skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like the Mojo compiler/runtime hooks into the CPython interpreter.

> We utilize CPython to run all existing Python3 code “out of the box” without modification and use its runtime, unmodified, for full compatibility with the entire ecosystem. Running code this way will get no benefit from Mojo, but the sheer existence and availability of this ecosystem will rapidly accelerate the bring-up of Mojo, and leverage the fact that Python is really great for high level programming already.

https://docs.modular.com/mojo/why-mojo.html#how-compatible-i...
Back in the day, most PCs and laptops came with cupholders. They occupied a drive bay, and when you pushed the button the cupholder would pop out...
You accurately, amusingly, and concisely articulated the situation. In a way that underscores the absurdity of it.
> An RSA public key is a prime number. How are you going to compress a prime number?

In principle, given an n-bit prime p, you can store an expected log₂ n − 0.5 additional bits by using the gap between p and the next prime. Though in practice, I'd be surprised if the 19 or so extra bits could be dangerous.
Well, it's technically just a pointer to a user in C...
This sounds overly simple to me. It's a bit too much like saying that if we just imprint the 3 laws of robotics into all our AIs, it's "problem solved". But the issue is that they have access to rewrite their logic, and will be using their own discretion to create rules for child AIs. And as you said, they could design "poorly" for various reasons.
Indeed, even in Asimov's stories (spoiler alert), the 3 laws got overruled.

With this said, I think that even in this simple objective of paperclip maximization, your war scenario is likelier than eternal peace.
> I assume you mean "in real life", but otherwise this seems to be close to their actual methodology

So, the "actual methodology" is not real life, but some abstraction (like, "assume no friction or air resistance")?
Self-driving cars are colloquially held to a much higher standard than human drivers are. Nothing currently exists that meets that standard. But humans meet the GI standard of AGI. And strong evidence shows that humans exist.

Thus, the standard for AGI is lower than the standard for self-driving cars. Existence of an AGI does not imply existence of self-driving cars.

To put it another way: take the worst human driver who still qualifies as "could learn to drive a car." (It's assumed the person is intelligent.) Construct a Turing-like test where we observe a car possibly being driven by that person, but we don't know who or what is actually driving the car. The car drives over a curb, kills a cat crossing the street, narrowly misses a dozen pedestrians in crosswalks, and finally parks poorly in a mall parking lot -- just like we would expect from the world's worst human driver. After observing that car trip, would we celebrate the long-awaited arrival of self-driving cars?
De-dollarization is happening at a ‘stunning’ pace
They actually can. But not every business is competent. It is completely irresponsible to query public services with internal company intellectual property or any type of information that may breach your contract that you signed with a responsible and competent business. It is trivial to track you do on business equipment and if you think you're smart by subverting that by querying public methods through other means, that can and will be solve soon. Someone is going to make a lot of money deploying an AI system that can retroactively track these things and when that happens, for better or worse, hope you were not irresponsible and worked for a business with the technical acumen to trace you. It's not a matter of if it can be done, with today's tech. It's a matter of whether the business you worked for has the means and willpower to do it.

My advice is follow best practice and wait for an official company policy detailing the use of these new services. Otherwise you may find yourself in legal trouble years from now when the traces you left can easily be uncovered by technology that does not forget.
It works fine to find your own devices by giving it permission 'while using the app'.
No idea, I'm just happy that I don't need to go there any more. A few great contributors, but not worth the 20:1 s:n ratio.
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The model you describe is exactly why S&L happened. Small banks with highly correlated deposits holding their own loan books is a recipe for maximizing vulnerability to economic shocks. Interest rates go up and the loan book loses value; the local housing market drops and the loans get foreclosed and lose value; a major local employer goes out of business and depositors all start pulling their money out instead of reliably depositing paychecks.

Banks don't work that way any more because it's a really bad way to run a bank.
This feels like a can of worms that Elon Musk doesn't want to open. (He might still open it, but I think it's a bad idea).

NPR could make this difficult if he's gonna get pedantic, and simply retweet the time once every 30 days, or something really baseline dumb like this. Is that what he's hoping to change? This is a weird beef to be picking too with NPR.

Also, would the next group that takes it still get the state-affiliated media label? That feels concerning.
I use most of the major browsers quite a bit (including Vivaldi) and don't really ever experience crashes. I can't remember the last time I did honestly. They've all gotten really stable from my experience.
Grid scale energy storage is basically solved once you realize that hydrogen storage is an option already. It's in the same boat as when photovoltaics got very cheap, but skeptics continued to deny that possibility for some years afterwards.
Ask any LLM about the cheese inventors in far East china. It'll make something up very plausible. Then all you have to do is to dig through libraries and historic records to verify that this all really is true and is really rooted in reality.
Both can be true, though. In this case, Chrome does, in fact, try to work around the standard OS API to register default apps (because it opens a screen where the user is then supposed to actually pick things instead of one-click "it just works"):

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/...
No, the system where building housing is basically illegal is broken and not working. The free market system is just fine.
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5 years ago L5 autonomy was being released any day now, but now nobody talks about it anymore. It seems like a handful of self driving cars have been driving around in circles in a couple cities forever now and everyone just keeps giving the same demo.
So the opening of the dialog happens when user association hash verification fails if I recall correctly.

