skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another problem (which Tegmark writes about) is math will have to change. Some of the math we study will have to be part of illusion - there is no “one” math currently, and how could something exist in MUH which isn’t computable. His vision pairs down math, much to the ire of many mathematicians. But it is not unviable, we don’t need much of math for physics.
Notice they didn't mention how incredibly outdated all these applications are? Our financial money transfer system is an ancient joke. The IRS has systems that are hopelessly out of date and limited in capabilities.
It's really easy and safe to sign a contract for a newer mainframe; porting a legacy app is fraught. Middle-upper management goes for what's safe, not what could torpedo their career.

The hardware might be whiz-bang but the legacy applications are slow, outdated, and extremely hampered in functionality.

In my state, the birth records system is electronic, and so is our RMV. But in order to get a RealID, I had to get a paper copy printed out to bring to the RMV because they can not, or will not, integrate the two systems. Meanwhile other countries have things like electronic ID cards with personal certs so you can electronically sign documents and identify yourself.

The whole thing is a giant puff piece for IBM, reading like a sales presentation transcript.
It's hard to think of many services that haven't disappeared or gone to shit over the last twenty years. Even if you have a friend in a company that manages this for you and could help you out they might not be around or at that company in twenty years. Speculation:

Best and most expensive. You'd probably need to make a contract with a third party to actively manage this for you. Ideally with your own domain to be able to switch providers. There are existing providers that do this type of thing: I have to do something similar with medical records retention and my retirement within a medical corporation in case I get hit by a bus tomorrow, but your timeframe is longer.

Cheapest. Practically if it's fairly hands off and reactive to cancellations or service outages you have a backup on another provider through forwarding or IMAP.

Middle ground? Business contact with Microsoft or a similar player. I'm not sure it's worth their time.
Well, for one, lack of capable personnel. Nobody learns IBM Mainframes in school, and most jobs for them want experience. Furthermore, they're not sexy but boring, with paywalled docs and similar shitty "enterprise" techniques, making it so very few people actually want to or manage to learn them. And it's a dead end, career-wise (very few companies use them, so changing jobs isn't as easy as more widely used tech).

So what will happen when in 10 years the last people you have that know how it works are retired?

Not to mention tech debt.
Integral Neural Networks (CVPR 2023 Award Candidate), a nifty way of building resizable networks.

My understanding of this work: A forward pass for a (fully-connected) layer of a neural network is just a dot product of the layer input with the layer weights, followed by some activation function. Both the input and the weights are vectors of the same, fixed size.

Let's imagine that the discrete values that form these vectors happen to be samples of two different continuous univariate functions. Then we can view the dot product as an approximation to the value of integrating the multiplication of the two continuous functions.

Now instead of storing the weights of our network, we store some values from which we can reconstruct a continuous function, and then sample it where we want (in this case some trainable interpolation nodes, which are convoluted with a cubic kernel). This gives us the option to sample different-sized networks, but they are all performing (an approximation to) the same operation. After training with samples at different resolutions, you can freely pick your network size at inference time.

You can also take pretrained networks, reorder the weights to make the functions as smooth as possible, and then compress the network, by downsampling. In their experiments, the networks lose much less accuracy when being downsampled, compared to common pruning approaches.

Paper: https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2023/papers/Solods...

Code: https://github.com/TheStageAI/TorchIntegral
"Breaking change" means it changes existing behavior. As in I used to get 'banana' when I passed 'b' and now I get 'bicycle'. If I still get 'banana', you didn't break anything.
Social platforms come and go. Back then, people gained "views" and "followers" on IRC and blogs. Some pages I follow on FB are dying out because their viewers stop coming on FB and donating. Twitter is next, then it will be Instagram...
It’s as if this man child is on a personal vendetta to destroy and deform Twitter after they “made him” follow through with the purchase of Twitter.

This, together with the Reddit debacle and the whole Threads privacy thing really puts a spin on social.

What a time to be alive.
It really depends on the person. I found that budgeting apps with bank integrations were quick and convenience, but I wound up in the trap of only doing the most superficial analysis. ("Yep, sure did spend that much.") For myself, manually logging purchases is far more effective. It's a similar observation as I had in college, where I found that hand-writing my notes helped me learn better than typing them.
My son qualified for $100 a year in federal loans. To my dismay, he actually took that loan. I had to have a conversation with him that it is better to just pay the $100 and not have the possibility of missing payments, getting interest and penalties, etc... Everything he has is a private loan which I cosign for -- and with an 850 credit score, I didn't get anywhere close to the advertised interest rates.
Measuring Faithfulness in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
Why would Mint, a desktop-oriented fork of Ubuntu, be more secure than Ubuntu?
Why do I have this long term feeling that I exist in a specific mathematical universe and is absent from all others, or at least represent an unique path distinct from all other paths which I am not?

