skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Acceptable to use, or flexible enough to be useful? To me the latter is way more important, since the general tech trend flows from acceptable --> accessible, and from objectively-identified & pursued convergent outcomes to subjectively-tailored divergent outcome-sets.

For this reason I'd stay away from defining intelligence as an end goal. Or, I'd say it needs to be done so as to be referential to a spec. Intelligence as defined by a scope with good reason behind it, and not the other way around. This is why GPT will keep using the word "model" when you talk to it about its intellect. One can even say that models are way cooler than intellect in like a million ways.

A respected veteran in personality research once told me at a conference, "NTs invented intelligence." [1] This wasn't meant in a complimentary way, but rather as something much more neutral and observational. But this is an example of the kind of specific, field-by-field argument vis-a-vis intelligence that turns the deferential approach to intelligence as a concept on its head, and hints that intelligence may be far from a reasonable general requirement of a suitable human OR machine, depending on the situation or problem scope.

It basically says, "if you walk out of your group and into another, don't expect your tools to work the same way there." Well, the same is true of any general-purpose problem-solver. From "if you are only intellectual enough..." to...if you are only _what_ enough, in this context? Powerful tool.

(If you combine this with the fact that the notion of lowering the perceived value of intelligence measurement or intelligence-related discourse is sometimes seen as a threat within tech communities, you can get really interesting chin-stroke going)

Anyway you can end up with some neat concepts that intellect-loving folks might call meta-intellect, more like developmental outcomes that integrate a higher level of consciousness. Not in a woo-woo way, so much as a "stuff I don't really care about, or think is outright stupid, might actually matter more than I think" sort of way. Because just when we think we are suitably [2] cross-trained against bias or just not knowing enough interesting stuff, we get another turn around the course.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keirsey_Temperament_Sorter#Rat...

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXBQAJsxzm8
Prove such a simulation can be created with actual hardware, taking relativity into account.
Shouldn't have paid a billion dollars for Weta and Parsec
The ability to make advantageous decisions in situations that are neither identical nor analogous to any previously encountered situation.

In other words, the ability to learn through understanding, rather than through memorization.
BabyAGI4All
A few years ago I was doing some consulting for a medical tech startup run by an ex-doctor. They were thinking of using mongodb until I explained how it had a reputation for losing data. I'll never forget the look of horror, disgust and confusion on his face. He turned to me and said "A database that forgets things!? Why would anyone want that??".

I still don't have an answer for him. It sounds just as strange to me too.
In addition to the normal vaccuum insulation layer, it has a layer that does a (constant-temperature) phase change at ~140F. If your drink is hotter than this, energy flows out of the drink, cooling it and liquifying the layer. If you drink is cooler, energy flows into the drink, solidifying the layer.

grep for technogeek [here](https://joeveo.com/pages/the-temperfect-mug)
Correct, TLS is built into the protocol itself instead of it being HTTP wrapped in a TLS stream.
More than that, there are \d+ of us! Or, since I’ve been writing Lua recently, %d+ of us.
Hmm, this website supports https with an expired self-signed cert, but the https request never completes and repeats over and over again.
> What do you mean by "doesn't even allow a choice?" Like there's no option for non-secure?

Yep. http/2 in browsers does not support plaintext, the same will likely be true for QUIC

>You can still access gopher sites.

Not via vanilla mainstream browsers.
Tangentially related but also fun:

http://www.steadishots.org/list_popular.cfm

"SteadiShots.org studies and shares the incredible talents of many of today's Steadicam Operators."
I wasn't aware that mental health apps were a thing that existed, though I have seen quite a few that have the opposite effect. I always assumed I would be dead and gone before we got to the point where people cried into their electronics in exchange for positive affirmations and pills. I think I have finally done it. I have lived long enough to see the dystopia.
Honestly, from an executive's point of view, why should Samsung trust openAI? It exists in a community which is famous for skirting rules, the whole move fast and break things mentality isn't just at facebook. Their IP is incredibly valuable and they also have access to a bunch of customer IP. OpenAI needs to establish trust and it takes time. Microsoft spent years working with these companies to make them adopt azure and stuff.
Sure. I did not imply reddit copied Digg. Just pointing out the fact that Digg was chronologically the first (or at least earlier than reddit).

