skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Language took dozens of millennia to form

Sure, but in a simulated evolutionary algorithm, you can hit a few hundred generations in a matter of seconds.

Indeed, the identification of an abstraction, followed by a definition of that abstraction and an enshrinement of the concept in the form of a word or phrase, in and of itself, shortcuts the evolutionary path altogether. AI isn't starting from scratch: it's starting from a dictionary larger than any human alive knows and in-memory examples of humans conversing on nearly every topic imaginable.

We never thought "all possible tactics" had been discovered with Go. We quite literally understood that Go had a more complex search space than Chess, with far more possible moves and outcomes. And I don't think anyone has any kind of serious theorem that "all possible tactics" have been discovered in either game, to this day.

That being said, Go and Chess are enumerable games with deterministic, bounded complexity and state space.

The protein folding example is a neat one, I definitely think it's interesting to see what develops there. However, protein folding has been modeled by Markov State models for decades. The AlphaFold breakthrough is fantastic, but it was already known how to generate models from protein structures: it was just computationally expensive.

It was also carefully crafted by humans to achieve what it did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg7WjuFs8F4. So this is an example of humans using neural network technology that humans invented to achieve a desired solution to a known problem that they themselves conceived. The AI didn't tell us something we didn't already know. It was an expert system built with teams of researchers in the loop the whole way through.
Discussed a couple of times already:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35835787

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35854087
Neat! An upgradable laptop made with high quality materials!

I know nobody asked for my opinion, but I saw the [Ethernet card](https://frame.work/ca/en/products/ethernet-expansion-card) and was a bit sad. How about something like 3Com XJACK to keep it small and without protrusions when travelling?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XJACK

Or the spring-loaded swivel down port from Lenovo?

https://www.reviewgeek.com/p/uploads/2021/05/c9c310c4.jpg

That said, I’m not their target audience…
> Maybe you could have a currency where if you don't use it, it diminishes.

Isn’t that what inflation is? Maybe at a lot slower scale, but the long-term effect is the same.
Mine’s 21 years old now. Here’s a graph of all the entries: https://taoofmac.com/static/graph
A poorly written comment by me, as I was thinking of macOS and trying to ask:

“Has an individual running a few VMs ever lost a lawsuit?”

Obviously fighting Apple would be terrible, but has an individual (as opposed to a company) ever run into trouble?
You can go wide and shallow or narrow and deep. There's no enough time in the world to go wide and deep on all topics. To each it's own, but personally I prefer to go explore fewer topics, but in great depth. I travel very rarely, but when I do, I try to make it at least weeks if not months. When I take up a hobby, I stick to it for years.

> He has no idea what it's like to even book a flight, how much it really costs, how security procedures have changed over time

TBH I don't think that's something to miss. I'd be pretty happy to not know that either. Unless you're writing a book about air travel security, that's probably not worth any attention.
They have a lot of profit but it’s going to dwindle as people start posting more 4k content. Linus has a video on it. https://youtu.be/MDsJJRNXjYI
I hear crushed glass has very great health benefits
It exists: https://esoteric.codes/blog/the-128-language-quine-relay
> After a large number of picks, what is the behavior of the proportion of red balls in the urn

Isn’t the more enticing question how strong the bias towards the first picked Color is?
No, you can't.

The lifetime license usually applies to the version you bought - not anything else.

Then there's this get-out-of-jail free card:

> AgileBits Inc. makes no guarantees, representations or warranties of any kind as regards the website and associated technology. Any purportedly applicable warranties, terms and conditions are excluded, to the fullest extent permitted by law. Your use of the Service is at your sole risk.

And you can't sue:

> All disputes and questions whatsoever which shall arise between AgileBits Inc. and you in connection with this Service Agreement, or the construction or application thereof or any provision contained in this Service Agreement or as to any act, deed or omission of any party or as to any other matter in any way relating to this Service Agreement, shall be resolved by arbitration. Such arbitration shall be conducted by a single arbitrator.
I loved the old keyboards with concave keys. The new era of flat keyboards is disheartening. Short throw is ok, but the flat keys don't have the wonderful feel of keys that match the curvature of your finger pads. The curvature also helps your fingers self-center on the keys for precision.
Cool, you have a very nice mic. Great sound quality on the recordings. That gives me a few days of listening material. I liked the brief glimpse of Hest in the end of the Jack Rusher talk at Strange Loop, looking forward to find out a bit more about what you're doing.
That's OK that's just the AI behind the app trying to promote itself.
Seems like Mastodon/ActivityPub and AT Protocol are solving for opposing problems. Maybe the compromise is a centralized service?
i think the rationale in https://people.freebsd.org/~das/kahan86branch.pdf goes well above and beyond 'an engineering artefact in a previous system that someone managed to depend on'
True, LLMs definetly has something that is "thought-like".