Who does the feeling part? Who is the audience? When you run simulation there's at least some audience, but in case of math universe there is only archeology, by definition. Mathematical object has no original, only replicas.
I think this is ignoring that different approaches to budgeting are needed for different people.

For me, I have a Monzo account that I put my monthly "disposable" income in. Monzo is a (mostly) UK digital bank with a good app that gives instant feedback on transactions. This means that after every transaction, Monzo tells me "you have £X left this month". This allows me to regulate my spending (e.g. not buy X until next month) if I've spent a lot of my budget half way through the month. It also means that when I'm spending a lot I can go and look at my transaction history for the last few months and work out where it's going so I know what spending to moderate. With cash that's just a black hole.

Also, I just find cash to be a pain to deal with and have basically eliminated it from my life. You have to regularly visit machines to make sure you've got some, you have to carry it around (notes are fine, coins are annoying), you have to faff when paying to give and receive the correct change.
> There’s a lot more non-rich people though. So even at 1 throw each you’d expect them to be most of the successes under this theory.

Well, this is why we have to look at the numbers. And it depends on the odds. If it's one in a billion and the rich get ten million throws and the poor get 1 each then the fact there are a lot of non-rich people isn't as impactful.

> Of course there’s also hereditary factors at play that people like to ignore.

Yes, like having cash to throw around and a safety net to rely on so that those shots can be taken as well as easier access to potentially important connections and resources.
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No, not at all.

I'm suggesting that only those who really have a need for it should pay 100X the price.

For most others, buying reputable consumer grade and testing yourself might be a more reasonable option to eliminate a significant source of failures. You be the judge.
The testing I did back when I did this sort of thing was to put on a filesystem stress test automatically on boot, and then plug the whole system into a lamp timer set to hard cut the power every 15 minutes. I went through _dozens_ of cards, until I finally bit the bullet and went with the “100x more expensive than consumer grade”-grade from digikey. Every other option eventually failed, in the system-no-longer-detects-any-storage-in-the-slot sense of failure.
The relevant physics phenomenon goes by Brewster’s angle, as mentioned in Feynman’s rant against rote memorization[1] that essentially describes another common use for polarizing filters in photography—reducing or amplifying the reflection of the sky in bodies of water.

[1] https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/2255/
This seems a lot more low level than Mermaid.
To me, this is appropriately symbolic his efforts to kill Twitter.
I’m annoyed that this will be the bridge too far that killed a useful service, even though it was never one I checked daily. If I’d have known 6 months ago I would have accepted the offer to sell my twitter handle for $400.
10x more cold deaths than heat deaths in Europe
I believe the real reason for its survivability is the fact that you can pull a tape from the seventies and those binaries will run without any modification.
It's not only that you can easily recompile your COBOL from the '70s, the binary is still compatible. You've never been pushed to migrate to another technology.
Imagine the effort and 'knowledge' included in those evolved programs. The banks don't even know, and are conscious of it, how many laws and regulations they have encoded in there.

As someone stated in another comment, the software is the impressive part.
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You substituted the executive with the legislative which is telling, whether you did so in good faith or not. The reality is that Israeli parliament is weak and nearly wholly controlled by the government. Harari's point is that there is no force to counterbalance the executive other than the courts. If there was the court could possibly be weakened with democracy remaining somewhat intact. But of course the goal is not to restore checks and balances but unlimited executive power.

Yes secular Israelis could very well be toast if trends continue. What exactly do you think will be the fate of the messianic elements in that scenerio? On that note, happy tisha beav.
> trend

Overreach is a trend? So it will be passe eventually?

> global [...] run

To where, Mars?

(Thought I would complement your utterly unhelpful comment with one of my own.)
> Yes, the Nazi have built certain things competently, because their predecessors were colossally incompetent.

that wasn't my point, I was speaking about them promising things, not delivering

my point was if you completly remove ethical considerations from your voting process (and many people do so) then sooner or later you have some really bad people in power
They just cultivated the same howling mob of die-hard fans to shield themselves from valid criticism. Its way cheaper to run a hype-cult then produce good products or perform a clean up after a PR-Disaster.

Meanwhile they absurdly managed to make people beg for technological innovations fromt he main group at fault for technologic stagnation aka huge undefeatable monpolies.

To be emotional towards a company, means to become a p3wn.
The state of affairs is html. Just broken, outdated, and wildly inconsistent
> Yes, but she‘s an artist.

