skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GPT-4 takes a shot:

> Imagine an AI that could fundamentally alter its own sensory perception and cognitive framework at will. It could “design” senses that have no human equivalent, enabling it to interface with data and phenomena in entirely novel ways.

Let’s consider data from a global telecommunication network. Humans interface with this data through screens, text, and graphics. We simplify and categorize it, so we can comprehend it. Now imagine that the AI “perceives” this data not as text on screens, but as a direct sensory input, like sight or hearing, but far more intricate and multidimensional.

The AI could develop senses to perceive abstract concepts directly. For instance, it might have a “sense” for the global economy’s state, feeling fluctuations in markets, workforce dynamics, or international trade as immediately and vividly as a human feels the warmth of the sun.

Simultaneously, it can adapt its cognition to process this vast and complex sensory input. It could rearrange its cognitive structures to optimize for different tasks, just as we might switch between different tools for different jobs.

At one moment, it might model its cognition to comprehend and predict the behaviors of billions of individuals based on their online data. The next moment, it might remodel itself to solve complex environmental problems by processing real-time data from every sensor on Earth.

In essence, the AI becomes a cognitive chameleon, continually reshaping its mind to interact with the universe in ways that are most effective and efficient. Its thoughts in these diverse cognitive states would likely be so specialized, so intricately tied to the vast sensory inputs and complex cognitive models it’s employing, that they are essentially impossible to translate into human language.
>The <iostream> operator overloading syntax is bad

In an obnoxious way. The first code someone will see of a new language is often 'hello world'. In C++, 'hello world' is an advertisement for the fact that operator overloading exists.
Interestingly, it seems to me Elon was mostly right. Overall, twitter is doing just fine, everything runs for me, influencers from the fields I follow like AI or software engineering are still there, still posting regularly. From people I follow, I didn't notice anyone leaving.
Related:

* Fruit Fly Brain Observatory https://www.fruitflybrain.org/#/posts/explore_ffbo which lets you visualize and explore datasets

* Neurokernel http://neurokernel.github.io/ - open source software which "aims to build an open software platform for the emulation of the entire brain of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster on multiple Graphics Processing Units (GPUs)." See also: http://www.bionet.ee.columbia.edu/projects/neurokernel

The recent work being published on this is pretty wild:

* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7614541/ (summaries: https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/wiring-map-reveals-how-lar... and https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/complet...)

Oh, and just in case people haven't read this, I'll just drop this short story from a few years ago Lena (MMacevedo): https://qntm.org/mmacevedo - like with AI, I think science fact will be rapidly catching up w/ fiction soon.
Dentists would see an uptick in business too.
I chuckled quite a bit when I realized Musk was buying Twitter to put an end to the totalitarian censorship practiced by the left. And unsurprisingly, Musk is now the big adversary.
The assumption is that Facebook doesn't want to allow non-targeted ads as they don't make enough money. If they could force you to pay them or accept the target ads, (either of which would make them more money than non-targeted ads) , then they probably would.
Strongly agree with your first part, but with the second part, it's not always a lack of drive. I have a ~3k stars github project, and tried fairly hard to monetize it (even took VC money at one point), but without any success.

I realized that monetizing is mostly about selling, which I'm simply not good at (probably because I hate it). Telling open source developers to simply get more hustle isn't really a solution.

A big open source project isn't even good for your career. In my experience, recruiters don't care at all.
I think the primary point of this article is that it's not even telemetry and bloatware (though I'm sure those don't help either), but app frameworks. Apps that used to be written in C using light-weight ui frameworks meant for the much weaker machines of 20 years ago, are now written in all sorts of fancy, modern, sometimes cross-platform frameworks like UWP and Electron, interpreted languages, languages that require a VM, etc. Those systems are apparently a lot slower, require more time to initialise, etc.

And it's all done to save developer time, because for the past 30 years we've been saying that developer time is more expensive than execution time, and that may be true, but we haven't really considered the impact on user time.
...at which point the code written in C will suffer from BOTH categories of bug, while code written in any language whose compiler guarantees memory safety will not.

Guaranteeing memory safety isn't just an overhyped benefit meaningful only to Rust fanboys. It is also one important reason why much code is written in Java, Python, or JavaScript. It is a valuable property for any language to have.
I always think HN could be improved by having a paragraph summary of each link in addition to the title. (Of course how and who would create such a summary then becomes a problem).

