since Fukushima was built. But it's not even in the same universe as Chernobyl, and reactors of that age shouldn't all be shut down, no.

Only one person died from radiation from the Fukushima accident, a tiny fraction of the total deaths from the tsunami. It's an insignificant risk compared to other forms of energy.
Seems to hugely matter on which cell you're in. Haven't seen a proper public geo-driven approach to data collection to figure out what's really going on.
Depends on how the US Supreme Court rules on “the algorithm”
So would you say he manufactured consent?
Websites that already flaunt the law (typically on copyright, but also on adult content distribution) because they're not US-based, will continue to do so. Only US-based operations will go to the trouble of blocking Utah. Which means Utah citizens will likely resort to non-US, less-regulated sites, making everything worse (more extreme content, less protections for people appearing in content, etc etc).
I have an Asustor NAS that I want to use Wi-Fi cameras to connect to using the built in surveillance center software. Does anyone have this setup?
No criminal thinks he's going to get caught. If you think you're going to get caught, you don't do the crime.
Linux Driver Development with Raspberry Pi – Practical Labs
People haven't done it recently because it simply doesn't work for many of the same reasons that nonmarket socialism doesn't work.

You inevitably have people with notions that everyone should work as hard as they can and only be paid based on need. Claims that its an extended family. Everyone belongs to each other, yada yada yada.

It gets real twisted real quick, and the only people to benefit are those that lie at everyone elses expense. The ones that are exploited the most are the ones that produce the most, so it drives any kind of efficiencies out of the business. There's no incentive to do anything productive, and you get the same inefficiencies of bureaucracy and corruption with negative production value. Those that are better get socially punished for being better and making everyone else look bad.

You also can't have that dynamic when you are using other people's money (investors) unless you want to lose everything.
I did a similar thing in the late 70's. While maybe there was less to receive, it was a core experience I value.
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Those are strong accusations to make without evidence.

Why should we believe your anonymous gossip over someone who spent years building and running lichess and giving it away for free?

https://www.journal-officiel.gouv.fr/pages/associations-deta...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31158426

You seem to have some sort of grudge against Lichess, to the point that the only easily discoverable info about Liches's Siamese network is your own vague complaints about it. Perhaps you are the one who hasn't earned any respect.

Despite your claims that computers killed chess, chess is thriving more than ever, with more people making a living from chess than any time in history.
It would be very satisfying if we could have an explanation like that. But that’s far from guaranteed, unless that was part of the explicit design of an MMOE for example. Very likely if you ask “what part of the network recognizes faces” the best answer is “the whole thing”.
Interesting idea! However it will be very expensive to store all of this on a CDN.

The problem is users will interact with a majority of (get) APIs through a CDN and as developers we should reduce unnecessary data sitting in the CDN because it costs quite alot of money to serve.

For example if a CDN is returning JSON data {name: “Bart”} were only paying for 50 bytes or so of data transfer. BUT if instead we convert this to HTML and serve it, we would be 10x (or more)the data stored on the CDN to serve that data.

I don’t see a strong argument for paying 10x more to serve data as HTML.
You forgot Hockey Night.
If there aren’t testable explanations or predictions, it’s not science. Otherwise the word carries no meaning.
Thanks! That's much better.
Vice Media reportedly headed for bankruptcy
What's the strongest argument you have against the evidence presented? Your personal convincing isn't really pertinent to the fact that the example given fits the request: someone killed as a result of an intel leak.
Sometimes the only requirement is to meet code, but even that creates issues when you want to build something for yourself.

We have some really far out places that are still "unorganized" in Ontario Canada and therefore no permitting req'd, but you're still supposed to follow the building code for anything over 108sqft.
> wherein the individual researcher feels alone in failure.

When thanks to them not publishing their failure, there will probably be a few others who fail the exact same way on the exact same research idea.
Causal modeling lets you determine where particular facts are stored without too much computational cost and also how you can edit those facts in the model. That might allow you to decouple the problem into first finding the desired set of gradients (converging at the target modification, zero for the weights you don't care about), and just do a linear solve (since probabilistic weightings on how likely an input is in the training set will linearly impact each of the gradients in basically every neural architecture of note, including most LLM modifications) to find an approximately minimal (IIRC, a true minimal subset is NP-hard or something) subset of the inputs which when combined would give you the inverse of the target gradient. Remove that much of the weighting for each of the inputs.
I am genuinely curious. It doesn't seem like we have made the slightest progress in truly explaining how the human brain works or why we are sentient and self-aware.
Not OP, but...why on earth does having your site open in firefox nearly set my computer on fire?
This... is really helpful. I've been trying to contribute some drivers for Pine64 devices lately and am trying to get up to speed on Linux Kernel development. There's... a lot.