> The reddit founders had no awareness of Digg until a few months after they launched.

This is an interesting anecdote as Digg was already big by then (they actually released Digg 2.0 in July 2005, the same month reddit launched).
Your grasp of history is a bit weak. What do you think caused the cold war? You think the communist bloc happened on a backdrop of happy workers? Why you think Germany had and still has strong pro labor conditions? Because there was legitimate fear of German workers choosing communism
My go-to HTTP-only endpoint is http://example.com. It should be usable for as long as IANA and the Internet as we know it exists.
> Lithium ion batteries have a much flatter voltage curve - they basically give a stable 1.2V until they run out of juice and then drop rapidly.

Did you mean Ni-MH (and possibly Ni-Cd earlier)?

Lithium based rechargeables are usually not in AA format and the voltage is closer to 3.6V.
In the shared design and printed out of normal filaments, the cup holder will break long before anything happens to the laptop. The cup holder was tilting slightly because the rails on that printed part need to be tuned a bit to be tighter. I think the design was based on our shared reference design, which we deliberately made slightly loose for printability (under the mistaken assumption that nobody would build something load-bearing using it).
HTTP belonged to a simpler time, the same way in some communities you don't lock the front door.
> All that stupidity aside, how are AirTags actually supposed to help, even if we all had an iPhone and were happy to live under apple's benevolent rule? Most cars have a gps tracker now anyway.

Yeah, I figured the main problem was police not wanting to do anything about theft even when you had a GPS location and videos of the people stealing your stuff. I've seen lots of stories about people who knew exactly where their lost phone/laptop/car/whatever is but police were totally uninterested in recovering the items.
Microsoft working on custom ARM-based chipset to take on Apple M series silicons
This is amazing. The results definitely look like vintage super 8. Jitter is super bad, not saying that it's a problem though, just the look. I'm guessing this is partly due to 18fps and party due to the tolerances of the plastic 3d printed feeder.

Overall amazing. I'd really like to see it with something closer to 16mm. I'm not sure how cheap or expensive that it would be but I'd be curious, that might be more usable in a practical situation.

Overall great stuff though!
I literally hadn't heard of this brand until this comment, but I figured it was worth pointing out that their "layer of insulation" is a bit more complex than it might seem at surface level, being a phase-change insulator.

They claim that it changes phase right around the 63 degC mark (which, again, is claimed to be the sweet spot for where most hot beverages are enjoyed). Therefore, a hot drink will quickly move to that temperature when the poured liquid is above that transition temp (the liquid-phase insulator being a good conductor), and then stay close to it after dropping below the transition point, when the solid insulator re-forms and stops conducting heat well. If true, I think it's a really neat application of high-tech materials science in everyday life.

[1] https://joeveo.com/pages/the-temperfect-mug (see "Details for the Technogeek)
That supports https too, so current/future browsers will auto-upgrade to https.
>you would expect

There is no evidence that an actually existing thing like a Von Neumann probe can survive interstellar travel. I think that the answer to all of these paradoxes is that special relativity just makes it basically impossible. That’s anathema to us nerds, I know.

That’s a very thin argument to hang a Pandora’s Box opening on. It only needs to devour one planet, though we appear to be doing that ourselves too.
Aren't there some relevant details missing from this kind of analysis? Banks failing just means that the value of the banks assets fall below the value of their deposits, right? In which case the degree to which that happens seems to be highly relevant to this kind of comparison. E.g. the value of assets falling to 50% of deposits in bank failures in financial crisis A vs 90% in financial crisis B
I don't think that doing the math by hand to simulate a machine intelligence makes it not intelligent, any more than doing a simulation of all the electrochemical signals in a human brain by hand would make a human not intelligent. Aside from the infeasible amount of time it would take, it's the same thing.

