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Great expectations? More like great second (and third) degree joke from one great mind of our times. Soooo funny. Champagne everyone!
Not to speak of the discontinued iPhone mini.
I didn't even know HDMI extenders over IP existed! I wouldn't use it for TV/movies, because the re-compressed picture can't look all that great. But I could imagine plenty of uses for something like that!
I agree. If you speak with ML engineers, many simply haven't deeply considered longer-term risks and things like self-improvement until recently. I think we'll see more concern, not less. For me personally, GPT-3 wasn't that surprising, but GPT-4 and code generation capabilities were.
This is wonderful. As part of a cryptography course in undergrad, I spent a fair number of hours adding/multiplying points on small curves by hand and eventually computationally, and seeing these animations represents the "feel" of that process better than any resource I have seen.

It seems that elliptic curves are used quite shrewdly in public key exchanges, used as a sort of off-the-shelf arithmetic system that renders some benefits (harder to solve the elliptic curve discrete log problem) and drawbacks (more expensive to compute, because of these point ops) compared to key exchanges relying on the integer discrete log problem. There is generally much energy spent on explaining the point operations but not much on explaining this context: this is an alternate arithmetic inserted into the Diffie Helman scheme that is secure and not so hard to work with.

The finite fields in application (e.g. in X25519) are so large compared to the toy examples that the technical details matter more for understanding the performance of the algorithms than the actual cryptographic method. Understanding (and convincing yourself of) the core behavior of the key exchange itself is perhaps best done with the number theory and group theory lens. There was a discussion here on HN a couple days ago which largely bashed the theoretical approach in favor of simply cargo culting the tools, which was appalling. I hope they all enjoy this link!

Anyhow, the application of elliptic curves to cryptography is clever and I would recommend everyone with an interest (and a little background in algebra) read Koblitz's paper[1] and Miller's earlier description [2] if they are looking for more context for OP's wonderful presentation.

1: Koblitz: Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems https://www.ams.org/journals/mcom/1987-48-177/S0025-5718-198...

2: Miller: Use of Elliptic Curves in Cryptography https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-39799-X_31
I know it is really easy to disparage blockchain but in my opinion smart contracts can mitigate much of the startup buy-up problem. They allow describing a system as an autonomous protocol that is not "owned" by an entity. Yes, the company that builds tooling around the protocol could be bought but unless the protocol is explicitly backdoored nobody can pull the rug from under the users' feet and data ownership remains in the protocol participants' hands. Blockchain UX is not yet where most people would like it to be but it is improving fairly quickly and I think we could see adoption of autonomous protocols in the next couple of years.
Generate reality? I am not crystal clear on what you're talking about. Quantum computers are still just computers, not magical replicators from Star Trek.
It sounds like you agree apple has no idea what the use case is or who its for.
I track this! < 5% but still a lot
I changed the wording. Basically you get noname brand authors quotes next to really legendary figures quotes because it’s all gamed.
Loling something that serious with several top scientists as you said warning is at least very idiotic regardless where the truth lies. Let's start from that.
Thanks for sharing that and quoting an incredibly useful snippet.

This is such an interesting topic!

Some thoughts:

* I wonder if the approach could be used to implement debuggable replayability, with accurate tracing and profiling. A bit like what verdagon is doing with Vale.

* It could be used to integrate the event loop with tracing (rather than instrumentation with Jaegar)

* I really like the idea that "every object" is an event loop, which reminds me of Microsoft Orleans with its actor model for its grains.

* I am interested with actor and lightweight thread architectures.

* I am interested in the scalabiliy of nodejs event loop architecture and Win32 desktop application programming.

* I think this approach could be used to test and simulate microservices.

* Approach could be used to test GUIs with React Redux reducer style.
Does the design differ for training vs inference/prediction?
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No, it is a source.

Not one that's immediately online per that link, though you can obtain it.

You might also try:

Open Library: <https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13358612W/The_big_score?edit...>

Library Genesis: <http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=96525CFC8A6A7C3132A80D43...>

A local library: <https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3Amalone+ti%3Athe+big+s...>
No, I don't agree with you. Everything you said was either a bad usecase already answered by existing VR tech or made actively worse by the headset.
Good to see you in this thread being a good sport!

