skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Key point. Generative AI is not a product. It's a tool, or at best a raw material that might be used to make a product. All these BigTech (and LittleTech) companies gushing about how they're now "AI first" and "going all-in on AI" and refocusing all their efforts on AI... It just sounds so ridiculous.

Instead of bloviating about AI, explain the product and the benefit. And if that product happens to use AI under the hood, who cares? Why even mention it? When I buy some electronics device, I'm not buying it because it is made with silicon and capacitors. Im buying it for what it does.

I'm a little saucy because I currently work for a tech company that's going through hysterics trying to pivot all of their projects to be about AI because we should now be working on all-things-AI. It's exhausting.
And apparently that 3rd party just forked Avalanche....

https://cointelegraph.com/news/federal-reserve-s-fednow-will...
Morons from Outer Space (1985)

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0089622/
Feral hogs are a huge problem in the USA, pigs absolutely would thrive if you let them go, they are very intelligent, can eat just about anything, and learn very quickly... milk cows not so much.
It's interesting that Tesla built a supercharger network, but no auto manufacturer believed in hydrogen enough to build out the refueling stations.
If it was a good idea, I assume it should already be happening for me. What would be the point of mindlessly running some command periodically?
Salesforce has pulled so many freaking tax shenanigans in SF...

And what about the massive tax credits for Twitter that SF gave them to incentivize Market - and now everything is shutting ddown and the complaints of homeless messes are back down to mid 1990's where that whole area around Twitter was so FN dirty and sketchy.

I found two dead bodies and a friend who had a really nice apartment on Natoma would give me a gun to carry if I wanted to go to the store at the corner.

But back to SalesForce and Twitters tax breaks for all their empty buildings, they should PAY some back - not use this fake 'incentive' - unless they donate the $10 in YOUR name so its YOUR tax write off?

EDIT: It does look like the donations are in the employees behalf - but it only says that for remote workers who attend an event - and it also says how much it hopes to raise via this initiative for non-remotes -- so the company is slurping a tax break off just having employees in office.

Clever, but SLIMY
Maybe a bee got in the cockpit?
Lazy eval opens the floodgates for complex space leaks. Suppose you have a complicated algorithm that runs until it reaches mathematical convergence. In a lazy language like Haskell, those cycles of iteration/recursion can accumulate thunks and crash. Thunk accumulation and crashing can depend on input that you can't control or know in advance.

How do I know this? Because our big Haskell app died this way on live customer data and became a fiasco for my employer. We dumped Haskell and never looked back.
Bard delivering on its first shot:

"Shape B must be blue.

The question states that there are two shapes, each a different color, and that one shape is red. This means that the other shape must be blue, since there are only two colors and one of them is already taken."
I hadn't noticed the video included that. I think it's understandable that they haven't bothered to re-edit a video, though.

The specs at https://shop.simulavr.com/ say they're going to use an i7-1265U Processor. That "12" is for 12th gen.

Here's when they were all upgraded:

https://simulavr.com/blog/32gb-ram-upgrade/

That links to an older post where they had upgraded only the Founder's Editions. That has more details on the upgrade:

https://simulavr.com/blog/upgrading-to-alder-lake/
LOL you're right, we could have had a civil conversation and productive dialog if I had just included that one word in my first post! My bad.
Thanks, that looks very useful! I wrote a script to export Markdown from Joplin notes (https://gitlab.com/stavros/notes/), but the UI in this site is better.
> Or perhaps the appeal of court-side seats is the atmosphere, experience and social signaling, none of which are provided by these glasses.

The author's entire point was that the demo did recreate the atmosphere and experience he had while courtside at an NBA game. Maybe it doesn't provide the social clout, but that's not the point for tons who wish they could sit courtside.
I'm not sure I understand your statements or how it relates to the things that I said, but I'll try my best to respond

>Complex life evolution is 100% based on best survival interpretation of surrounding environment. I understand how we can try to figure out what is more in the human way of doing it, but I really think that has to hold on something before getting past it.

I agree that evolution is driven by Fitness, and a large part of Fitness is understanding the world around you. That doesn't mean 100% of behavior, or especially experience, serves a purpose of advancing Fitness. Evolution is messy. It has mistakes, byproducts, artifacts, and maladaptive traits. Not everything done is done with a purpose.

>It is, and yet, if you do the exercise of imagine that dreaming is a social construct that you are the only one to really experience it, discarding that idea is solely based on belief. A belief I share, based on trust in others, and what seems the most probable. If it's absurd, it's only because we can rule it out as highly improbable.

Really struggle to grasp your meaning on this one. It seems that the existence of belief itself, independent of social truth, and contrary to trust in others, is evidence to the contrary. Are you saying that humans wouldn't have feelings, thoughts, or dreams, unless they have a social expectation to do so?
This is scary. While I find it on-topic, I feel compelled to downvote your comment so that less people see the link. Sorry!
Your own comment adds nothing.
Which boils down to the fact that it's entirely rational to be negative about crypto.

