skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily. There are health disadvantages that come from being taller, and also from having higher caloric intake. It could be that we’re adapted to less food, and when we have more we get both taller and less healthy on average.
I have versions of Paint Shop Pro from the 90s that can open JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, etc. files.

I have used versions of After Effects of similar vintage. Premier and AE were doing 4K back then because that’s what Hollywood needed for their productions. Illustrator and Photoshop are mostly functional.

Likewise, my Nikon camera from 2011 doesn’t stop working just because it’s old. The tools in my garage are no less effective because home additive manufacturing exists.
How much farming do you need if you cut out biofuels and some feed corn for industrial scale meat production? Lots of poor ag policy decisions over the last century, but also I think a a bit of make work in certain circumstances.

When speaking to opponents of utility scale solar on vast tracts of farmland, you see this when they’re upset about the land no longer being used to farm, but the farmer can make more from solar or wind than farming. Lots of emotion from tradition and history to make peace with. Change is the only constant, and everything dies eventually.
Tell me what Hindu and Christian have to do in this case. And mentioning the expected keywords in the title and sub title and nudging the people to think in line with a certain narrative, is what the western media is master of. And I’m not a government shill, and to be honest I think this issue is 100% on the shoulders of the state government which is BJP. And western media propaganda is also real.
Worth correcting: 59% of hosted nodes use Amazon, or 37% of all nodes. If you filter out unsynced nodes, about 17% of all nodes are hosted on Amazon.

https://ethernodes.org/networkType/Hosting?synced=1
You do have ignore lists, but the UX is extra bad. OTOH resilio ate my files in certain situations, so I had to ditch it.
I suspect it is an industry trend in donations - I saw this yesterday when donating (which I don’t often do). I think they asked for $17.50 “transaction costs” on a $150 donation.

I wish there was an anonymising service in New Zealand so I could donate without giving my contact details. No, I don’t want to be added to a list - there is a whole seedy underbelly to the industry of charity.
From 15 to 24 this year for the entire company making best desktop email? That's a reasonable number that could be higher.

Facebook had 80,000-90,000 employees before the purge
> I think the fundamental reason why we keep seeing more and more bullshit protocols and projects pop up like this is one fundamental mindset: a refusal to attribute the problems of the modern internet solely to capitalism.

I mean, I'm sure they have some points in this ranty thread of toots, but it's hard to take it serious when it ends up blaming it all on capitalism (which, I hear you brother, I'm no fan either) and it's FILLED WITH SHOUTING FOR NO GOOD REASON.

Sometimes, when you feel strongly about something, it's useful to write a first draft, and come back to it after cooling down for a day or two, and rewrite it to be more nuanced.

The AT Protocol has many flaws, like any protocol, that much is evident. But I don't think this toot-thread gives a accurate view of those flaws. It also doesn't seem to consider that all these different protocols make different tradeoffs, and none of the protocols try to be "one protocol to rule them all". They are simply better at some things, and worse at others.

> Also I don't care if I'm spreading FUD or if I'm wrong on some of this stuff. I spent an insane amount of time reading the docs and looking at implementation code, moreso than most other people.

> If I'm getting anything wrong, it's the fault of the Bluesky authors

This is a really disappointing way of reviewing things, I hope that it doesn't become more popular, because no one actually learns anything from it. It ends up being just a rant, but masqueraded as education.
> is that enough evidence?

It's some evidence. Perhaps the HotSpot thing outperforms AOT on its own, it could be true.

Somewhat equivalent to HotSpot but in AOT would be GraalVM's profile guided optimization. If runtime information is what brings JIT its advantage, then PGO could bring the same advantage to AOT. I don't have any hard data though.
I did that with a potato back in the day.
I was just about to post that this article isn't about the AT modem commands.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Serial_Programming/Modems_and_...?
Important topic, existing thread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35880647
It's hard to support the idea of inefficient farming just out of pure nostalgia but I think there's something else lost when these small family farms die out. I imagine large commercial farms aren't going to experiment as much or adapt to changing conditions.
Typical SSDs all assume your IO will be in 4kB-aligned chunks even though the storage is denominated in 512-byte sectors for compatibility reasons. So we have managed to move past the legacy of early hard drives to some degree, and are now being held back by assumptions that derive more from x86 page sizes.
Good point. But mentioning the keyword Hindu Christian etc etc. is a typically media nudging practice. See one of the comment on this post. 1 successfully nudged.
I get what you're saying, but I'm still not convinced that introducing the notion of "a computer program" vs "a human" changes anything in the equation. That is to say, IF you - as a human - had a "photographic memory" and after reading a copyrighted work began to spit out big chunks of it verbatim in response to a query, then you would already be guilty of copyright infringement, no? Likewise, if a computer program reads 10 books on, I dunno, let's say Quantum Physics, and then - in response to a query - emits a technically correct answer that isn't obviously cribbed from any one book... has it violated copyright?