“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.” - Andy Warhol
I did some rough math for Europe, assuming 1.43 EUR / L (current price in Slovenia), and 7L / 100km (an IMO sensible ballpark for "mixed" driving in a modern-ish car). Turns out that makes for almost exactly 10EUR / 100km (=0.1 EUR / km), or 10km / EUR.

I used a ballpark of 30000 EUR of a difference (which is also very close to the current exchange rate!), and the result: 300 000 km.

Note that this doesn't mean that you have to drive for at least 300 000km, because electricity isn't necessarily free. Therefore, the number is likely to be higher. Also, realistically, one will likely need at least 1 battery replacement (~6000 EUR, as far as I'm aware) during this time.

THAT SAID, as fuel prices go up, the required "break-even" distance is going to decrease, as `km / EUR` you get with fossil fuels decreases.
In the US, here is the sensible “magic” formula:

Go to community college for 2-3 years, then matriculate from the university. Way cheaper, better teacher/instructors, more time to mature, start early in 12th grade, and the diploma is from the university.

What do you lose? 2-3 years of goofing off at a country club.

What do you gain? time and money.
Sugar releases dopamine in the brain.
Once at college I did feel the playing field was even, but you may be missing a lot of context before that. I grew up on welfare with a single mother, in a neighborhood where all of my friends were on welfare with single mothers. Only a handful of my neighborhood friends went to college. NONE of my hometown friends are STEM people. That stuff isn't even close to their radars. It took me years in college to get out of a petty criminal mindset and just be a regular person. I still don't feel like I belong amongst "rich" people (aka middle class).
It is wrong to think it has nothing to do with intelligence, especially repeated success.
Are computers conscious? If not, why not, and can they be programmed to be conscious?

> Don't over-complicate this shit.

One big issue that makes this difficult is that we have no understanding of how it's possible for physical matter to possess consciousness. Absolutely none, just lots of conjecture with no evidence or well-developed theory to support it.

If you have a non-complicated answer to all this, you will be world-famous for solving the hard problem of consciousness (https://consc.net/papers/facing.html).
It's not. The point of cash is to make you more psychologically aware of what you're spending so that you're less likely to buy something you don't need in the first place.

All of the online transaction tracking only helps with purchases that you've already made, so you can say "maybe I shouldn't have done that"...after the fact.

Cash based budgeting works beautifully, but it requires a change from what you're used to and there are certainly trade offs. If you're looking to save money though, cash budgeting is like magic.
Tegmark proposes no such thing; indeed, he may as well be proposing the exact opposite of what you claimed. He is essentially suggesting that all mathematical structures are "real", which would explain why the universe exists at all -- presumably because it is also a mathematical structure.
President Biden wanted Gigi Sohn to fix America’s internet – what went wrong?
> Maybe he is really being paid by the Saudis to intentionally ruin Twitter to reduce the freedom of speech

Conspiracy theories aside, one has to wonder how all the geniuses running the sovereign wealth funds and investment banks that backed his Twitter takeover missed all the red flags. It's almost as if they don't have any idea what they are doing. Or they really bought into a cult of personality rather than a business strategy.
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> Yes I think he got lucky multiple times, because his failures are also quite significant. Remember hyperloop? Remember he got kicked out of PayPal? Remember boring company? Remember solar city?

Failure is precisely how we learn. To be afraid to fail does not lead to success.
This is my go to diagramming tool. It takes a lot of little tricks to get things to turn out exactly how you want, but they're not required. It communicates information just fine. The tricks are only required if you care about aesthetics.
Cleaning Up ChatGPT Takes Heavy Toll on Human Workers
Deutsche Bank’s 13-year attempt to kill off an IT system finally worked
https://archive.is/UqANH
This gets into the social construct of what makes a race and what qualifies as racism. For example, often discrimination based on ethnicity and not race still gets classified under racism even though it wasn't based on race. For a purely pedantic sense, it is ethnicism or some such word that doesn't seem to exist, not racism. Yet we generally recognize it as 'close enough' and group it together. Birth place discrimination can often be thrown in for the same reason, especially if there are racist beliefs concerning birth place that factor into the logic (assuming that anyone born in Asia must be Asian).

Close enough to count if this were horseshoes.
> This is a power US citizens are not familiar with.

For the US citizens: imagine that SCOTUS turns down affirmative action — not because "this Court has found affirmative action unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause", but because "this Court has found affirmative action highly unreasonable".
I worked on a mainframe for a major airline over 20 years ago. I always found it amusing that Sabre detailed my programs/jobs to cost the airline almost 7 figures a year; I never knew if that was real dollars or price to be negotiated down. Most of my programs was to repackage yesterday's flights and passenger data into CSV files so an external program can pick them up and ETL into a data warehouse. At the time, there was no utility like ODBC. I had to use JCL and SAS and my own created utilities. I even had to write a utility to output to CSV (there was none offered out of the box by IBM or SAS).
While I could make the same reply to almost every comment in this thread I have chosen yours at random.

