skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But so could have AI 1.0, 2.0 etc. and it didn't happen.

AGI has not happened yet, though by appearances we seem to be close.

If we actually produce a self learning general intelligence all these little ideas of how the past operate change. It will be for humans what the beginning of the Holocene was for large land mammals in Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

It honestly confounds me that people think developing a general intelligence capable of reasoning and planning, that talks natively to data, that can input information by the gigabit and expand its capacity by hardware that never sleeps isn't going to be one of the most revolutionary changes since fire.

Of course, yes, we might not have a take off like that anytime soon. Even then we've created machines capable of using the Panopticon of monitoring devices in this world, that can translate our words into intent, and feed that data to people that wish to be our masters. The Stasi would have dreamed to have such an apparatus as this that could devine or very thoughts, but only now have we created this nightmare.

>The only thing that can save the world is human wisdom,

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them"

As we say this huge swaths of our population are in denial about the damage we've created on our biosphere and hell bent on ensuring it continues. You could say I'm quite worried about the capabilities of human wisdom.
or by conducting some causal inference with a load of identification assumptions
Storage duration and Non-local Objects in C++ – Bartlomiej Filipek
> 2. Google docs wants the same document to render exactly the same on all OS / browser combinations. Thats not something that web browsers guarantee.

Nor is it something Google Docs guarantees, since it still uses the browser for font shaping and rendering. The easiest way to demonstrate this is in Firefox, Settings → Fonts → Advanced → untick Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above, and Google Docs will layout and render the entire document using only your default font (most likely a serif). Not even doing a serif/sans-serif/monospace generic font fallback.

(I’ve had that unticked for almost a year and a half now: it makes the web so much better on average, with minimal damage, almost all on Google properties due to their Material Icons font’s stupid ligation technique.)
Another library can call setlocale and it will impact my code? I've never, ever written locale-specific code, so this is kinda surprise.
All that and more! Sensors like shock potentiometers, strain gauges, temperatures from all over the car, IMU readings ([ag][xyz]), and electrical measurements like HV/LV voltage, current, power, energy, as well as controls like motor commands and speeds, controller states, etc.

Lots of folks put work into a car and they all have metrics of interest to tell how their systems perform. An ideal telemetry system for us captures all this information and makes it available both in real time and analysis.
Selling shovels is just as much about making money as selling gold.
Apple calls their (now old) linker, ld64, a static linker. On the other hand, dyld is their dynamic linker. This is wrong but Apple then is a $2.8T company. They should call ld64 their system linker or just their linker. They have of late altogether disabled static linking for 3rd part applications. All applications must now start with dyld. You only have dynamically linked applications. This was done for several reasons, but application start time and process security were probably tied for first on the list.

ld64 is a fork of the old and slow GCC ld linker. It has accumulated a thousand switches and features and hacks over the years. The move to only dynamic linking meant that most of them can never be used again. So now is a great good time to do a complete rewrite, especially with lld and mold as models; both were architected by the awesome Rui Ueyama. Throw away all the crap, parallelize everything and yeah, it should be fast.
They are harmless cosmetic features. Some people are into it, and don't mind paying a few dollars a month to keep the site up and running for everyone. If you don't care for it then don't pay, just like the majority of the user base. Just don't make up some righteous bullshit about why you are actually superior for paying nothing and still enjoying the benefits the service offers (while also showing everyone that you don't know what a caste system actually is).
I wasn't the guy to first use the term "Civilization Earth"[1] in this thread, though.

Thread framed the conversation around Civilization, I followed suit. If you have a problem, take it up with that guy.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36219608
I've been trying to figure out what I might need to do in order to turn my Obsidian vault into a dataset to fine tune against. I'd invest a lot more into it now if I thought it would be a key to an AI learning about my the way it does in the movie Her.
You can safely treat “reviewer on YouTube” as “stranger at a bar” in terms of accuracy. They get paid to get clicks, not to deliver accurate or expert advice, and that heavily favors “why don’t they just…?” comments glossing over challenging engineering decisions.
well obviously not a machine with 4GB of RAM running outdated CPU
So Java -> C is terrible but workable. C -> Java is terrible. Java <-> C++ is worse. C++ -> C is great. C -> C++ is terrible.
I'm the same, except replace software with people/entities/objects.
Probably should also post Twitch's reply after backlash from the community:

https://twitter.com/Twitch/status/1666183145526538240

Today’s branded content policy update was overly broad. This created confusion and frustration, and we apologize for that.

We do not intend to limit streamers’ ability to enter into direct relationships with sponsors, and we understand that this is an important part of how streamers earn revenue.

We wanted to clarify our existing ads policy that was intended to prohibit third party ad networks from selling burned in video and display ads on Twitch, which is consistent with other services.