Crypto is interesting as a kind of libertarian pseudo-oppositional secular religion that flatters itself that it's edgy and non-conformist but is actually dead-centre mainstream in a capitalist culture with consistent shades of criminality dedicated to making money at any cost.
Reddit hosts images and videos
Do you feel that people outside Reddit are often racist and transphobic?
It's super interesting to hear about the downside of your good fortune in your 20's. If I may, what were you stressed and anxious about after semi-retiring? There's little/no worry about your immediate finances, you don't need to work, so there's no stress about your boss or coworkers. So then what is an example of the kind of small problems that it sounds like your mind fixated on and made a mountain out of a molehill of? Were you just unable to un-fixate on the minutia?

Or is like a big picture, being financially secure but aimless, no boss, no work, and being unstressed isn't a way to live, and that you actually need stressors on your life to be a complete human being that doesn't age 15 years in 2.

I'm in the middle of FIRE-ing, but from your experience, it sounds like maybe that's not what I want. I'm willing to buy that, I've heard that getting what you want is can be a curse. I'd love to hear and learn from someone who managed to on what the traps and actual pitfalls are.

Stories of lottery winners who lost it all only take me so far.
These applications already existed for desktops, this was not something unique to the laptop form factor.
I am usually one to treat EVERYTHING with a very healthy dose of skepticism, but who are any of us to say what is possible or what is not? I'm sure that a century ago, space was just something we would never reach.

The US Military released rather intriguing, yet unexplained videos of objects outmaneuvering our top jets. You should go check those out. I've yet to see an explanation that covers all the data those jets collected.

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing, but instantly writing things off as 'tin foil hat' while the guy has an actual legit legal retaliation case going on seems a bit premature.
If Microsoft -- with it's billions -- can build something better than the community and offer it for free, I have nothing against it. I wouldn't really consider this EEE in the classical sense. C# being a key platform component and having OmniSharp coming up short was always odd.
Note that to save the world, you basically have to destroy most of humanity.

So, what I mean is, YES!
What I find compelling about this new evidence is that what they see flying is a small sphere doing impossible things. Can a sphere fly and hold its geolocation position perfectly in a hurricane as these reports cite?

How would you explain it as any earthly tech? And if not US, what nation hass more advanced tech than the US?

And isn't as likely that alien civilizations would send a probe, rather than arrive with their organic selves in a big spaceship needing food etc? Like us with our Mars rover, etc, wouldn't they send a small remote controlled probe to check out alien worlds?
> If people in the DoD at that level exhibited such a degree of incompetence

It is not incompetence - it is orthogonal. I worked with an excellent software engineer who was rather smart - way above average. However, he believed in "Overunity energy" and paid actual money to attend conferences and buy the books. Some folks are predeposed to believing conspiracies and seeing order where there's chaos.
> Where are these mystical things that function because of crypto that wouldn't function with <existing other thing>

that's not my standard.

cater to a market because the market exists.

there are many people in the crypto space now and they have frictions and pay to reduce those frictions, and are not defrauded in the process.

its just too late to care about your standard. you can search for it if you want, but its at the expense of so many other opportunities that have nothing to do with fraud.

its the entertainment sector, its the collectibles sector, its the financial services sector..... and the crux of most arguments and moving goalposts are that all those sectors in aggregate are worth zero when crypto is involved (or that crypto is worth zero because you're not the market for any of those sectors? lol? its a paradoxical antiquated argument)

when the only trend is that crypto-versions just begin catering to even more sectors and pulling in those audiences, or crypto-natives begin being interested in those sectors.
So you disagree with the author, just to be clear? He's literally arguing that it will never be more than a tool, likening it to toaster. Just wanted to highlight the radical nature of that claim...
Yes, but pretty much all the information about how the "M1386SX" core handles SMM is contained on that single page, the following ones only describe I/O ports. And it leaves a lot of questions unanswered, like how to access the "GR" registers (something like MSRs on Pentium+?), or the other descriptor caches that aren't saved automatically.

The text is written as if these were standard features of the architecture, or at least documented elsewhere (maybe they were, but can't find anything online now).
The Python GC is slow, but predictable. I've seen the Node runtime falls apart past like 8gb heap all the time, but I have python scripts that run just fine with a 32gb heap.

Requiring the max old space flag is already too much. It's annoying.

Python does indeed have some runtime type safety. Way more than any JS runtime I've used.
And I've written way more Node/JS/TS than Python.

