skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oculus Quest proved out the exercise use case. A solid niche of people pay a monthly subscription for the at-home motivation and gamified workout.
Amazon printing service? I see they have one for photos/calendar and such. Do they have one for sending PDF's to print?
You keep using that word "expert" and I don't doubt they're experts in machine learning, GAN and NNs but at this point what we're looking for is experts in what intelligence IS and the problem is .. nobody knows.

There's no underlying theory of mind here. There's a lot of opinion and belief .. mainly in emergent behaviour or properties of scale.

My problem is that I'm old enough to have been a child during the years of the lighthill report, and the AI winter(s) which followed. I've seen too many prior claims that the magic was being seen.

I admit, what this cycle of GPT and LLMs do is pretty bloody impressive. I don't see inductive reasoning, directed drive or any evidence of what I think intelligence is. I do see good approximations. But that winds up in "well it's a different kind of intelligence" which I find unsatisfying.

I hate analogies. But I'm constantly reminded of one person acts at the Edinburgh Festival fringe "channeling" shakespear or dickens in dialogue. They're great, but they don't write new shakespear. I don't see any act of creation in this stuff, any massive inferential leap in large problems. I do see massive improvements in some things like diagnostic image analysis and that's heartening, but there's a light yearg gap between image analysis of cancerous cell forms in xrays and being "alive" as a mind.

I totally get I do anything but define what intelligence is, and for a good reason: nobody knows yet. We're in the meese report "I know it when I see it" territory disagreeing if we are seeing it. (But about intelligence, not pornography).

I don't know what intelligence is. Dolphins and apes have some. Elephants and pigs too. They display affection and preplanned behaviour, empathy, memory, a sense of future, ant hills less so although some have argued rhetorically the anthill has will even if individual ants do not.

I certainly don't think animals inability to speak makes them "unintelligent" but there's a qualitative and quantitative difference between them and us, humans. And I continue to believe (and I stress believe, not have evidence or scientific proof) there are no signs of latent intelligence in what we're seeing.
I use 33mail with gmail as the actual destination.
The comment was talking about production limits. It is very hard to get a prescription filled.
Isn't this a race to the bottom type of scenario?
I was trying to be conservative, but given the rate of coral bleaching and mass die offs happening on the world's coral reefs, I'm afraid you might be right.
You've constructed for yourself a delusional narrative about grades. Not only are they a
good first-order approximation of ability, they're also indicative of
your amenability to take direction, which is more important to your
prospective boss, a middle-manager in his early 30s relishing his first
taste of power.
Inflammation isn't necessarily damaging. In some cases it actually accelerates the healing process.

The Hayflick limit really isn't relevant here.
This is a valid concern. My Tesla has had zero maintenance in the 50,000 km since I bought it. Even as a former gearhead, I love not thinking about it.
You're probably right, but if you've got enough solar panels on your house, you could potentially be even more self-reliant than if you were beholden to a liquid fuel supply chain.
Can I assume what you were talking about is the immobilizer? I thought that thing is everywhere, especially in the new cars made in the last couple of years.
It's worth doing especially if others don't.

Like whats the alternative: get into an arms race to see who can boil the oceans fastest? Oh but we'll make slightly more money than India from steel manufacturing so it will definitely be worth it?
Something something “only you can prevent wildfires”…

“You can't actually make the wildfire problem any worse by starting an additional fire.”

What if there wasn’t a fire in the first place in this location
Maybe running cutting edge blade servers
My main screen is an ultrawide 38. I actually got around to tinker with Amethyst today to better utilize the space. It's a little bit janky but still works for me much better than the default macOS window manager thing.
Nah, the person I replied to said it themselves

> The use-case, I think, is more along the lines of generating adequate background music for a my-first-self-published-videogame project with next to zero effort

next to zero effort is the goal. shovelware.
Quoting from https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/ENSO:

"El Niño and La Niña reflect the two end points of an oscillation in the Pacific Ocean. The cycle is not fully understood, but the times series illustrates that the cycle swings back and forth every 3-7 years. Often, El Niño is followed immediately by La Niña, as if the warm water is sloshing back and forth across the Pacific. The development of El Niño events is linked to the trade winds. El Niño occurs when the trade winds are weaker than normal, and La Niña occurs when they are stronger than normal. Both cycles typically peak in December.