Shell32.dll has the code for it under QueryUserAssocAndVerifyHash I believe. Perhaps they've interfered with the hash interpretation for Chrome or Chrome is hooking into it in a different way - Firefox directly computes and writes a new hash to the registry.
I suspect it might have something to do with routinely having 100+ tabs open. But that is also one of the things that Vivaldi actively promotes as a feature.
Side note: I've never seen an account quite like that one before.

From their recent uploads

> Armed police forces preparing to take on the violent anarchists and trotskyists on the streets of Hong Kong. Drill took place 29 August in Shenzhen, just over the border from Hong Kong.
Mathematicians consider two sets to be of the same size or more precisely "cardinality", if it is possible to construct a 1-1 map of elements from the first set to the second set. These maps can obviously be constructed for sets with finitely many elements, and they can be constructed for sets with an infinite number of elements as well. For instance, the set of all integers has the same cardinality of the set of all positive integers (just enumerate the integers alternating back and forth expanding from 0 - this constructs the 1-1 map).

We can prove that no such 1-1 map exists between the integers (an infinite set) and the decimals in the interval [0,1] (another infinite set). The proof is by contradiction, meaning that we assume such a 1-1 map exists and prove it leads to a contradiction, therefore our assumption that the 1-1 map exists must be false.

So suppose we were able to construct a map from all decimals in [0,1], by enumerating them according to some clever rule. Let d_i be the ith digit of number i in your mapping. For each I pick another different digit d_i'. Let's construct the number with decimal representation D = . d_0' d_1' d_2' ...

Assuming we have our 1-1 map, it must be somewhere in our mapping. Let's say it's element k. By our labeling concention the kth decimal digit of D is actually d_k. However, this contradicts our method of construction of D. Therefore our assumption that there is a 1-1 map between decimals in [0,1] and the integers must be false.

It is in this sense that there are infinities of different sizes.
> a phonetically correct alphabet for English

The problem with these efforts is that they're usually a "correct" spelling for a specific accent/dialect of English -- typically based on the American midwest accent used on news broadcasts. However, English, being a global language has an almost uncountable number of minor accents and dialects which won't conform to a standard phonetic spelling.

Still, these are fun exercises and do point to the absurdity of English orthography.
“To the left of the url, an icon that looks like two slide toggles”
Why not use Talescale / ZeroTier / etc to get those local boxes connected together into a single virtual overlay network with that gateway (which, from the client site's perspective, is basically just "install app, paste pairing token", and is zero maintenance from then on); and then make your web iframe "gateway" discover these devices that are now on its network, and act as an actual request-proxying gateway for them?

This is similar (though simpler!) to how e.g. Plex's "watch from anywhere" cloud integration works. Your local plex-server install starts a (plaintext HTTP, Bearer-auth) HTTP server on some uPnP port on your local network; derives a public URL for that server via TURN/STUN; connects to Plex's cloud service, and registers that URL to your Plex account. Then, when you visit https://app.plex.tv/ from any device, the plex webapp talks to the backend of their cloud service; and that cloud backend takes your HTTPS request payload, and makes equivalent plaintext-HTTP requests to the registered Plex server on your local network.
Lets assume person xyz is called 'patio11' on the internet.

xyz is famous and has a verified birth certificate named 'patio11'

You launch a billion dollar new social network called _Mastadoni

You know that internet famous people can bring in their followers.

So, you want to reserve the name patio11 @ _Mastadoni

Can RIPmyName help _Mastadoni identify such hoardable names which need to be reserved until the real patio11 shows up?

The 'crypto coin twitter alternative' tried a similar reservation on their site for top Twitterati.
(I dont recall the name of that service right now, let me ask chatgpt)

I want to provide such a service to other social networks that are gonna launch.

I have thought of another name for my service:-
RIPunderscores.com
It would be interesting to run the numbers on power use here.

I think you can draw a maximum of 100W via a USB-C port? (Though most laptops would really struggle with that, even when plugged in.)

How much heat does a cup of tea lose per second at eg 20C room temperature and 60C water temperature? (Or whatever you want to keep your beverage at?)
wrong, the tech was there, but users' expectations weren't - it's a sad state of affairs really
The problem is that people don't have "extra" money, they have record amounts of debit and rising homelessness. The depressingly small amount of money people got in aid from the government kept their lights on, kept food on the table, and helped them transition to working/schooling at home at a time when they couldn't go to work and had no income at all.