In terms of the compiler, Nah. The whole ecosystem stinks. I cannot wait to move my larger Node projects to Java or something else. Idk how much dev time people waste on arcane tsc or npm issues but the answer is "too high" regardless. At least esbuild is okay.
Google saccades. No chance eye movement can be reacted and catered for fast enough.
next headline -- Passkeys now require external providers

update this dev news announcement actually opens the setup a bit more, instead of close it down a bit more. However the whole Apple walled garden and always-on networking is not a happy thing from this desk
The #1 marker you should be checking is blood pressure.

Cholesterol, Fasting Insulin levels, and (if male) free Testosterone are other good ones. Cholesterol and Insulin should be checked by all adults annually, and BP should be checked at least annually. T isn't checked as routinely, but it's worth knowing where you fit and has an impact on your metabolics and the test isn't a big deal.
I've built diagram like tools several times, constantly umming and ahing between Canvas and SVG.

SVG seems to get you pretty far, but I always end up with Canvas in the long run.

Fun fact: Google docs is actually a canvas.
Right, but the only reasonable way to localize `isspace()` is to have it based on code units / encoding bytes, since that is what it will be used for. When people want to test a unicode code point they instead call `iswspace()` (or a non-standard but more-sane version thereof).
> structs in Swift are the same as structs in Rust, and a class is a heap-allocated reference counted box, like an Arc<Box<T>>.

Yeah, and by representing the differences this way, Rust allows you to easily decide whether an object is used directly or is wrapped in a rc box when its used, instead of when it's defined, often not by you, and when you change your mind you don't need to change all methods or functions than mutates it and all their call sites.

> Result builders are a language feature and not part of SwiftUI

I admit that this is the first time I see the term result builders. This is never mentioned in any SwiftUI documentation I've seen, so I guess I should extend my complaint to include quality of docs :p. Whatever this is called you seem to agree that the syntax is hacked and it can get hard to understand what something means
> or a task manager that shows processes as plants around me.

We finally have the technology to bring https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/chi/chi.html to life
I don't understand why someone would have the docs and choose to hold them back while still going public. It ultimately weakens the story and his credibility, and if it is true, there's not much stopping the powers that he crossed in the process from coming after him anyway. The government isn't gonna go light on this guy simply because he didn't go to the press. They send a message to anyone who might be thinking about doing the same thing.

Maybe he avoids getting charged under the Espionage Act this way, but history shows very clearly that the pre-Snowden whistleblowers all had their careers ruined and still faced criminal charges. Love him or hate him, but Snowden went for the jugular and brought receipts while preventing the most damaging intel to human life from being leaked.
God, these days I'd love that. Record it and you have the perfect 'hostile work environment suit'.
Wealth inequality in the US today is worse than France right before the revolution. The US is a great country to go to if you're already rich.
Compression/encryption/hashing acceleration.

A reverse case being that x86 has a memcpy instruction and ARM didn't until recently.
Both responses seem to indicate you believe this is what pmarca thinks. VC is two parts: (1) make the world think X is good and (2) make investments in X
Apple avoids the AI trap at WWDC
I guess as someone who lived in a long time in a clothing optional community, the idea that people being naked is a bad thing (we are all naked under our clothes) really confuses me.
It used to be that anything which worked well enough to go into a product ceased to be "AI"... I have a feeling though that the buzz will persist from now on
I had not yet heard of them! Thank you!
It being so fun is reason enough not to believe it. When is the last time something this exciting ended up being true?
> I saw an interview with this guy just yesterday. He didn't see anything himself. His claim is that some people, and he believes them to be trustworthy, confided in him and showed him some documents

Wasn't he in charge of or in the higher end of the government led agency to investigate these things? He doesn't seem to be a nobody just saying he saw things, it was his job to investigate it for the government?

And if the Inspector General is involved, along with the dudes lengthy time in front of congress, surely it's likely that evidence was presented to higher levels of government that the public still can't see legally. I get that this may be a psyop kind of thing, but writing it off as 'he didn't see anything' seems like an incorrect position to hold.
You're proving their point. That they expect revenue (huge reward) after the initial purchase is, by definition, rent-seeking.
Would an engineer really make a consumer design where a sliding contact failing open led to a safety incident?

Every laptop since the 90's has the balancing and protection circuitry inside the battery, not inside the laptop.
A house that cluttered, cramped and crowded, yet they have 2 dining tables. It defies comprehension.
> Yes it is slow

> People using it for binary downloads can pull down data at gigabit speeds.

Sorry. I wasn't clear. I meant that being a 'store and forward' medium rather than a broadcast medium, it can take days to propagate to all clients, rather than talking specifically about the speed of transmission.
You might need to install 'bcmwl-kernel-source' for the WIFI drivers, but other than that I've installed Ubuntu Server on all sorts of Intel Macs and they work perfectly.
They've done it several times. Samsung is Korean, Sony japanese and OnePlus Chinese, to name a few. Sorry to burst your bubble but outside north America, most people use Android.
People generally agree that VR games are miles ahead of ordinary games in terms of immersion. The adoption problem seems to be that there is no affordable VR console with a lot of big exclusive games. The Meta Quest comes close to a decent price point, but there aren't many publishers making elaborate games for it. A chicken/egg situation with regards to adoption and game investment.