El Niño and La Niña aren’t the only cycles evident in this image series. The Pacific Ocean is moody: It turns slightly hot or slightly cold every couple of years. This bi-annual pattern isn’t the distinctive, well-defined stripe of warm ocean waters near the equator typical of El Niño, but rather, a general warming of the ocean.

On top of the two-year warm/cold cycle and the El Niño/La Niña pattern is a broader decadal cycle in which the Pacific has a warm and a cool phase. In the 1990s, the Pacific was in a warm phase. The strong El Niño of 1997 marked the end of the warm phase."
How does "the WEF connection is concerning" differ from "fail[ing] a purity test"?
Glad someone mentioned link. It was open ended but the world was limited, thankfully. I spent a year stuck checking each square until I met someone who told me to walk through the forest a certain way to obtain the letter/scrolls I needed.
I’m not a fan of the response either, but that’s a bit disingenuous.
> Considering how often police lie and plant evidence

How often is that, exactly?
I don't see why you couldn't use Polyphony inside a Rails app.
Leaker says Apple used ‘multi-step sting’ to identify source ahead of WWDC
It’s frustrating there seems to be no good threaded web server for Rust given how uniquely great Rust is at threading.

You can adapt from async to sync but there is a definite complexity tax with all the pinning plus the runtime cost of the extra pinning.

Async is great for more proxy like use cases though.
Having experienced many similar stories, including the infamous High-Speed Rail in California, I see no reason we can assume this type of thing can do any better under existing systems.
> saved in a database accessible only to that specific app

Or worse, on some disk “in the cloud" rented by the app maker, subject to subscription fees and the stability of the company.
I do this using forwardemail.net. If a particular address gets sold and is being spammed, it's trivial to shut it down so it won't forward anymore.
This is the only method that worked for me to get to Level 7, after 5 hours of battling away at Gandalf!
Was wondering the same. Perhaps there’s natural oscillation just because how continents are laid out.
In the US you have to have a real estate attorney as well. And contracts are standardized by the federal government. I think the actual price varies and the last time I bought a house the attorney’s fee was $850.
Better to get exposed to a wide variety of pathogens now while you're still relatively young and healthy so that you can build up immunity. That will protect you somewhat when you're older and your immune system becomes less effective.
> Do you see?

Emergence can only be discontinuous.
Unum (number format) >
Posit (Type III Unum)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unum_(number_format) :

> Posits have superior accuracy in the range near one, where most computations occur. This makes it very attractive to the current trend in deep learning to minimise the number of bits used. It potentially helps any application to accelerate by enabling the use of fewer bits (since it has more fraction bits for accuracy) reducing network and memory bandwidth and power requirements.

> [...] Note: 32-bit posit is expected to be sufficient to solve almost all classes of applications [citation needed]
I was using Wikipedia and the numbers were slightly different. Maybe they were older.

The innocence thing isn't just death row. There are groups who have helped people who are not on death row, mostly using DNA. The majority of the people they help are not on death row. Sure, it could be higher. The point was that there is already what I would consider to be a high wrongful conviction rate. In my own experience, I think the wrongful conviction rate for non-custody offenses is multiple times higher.
That is interesting, but i still think the reasoning is weak as it is not mentioning the range of values that the a_ij and b_i are allowed to take on.
So they... increased padding on all elements? Is that really what this is?