But todays networks lacks the recursion(feedback where the output can go directly to the input) that is needed for the type of internalized thoughts that humans have. I guess this is one thing you are pointing at by mentioning the continuousnes of the internals of LLMs.
I think this method will do a poor job at explaining petertodd. These neuron explanations still have to fit within human language for this method to work, and the best you can do in the confines of human language to describe petertodd is to write a long article (just like that link) explaining the many oddities of it.

Would be interesting to try, though. I think it's likely that, due to the way glitch tokens happen, petertodd is probably an input neuron that is very randomly connected to a bunch of different hidden neurons. So it introduces some bizzare noise into a bunch of areas of the network. It's possible that some of these neurons are explainable on their own, but not within the broader context of petertodd.
Imagine that you purchased a Windows XP license more than a decade ago, which was, of course, considered "lifetime." Now, with the release of Windows 11, you understandably cannot use your Windows XP license for it.
You don’t have full control of your data. Google isn’t some
Mecca of freedom, it’s an advertising company.
Thanks for sharing your viewpoint. I find repitition of the same routine mind-numbing. Walking to the office where there is only one valid route, it destroys me. I think others find such things meditative.

Meta: I don't get how people claim to be curious about other's perspectives, then when someone shares a perspective they downvote it because it's not the same as their own.
Are there any mobile phones that also supports LoRa standard?
That really depends on where. If we say globalozation started in the 80s (which seems like a fair middle ground) then the environment in high income countries has recovered immensely.

In Europe since the 80s , forest coverage has grown by something like 30%, acid rain is pretty much gone, protected areas have doubled, most big rivers are safe to swim and co2 output is going down.

I think it would be great if every country had the ressources to accomplish similar things instead of deforesting because they’re poor.
It's not bad when considering they needed to not get in the way too much with 300 baud and less and work from human input.
At least it is burning. Two gas fields in Turkmenistan are reported to be leaking “mind boggling” quantities of unburnt methane - more CO2e than the entire annual emissions of the UK:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/09/mind-boggling-...
Those drivers at home throw garbage out the window or door.

Dumping on the street routinely wasn't the eyesore it is today 10 years ago.
Antennas in cellular networks are higher on poles to extand coverage, yes, but the key for coverage is that they are cellular. They add more antennas/base stations to cover huge areas and the whole complexity of these networks is in managing this.
The recovery key bit is the one part I actually like.

But improving on the ActivityPub user migration store is also a minor/trivial change away from doing much better than today: you just need to change ActivityPub Ids to either fully a contentadressable hash or referencing a base that is under user control, plus a revocation key style mechanism for letting the user sign claims about their identity in order to allow unilateral moves.
I didn't try, but firewalling the VM shouldn't be hard since it talks through a virtual dedicated interface. Also, one can isolate it from the network and use only shared directories with the host so it can read and write files without going online.
Hi, where did you buy it for that price? I can't find an offer which is even close to that price range.
> what is your definition of socialism?

This is the probably the best point to start from when discussing Socialism. So it was the point I started with:

"Socialism is about how workers organise their workplace (owning, managing and sharing the produce and profit of their labour)"

As the Oxford Dictionary says:

"a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole."

So Socialism is something very specific, but Socialists often associate themselves with other principles that they believe are in line with their moral values, see as a helpful strategy for achieving their ideals, or their Socialism is part of a larger political philosophy (Communism etc.) This association (and some detractors using the word Socialism to define everything they don't like) are what lead to confusion.

Socialists joke that detractors believe "Socialism is when the government does stuff, and the more stuff it does the more Socialist (or Communist) it is." But some commentators - see current popular right-wing American opinion pieces - really do seem to believe this.

There is no mention of state, government or rulers of any kind in most definitions of Socialism (most Anarchists are Socialists too). Of course some Socialists have believed that the state can act in the interest of the public by being stewards over these resources with the ideal of later devolving this to the communities and workers. Which has led to State Socialism (which Lenin called State Capitalism) on the one hand, and Social Democracy on the other. Some (like myself) think both strategies are flawed as do non-hierarchal Socialists (Anarcho-Communists, Syndicalists, Libertarian & Council Marxists, Democratic Confederalists, and maybe Agorists etc.)

There is also no mention of private - non-personal - property (although some Socialists like myself are against that too, but other Socialists see the issue as an irrelevance or inevitability).

Some see Socialism as sufficient in itself, others see it as part of the progress toward Communism (stateless, classless, moneyless as stated before).

Do you have a different definition of Socialism?
I guess it depends what you mean by a "doomer." If, to you, "doomer" means you have to act like Yudkowsky and go around saying it's urgent to unilaterally destroy all GPU data centers with military force then no he's not a doomer.