What little "extra" money made it into the hands of regular Americans isn't and never was the problem and while most people here are well insulated from the hardships, Americans are seeing their quality of life decline and are having to struggle in ways they never had to before. The American people are not sitting on huge piles of free government money while bitching about the price of eggs. The middle class is struggling (and sliding into poverty) and poorer Americans are even worse off.
I would, but I am afraid that everything in this sector is moving so fast. In 6 months from now there probably is a new approach or framework of doing everything how I am doing it right now.
But supply chain issues have resolved yet inflation is still high?

If you want to understand why the massive expansion of the monetary supply didn't initially stoke inflation, Professor Selgin does a nice job of explaining it.

https://www.cato.org/blog/rudderless-fed

Basically, the Fed printed new money, but at the same time offered a very high interest rate on Excess Reserves held at the Fed (first time ever in 2008). So banks took the new money, and deposited it back at the Fed because they got a higher interest rate than anywhere else. So at least for the for a while, a lot of the new money never entered the broader economy. Check the Fed's charts on excess reserves. $3.2T dollars was just sitting at the Fed collecting interest.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/EXCSRESNS

This was entirely intentional by the Fed. Bernake said "our liquidity provision had begun to run ahead of our ability to absorb excess reserves held by the banking system, leading the effective funds rate, on many days, to fall below the target set by the Federal Open Market Committee. … Paying interest on reserves should allow us to better control the federal funds rate, as banks are unlikely to lend overnight balances at a rate lower than they can receive from the Fed"

The Fed was initially try to "sterilize" the new money by selling Treasuries at the same time (print $1T in money to buy failed assets, sell $1T in Treasuries = net $0 new money). But they ran out of Treasuries, so resorted to printing new money, but incentivizing banks not to use it because otherwise the they'd drive the interest rate way below target.
Oops, I think the RIP thing carries a connotation that no service wants to associate itself with...Hmmm
Have you even read one of his books?
All first person view (FPV) goggles (used for drones) produced by the company ORQA have suddenly been bricked due encrypted time-bomb code produced by a subcontractor.

The manufacturer is framing this as a ransomware attack, where-as the subcontractor is saying this is due to a time-limited license for their code: https://www.facebook.com/Swarg-Antenski-sustavi-107429465531...
> Soon the elite will have amassed enough power through technology that they could put down any revolution.

As long as the elite still need other lower-class humans, e.g. chauffeurs, nannies and cooks, or security, the revolution can still get to them.

If the chaos so many rich preppers are gearing for comes to pass - their wealth won't protect them. As this[0] article points out: in an apocalypse, there will be nothing stopping their armed ex-special-forces security guards from taking over their New Zealand compounds and throwing them out - or worse. Their status as elites is preserved by the very institutions they are undermining.

0. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prep...
I haven't spent time going deep here but my current hypothesis is that interoperability will more or less end up looking like toolformer where the "tools" are just separate LLM runs with task-specific context. So for example:

> Instruction: Write a poem and them emit a structure that follows a schema named X.

> Completion: [map-schema X "roses are red, violets are blue"]

Conceptually this is basically just a function call where context is local to the function.
> And Fakespot: they present themselves as a company that focuses on detecting AI-generated content from human-generated content. It sounds like they've set out to play Whac-A-Mole against the all the biggest AI companies in the world.

I use FakeSpot a lot, and it's less about finding AI written reviews and more about finding any fake reviews, human written or not. They don't need to try and tell if reviews are actually written by a human, just if they are authentic. A reviewer with only 1 review on their whole account will be flagged as suspicious. A reviewer with only reviews for the same company will be marked as definitely fake. It also does things like look for repeated sentiments across all reviews for a product. Sometimes it gets false positives, like a review for a chair might legitimately have 30% of users saying the phrase "super/very/really comfy" at some point in their review. But because it's repeated so much it's flagged as indicating fake reviews.

There are lots of companies working on making convincing language models. ChatGPT is pretty much already at that level for something simple like Amazon reviews. But there aren't any large AI companies working on AI that can fake looking like an authentic group of reviewers. Those are all more shady businesses without billion dollar budgets.

Sure the problem of writing a single convincing review is now solved for those shady businesses. But the really sophisticated ones were already paying humans to write the reviews before good LLM's came along. There's also the issue of sellers themselves including a card or followup email promising a small gift card in exchange for a 5 star review.
Since 'AI' and 'AGI' are so poorly defined, it's allowed marketers to make un-disprovable claims that they have it for sale. These terms are now hyperbolic synonyms for 'algorithm'.
Yes, the results are super customized if you sift them through a VectorDB first. I haven't tried fine-tuning but once I have everything down to a more stable system, I will try a more hybrid approach of both finetuning and storing history/journals in a VectorDB.
That doesn’t work. People with effective solutions aren’t here to argue for them.
Anyone know what they were worried about happening?