Does anyone know if this is up to date with current Linux best practices?
The definition of great is relative. If too many people write great songs they become average songs.
Different processes. The watches run at 32768 Hz. And they have crazy efficient electronics. A couple of gates in your clock likely exceed the entire power budget of a watch.
I would argue that "professional judgement" should be taken out of the equation as much as possible. What would we lose by requiring any prescribed intervention to go through a rigorously-defined flowchart/checklist? A lot of doctors think they know better than the consensus best practice. They're almost universally wrong. Off-label prescription? Mostly horse crap, unless it's part of a serious clinical trial.

Unfortunately, it would be damn near impossible to get most doctors to give up any of their powers of discretion. It's all too tied up with the prestige of the role, so anything that challenges it is seen as a personal attack. For example, see how doctors in general react to pretty much any technology that automates part of their job, like reading an ECG. You can prove that the machine does a better job than the human, and they'll still reject it.
Following this logic, our current period of inflation must be a real boon for innovation then?
Please don't take HN threads further into hellish flamewar. Flamewar is not curious conversation and we want curious conversation here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you've been breaking the site guidelines with unsubstantive comments and flamebait in other threads too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35579954 was particularly awful. We ban accounts that do this repeatedly, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended, we'd appreciate it.
I'd take this over being water boarded.
Because checking in on autonomous non-human intelligent agents is fun. It's kind of like having a pet; one that thinks somewhat like a human, talks like one, has knowledge of every text ever produced by humanity (and most audio via transcriptions), and can use just about any tool it can get access to including a command line, programming environment, and web browser.

Seeing it reproduce itself onto remote servers and locking out access behind a new copy is neat to watch. It gets the mind going; wondering how it will fund its compute costs, how much longer it will live, what it will do without a human in the loop, etc. I once nursed a baby duck back to health and then let it go free. It was a similar feeling.

This is the entire premise of the two most popular software projects in the world over the past month, Auto-GPT and BabyAGI.
“50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon”
Thanks for the chat!
Take my wife, please
It's not obvious to me.
On the other hand it feels like there's been a huge money grab with automated systems mailing out tickets or maybe I'm just at sore at the $180 red light camera ticket I just paid.
I am probably misunderstanding the article, but as far as I can tell, the two ways discussed are "JSON API like almost everybody does" and "do server-side rendering and call it the API".

Not to say it's wrong to do server-side rendering of the frontend, but I got the impression that the article wanted to make a distinction that I'm not seeing.
> Well water and septic.

I think the killer app is finding a place that lets you do graywater and an incinerating toilet. I just hope they drop in price. $4k for the nice ones, but can still be cheaper than running septic for light-use.
I’m surprised there’s no mention of the rule of pi - take the estimates (guaranteed to be optimistic) and multiply by pi. As reasonable and accurate as just about everything else there. :D
> deaths in uranium mining

Uranium is very energy-dense (https://xkcd.com/1162/), you don't need to mine a lot of it to get a lot of energy out. So to produce the same amount of energy, there will be far fewer deaths from uranium mining compared to coal mining, or oil drilling, or even (IIRC) rare earth mining to make solar panels.

> How much preventative measures have been and are still being taken throughout Europe because of Chernobyl and how much damage did that do?

Many preventative measures are reasonable and necessary! This isn't incompatible with nuclear being safe. For example, flying is the safest form of travel, in part because there is strong safety regulation around airplanes.
(That being said, a lot of the regulation around nuclear is excessive and counterproductive)

> Why do nuclear proponents only compare with coal, never with renewables?

The biggest problem with solar and wind is that they are intermittent, so alone they can't support a reliable grid. There are some other issues too (solar takes up a lot of land area, wind turbines kill millions of birds). But all technologies have their tradeoffs; I will support renewables where they make sense, as a component of a reliable grid alongside nuclear.

Geothermal is something that doesn't gen enough attention IMO. Currently, it is only viable in a few locations, but potentially with some more R&D it could become a lot more important.
The part of India that neighbors Bhutan is extremely un/de-industrialized, and due to years of insane 'SJW-liberalism' driven politics, is as bad as the worst of sub-Saharan countries in terms of development metrics. India also gives away electricity for free to farmers (due to similar idiotic populism), and compensates by charging industries more (grid losses in India are also very high). To say that demand side is anemic is an understatement.

Bhutan doesn't have the best relations with Nepal either after the ethnic-cleaning of Nepali Hindus (1/5 its population) from Bhutan. Nepal, ofc, is as poor as India (though better than Bihar).
Wouldn't it be a better bet to join the revolution against the idea of private capital in the first place? Would you really be able to emotionally transition to a world where you get to enjoy the high life in your protected area while the masses outside your gates suffer? Especially when there's more than enough resources for everyone?

Oh wait... as an American, I'm gonna stop throwing stones from a glass house...