We missed the mark with the policy language and will rewrite the guidelines to be clearer. Thank you for sharing your concerns, and we appreciate the feedback. We’ll notify the community once we have updated the language.
Can you name one instance of this? I think he's incredibly fair provides good insights.

Who are other people recommend instead of him then?
More relavant now than ever I'd argue.
> I've noticed when going to music concerts a great deal of people record the whole show via their phones and don't sit back and enjoy the live experience.

Thanks to some of those people, we have some amazing fan compiled performances like Another Version Of The Truth: The Gift [1] from a group named This One Is On Us [2].

The NIN Lights in the Sky Tour was something to behold, and I had to go twice to be able to take it all in.

While I agree that you should live in the moment instead of behind a screen, we wouldn't have this without some of those people that want to memorialize it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik8xOL656GE
[2] https://www.nin.wiki/This_One_Is_On_Us
> The only thing that matters in software is the experience of the user.

Isn't the user experience subjective though? For example, to solve the problem of sending an email, all one needs is a set of commands on a terminal. I love this approach, but would this qualify as solving the problem in a way that meets the user experience criterion?

I agree with the thesis of the post, though.
That's a cool anecdote and makes sense if you're trying to meet him at his level...

So what purpose does pursuing a belief in UFOs have? Are China and Russia gonna be like, what, UFOS?! Let's waste money studying something we have no evidence for!
Straight from the article

> this post is mostly about the aesthetic perks. the
things that cost discord exactly nothing

I presume the second sentence is shorthand for: no marginal cost for Discord, after the development is done.

So, two distinctions going on, which happen to be correlated:

1. Things that cost Discord extra resources (eg bandwidth/ storage space for larger uploads) vs things that don’t (extra emoji)

2. Things that allow you do more with Discord (upload large files with any type of content) vs things that allow you to express yourself more (use certain emoji)

The second distinction might not matter to everyone, but it certainly has a specific social component.
Any justice system is designed to increase the general welfare. If it unfairly target minorities, the unrest will negate any benefit. We pass laws for regulating fertilizer purchase even though it inconveniences some innocent minority because it protects the innocent majority.
..and let's waste 1000s of work-hours as a community:
https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
I hate VR controllers. I'd prefer to play VR games without them. I'd prefer they do hand and eye tracking to determine what I'm doing, like look at a zombie and and go pew pew pew with my finger guns.

The only VR headset I've tried that can do hand tracking (Oculus Quest) sucks at it and games there didn't pick up on it as an input at all, as far as I know.

However, just because VR controllers won't exist for the Apple Vision at release it doesn't mean they never will. Perhaps Apple will release some later, or it'll be a third party release. Heck, someone might unironically release a Nintendo Power Glove style controller that works incredibly well with Apple Vision.
Can you relate a specific example of commercial tech the "jaw dropped" some DoD officials? Like what was the tech and what was the venue?
I definitely did now wake up expecting to see Ice Spice being mentioned on an HN thread about aliens
I really want to try this out on my work ThinkPad since it stays plugged in effectively all the time. It requires a kernel module though, I'd need to get that approved first and I haven't got around to it.

Naïve me doesn't understand why it can't be done from userspace, but I'm sure there is a good reason...
This actually seems like a great use case. Read and flag potential bugs for review. Although if it wrote the code in the first place how would it identify the bug? What it produced was something close to the most likely result given what it has seen so far
Chris Lattner and Tim Davis. Google in on A-round https://www.modular.com/about
The people who designed it, built it, and tested it have used it for an extended period of time. It would be un Apple like if they decide to ship a product with such a well known potential defect in the user experience.
Yeah, agree: the really big gain would come from moving init logic from load time to install time.
That’s irrelevant. You’re being asked to accept that other people care if somebody sees them naked.
> over the Android hellscape of versions that need to be tested for and supported.

Isn't really an issue these days. Almost everything Google puts out is in the Jetpack libraries and backported many major versions.
> And yet multibillion dollar companies whose entire business is illegally running hotels or taxis get nowhere near the vitriol?

I have perturbed many electrons around here on both illegal taxi companies and shitty world-burning cryptography. I contain the capacity to think more than one thing is awful society-corroding trash.

Do you not?
You seem to be missing that the conversation is about the suffering of the transport, not the destination.

The steel box for humans is allowed to be hotter and more crowded than the steel box for cows.

Slaughter doesn't have to be involved. The same rules apply if you're transporting a cow from one field to another field.
Not only they didn't have the metallurgy, the British didn't have it in 1712, when the Newcomen engine was invented. Some brave souls tried to create engines with steam under pressure, but ended up blowing up things. So, for almost one hundred years, the steam engine worked on negative pressure. The work was not done by the steam, but rather by the atmosphere when the steam condensed and created a vacuum. James Watt's big innovation was not to allow somehow for more pressure in a cylinder, but to improve the condensation of the steam.