But if "doomer" is allowed to include a Cambridge educated professor and Fellow of the Royal Society with a 'stiff upper lip' who finds himself surprised to realize that the caterpillar of humanity is creating the butterfly of AI and that "the caterpillar gets converted into a soup out of which the butterfly is created" as quoted in the first tweet thread that you listed, then maybe he could deserve the doomer label.

In another interview, in his response to 'why we should be scared' asked by a reporter he said that "as a friend of mine said, it’s as if some genetic engineers said, we’re going to improve grizzly bears; we’ve already improved them with an IQ of 65, and they can talk English now, and they’re very useful for all sorts of things, but we think we can improve the IQ to 210." Presumably this guy is understated enough to trust the listener to understand that he thinks that might reasonably scare someone.
Would you feel the same if hypothetically it was 100% proven to stimulate innovation? Or do you think practical benefits are irrelevant?
Well, you could scoop out the internals of your 200 chassis and slip in a pi zero W, an oled screen, etc. it would be some work but there’s probably no reason you couldn’t pull it off. You’d need a different (and better?) battery solution than AA, but it’s really not hard to get your pi to run off battery and take usb-C charging. You might enjoy reading these links:

Somebody did just this with a 95 LX.
https://liliputing.com/raspberry-pi-brings-an-hp-95lx-palmto...

The details page from the guy that did the 95 LX: https://hackaday.io/project/172230-hpi95lx

People here talking about similar ambitions for the 200LX
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7055384
As a Firefox user, I also got this.

It would be nicer if it could just give the warning and then disable trying to run the shaders, but still let me explore and possibly learn something.
That's because people in the US rarely, if ever, lose power, so there's no need for backups

This just isn't true. I had regular power outages when I lived in the US. Usually they'd only last some hours and usually they were caused by weather (the midwest has storms) or animals. This could have been solved by burying the cables, but that probably wouldn't happen any tine soon. In more than one location, it would have been helpful since the no power meant no water from the well.

Weather causes a lot of power outages - thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, heat, and icestorms cause this. In other areas, the electrical grid is barely holding up and just can't always take the demand well. (Example: Hot areas during the summer)

Losing power happens regularly.

Most people can't afford to have a backup system, and a good chunk of the folks that can have a backup simply can't install such a thing in their rental or the apartment they own.
Patents also give Google the unjust power to crush its competition, should it so desire. But "don't be evil", right?
The first step counter button is supposed to reload the page. The second step buttons update the page w/o reload
> Nothing saves you from kill -9, as we all know.

You making a syscall and getting the kernel stuck somewhere and having your process in a D state will keep you alive ;D.
Pretty sure the variables the author picked are not the most interesting ones.

Urn models are engineered to have a rich get richer bias which is best seen by varying the initial populations.

Instead of offering trial count and pick counts which are (invariates in the actual model) he could have picked initial ball count and initial white/red ratio.
In this scenario, what is the difference?
I think for learning and exploring shaders, shadertoy.com might be your go to source.
an append-only log became non-writable earlier than expected
Of course you can sue. Don't take legal advice from the opposing part.

Also of course it might not be accepted given that term but that's for the courts to decide.
>both of those be NaN

Totally NOT. NaN is defined as 0.0/0.0. That's it.
Someone stole my car last year - luckily, I had an AirTag stashed in a side compartment. I tracked it down to the other side of the city and stole it back from the parking lot of the shopping center while the thieves were busy shopping. Or shoplifting, more likely, given their treatment of my car. It’s not illegal to take something that’s yours back from someone who’s stolen it.
You need CAP_SYS_ADMIN to create a new network namespace.
I haven’t received a single notification about that. Do you have a source?
I apparently said fuck 33 (34 now) times. But when I click on that badge I get a weird popup instead of a link to the comments. Similarly I apparently mentioned Rick Astley. I'm curious when I did that, but I can't find out from this site.

Neat idea but engaging with the site is a total deadend.
I think it’s not always the case, if the contract is abusive or illegal.

We had a situation where we chose to breach since IBM contract was abusive and not really enforceable. They never complained, despite threats.
well you shouldn't expect much if you are comparing floats to doubles
Yeah, that was posted 24 hours ago [1] so this is probably the result of someone researching the topic. Really cool image on the wiki, so dramatic.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35871108
My greatest shame as a young developer was wrapping a Delphi application in an exception handler and re-running itself when it crashed.
> The economic value from operating it will generally not match the opportunity cost of not doing other things.

Not everyone evaluates their life choices like an arid economist.