As for autonomy, LLMs don't have autonomy by themselves. But they can be pretty easily combined with other systems, connected to the outside world, in a way that seems pretty darned autonomous to me. (https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT). And that's basically a duct-tape-and-string version. Given how new these LLMs are, it's likely we're barely scratching the surface.
A sentiment analysis plot of all the sources could be insightful both for users as well as a way to tune the weight of sources in the future. Very cool
Scanning Heaps of 8mm Movies
Weird, I can only access it on mobile data but not on my wifi.
This is the answer that makes the most sense.
Ask HN: Burnout, What to Do Next?
Been working for 7.5 years in Software and Gaming. I've been feeling burned out for a while now and with occasional time out,I come back fine.
This time, I'm really done and want to take some time off. I'm more interested in creating content, design, making products and so on.
How should I proceed? I can survive fine for tbe next 6-8 months fine without a job.
MS SQL Server at work and SQLite + Postgres for side projects
Also:

> Even though there's a lot of powerful AI programs out there, they're really nothing more than complex tools created to solve problems.

That's what they're designed to be, yes, but sometimes you end up with something more than what you intended.
I'm not saying it's not useful. I'm saying that once it learns the content of the data sources that are fed to it, that's it. It will spit out some overlooked connections then stop. Maybe the cure for cancer can be found just by reading in between the lines of millions of old scientific papers but I doubt it.
The Human Reader
Such mistakes annoy me also, and I apply a simple heuristic: If running a spell checker isn't worth your time, reading what you wrote isn't worth my time.
Unfortunately, "rejecting the proposal" seems to be an incomplete description for that.

From reading that GitHub thread further, the comment you're quoting seems to be an "initial review" only.

Further down the thread are various people (Google, etc) downplaying it, and trying to get around it. Not unsuccessfully.
It will be interesting to see how training horizons impact development of new software languages, frameworks, libraries. I have already found that I am much more productive using older patterns that Copilot "knows", compared to more manually following newer patterns which are nominally "easier".
Cybernetics and Ghosts:

https://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/academics/SummerSchool/Dateien...
Congrats, you are also the problem.

The most tragic part is you don’t even recognize it. You peddle loaded language with the broadest of strokes without seeing that you yourself are the very thing you believe you’re fighting against.

Genuinely believing every single one of those hispanic grads or doctors were misguided or uninformed, tells me you haven’t had many good faith conversations with people across the aisle. Nowhere do you even acknowledge the legitimacy of or a desire to understand the grievances and concerns that led to their voting behavior. But you’re certainly quick to insults and labeling.

Don’t be an Intellectual Yet Idiot.

“The IYI pathologizes others for doing things he doesn’t understand without ever realizing it is his understanding that may be limited.”

https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e...
It is $430 on Apple's website:

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-iphone/iphone-se/4.7-inch-dis...
Maybe you don't know the history of this company. Which is fair because I literally had to find this on archive.org

https://web.archive.org/web/20190224031626/https://blog.open...
See the top reply to that comment:

> They're trying to solve the "how do log into this captive portal" problem, and they needed to make this change to handle that typing "neverssl.com" now often evaluates to "https://neverssl.com".

So, yes, it's still useful for WiFi logins. The change in question was specifically for that purpose. https://neverssl.com now redirects to http://neverssl.com so you can log in to WiFi even if your browser thinks it knows better.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35792149
We apparently still need http to detect wifi portals.
> If Chrome shipped an update that blocked all ads it would kill many sites and would cause a disaster to the health of the web ecosystem.

That's complete bullshit.
> I don't think most people will tempt fate.