I believe you are conflating the goal of "spending less" (which is hard) with a simpler goal "knowing more about how I spent my money" (which is easy). You claim to review your paper trail to gain insights, but again, even if you truly did this consistently (and knowing human nature, I doubt that you do) this in no way means you spend less.
Plenty of x86 CPUs have had crypto instructions in the last decade or so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_SHA_extensions
I don't need to answer any of those questions to state what I did as facts. They aren't grounded in the same evidence.
Look I get it, he’s passionate and loves what he does. But there’s something about not even taking a day to step back on your 100th birthday that just doesn’t sit right with me.

Although from the sentiment in this thread I guess that makes me the minority. I’m also not a Nobel laureate, to each their own I guess.
Sorry, but how are we supposed to access the main content of each how-to?
As someone else observed, many computer & robotic systems have some sort of real-time continuous representation of time/space. Do you think they're conscious?
I suspect OnlyFans will be a big A.I. victim.
Public service announcement - these kind of maps are known as isochrone maps and they're anything but new, but are (IMHO criminally) unpopular. They're extremely helpful when house hunting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isochrone_map
VBox extensions are needed for remote desktop integration and USB passthrough newer than USB 1.1 iirc. Hmm, and maybe 3d acceleration? Not sure exactly, but anyway, iirc: sound, folder sharing, and definitely mouse integration are part of the open source / freely licensed part.

I didn't know that KVM was a Linux kernel API actually, seems odd that they're not all using that as that sounds like it should indeed give the best performance and stability! Apparently proxmox does, but not vmware, virtualbox, qemu, or others whose name I might have heard.

> I'd expect the main use of a VM to be running random programs that don't work on the native OS

At work we use it for security, so things like meetings (video calls) are in a separate VM, so sound is a nice to have there, one could say. Privately, I indeed use it for running software that WINE has trouble with, like games, where sound is also not exactly optional if you want "your base is under attack" alerts. Lastly, I use it for some Windows server software that I fell in love with a decade ago and didn't manage to find a good Linux replacement for: there, indeed, I didn't need sound.

> Because it's already there

My start menu doesn't have virtualisation software out of the box, and apt install virtualbox is as simple as figuring out what front-end might be able to talk to KVM. Or, for Windows, finding where to get that command-line utility that talks to Hyper-V in the kernel for non-pro Windows versions

I agree about the Oracle hostility thing, though
Don’t you mean mathematics?
Furthermore, everyone, regardless of whether they are using a credit card, is paying for this in the form of higher prices (unless the vendor has separate cash prices...)
It sounds the same with "tweet". "Tweet" is a dumb name too, it's just normalized.
It’s also a massive stretch to describe the shuttle as “reusable” when the cost to refurbish the orbiter between flights was comparable to the cost of an expendable vehicle.
I ran Internet banking for a small bank in the early 2000's. We had our IBM mainframe right next to a bunch of HP/UX servers. It was just massive and had a nice red button which they warned all of us to stay clear from. I recall that was around the time running Linux on the mainframe was becoming a thing and we tried to run Websphere and our J2EE app on it. It was not successful (too slow) and we kept running on HP/UX.
They offhandedly mention 101 Dalmations and say it wasn't a success but it was profitable enough to get a squeal.
Or q:

https://code.kx.com/q4m3/9_Queries_q-sql/#93-the-select-temp...
Well that's good I guess. Just saying it would be nice for the external things I'm familiar with.
This is the most succinct pitch for Oxide, the problem is that many people do not know what the hyperscalers even are, so it doesn't land with a lot of folks.
So that people handling the servers are not tempted to look at them, so that backup don't contain them in clear text, so that export must explicitly chose to decrypt them or not, etc.
> Or Larry Ellison, who has somehow despite the odds miraculously managed to keep Oracle afloat and somewhat relevant for decades—no mean feat indeed?

I'm not sure how one can consider Larry Ellison more savvy and impactful than Musk.
The word "spectacular" is omitted from the headline. I think HN has a filter that removes vapid clickbaity words. But in this case it just made the headline nonsensical.
> AMD have released an microcode update for affected processors. Your BIOS or Operating System vendor may already have an update available that includes it.

Yes, I love flashing BIOS...

edit nvm, Microcode can get updated via system updates.
I suspect his glory days are right now.
Red Hat saved IBM’s bacon this quarter