My point is not to say that contemporary "AI" systems never emit things that are arguably copyright infringement. It's more just to say that there's nothing about being an AI that makes it necessary that its output be copyright infringing.
This is a great summary. But, it makes the same mistake that other such commentators are making.

Other replacement currencies will need to be much more stable and liquid than the dollar. It is not possible today.

But it is right in its sentiment. Most other countries are tired of American sanctions sending generations into poverty. For them, finding anything else is a no brainier. If they can find any currency to replace their trade with, they'll take it in a heartbeat.
Because two binary values that are not bit-for-bit equal should have an equality operator that can reflect that without resorting to conversion
My limited understanding of the problem about git as the basis for user data storage is that it then would expose the complexity of git rebasing and the rest via federation. Git is great with a centralized remote (like I believe the original post is getting at) but less so in a federated setting.
Always a pleasant surprise to see how well Ruffle works with the HR website: https://homestarrunner.com/sbemails/45-techno

The only thing I'm missing is the ability to find the easter eggs by hitting the tab key like you could do with Flash...
Mine'll be 23 years old in November. I don't post much anymore, but I'm trying to get back in the habit. http://mischeathen.com

Early on, it was a couple hundred posts a year, but I got really politically engaged in the wake of the 2000 election and that helped encourage activity. Busiest year was 2007, with 1,147 posts.

Last year was only 28, but I'm nearly at that for 2023 already. Less politics now, more writing, and more just sharing stuff. I need to hook up the share-to-Mastodon thing since I'm obviously no longer sharing to Twitter.

Mine's been through several platforms -- first Blogger, then to Grey Matter, then Blosxom (whose simplicity I really miss), and for a few years on Movable Type, before landing (obviously) on Wordpress in 2012. I had comments for a while, but that became untenable, and also less rewarding in the era of social media.

Early on, when corporate sites were typically hosted IN HOUSE, like in the same building that business got done in, it was fun to look through the logs and see recognizable domains -- a buddy's law firm in NY, etc. Eventually when colos took over that stopped being as easy to do, and that I look back at doing so fondly probably dates me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyu4u3VZYaQ
The length of its existence is interesting, but by todays standards, the farm may have been just as unsustainable as it was at its onset.

Notably, the Smithsonian article only asks about recent changes affecting the farm.

Slavery was common in Massachusetts through 1700s.

If the farm was made sustainable through slave labor in its first 100 years, it would have avoided the same concerns that the article says are doing it in now: dependable and low cost labor.
This happens all the time with “self help” tiktokers and YouTubers and whatnot that are just recycling others ideas and content.

How would you like to stop this? It doesn’t violate copyright unless they read the book verbatim. I guess ideas could be patented as a utility method by the author and it would prevent someone else from doing that method for 20 years.

Mostly this is just the way things were designed and I think that it’s good in the sense that the purpose of creation is to further human experience, not maximize creator revenue.
Ask HN: How do you personally define 'AGI'?
I have noticed through reading a lot of discussions online and watching a lot of long-form interviews on YouTube that there is quite a wide variety of working definitions that individuals use for the term 'AGI'.

We're not likely to all get on the same page exactly after one round of discussion, but I think it would help accelerate the process and help us to challenge our own assumptions and update our own mental models.
Most people probably sell their cars after 5 years or so.

Edit: 8 years ( https://www.germaincars.com/average-length-of-car-ownership/ )
1/Infinity in 754 is 0. 1/(-Infinity) is -0. These numbers are not strictly equal in real number terms.
Could you explain this in more detail, please? Fortran standards didn't support recursion until Fortran '90 and it wasn't easy to get stack allocation in F'77 compilers from vendors until the mid-80's or so, both long after Algol-like languages had them.
> I ended up changing habits to avoid having to search at all (not the ideal outcome of using a tool, but here we are)

I may have gone to an even greater extreme. I installed a webmail front-end for the sole purpose of searching my emails. I use TBird for everything else.
Ah, sure, for whatever WASM variant you're referring to. Whichever form of blazor I use pretty obviously makes calls back to the server to interact with client state on a per-event basis. If the backend has to restart, the clients all lose connection and die. I won't pretend to be an expert in the framework, or even C#. I had avoided both until recently, and this introduction hasn't made me particularly fond of either.
fascinating -- I wonder if saying "thank you" to the plants might unconsciously prevent over-harvesting.
That and maybe specialty farms. Where I live you can't throw a rock without hitting a small farm or nursery that does very specific things and they seem to do okay in their niches.
While not directly applicable to this case, it's worth noting that you cannot run Chrome on iOS, explicitly because it's a VM (in the sense that it executes user-defined code). That's why iOS Chrome uses WebKit, and not V8, as its rendering and JS engine.
The big difference between cities and honey bee hives is that bee hives have to work within the ecology, whereas cities don't.