I suppose it could be worse. They could have done what jetbrains just did and replace all the text with meaningless heiroglyphs.
Very cool! Small rec would be to pull up a few things from the linked docs into the main readme:

- code examples

- motivation for building

- what I should try this for vs the alternatives
I've used diesel async for personal projects, and while it does work seamlessly with diesel at times, there are some rough edges - I ran into an odd issue where the order of imports from the base diesel package and diesel async mattered, and it would compile with one above the other, but not the other way around.
Sorry, it's been a couple of months and I can't remember the details. Is there a different threshold for minors? I don't know your legal system and maybe I "translated" what I was hearing with ours in mind. Or the article was about another state.

I do remember that the police officers were very clear that they can do nothing. Even if the arrest the kids, the DA won't prosecute them.
No, terrible idea.
Putting my money on the moon.
n+1. #indiedev is full of extremely passionate people who want it exactly their way down to the pixel and every note of music. To write off the entire non-AAA space as only wanting to write shovelware even as a first game is laughable.

Having worked on a few games doing music, the devs were super passionate about a quality product, frequently over-engineering, and when then-available bog-standard audio middleware didn't do the procedural mixing we wanted, wrote a custom system just to get it spot-on.

I also know a few major AAA legends who went indie who won't publish shite.

Equally, if the original commenter is happy with x being good enough then that's valid. Maybe the game isn't for you?

Keep in mind my initial reply was directly replying to the "What happens if you've built the next hollow knight" in your post. The implication of my first reply is if you're at such a level you can do that, you very likely aren't going to settle for your music letting you down, which is arguably the other 50% of what a modern game is against the visuals. You're focusing on the commenter being satisfied by AI music. If the game is that good, you'll get a budget to have the music not suck, whether that's via XGP paying to finish the development, a revshare with a composer, a grant, or even a publisher.

The tl;dr is if buddy thinks his game is anything more than a learning exercise or something he simply enjoyed making and has potential to actually be a great piece of art or a decently selling product, he absolutely does not have to settle for mediocrity even without a budget.
does it really matter? If it quacks like a duck, it's a duck

I think it absolutely matters if by only quacking we also want to know is it possibly wanting, feeling, experiencing, having an ego etc.

You say LLMs are able to reason, but https://youtu.be/QO2BvVq_fWU?t=663 here is a proponent of the more simplistic explanation of how they work. On one hand I saw pretty convincing arguments for it having the ability to reason, on the other hand how do we even conclude anything if we can't really know what's in the training data.
Apple has always chosen form over function, and this isn't any exception; the aesthetics of a "clean" boot process is clearly more important to them than being able to easily figure out what's happening, and I suspect at least part of the reason for this opaqueness is to encourage learned helplessness and visits to the Apple Store (which may result in upselling or otherwise exchange of $$$) when something doesn't work.

Personally, I very much like the detailed and informative POST screens that older PCs default to, and indeed the whole audiovisual experience[1] of the boot process. It's far more reassuring to see things happening than pressing the power button and being "left in the dark" waiting at a black screen for a few tense moments as something happens.

[1] The satisfying "clunk" of the power switch, to the fans and hard drives spinning up, the latter doing their initial seeks once they've reached full speed, the beep of the POST, the buzzing of the memory test, and then the sounds of the disks loading the OS. It's all very information-rich, and once you get used to the normal routine, it's easy to notice when something changes unexpectedly.
The physical human brain has 86 billion neurons with up to 10,000 connections each. However they are somewhat structured (e.g. the seven layers of the cerebral cortex segregated into vertical silos a few hundred cells wide) reducing the arbitrariness of connections. So say the connectome has 100 trillion parameters.

The brain also has a bunch of other cells that dont appear to encode information. They may supply structural scaffolding and chemicals to mediate neuron function.
> This model is $10 USD!