Thanks for your contributions to Webkit :)
It's not just because humans are bad at distributions. I would rate almost all the books I read at least 3/5 because I pick my books carefully. There are plenty of terrible books deserving 1/5 but they are often obvious from a distance.

With eg movies a much greater investment is required to tell if it's terrible.
Make it a heat pump dryer for extra energy savings! https://www.energystar.gov/products/heat_pump_dryer
"If these people were so concerned, they'd by shouting from the hilltops"

they are, one by one
I must have missed the part in the instructions where all the photos are from the same place. Is that what you mean by triangulation?
It's not really a choice of low-level or high-level. Neither is better than the other.

It's about choosing the right language for the task at hand. Some work will really be suited (or only be feasible) with a low-level language and vice-versa.

If I'm writing a command-line tool on the order of ripgrep or working on a microcontroller embedded in a dishwasher, I'm not going to go to Java. That would be weird and awkward. And if I'm writing a new 3D AAA-level game, I'm going to jump to something maybe even higher level like UE5 - trying to do all that in Rust would be a PITA.
We are rolling out Crowdstrike at work and it made my disk I/O plummet. Our team is still working out whether we have a misconfiguration or not, but some adhoc before/after perfmon tests indicate my NVMe SSD throughput is now exactly 10% of what it was before installing Crowdstrike.
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: we already asked you once to stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait, and your account has unfortunately continued to do this. We end up having to ban such accounts because this is not what this site is for and destroys what it is for. I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please review the guidelines and stick to them, we'd appreciate it.
They love 3rd party developers who play by Apple’s rules and just ignore everyone else because they can.
I've dealt with an environment that was using custom software that relied on a library that only SUSE had in their repo.

From a tamer perspective (and that's not that bad,) there are definitely vendors who will develop only against a single distro and won't set it up on anything else you've got. It's like the browser wars of decades ago and today.
Without a first-party backend service, the smart screens would need to store configuration data (e.g. which app is currently active, where to reach the render endpoint) directly on the device. Every time you wanted to change that data, for example to change which app is active on the device, you would need to pair to it with bluetooth or some other means.

Now that I think about it, I actually like the idea of offering this as a fallback option. Hmm... but I don't want to over-promise anything.

But as long as the backend is available, handling configuration changes on the backend is simply a much better user experience. This is why I chose this option as the initial way to go.

I hope this makes some sense, I am happy to answer further questions.
Hofstadter says humans will be like cockroaches compared to AI. This is an oft-repeated line: sometimes we are ants or bacteria. But I think these comparisons might be totally wrong.

I think it's very possible there's a Intelligence Completeness theorem that's analogous to Turing Completeness. A theorem that says intelligence is in some ways universal, and that our intelligence will be compatible with all other forms of intelligence, even if they are much "smarter".

Cockroaches are not an intelligent species, so they cannot understand our thoughts. But humans are intelligent, human languages have a universal grammar and can be indefinitely extended with new words. I think this puts us in the intelligence species club, and all species in that club can all discuss any idea.

AI might eventually be able to think much quicker than us, to see patterns and make insights better and faster than us. But I don't think makes us cockroaches. I think if they are so smart, they are by definition smart enough to explain us any idea, and with effort we'll be able to understand it and contribute our own thoughts.
We are your devoted automata.
I’m so tired of this kind of marketing. Meanwhile, if your SSD dies on m1 macbook, the laptop becomes unrepairable. If Apple would care about ecology, they would at least allow to resolder it.
> Not a nice way to engage in debate.

So...you didn't read the survey.
It probably wasn't hard; Red Hat nuked CentOS in 2020.
"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public"
I use openSUSE Aeon (former MicroOS Desktop) for about a year. It is based on rolling Tumleweed and the system is stable. It updates on a background automatically.

If you are not looking for a fine tunning your system and expects stable (yet bleeding edge) base, which just works, I can recommend it.

The biggest thing is that the model pushes one to embrace usage of a distrobox/flatpak.
I think that "namespacing" basic types such as u32 is completely unecessary.

In what world would an u32_MYLIB would be different than an u32_SOMELIB?