Literally, honey bees can't exist unless their environment supports them. Their way of life has to adapt to the environment around them, not the other way around. This is made obvious in a number of ways: they literally biologically are adapted to make their particular type of home, their social structure is required to support said biology, they hibernate, they're susceptible to environmental damage and pests, they depend on a symbiotic relationship with flowering plants for pollen, etc.

Humans simply don't have any such limitations. If an environment isn't suitable to them, they just change the environment (a fairly novel thing in human history), or build something to support themselves and their lifestyle, rather than adapt a symbiotic relationship with their environment. Humans can pretty much do whatever they want regardless of the environment. This makes them highly adaptable, but also means they can parasitize the entire ecosystem until there's no resources left to adapt. The further they move towards collapsing ecology, the more dependent they grow on an ecology they create artificially to sustain themselves.

Therefore while bees can continue to thrive as long as the environment supports them, the environment can only thrive as long as humans support it.

There's no reason to suggest we will hit some peak only for it to drop off. We're not like parasites that are subject to an environment; we transcend the environment. We aren't limited by it. It's possible we will simply extinguish all natural resources (intentionally or not), and then either leave the planet or die off. There are no guarantees. Unchecked human growth really could kill everything.
> if you take 2000 on as few as 2 days/week that probably covers your needs

Well the linked study actually found that taking the supplement once a week or month didn’t provide the benefits of dosing daily. Also the daily dose which was effective was up to 4000.
I’m sure LLMs are quickly going to learn to hallucinate (or let’s use the proper word for what they’re doing: confabulate) plausible-sounding but nonsense explanations of their thought processes at least as well as humans.
They aren't going to take any chances on growing unusual crops, perhaps. But big farm operations are constantly experimenting to improve yields and reduce expenses.
I mean, one of the most important things you can do is write up exactly how you use the various pieces of cryptography - so people who know enough can easily evaluate your theoretical ideal.

Then when someone takes a look and notices that you're storing the users' RSA private keys on the server, they can check whether you actually meant to do that.

Also: Don't store (or ever even have) your users' RSA private keys server side!
Title is kind of difficult, but the advice is good. And it's generally what everyone should try to be doing, not just team leads: provide references, links, support. Build an open society, with sources, as you go. Make lots of links.
Show HN: Synthetic data as good as real data for training models
The link is geo restricted. I assume blocking Europe due to GDPR.

But I believe this is the original source:

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1656037032538390530
I remember spending hours and hours without sleep on a 386 with no Internet; various games and programming and references - there wasn’t enough time.

Now if my Internet goes down my $$$$ M1 Pro might as well be a freaking paperweight; there’s absolutely nothing to do.
Which is why having a nice chunk of RAM on the disk itself is useful. 2x write queue size x block size is nice.
I worked at Sun during that time period, and as much as they liked to pretend they were a software business, they were a hardware business whose primary feature was software, which is really, really not the same thing.

They never really figured out how to be in the software business if it wasn't in service of selling hardware. Such an amazing fail.
To be fair, anyone who's worked with cell modems knows that the other AT protocol is also an obtuse crock of shit.
> that we're pretty damn close to recreating it

Is that evident already or are we fitting the definition of intelligence without being aware?
Wondering if they meant Forth rather than Fortran.
There is still risk of significant injury from road accidents. Other, perhaps safer, options for low-impact cardio include swimming and rowing (whether on an erg or on the water).
>If so, they're acting on a gigantic assumption

Yes the initial hypothesis that GPT-4 would know was a gigantic assumption. But a falsifiable one which we can easily generate reproducible tests for.

The idea that simulated neurons could learn anything useful at all was once a gigantic assumption too.
Yep, definitely right there with you on this one. Every time I think oh this will be an interesting blast from the past, followed by bah, get off my lawn...
The first card I made was "Startup: Create a copy of this robot in empty adjacent space", which immediately filled the board. Not quite infinite, but similar!
Honestly the sovereign student BS needs to stop. If it's disrupting the class the student needs to answer for that. The student isn't being asked to open the phone, just to put it away.