In particular, not everyone would regard leaving an outdoor lifestyle for sitting at a desk all day at someone's beck and call an "oppirtunity"

> And those operating it will learn the cost of this the hard way when they fail to have access to the niceties of modern society

Actually, in many places it is possible to operate a small farm without being destitute. The point is that all the "nicities" are particularly necessary, and outside of education and healthcare you can get by ok buying second hand and mending and making do.

Heck, even the homeless have mobile phones, so your example is pretty poor
From decades ago, the last try at this idea: The Aura Interactor backpack-mounted subwoofer.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aura_Interactor
I agree, thank you for stating that in a respectful way.

The linked article/toot and certain replies seriously makes me want to just shutdown my personal mastodon server and move on from the technology altogether.
I was just talking to a friend about the fatal flaw in Marxian analysis of capitalism Both the analysis and the proposed solution focused on owning the means of production, but none of it says anything about the well-being of the humans, the community, and the eco-system involved.

In contrast, look at say, how the Hopi views things. There is a faction among the Hopi that never signed anything with the US government. Their view is that ownership is granted to those that take care of it. It isn’t about the means of production, but rather, your ability to participate in the land’s wel-being. A further implication is that, within this world view, you cannot accumulate capital beyond your personal ability to take care of it. Instead of gaining property rights, and having social expectations for taking care of it, you don’t get those rights until you demonstrate ongoing care.

It goes even further. Can you own a person because you “take care” of that person? If you reject that idea, what about any living being? Do you really own the trees, the birds, the bees? Instead, you view this as being in relation within a community that take care of the land. You obtain an yield (one of the permaculture design principles), but you don’t exclusively do so. Other living beings within the land can also obtain a yield, whether it is also the food, water or habitat.
> my hobbies tend to be populated mainly by the conservative demographic

What are conservative (and liberal) hobbies?
As a EU citizen I’m a bit offended, how do EU citizens have no freedom of speech?
How does the parent comment imply Hinton is not a doomer? AI Doom is the idea that AI will be very bad for humanity (e.g. extinction) and the idea that AGI is near is compatible with that. To my knowledge Hinton thinks Doom is a significant possibility and that AGI is plausibly near.
> Invading other countries is against international law

This is a popular assumption, but it is not true. At least, definitely not now:

US and Europe invading multiple countries and international community being chill about it had set a strong enough precedent.

C'mon, NATO had recently updated its doctrines to allow it warfare over climate - we have all the preconditions for fun stuff.
Part of it is we can't see the forest for the trees. From where we stand we easily and confidently determine the signing of the Declaration of Independence as a major turning point in history of our country and the world, but I suspect that for many living at the time in America it was just some stuff happening.
> Email had this exact same problem, yet was able to build protocols on top of it in order to fix the authenticity problem.

On the contrary, email has no solution to the authenticity problem that’s being talked about. Even what there is is a right mess and not even slightly how you would choose to build such a thing deliberately.

If you want to verify authenticity via SPF/DKIM/DMARC, you have to query DNS on the sender’s domain name. This works to verify at the time you receive the email, but doesn’t work persistently: in the future those records may have changed (and regular DKIM key rotation is even strongly encouraged and widely practised).

What you are replying to says that AT wants to be able to determine authenticity without polling the home server, and establish whether a record has been deleted. Email has nothing like either of those features.
Been using this for maybe a year or something. It is superb, like the original used to be, and should be! Thank you for this effort.
See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS
Windows Boot Manager revocations for Secure Boot changes (CVE-2023-24932)
Worth noting that you can't just get around a piece of code's copyright by using different function and variable names and perturbing the organisation either. At least not if you're a human.

I bet you're correct and we wont be able to use ML models to strip code of its patents the way we use them to strip code of its copyright protection. But I wouldn't have expected the copyright stripping trick to work either, yet here we are.
> They have already benefited from current warming.

I assure you, no one had noticed anything substantial.
Yeah, I came to post that too, since I found some of the motivation for the badges dubious, and expected to be able to drill down to see the comments that awarded various badges.
MSG is the most misunderstood ingredient of the century. That’s finally changing
It's possible that the comment you're responding to is referring to the new paper out of Stanford/Google on emergence as a 'mirage'.
The gist of it is that the shape of the curve for 'metric' vs 'params' is dependent upon the type of metric. For classification it has a certain shape, for accuracy it has another, etc.
The authors claim the observation that these curves are determined by the choice of metric means that it isn't true emergence, but rather is due to the way in which GPTs are typically trained to predict the next token (and then beam search or typical sampling is often applied afterwards, etc).

The paper is somewhat new so I haven't done a proper review to know if it's solid work yet, but this may offer some context for some of the comments in this thread.
My D for a whole winter costs me €20. Strongly prefer that over any sort of "fucks-with-your-head"-drug.