Basic types are common enough.
Perhaps you are describing Erlang?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language)#...
Well, no, it can produce a probability distribution over all possible tokens, among which ‘yes’ or ‘oui’ or ‘はい’ or ‘totally’ or ‘no’ or ‘nein’ or the beginning of ‘as a large language model I am unable to answer that question’ are all represented. Which is either more or less impressive than just being able to answer ‘yes or no’ depending on your priors I guess.

There’s maybe an interesting philosophical question of perspective there because if you think of the GPT as answering the question ‘if you had just read this, what token would you expect to read next?’ That doesn’t seem like a question that necessarily requires ‘intelligence’ so much as ‘data’. It’s just a classification problem and we’ve been throwing NNs at that for years.

But if you ask the question ‘if you had just written this, what token would you expect to output next?’ It feels like the answer would require intelligence.

But maybe they’re basically identical questions?
> Trying to impute the motives of ones interlocutor is dumb and boring.

I know right? You should see the response to my point that nobody has been convinced to fly a plane into a building by an LLM. “Dumb and boring” hits the nail on the head.

> Seeing how confidently and obtusely people dismiss the risks of AI
That is true. Switching from buying Britannica to using Wikipedia is counted as a reduction in GDP as GDP counts what you spend and Wikipedia is free, even if it's better.

The UK basket of goods is here https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/arti... and the various sublinks.
Is it possible for private companies to pay dividends? Let's say you retire and you own a portion of a small but thriving company. Could that company potentially provide you with dividends as a form of income?
Hey HN community,

I had quite the day! Earlier today, I shared an article here on HackerNews which to my surprise (and joy!) quickly climbed to the front page - an experience that was entirely new to me.

However, the influx of traffic caught my server off-guard, and the service, regrettably, went down under the weight. I spent the better part of the day scrambling to rectify this, and I've since migrated my hosting to Google Cloud to future-proof against such instances.

Regardless, I feel immensely proud of the article I've written and I believe it would be a shame for it to go unseen just because of some unexpected technical difficulties. I've decided to repost it here, knowing full well it may not achieve the same front-page status. However, my hope is that those who were interested earlier and wanted to give it a read, will now have the chance.

I'm sincerely grateful for your understanding and support. My aim was, and remains, to contribute valuable content to this fantastic community that I've learned so much from.

Here's to fewer technical glitches and more learning experiences in the future! Thank you.
In what way? I haven't had the opportunity to try it out myself yet.
> No other language I know has an equivalent tool.

I completely agree: this has been my experience as well.
> Would stronger (and enforced) anti trust laws be a solution?

Stronger employee control and delayed decision-making would be a solution.

To take a spin at it:

- Any business that merges would be subject to two binding votes (x+2 & x+5 years) with "We wish to remain merged" or "We wish to spin off," voted upon by anyone who has been employed in the merged business at any time between the merger and vote (subject to some voting power apportionment, but resolutely not using share ownership)

- The federal government is obligated to perform an x+5 & x+10 year review of the merger's effect on the competitive landscape, with the power to forcibly unwind the merger

It would decrease valuations of M&A-targets, and decrease M&A activity, but I don't think anyone would argue that's intrinsically a bad thing in the modern competitive landscape.
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I will start measuring things in jiras, thanks :)

Also I bet the reason is more of architecture in your web app. It's harder to make it as fast, for sure, but it shouldn't hang or be unusable.
TS is just modern JS with type annotations.

Zig OTH is "just C" but with a modern syntax, much more correctness, comptime, reflection, generics, a rich standard library, an integrated build system, cross-compiling that 'just works'.

(I'm sure I forgot a couple of things)
Someday, when the AI releases a nanobot swarm comes to kill us all, a philosopher's last words will be "yes, but is it truly intelligent?" before he is broken down into biodiesel that will be used to power the paperclip factories.
As someone hosting my own smart home (Home Assistant), NVR for cctv (frigate), cloud (NextCloud), file syncing (Syncthing), plus various others things like pihole, etc. and giving tech support to all my family members who are using all these services, I think it's more than 20% of my time! But it's totally worth it.
https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/...

I, umm... hmm.
> that's exactly why so many startups get bought.