Anyway the summary of this link to save anyone clicking through (copied from the youtube summary):

The internet is ever changing, but over the past couple of years things have started to change. The proportion of bots in increasing. A theory dubbed “The Dead Internet Theory” that states that most of the internet is in fact AI bots. These bots have been unleashed to control the populous and rake in profits. But is it true? And if so, how much of it is true?
My first job was as one of the programmers in an interdisciplinary team that was mostly made of field experts (healthcare) and cognitive psychologists that designed games to make learning more effective.

I was probably one of the handful people who were actually paid to program Apple IIs in Brazil.

It was a remarkable experience to work at a applied research centre early in my career (I was in my second year in college) that had a lasting impact on everyone involved.
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I'd also mention Clojure also has a very performant 'tech.ml.dataset' equivalent to dataframes

Maybe I'm wrong, but AoS VS SoA seems like an old C false dichotomy that's been already effectively resolved

If you need to choose between the two then the answer is probably neither - use an appropriate table datastructure

There is an extra layer of abstraction and software, but I don't really see any downsides. I'd love to hear some arguments against
"Data consistency issues? We'll catch those during integration"
They did it before with cable TV: they promised customers that by paying for a cable TV subscription, they wouldn't have to watch ads. That didn't last very long. They lied before, so they're probably lying now.

Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
I feel like the type of license does matter, consider the case if most open source as AGPL instead of MIT for example?
This behaviour is pragmatic.
That seems unusually high? ISBN 978-0262046305 is the latest edition, which I see on Amazon.de for 116€ (and you can get older/used editions for less).
I always wondered why google doesn't just interleave the ads straight into the video stream until the user has finished watching them? Plenty of streaming services do this now and it's not like youtube is still serving up a big .mp4 file to download these days, it's all just small segments.
I feel like we have computers 10x faster with software 10x slower. And our day to day experience isn't that different.

I have an app bar, desktop icons, a window manager, search, and a web browser.

It's a bit prettier but I don't notice anything so different. It's as though we're running in place.

Shouldn't software and hardware get faster year after year?
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>With youtube premium they stop showing you ads.

They promised the same thing with cable TV when it was new.
One could say that same about Hinton and LeCun.
Maybe read “Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata”. Forces you into that mode you were in earlier in your life.

I found the experience enlightening.
There is only one reliable way to do market research, and that is to sell the product. Find a restaurant with an outdated website. Go into the restaurant and take a paper menu and create a website with the updated menu, make the website responsive, if you can't upload the information to Yelp, screenshot the Yelp page and replace the prices and photos with Microsoft Paint.

Walk into the restaurant and sell it to the owner. If he buys it, congratulations! Now you have to go build it.
Having spent a little time writing toy projects with Go channels, I have an increased appreciation for GCD.

I think it has an amazingly low barrier to entry for dealing with simple parallelism. I can see why it's still the gatekeeper for concurrency in iOS and macOS software given how flexible the API is.

(In particular, being able to pass queues to publishers in Combine is a little bit of sweetness that makes it more of a joy to use)
Sorry, I wrote that comment too quickly. It is close to impossible to recover ka, kb and ka.kb.P, even given A=ka.P, B=kb.P and P.
Almost two decades worth of content now locked behind worsening ad dystopia. I wish they didn't have this amount of immense power over the human race and the information it has access to.

Alphabet Inc needs to be broken with antitrust. Youtube has to be a separate company.

What a massive failure of democracy that this hasn't happened already.
Fuck FAANG.
> For now.... Until they decide to increase the price of ad free premium and introduce a new tier at the original price that includes ads.

Sure, but if that happens you cancel then. Not paying now because it might get worse in the future seems a bit backward.

Unfortunately the enshittification of the whole experience is almost guaranteed, I agree with you there. But for now Youtube Premium is very much worth it when watching a lot. I have watched >160 hours since January [0] and am super happy with it. I always use an ad blocker so my experience hasn't changed. But it feels like the right thing to do. Also because content creators get more money per view from premium users. And because I pay for the family plan I don't have to be subjected to overhearing ads played by my immediate family either.