In so far as I would hope most people would avoid doing business with companies that mention $1 million dollar civil lawsuits in their terms of service.
Why do we need the G to do any of these things? I assume non general intelligence should be further along, so shouldn’t this recursive self improvement happen before the general part?
Oops, yes. For some reason I thought rechargeables like enerloop were lithium but I was remembering wrong.
I don't think he cares about NPR coming back. It's just about signalling for and scoring even more meaningless points with his favorite demographic that is already in thrall of him or vice versa, people like catturd2 and stillgray.
Could you please expand your thought? Not sure I fully understand the idea.
Don't spam people.
SQLite: Professional Support and Extension Products
I read one of their customers on here raving about the mortgage rate they got through SVB because it was so much better than anything offered by anyone else.

I don't see any evidence of any overall prudent investing on their part considering the entire bank had to be bailed out and FDIC limits relaxed.
Do we know for sure that LLMs can't possibly be doing symbolic reasoning of some sort, internally? I thought we couldn't really interpret them yet.
Heh I almost edited it to \d+ but also I considered [0-9]{2,} and then I thought more on it and realized (?<!^)\d(?!$) is pretty open ended.
> Why would tech workers pay miners to strike (Lets ignore the insane difficulty of organizing that for now)?

Why would anyone donate to help anyone else? I've contributed to strike and organized labor funds because it can help others improve and make meaningful changes in their lives.

> Making hardware more expensive, directly and negatively harms software developers.

I doubt many people are pro-miner brutality and exploitation because it might make electronics a bit cheaper.
Just a quick, non-hostile technical nitpick: I don't believe that at any point, energy will actually be flowing back into the drink. If the drink is cooler, the insulator layer will become a significantly worse conductor, preventing heat from flowing outward as well as from the liquid-phase insulator, but thermodynamics/the law of entropy shouldn't really allow for the energy to flow back into the liquid, even when the insulator does re-solidify.
"The advertisers can go f*k themselves" is probably the nicest way to put things. ;)
Maybe I’m weird or thinking about this wrong, but it makes sense to me to pluralize the table “users”, because it is a collection of users, and when I’m naming the key it is the “user ID” because it is the ID that corresponds to a single user. I don’t have to do any mental gymnastics for this to make sense, it just seems natural to me. But again, maybe I’m thinking about this incorrectly and just don’t realize it.
Larry Ellison hasn't tweeted in over 10 years: https://twitter.com/larryellison

No special treatment...
The IWW is much less marginal today than it was 20 years ago.

It’s still quite small as umbrella unions go, though.
Assume this was a valid scientific experiment, then there has to be some combination of a reasonable number of written words that would prove they had communicated with the divine.

People have been writing texts for thousands of years and it's obvious to me that no such word combos exist. If they did, they'd have been discovered and well-known.

So, all that was shown with the walls experiment was that experimental design was flawed. Nothing about whether the person could or could not speak to God on LSD.
I use neverssl.com
Merck defeats insurers in $1.4B cyberattack appeal
This is why I'm bear-ish on Next.JS as a framework. Vercel has some super cool features for Next.Js that are easy to integrate into your app, but is that de-incentivizing Next.JS to implement them in an open way?

Vercel is a hyper for-profit and closed platform, is that blocking innovation on Next.JS as an "open-source" framework?
It’s more complex than that. The ideal situation for a bank is when all its depositors are customers of each other. The deposits never leave the bank so the bank has very stable liabilities.

So a local bank will be great when a community transacts mostly with itself. SL happens right around when multinationals and corporate centralization started becoming more of a thing..

We live in the era of trillion dollar corporations, fintech, and the internet so a community bank ends up more like a small big bank. Its depositors are getting paid by corporations from way outside the community, and they’re spending money on the internet or at giant multinational retailers and thus shifting deposits outside the community. In this paradigm, it’s actually better to be huge and have a diversified customer base because the best way to keep your liabilities stable is to have the largest market share possible.