Basically, a Game Boy or Switch for VR.
What about the idea that random people on the internet can produce believable images of your naked body and share it with people who you never consented to share it with?

Come on, it’s not that difficult.
AI will also make it easier for freedom fighters and democracy. If everyone on earth held a four-year bachelors degree, don't you think that would pose an issue for demagogues and emotion-based politicians?

Hopefully it's obvious to all of us that no technology, no matter how neat, will solve the social problems of humanity for us. And this is just the start of how I disagree with the author. But I would say it's not exactly a detriment either
AI is just a tool, but holy shit is it a tool.

I dream of the day we can build LLM-based "Bullshit Detectors", which are open-source and we have pretty good test suites on to understand their biases.

We run these bullshit detectors over speech, and it gives us a score: Is this an objective statement of fact, or is someone spinning bullshit?

The powers that be must quake in their boots of that kind of intellect being available to the general population. They'd be fucked. There would not be enough fools left.

Yeah, see if you can sell the general population on horrific policing, economic, social, educational, etc. policies when anyone can turn to "Hey <bullshit detector>, is the governor making good decisions with my tax money, or is this new policy bullshit?"

These LLMs are tools that will be able to identify, for example, regulatory capture, trivially. It will provide unbiased (or consistently and testably biased) cost-benefit analyses of projects which exclude influence and corruption. It will lay bare gerrymandering. It will actually be able to read an entire bill and give detailed commentary on its effects and outcomes before it's passed. In minutes.

Widely available, trustworthy LLMs will change the world. We should work hard to make them happen.
Why is nobody mentioning?:

btrfs fi defrag -r /

This is a recovery that ZFS cannot make.

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/login_sum...
In short, detection of minor / less severe heart attacks is up.
I think your assessment is flat out wrong.

AI has already made many problems much easier to solve and reduced the capital cost for a lot of economically valuable activities.

AI has had meaningful positive effects in almost everyone's life.

That said the capabilities of novel LLMs are pretty amazing - to the point where I'm able to be more efficient daily by using it.
Not, however, when they're explicitly condemning trans activists.
In what way? OS API’s can’t reasonably be copy/pasted into every binary on the system. It’s one thing to have large executables for third party apps you install, but you’d get tired of the wasted disk space really quickly if every binary in the OS had to statically link in the implementation of every library it used.

It’s not just disk space either, but the ability for an OS as a platform to swap out implementations of their API’s with new ones, without requiring every app to be recompiled. It’s the reason macOS is able to implement things like dark mode, or a new UI theme, or any other “horizontal” feature that works across all apps; you need dynamic linking for that to be possible.
No disagreement, but there is such a thing as a language for which 99% of the programs you can write in it and compile successfully are sound... vs. C and C++, where you can create an unsound program with a handful of regular day-to-day operations on one line.

To my money (for c++ in particular), the ledge of soundness is so razor thin that I might as well assume it's not there.
JavaScript is a joke when you consider things like prototypes and classes. Not saying Python is perfect but JS really feels atrocious to me.

TypeScript requires you to compile, the whole point of Python for ML and data science is you're running in an interpreted environment where you delegate as much code out as you can for both data processing and algorithms to invisible C++.

The interpreted part is key as ML is about experimentation. It's not like there's any overlap between current web developers and ML people anyway to need an unified bridge.
It wasn't a leak, LLaMa was released publicly under an open-ish license (the code is GPL, the model weights require registration and prohibit commercial use).
> No virtual objects, no 3d anything

They did show 3D objects in the key note, someone sent one through messenger that the user pulled out from the message and interacted with it. Then they showed a 3D heart which could be taken apart in to sections. Next they showed a life size 3D formula 1 car with the aerodynamics.
> What is the encoding of zero and possibly slash delimited blobs of bytes (filenames, argv, envp…) that you get from and pass to the kernel?

Bytes. Every number other than 0 and 47 is allowed. They should probably be treated as opaque blobs of binary data.
Unless you have a CPU with vCache, AMD doesn't have 800GB/s of memory bandwidth.
Running multiple instances: launch+fork with copy-on-write semantics?

Re: ASLR, yeah I think you would lose most of that mitigation. Would it be worth it to make launching even the biggest programs instantaneous? The usability upside could be something amazing; maybe some other security mitigations could take the place of ASLR.
Well we all suspected the government spied on us and then Snowden brought it to light. That was pretty fun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick_the_bucket