So, what was missing in the early Roman empire was not the metallurgy, but the understanding that air has weight, and it's a considerable amount of weight, which can be harnessed to perform work. To us that insight seems trivial, but if you think about it, it could not have come before the scientific method was developed. The Magdeburg experiment [1] that showed that a team of horses cannot separate two hemispheres kept together by the weight of the atmosphere was not only truly brilliant, but it depended fundamentally on a culture of experimentation, culture that simply did not exist on thousand years before.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdeburg_hemispheres
If mostly doesn’t work. There are constant bugs.

It just barely hangs together enough to sort of function most of the time.
> Eye tracking most certainly sounds like the way to go, relative to hand-waving.

I suppose Apple could change my mind but I've never been a fan of eyes as input. Touch typing or any equivalent where you can look at one thing and do another seems impossible now.
There is evidence, however, which is why the government is studying it.
Microsoft has no shame: Bing spit on my ‘Chrome’ search with a fake AI answer
Nitro, or at least server boosting, gives you some non-status benefits. The obvious ones are upload size and stream + audio quality.

The article doesn't mention server boosting, but that's where the real desperation and social pressure comes in. Nobody I've met cares if you've got nitro, but admins definitely do pressure members into boosting.
> there is no affordable VR console with a lot of big exclusive games

What is even more impressive is when a VR version of a big, popular game is the best version of that game.

Affordability is somewhat relative. If something is truly compelling, people will spend a lot of money to get it.
Even better, here's a link to the meme being referenced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWdD206eSv0
Can someone explain to me why the phone in my pocket is literally 6000 times as fast as my childhood computer and yet still regularly laggy, slow, and broken?

It would seem as though such things would be ridiculous but clearly no matter how far ahead you are in some metric or another, things are still going to be shit now and then.

Are our machines really all that much more reliable than they were 20, 50, 100, 150 years ago? The answer is meh, no, it's a mixed bag. Advancement hasn't made everything have magical quality and reliability. Some things are a lot better, some things are a lot worse.
> I’m just not buying how a federated system of isolated instances solves this. What fundamentally prevents the dominant oligopoly or monopoly server(s) from just being Reddit running on Lemmy? Lemmy doesn’t dictate how things are run - so why won’t a major fu.nded instance just evolve to a new Reddit? How does Lemmy decisively get you to a Reddit without the ads? What stops a major Lemmy instance going to shit?

A federated system of isolated instances doesn't solve it, because that's not a federated system. The point of federation is that the instances aren't isolated, and they're highly interchangeable. No major instance has the incentive to become a new Reddit, because it's so easy to switch instances at every level that they just don't have the moat to make that happen. It's exactly the same thing as an email provider going to shit, but even less problematic.

If a Voat instance pops up, sure, dominant instances won't federate with it. That's perfectly fine. It doesn't mean that the inter-federated dominant instances can get away with pulling a Reddit.

Federation is an opt-in feature in theory, but in practice, what's the value proposition for an instance to turn off federation today?

It's really quite simple. Without federation, there is an incentive to pull a Reddit. With federation, there is no longer an incentive to do so, because you don't have a moat. What do you think would happen if Reddit only had 1/2 of the subreddits anyone used and if you could keep access to all the same communities on a competitor?
Have to confess the first couple times my eyes scanned the headlines today I wondered what Beyoncé had done to get in trouble.
VR gaming has definitely cultivated a community in the genre of sim-racing and Half Life Alyx modding
next up: CiteGPT

plug in your finished work, making up whatever stats and arguments and assertions suits your taste or agenda, and CiteGPT will back-solve matching snippets that support your writing, inserting all in line citations and building a reference list automatically. Maybe even suggest minor tweaks to make your arguments match the available supporting material.
I created something like this inside a tech giant once. It never saw the light of day with regard to usership. It's good to see someone doing the same in the open source world.

A brief summary of what I did:

* Python-powered apps, like this

* React was used to handle lifecycle. Basically, I avoided writing any kind of lifecycle management because I just wanted to do exactly what React would do. This was achieved via events firing when React lifecycle events fired. If props changed on the server, I'd send the new props to React to see if it would trigger a lifecycle event. If a lifecycle event was triggered, I'd replicate it onto the server which could again render new props.

* The result was a nice seamless support for both native React components and the newfangled Python components (which could be made up of either more React components or Python components).

* The purpose of all of this was to cater to ML engineers who didn't particularly like JavaScript and just wanted to build their analyses with Python and share them with coworkers. We had an automatic deployment system for them to share these.