[0] Youtube shows stats on the account page on how much the premium features were used since going premium.
Can SQLite have multiple processes writing to the same database? Is this safe?
> With youtube premium they stop showing you ads.

But you still have to sit through the sponsor segments, right? Which are getting increasingly egregious - I've seen 12 minute videos with almost 3 minutes of sponsor fluff in the middle.

(Although if YouTube Premium has a better recommendation algorithm, I'd definitely pay for that given the current one is garbage.)
Then you'd post-hoc stop paying?
It's also not very good so even that doesn't make it value for money.
This is not what it means. Maybe you're thinking of page faults, which happen for this reason among other reasons.
On /r/midjourney subreddit there are posts like "the most stereotypical person in [state/country]", "what midjourney thinks professors look like based on their department". You can see some interesting biases in the training data.

https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/top/?sort=top&t=year
The government is deeply involved in the "free market", like when it defends trademarks, copyrights, and contracts by force or threat of force.
> It's important to realize that for banks IT is a cost center

Is this a US phenomenon? Where I live, banks are routinely promoting how they are more modern due to their tech. It's far from a cost center and has been like that for at least 2 decades now.
Or maybe dehumanizing people is wrong no matter who does it. Just like Fascism. As long as its the same mechanisms at play, this is only a discussion about palpable degrees. Which when judged only by who does it always end on the worse part of the spectrum.

I believe its worth pointing out, that both Ukraine and Russia are using conscripts. As in innocent men that get murdered by their government for "reasons". So no, dehumanizing them is not acceptable. The cognitive dissonance necessary to justify this by citing fears of fascism is quite something.

It might also be worth pointing out, that this is lesser evil logic. Which if you recall is how we got fascism in Germany, by scaring people enough with the threat of the Bolsheviks.

edit: Also, just because OP is trolling doesnt mean that dehumanization is acceptable. Especially if that is the expectable reaction.
I have 120Hz on my phone and the difference is remarkable. But I'm still sceptical. I just wonder if rendering at 120Hz then averaging the two frames to display at 60Hz would have the same effect. It seems like a pretty simple demo to set up (if you know how). Does this exist somewhere? To convince me that real 120Hz is actually worth it.
Sorry, the Twitter outage really hurts. Do you have another link with the same content?
Cover up child abuse for years and get immunity from prosecution, no punishment
Are you joking? Learning nonlinearities by hidden representations ranks among the most important scientific discoveries of the past fifty years.
I was experience a case : whole system (a stateless distributed tier) down caused by a user input (the user try again and again until all instances down).
This makes sense. Musk seems to be turning Twitter from the unofficial town square of the internet into a much more closed and private affair. Members only, and preferably only the ones that pay. Twitter is undoubtedly going to be much smaller and less important in the future, and people should stop treating it like the town square that it once was. You need to look for a different platform if that's what you want.
So close... The display with the smallest pixels in my collection has been the quirky Essential PH-1; its display is a silly 504 ppi. I loved that thing, but the device is no longer supported by official updates.

It looks mighty nice, just 4 ppi short of exactly 2x pixels per linear inch of these new Macs. I have no idea why.
My issue with this is that this kind of instance hopping can easily kill a network. Many who were on my instance that shut down didn't migrate away in time and now they lost all their posts, follows, and followers. Many of those won't bother to come back from that terrible experience. I still see those people in some users' friend lists over there (months later) and if I click on them, Mastodon just breaks with a cryptic error message.

So. With Mastodon instance admins and this kind of drama, making internal strife about politics, gender equality, whatever, between a few persons affect thousands of users and greatly inconvenience them, and running a personal Mastodon instance taking great technical know-how and basically being a bit of a geek, I still consider these major issues with Mastodon as it stands today.

So, yes, I want to "enforce" people to hear me. If they choose to follow me. Because this means all the above problems are solved. The only problem federation solves today seems to be the scaling problem. Everything else is about friction and this kind of trouble and persistent worry. "Which instance do I pick" where it feels like you want to have an interview over a beer with the admin first. This has thus far been the major demotivator from what I've seen as a Mastodon user. I think I'd like it more like a P2P-based social network.
If you're going to put money on a mining exploration result you want to put it on JORC (or equivalent) certified results from a filed Technical Report at the Toronto TSX (or London Metals, Sydney Mining, South African Exchange, etc)

https://www.jorc.org/

JORC is Australian standard, however Anglo-Australian mining transnationals with the TSX as home base are the biggest mining concerns on the planet ATM.