The Teensy is a bit more expensive but can do even more, but yeah, it's amazing what we can build with a few bucks worth of electronics these days.

https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/

http://electrotechnique.cc/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2674LdYW5I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCA2L7CeWSE
"you know that what these experts say have merit"

No, we don't know that at all.
Eron Wolf, he created Yahoo Games and then was a seed investor in whatsapp(as well as a programmer for a short period). I interviewed him here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJPmbcU-Vzo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UHF84gyVWg

He also encouraged me to start the right to repair non-profit and donated $1,000,000 to it 3 years ago.
Earth Could Soon Be More Detectable by Aliens, Study Says
Really, what does it mean?
Clickbait title. The actual text does not demonstrate that at all.
Can you give an example of where you would want to ask the internet for opaque zip files to execute instead of using official downloads?

E.g. why would you prefer "zoom.zip" over "install zoom" query?
Do you think Kia's cut corners are causing a theft spree in Korea?
I believe Perl regexes are Turing complete, although this is second hand info, I’ve never tried myself. Most are context sensitive though you’re right.
The privacy policy looks really reasonable and mostly only collecting the data that it needs to provide the services. And the most cloud-based / privacy concerning stuff (e.g. external video capture, and usage-based auto insurance) is listed as opt-in.
Because it's information that may be able to identify, but is not necessarily conclusively identifying of, a person.
Your comment is full of medical misinformation. Immunity does persist a lifetime to a limited extent for most pathogens. Even if a virus evolves there is still some level of immunity.

https://peterattiamd.com/covid-part2/
My impression is that it's higher than those numbers too.

What I meant to say is that death penalty eligible defendants get better representation than pretty much everyone else. So their wrongful conviction rate should be lower than average.
This is how who views America? You're grossly over-generalizing.
According to TSLAQ consensus, Tesla will never release the Model 3.
> Wenbo He, secretary of the Party Committee and executive chairman of the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA), spoke about China’s green steel plans at the integration conference of green steel, green energy and green finance industries on March 2

https://www.fastmarkets.com/insights/chinas-roadmap-to-green...
That doesn't seem like phrenology to me. Yes, there's a lack of context, but the fundamental points about media (both traditional and social) amplifying certain things (to get more shares mostly) seems sound... I certainly have been exposed to at least 10x as many reports of USA whites killing blacks than the reverse.
Of those 1 is software as you mention, 1 is not an EU company, and 1 was founded 40 years ago, before tech regulation was a thing.

If you did a like for like equivalent for American technology it can't even compare. You could find small countries in Asia that have done more.

What the author of the original comment is saying is thats not a surprise.

Surely you can't be serious with the EU almost lecturing the world on how AI should work, using Spotify? or even counting ASML and ARM? On what basis?
You might be interested in collaborating with NOYB on that.

https://noyb.eu/
While working on my company I was having to reach out to contractors and content creators for their SSN, address, and bank info. Since none of them used Signal or PGP email, and we weren't comfortable adding a form into our existing product to store sensitive data, there was always some back and forth on trying to get that data avoiding email or text.

I was surprised that I couldn't find a solution to this in the wild, so I put VaultForm together to solve that problem for me. Then took it a little further to make it client-side encrypted so the server can't know anything important. This way anyone filling out a form can be assured their private information is safely transmitted, can't be viewed or leaked by the service, and don't need to sign up for a new service to do so.
Parent comment specifically said:

> Utah looks better [0]. Higher gun ownership %, but lower gun death rate than Massachusetts.

They didn't say

> Utah looks better [0]. Higher gun ownership %, but lower gun homicide rate than Massachusetts.

That isn't a very pedantic distinction. Conservative states suffer poorer mental health services and support networks, but more gun ownership rates also play a role in higher suicide rates.

Many would argue that personal safety includes risk of not feeling like and having the ability to end your own life.
Is it going to be Beetlejuice goes Hawaiian like originally planned? (That was the actual pitch for several years)
Yes but "bullshit detection" is a skill honed over time by not only reading many sources, but by learning to read skeptically, analyzing and comparing sources for bias and factual credibility, and adjusting your certainty level on a subject as you go along. No teacher is accurate 100% of the time; lots of teachers spew bullshit when they don't know the answer to something; practically everyone laces their facts with opinions. But you can turn to other primary sources for facts, secondary sources for opinions, and the shape of some general consensus will emerge.