* Only caveats were around session management. Much of the state was handled on the server via a websocket, so if your connection dropped, you lost all ability to update the layout. Load balancing was going to be tricky, since the sessions would have to be shared somehow. I was thinking about serializing and deserializing using Pickle but never really got around to deployment.

See also: [Dash](https://github.com/plotly/dash)
As an iOS developer SwiftUI not being a library has been a huge pain, there were major bugs in point releases of iOS 13/14. It has improved a lot but there's still major headaches version to version.
Like I said we can agree to disagree. My question would be why stop with this analytical framework on the 2nd amendment? How would the founding fathers feel about the 14th? Not great, I wager, given, you know. How does that mesh with the modern world? It feels disingenuous to only harken back to them on things we think they'd like and ignore their opinion on things we're pretty sure they'd take issue with.

I guess my point is, in your hypothetical question about imagining life in 1791... you mean as a straight, white, male right? Because if I'm anything other than that particular combo, dude, I can't tell you I'd arrive at the conclusion you want me to. 14th wasn’t until 1866. Women couldn’t vote until the 19th in 1920. That's not an argument for guns so much as it's an argument for 'being top dog is pretty good.'
From a Q&A session, a trackpad will also work.
You must not have been reading HN for the past two years then.
I have never, not once, in the years since websites could ask me if they can send me notifications said “yes, please notify me”. The notification prompt usually is just a reminder I need to go turn off the setting that lets websites ask me this silly question.

Who is consenting to these? What is their deal? It makes no sense to me.
"Exclusive games" have little to do with adoption. They are a vendor lock in thing. Games need to be good and immersive, not exclusive.
There's also a reason the government calls them 'phenomenon' and not 'objects' and not 'aliens'.

The reason the government is interested is not because they think there are aliens, it's because their job is to know what is in the sky and understand their sensor readings.

It doesn't really matter if it's China, aliens, a lens flare, or a kid with a drone. The military should be able to know what is in the sky.
Really? My 2016 ThinkPad Carbon hasn’t been able to run off of a charger since ~2019.
I didn’t make that assertion. My fears are based on the speed that code of unknown quality, which is also poorly understood can be produced. I specifically said:

Granted, us humans are doing that now. Just many orders of magnitude slower. Probably slow enough that we can find/fix the important stuff.
Climate Crisis to Push One-Third of Humanity Out of Its Most Livable Environment
According to a study published last month in the journal Nature Sustainability, 3 to 6 billion people, or between a third and a half of humanity, could be trapped outside of that zone, facing extreme heat, food scarcity and higher death rates, unless emissions are sharply curtailed or mass migration is accommodated.
> It's starting to seem the llama.cpp project wasn't so community oriented to begin with

what do you mean? llama.cpp has 181 contributors.
>This includes efficiency, and we can expect eventual parity between fuel cells and conventional batteries

This is completely unphysical, and reveals that your knowledge goes no deeper than "fuel cells are electrochemical systems."

In any proton exchange membrane you (by definition) lose 50% of the theoretical chemical energy as the proton crosses the membrane. Some fuel cells try to use this waste heat somehow, which is how they try to claim >50% efficiency.

>Which is why so many in the industry are pretty convinced that it will be hydrogen vehicles as the path forward beyond BEVs.

No, fuel cells are nothing more than a shiny distraction for legacy ICE makers to wave in front of regulators, in a desperate attempt to delay their disruption by EVs.

For this purpose, the fact that fuel cells are fundamentally unworkable is a feature, not a bug. Fuel cells will never threaten their ICE profit center, but because their unworkability is non-obvious the legacy automakers can still make a case that's plausible enough to fool (non-technical) regulators.

>They are EVs without the enormous raw material needs

If they could figure out how to make a long-lived fuel cell without platinum, maybe that would be true.
> There are plenty of uses for a 16k video standard. It just probably isn't going to be your home television.

We agree. High-end data display use cases in a business context are different than consumer living-room couch viewing. I know people who were upsold an expensive "8K" display for their living room assuming it would be "better." They had no clue that none of the video sources they had connected were capable of sending it an 8K image. In fact, the majority of their sources rarely send actual 4k. For example, Comcast Xfinity can ONLY display 4K from their latest box, which very few of their customers have. And even then, Comcast only rarely broadcasts 'special events' in 4K (such as the Superbowl but ONLY if you don't use the DVR, pause or time delay features on their hard-to-get 4K box).

I'm a video engineer. I love accurate, pristine, beautiful video imagery. Despite the amazing potential of the advanced standards we've created, and all the manufacturer marketing hype claims about 4K HDR10+, the quality of what most people actually see in their living rooms is already delivering woefully less than what they think they paid for. Hyping 8K (and 16K!) to consumers who aren't even getting the 4K they think they are just seems perverse.
and its iterations are only going to get more expensive.