You’ll notice, banks usually have generous incentives for setting up direct deposit. Direct deposit is the best way for them to have a predictable measure of incoming deposits when there isn’t a high likelihood of one particular account transaction with another.
Laya’s Horizon on Netflix makes flying both exhilarating and soothing
It's cute that you think you can get away with lying. You were biased and wrong. That's why. And also apparently too cowardly to admit it.
Given most sites still support HTTP/1.0, it's very unlikely we'll see anyone drop http/1.1 for another three decades, at least. Especially when you factor in how slow some large chunks of the world are to upgrade their OSes and software suites.
That's not the way conversations tended to go on Slashdot, from what I recall. It wasn't like reddit. Furthermore, because Slashdot's system differentiated funny from other kinds of ratings, you could specifically suppress posts rated funny, or raise posts rated Troll, etc. This functionality was built into the interface.
That sounds pretty cool. I'm guessing you created a transaction block and then executed commands inside it, giving you a way to mess with the system without borking it.That is brilliant and is giving me all sorts of ideas :)

Honestly the best programmers are out here using ED. 0 syntax highlighting and you can only see 40-60 lines at a time. Insanity.

There is a 64bit version of scarletdme in the dev branch and the instructions are the same, it should work on both debian and centos.
Ok, so par for the course, absolutely nothing has changed since the previous round of the browser wars. But what really, and I mean really surprises me is that the open source movement so far hasn't taken a much harsher stand against Microsoft acquiring GitHub. Google is capable of defending itself just fine but with GH Microsoft has essentially acquired all of the open source code stored there irrespective of the license it is shipped under because somehow magically their TOS seems to supersede the GPL and they can do what ever they please with the code. That doesn't sit right with me, no matter how many goodwill parties Nadella & company attend.
Yes, but not with a lower case "i".
captive.apple.com is just for captive portals - technically networks can (and do) spoof it, but it's just a connectivity check. Past that you can do any test you want over https.
Hindsight may be 20/20 (01/11/2023)

> "SVB's focus on the innovation economy was a big winner in the past but may not remain so in the future, according to Dick Bove, the prominent banking analyst at Odeon Capital Group. The U.S. economy, in Bove's view, is shifting from a consumer-oriented economy driven by plenty of low-cost capital to a manufacturing economy marked by limited access to capital that's relatively costly."

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2023/01/11/svb...

> "And despite his downcast report, Bove maintained his hold rating on SVB's stock. Investors seem to be a bit more optimistic. After SVB's shares lost two-thirds of their value last year, they're up nearly 11% so far this year, closing Wednesday at $254.99 a piece."

Reading the tea leaves is an imprecise art, I guess.
There’s plenty of proof a Google search away. This wasn’t some great secret.
I'm curious how those third party apps work. Are they tailored to specific vendors' beacons, or do they operate generically on all BLE announcements? I'm curious because I have a medical implant that broadcasts a burst of announcement frames once every minute.
Yes but in this specific case Google is more wrong. MS implemented a security feature where user applications aren't allowed to change the default browser. You can disagree with it and it's sketchy as hell but it's there and supposedly to prevent the bundled-with-java problem.

Breaking it is basically guaranteed to lead to plugging the hole and blacklisting the misbehaving app is easier than getting out the real fix. You can be all like "rebel chrome
is taking on big operating system" and that's fine and makes total sense but "how dare MS enforce their own rule" is a weird take. You can't be like "hey, they weren't supposed to do it back" when you intentionally abuse your elevated privs to bypass security measures.
Abusive labor practices are the norm in the food industry.
> This is how you get into a world where you have to use mobile apps ...

Are you meaning something different from the current state of affairs?

Because, that seems to describe things currently.
Seems a little dramatic...

HTTP isn't going anywhere. HTTPS is literally just HTTP with a TLS layer on top.
They’d get one if they do it regularly. We catch the stupid ones but not all of them are stupid. I imagine most are aware of AirTags and could get the cheapest iPhone to detect them.
but won't that include most applications for the foreseeable future? I assume no one is going to be rewriting the entire data processing/web stack from python to mojo in the near future, right?
Would you mind sharing details on your tools / setup? Intrigued by this.