The problem is if there's just one teacher tutoring, one quiz master who points to sources it controls or simply invents as its "proof". My concern is that AI will be trusted more than a single book or a single teacher, precisely because it claims to neutrally encompass a consensus already obtained through all those sources. [It's a tertiary source masquerading as one offering primary and secondary sources, without the ability to differentiate or trust one source more than another].

This is exactly why the frequent comparison to calculators is so misguided: Because calculators are always right. To whatever degree LLM proponents believe LLMs are simply useful tools like calculators, that will be the same degree to which they fail to check for bullshit.
The unfortunate side effect of El Niño is to further destabilize the marine environment off shore.

This isn’t all El Niño, we lost the sunflower starfish which preyed on urchins and kept them in check to a disease, but the warm surface waters are another bad situation on top of low kelp cover, urchins out of control, no predators for the urchins, etc. if we don’t have kelp forests off shore, the environment will be totally different and many species that depend on the kelp will disappear.
In principle I agree but since becoming a parent it has gotten harder to carve out time for a trip to the store and it is comparatively easy to return stuff whenever I get to it, which is less time-sensitive than buying in the first place.
Deegen is my research meta-compiler to make high-performance VMs easier to write. Deegen takes in a semantic description of the VM bytecodes in C++, and use it as the single source of truth to automatically generate a high-performance VM at build time
More havoc more often
Why are people disagreeing with this? If you run an experiment looking at a variable change and it doesn't change much in some places but changes a lot in others, then wouldn't this prove that there are other variables at play - that it couldn't possibly be that single variable itself?
Oracle DBAs used to recommend using raw block devices to back the dB, a long long time ago.

I never did get one to explain why. I suspect it was received wisdom depending on VFS models which cached disk io and an effect on the DB engine. Almost certainly overtaken by both disk controller logic, file systems cache, striping and RAID and increasing memory sizes.

There are good pages on the Web discussing optimising ZFS for postgres tuned to write disk block aligned data through the zfs L2ARC
I would hazard a guess that if we first encountered a ChatGPT-4 level LLM* as radio signals from Mars we would baseline assume it was "intelligent alien life".

* assuming its instruction tuned:

- in terms of self-disclosure (no "I'm made by openAI on earth" statements!)

- sans its relatively schematic "guard rail" responses.

It would be hard to imagine intelligent life being more obviously intelligent to us: ChatGPT literally speaks our language, and has learned patterns of "thought" derived from our own.

None of this necessarily implies sapience, but I think the "alien intelligence" framing reverses the default assumption (we'd probably be freaking about alien intelligent life if we got a radio signal from mars delineating the prime numbers :-D ) in interesting ways, thanks for sharing!
I've been using Firefox exclusively for a few years now and it's really great.
I mean, that's not helpful if all my other clothes are vanity sized.
You all but certainly have, though it's not usually framed like this.

Many auto insurance policies include risk indicators based on location, age, educational levels, and similar factors. If members of that cohort prove to be a higher risk than earlier actuarial models had presumed, rates increase.

That's similar in general spirit to what's happening here.
That depends. It's likely less of an issue if they know they can steal a car without confrontation than say car jacking or robbery, which carry a higher risk of people being hurt.
I see what you mean, but in order to win Super Metroid you still have to beat all the bosses to open Tourian, and the same with the five bosses you need to beat to get to Dracula in SOTN. In BOTW, once you're off the Plateau, you can literally walk directly to Ganon. And, like you mention, being able to skip a substantial chunk of the game to get to the final boss is as present (if not more so) in other genres; it's been in Mario since the NES!
The last one made me think of Monkey Island.
Mine doesn't even have a CANbus ;-)

Note that if your car is new enough to have CANbus, it surely has software too.