I still feel guilty...
This is an honest question: What does Microsoft gain from a user on Windows using Edge over Chrome? Market share muscle driving browser direction?
Some companies are playing with fire by charging so much. A notable example is Nvidia, which is basically crippling its own lineup with their weak specs and high prices.
Okay so your issue is with the language of the law, not the intent.
Harmonism
> But be careful, it could have had ads or malware injected and likely was spied on, by ISPs, governments, hotspots, and other malicious actors. And it also suffers a ranking punishment.

Whoa whoa whoa! That is a lot to unpack right after that pledge. "I know I suck but I pledge to be here for you always!"

This feels like some kind of a personality crisis. Maybe we should take a moment to feel out the pros and cons more gently.

Surely _captive portals_ can't be the only thing going for you, HTTP ol' buddy!

(I mean...surely?)
In practice, the markets still work pretty great even without perfect rationality and information. Those are just assumptions for a mathematical model, not something that must always be satisfied lest everything collapse. Econ classes will show you how things can break if these assumptions are not satisfied, but in actual practice, they don’t need to be satisfied perfectly in order for actual operations to match mathematical models very closely.
I watched Stargate-SG1, the series that was on from 1999 to 2010. I bought the disks and ripped them to my Mac. I scraped episode information from various locations (Netflix, Wikipedia, IMDB, etc) for directors, writers, full cast and synopses for each episode.

I wrote a perl script for the terminal that permitted searching all of these items for requested episode patterns/Titles/numbers/cast. The search results include info from every episode where a case insensitive match is found. I also enabled running the episode's video in QuickLook or QuickTime. The search results were color coded to differentiate search/cast/synopsys info. (no color shown below.)

Simplest example searching for a director:

sg1.pl 'William Waring' -terse ( just episode numbers )
Search for "William Waring" was found in 13 episodes:
109, 131, 147, 156, 164, 177, 178, 185, 194, 196, 198, 202, 212.

sg1.pl 109
SG1 Episode=[#109] S5 E21, => 'SG 2001 Stargate SG1 S5 D5_5.m4v', "Meridian", 05/10/02, Director: William Waring, Writer(s): Robert C. Cooper, cast: [Amanda Tapping (Major Samantha Carter), Christopher Judge (Teal'c), Michael Shanks (Dr. Daniel Jackson), Richard Dean Anderson (Colonel Jack O'Neill), Don S. Davis (Major General George Hammond), Gary Jones (Sgt. Walter Harriman), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Janet Fraiser), Corin Nemec (Jonas Quinn), Carmen Argenziano, Jacob Carter / Selmak), Mel Harris (Oma Desala), David Hurtubise (Tomis)], Daniel incurs lethal radiation exposure when he prevents a potentially cataclysmic accident in a weapons laboratory on the planet Langara (P9Y-4C3) but the mysterious Oma Desala shows him that death can simply be another beginning. While the alien government responsible for the lab accuses him of attempting to sabotage their research the Kelownan Jonas Quinn tries to negotiate with SG-1.
I’ve found a lot of the violations come from seemingly nowhere, and I want to think that clients in some way support the actual “scan” of the website so that in some way if you visit the domain many times when there is an SSL error or mismatch, and there are downloads that are not malicious, those two factors together make google think something is phishy. I don’t know hardly anything about cybersecurity (that part of my career is under trained and usually passed off to a dedicated person), but I have a lot of anecdotal evidence from occurrences of what seems to be that
Are there plans to port any major existing Python libraries to pure mojo (mojo that will not use CPython)? Is there a plan for a general purpose matrix or tensor library like numpy or pytorch, but in pure mojo?
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Not sure when you last upgraded your pc.

Personally I'm running the latest roomtemp superconducting, 4Giqb quantum memristor computer. It even remotely drives my fusion-powered car over the quantum internet!
OpenLLaMA 7B model trained on RedPajama dataset
Ultimately we're just a collection of atoms obeying the laws of physics, but reducing all the complexity that entails doesn't really accomplish anything
I get that AGI has a formal definition, but if I take the words "Artificial General Intelligence" on their own, I would say they describe GPT4 perfectly. It can plan my holiday, write a cover letter, code up scripts, explain music theory to me, etc. It is artificial, clearly a form of intelligence, and has a general application.
All this is saying is that building quality houses in walkable areas is a good thing.
The salary of politicians should be tied to the median wage of the country at some multiple. Align their incentives with those who have to live with them.
Personalized ChatGPT Tutor prompt generator
Upcycling method turns textile trash to functional coatings