It's also why so many startups get started in the first place. Buyout being the goal.
Is anybody in tech really expecting a good raise this year?
Careful, you're dangerously close to suggesting an effects system. If the function explicitly marked as doing unsafe math operations calls another that doesn't specify a preference, should its math operation be safe or unsafe? If the former, this makes it likely a better default, but limiting in its usefulness. If the later, then your compiler now has to keep track of this information for the entire call graph.
That doesn't change the risk profile one bit though.
> Eliezer is one of a handful of people putting their reputation on the line

I have a hard time understanding why anyone takes Yudkowski seriously. What has he done other than found a cult around self-referential ideologies?

By self-referential I mean the ideology's proof rests on its own claims and assertions. Rationalism is rational because it is rational according to its own assertions and methods, not because it has accomplished anything in the real world or been validated in any scientific or empirical-historical way.

Longtermism is particularly inane. It defers everything to a hypothetical ~infinitely large value ~infinitely far in the future, thereby devaluing any real-world pragmatic problems that exist today. War? Climate change? Inequality? Refugee crises? None of that's important compared to the creation of trillions of hypothetical future minds in a hypothetical future utopia whose likelihood we can hypothetically maximize with NaN probability.

You can see how absurd this is by applying it recursively. Let's say we have colonized the galaxy and there are in fact trillions of superintelligent minds living in a pain-free immortal near-utopia. Can we worry about mere proximate problems now? No, of course not. There are countless trillions of galaxies waiting to be colonized! Value is always deferred to a future beyond any living person's time horizon.

The end result of this line of reasoning is the same as medieval religious scholasticism that deferred all questions of human well being to the next world.

I just brought this up to provide one example of the inane nonsense this cult churns out. But what do I know. I obviously have a lower IQ than these people.
SUSE gets an ex-Red Hat CEO and decides to offer support for RHEL. Interesting. Seems RHEL is still the gold standard of commercial support ;) DISCLAIMER: I’m a 18 year Red Hatter and know the SUSE CEO since many years.
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This add-on bypasses 90% of paywalls:

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea...
> For now it seems more for executive

For me it seems more like a devkit targeted at developers who are supposed to figure out what can you even do with it.
I would really want to buy nvidia over overpriced RTX 4090. Is it possible for you to run some standard benchmark like this[1]?

[1]: https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/benchmarks
apple enterprise is an even thinner slice of that
They are, yeah. I didn’t realise to start with. I played a couple of older games and managed to get 0 miles on one too - though there was a hint in the second photo that got me within 12 miles and it was easier find it from there.
I'm laughing at the study methodology, not the underlying topic.

Please don't call me idiotic.

I'd wager I have spent at least 10,000 hours more than you working on (real) safety analyses for (real) AI systems, so refraining from insinuating I'm dismissive would also be nice. But refraining from "idiotic" seems like a minimum baseline.
I'm referring primarily to the hardware side of this from a roadmap perspective.

I don't think early politics about how apps get shipped plays too much into the core planning for the device, e.g. form factor, manufacturing, user interactions, structure of built-in apps, etc. are all pretty much orthogonal to the app distribution model.

But even then, there were clearly two camps, which means there was a disagreement about a specific path, but not a lack of forward thinking. And then they course corrected. Something that many companies simply do not do.
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These kinds of silly games become tedious when you're trying to get something done, not to mention potentially damaging to your reputation given that the audience is your colleagues.
> That makes about as much sense as banning marriage.

Banning marriage actually makes a lot of sense, according to some. Why is the state even involved in such private matters in the first place anyhow?
this is where we need to start putting a premium on the customer's time. If a company sell you a product, and you spend 4 hours on the phone with support for an issue that turns out to be their fault, you should get reimbursed or credited for that. If a customer has to spend time repeatedly "turning it off and on again" - the customer should get a credit for that. Yes, this will require companies to use all of their telemetry and logging for tracking lost customer time due to their errors.
Does this mean the phone only charges during the day? It won't charge at night when solar and wind are least effective and fossil fuel power is used nearly exclusively?

If that's true, it would be most inconvenient for me as I only charge my phone at night, while I'm sleeping. Seems simple enough to disable but to change the charging behavior on an update might be a bit of a shock if you expect your phone to charge at night and it didn't. I'd likely replace my charger first, which is wasteful, before checking if my phone was just "being green."
GOP disdain for FBI jeopardizing renewal of warrantless domestic surveillance