If I were a teacher I'd ask the student to power the phone down and put it on my desk face up. Of course, teachers have to do tons that have nothing to do with pure instruction - they're essentially running an org of 20-30+ kids all day.
iMazing can perform wifi-based backups and there is an included tool (iMazing mini I believe) that hangs out in the menu bar running in the background to perform scheduled backups. Requires iPhone and Mac tho.
You can purchase them, just not from retailers. These drive break compatibility in annoying ways (eg. cannot boot a system off one), so it's totally reasonable that drive vendors would not be offering them through channels where unsuspecting customers could so easily buy something they cannot use.
You nailed all three. But to be honest I think the time spent would be viewed as the worst.
here's a clue, start your research

Natural language understanding comprises a wide range of diverse tasks such
as textual entailment, question answering, semantic similarity assessment, and
document classification. Although large unlabeled text corpora are abundant,
labeled data for learning these specific tasks is scarce, making it challenging for
discriminatively trained models to perform adequately. We demonstrate that large
gains on these tasks can be realized by generative pre-training of a language model
on a diverse corpus of unlabeled text, followed by discriminative fine-tuning on each
specific task. In contrast to previous approaches, we make use of task-aware input
transformations during fine-tuning to achieve effective transfer while requiring
minimal changes to the model architecture. We demonstrate the effectiveness of
our approach on a wide range of benchmarks for natural language understanding.
Our general task-agnostic model outperforms discriminatively trained models that
use architectures specifically crafted for each task, significantly improving upon the
state of the art in 9 out of the 12 tasks studied. For instance, we achieve absolute
improvements of 8.9% on commonsense reasoning (Stories Cloze Test), 5.7% on
question answering (RACE), and 1.5% on textual entailment (MultiNLI).
What you're saying, in the specific and the broad sense (beyond the scope of this conversation) is controversial. You're making a very bold claim. Can you share the data? Collective mental health across a single geography would be a fascinating read.

Again, let's pretend you're right. How do you bar someone from buying a gun because of mental health issues that are undiagnosed? Do we do a psych eval as part of purchasing a firearm? There's no part of common sense that allowed your local community to strip guns from you because then you'd be breaking a law by trying to steal from somebody and you'd probably get shot. We are talking about people with mental health issues that, in this scenario, have violent tendencies. I honestly see any way that declaring a mental health state of emergency can actually do anything to stop mass shootings unless it's also paired with stopping fun sales, strict red flag laws and legal confiscation of existing weapons.

Happy to hear an implementation plan that isn't just thoughts and prayers. Abbot (R, TX) says he's all in on mental health now, so let's see what that piece of sh comes up with.
Seems like a perfect place to mention https://danluu.com/term-latency/ and https://danluu.com/input-lag/
Of course it didn't create the desire to cheat. What it did was make it much easier to cheat and get away with it. That is, it removed disincentives.
With the first comment mentioning XRPC, I was even more confused, since that's the name of a protocol from around the same time period. I believe TI-RPC won that battle.
Power ISA includes decimal floating point, so it's available beyond mainframes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_ISA
Rebasing and similar operations are only a hassle because multiple authors can edit the same files, so you end up with conflicts.

In the scenario where every authors can only change their own files, you can avoid those sort of conflicts, as they'll never happen.

Remaining is how to solve files referencing other files (in the case of a federated social media, posts that are replies to other posts) which are way easier to solve, as it's not really conflicts but invariants that have to be created.
Technically suicide is a crime and shooting yourself with a gun is a violent act, so... Seems about right
In general, this is good advice.

However, there are cases where comparing floating point numbers for equality works just fine. For example, if you have a variable 'v' and want to update it to a new value 'f', you can do 'if (v == f)' to check if the variable would change. Or if you have a sentinel value -1.0, it is perfectly ok to do 'if (a == -1.0)'

In general, if you look for a number 'f' in variable 'v', you can safely use equality as along as you expect 'v' to be set to 'f', i.e. the value of 'v' is not the result of a computation. This may sound trivial, but this is often omitted when discussing floating point comparison. If someone knows a scenario where the examples above would break, I would be curious to hear! (My main field is audio programming and code like this is omnipresent.)
The thing is already in the wild because someone on the private mailing list already accidentally mailed it to the public mailing list.
Optane was also a contender for the biggest fundamental shift - byte addressable persistent memory with insane endurance is simply in a different class to every other SSD technology out there. No need for a FTL. No need for a DRAM / SLC cache. Unfortunately no software really took advantage of it, OSes still provisioned it as 512/4096 byte sectors, etc. so in standard benchmarks it never really looked that compelling over a regular NVME drive. But if the access patterns align, nothing can come close. Truly a technology ahead of its time.
ATZ
OK
I've tried to start blogging many times. But I always find I have nothing to speak about. I also have this mental hurdle of thinking my blog's have to be super serious and professional. This time around I'm trying to take myself less seriously and treat it as a way to store things I'd like to remember in the future.
For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug
Maybe integrate with an LLM (such as GPT4) to accept card descriptions?

Use the LLM to turn English into the subset understood by sumbot and it slowly teaches the player the formal language!
Archived: https://archive.ph/jk49B
we aren't even going to agree on 'intelligence'
File Locks on Linux
It's not that bad. ATZ and ATDT are the main two you have to remember.

Wait, is that not what we're talking about? So, it has a confusing name too?
> it's not like Rust offers that much fundamental security over e.g. Golang

It absolutely does, while also being more expressive. I suggest reading more of the type system literature before making unfounded claims like this.