Here is a third party discussion of the JORC definitions of 'Resource' Vs 'Reserve'

https://www.mmg.com/our-business/mineral-resources-and-ore-r...

* Mineral Resources can be classified as Measured, Indicated and Inferred, according to the level of geological knowledge and confidence.

* Ore Reserves can be classified as Proved or Probable on the basis of the Mineral Resource classification and consideration of all JORC modifying factors.

'Resources' can be wishful thinking until they're actually Measured (to a degree of confidence).
That's awesome haha. I aspire to be a dad like that one day xd.
I like the explanations, but it's jarring to see Bézier treated with such little respect that he doesn't even get his name spelled correctly.
I see. But I thought RHEL is a distribution. The issue here is that they are making patches to software and keeping all the patches behind a paywall ? My understanding is that packaging source code can be any license, not needed to be GPL.
Don't want to risk my Google account tho
Looks like they're reusing the name of their messaging app (also "Threads"), that was live between 2019 [1] and 2021 [2].

Nature abhors a vacuum, I guess.

[1]: https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/introducing-t...

[2]: https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/17/22787783/instagram-threa...
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> “Humans are in the business of consuming bananas”

Someone should have told Jean-Paul Sartre this. He didn’t have to be miserable wondering what it’s all about.
I paid for youtube premium, then youtube banned my account for "deceptive practices", on a 10+ year youtube old account tied to ~20 year gmail account has only ever viewed videos, only a handful of comments, last of which was years ago.

The kicker? When your youtube account gets banned, you cannot access the subscription page to even cancel youtube premium. You're only allowed to appeal every couple weeks, and for over 6 months appeal has been automatically rejected via automated system because rejection comes within minutes of submitting appeal.

The second kicker? I paid for another youtube premium account during the appeal process and somehow that account also gets banned for "deceptive practice". Same deal with appeal process.

The third kicker? I also pay for Google One, which boasts live person service. They basically said they have no ability to coordinate with youtube team and I'm shit out of luck. I'm assuming a live person told me that since it took a few days for the ticket to get processed.

So after 6 months and $150 and losing access to all my music and playlist on youtube music locker, I had to change credit cards to stop the charges on the gamble that it didn't affect my primary google account.

The final kicker. For shits and giggle I send another appeal on both accounts after a year. The second one somehow magically passed review and was unbanned. The first account, tied to my primary google/gmail of almost 20 years remains banned.
They wanted to allow adblocking for the desktop browser crowd. Until now.
I don't know if crime using a tool that's spying on you the entire time is a great idea. The one thing you can count with commercial AI is that whatever you use it for, everything you do will be heavily scrutinized.

By the time we have AI on the desktop, my AI will be monitoring my accounts 24/7, and would have contacted the bank and the police before the game even starts.

We don't keep people from creating websites just because they could create a phishing site. AI can be used for bad things, just like computers can generally, but I'd rather keep them both unrestricted. If someone's doing something bad with a computer, or an AI, go after the person committing the crime. AI will even help you catch them.
I actually have a feeling not that many people around the world will be confused between this and an IPv6 based low-power mesh networking protocol for IoT devices.
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This says RHEL builds on top of linux. Isn't every SaaS out there built on linux? They are all obligated to now release their code? I don't get it.
Here are a few massively successful standalone projects built inside Google

1. Google Cloud - 50+ services with varying degress of success
2. Gmail
3. Google Apps for work
4. Google Chrome
That's why we have the Copyleft licenses like the GPL, which are also Open Source.
We are already paying by letting the Goog pillage our data and now you want me to hand these thieves my credit card?
Care to name few?
Text-to-image models have at least two dimensions of performance: Image quality and text understanding. Midjourney is outstanding at image quality, since it is able to make pictures with few "artifacts", like messed up hands. But it isn't so great at understanding text. For example, the new Dall-E version used by Bing is significantly better than Midjourney in producing an "invisible monkey", although far from perfect:

https://www.bing.com/images/create/an-invisible-monkey-with-...

(Adobe Firefly also fails the invisible monkey task, despite usually having better image quality than Bing/Dall-E.)