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> Either people responsible for packaging have some vague or precise understanding of how their code is used, on which systems, what are its dependencies

But with python it’s a total mess. I’ve been using automatic1111 lately to generate stable diffusion images. The tool maintains multiple multi-hundred line script files for each OS which try to guess the correct version of all the dependencies to download and install. What a mess! And why is the job of figuring out the right version of pytorch the job of an end user program? I don’t know if PyTorch is uniquely bad at this, but all this work is the job of a package manager with well designed packages.

It should be as easy as “cargo run” to run the program, no matter how many or how few dependencies there are. No matter what operating system I’m using. Even npm does a better job of this than python.
Somehow this makes me think of games Back In The Day where you could simply replace your crosshair by editing a bitmap file, versus now where everything's so much more locked-down behind proprietary container formats and baked-in checksums, etc.
Yeah he had funny delivery but the COVID conspiracy shit just made me think "is this guy actually saying anything useful or is he just saying it in a funny way?" Was pretty clear it was just the latter.
The logo looks much like the x11 logo
I really relate to aspects of both of these comments above. 1. There is a last 1% problem, heck it's probably more like 10% problem with LLM generated code similar to the last mile problem with driverless cars.
2. The bigger thing that will impact the job market is, everyone, at global scale, is being told to learn to code. Every middle schooler in the US is seemingly assumed a failure by their school if they don't "learn to code". There will be so much exponential growth in junior devs over the coming years. Looking outside the US, software engineer salaries aren't that great. Can the US economy create an exponential number of high paying engineer jobs to offset the global exponential rise in qualified engineers trying to get those jobs? Companies will offshore via third parties like Accenture who will skim off the top the livable wage away from those people outside the US who Accenture offshores to, so even those people outside the US won't be winning. Any way you look at it, I believe there will be massive world wide pressure on US engineer jobs.
Part of it is running a manufacturing plant makes your typical Ivy League MBA's head hurt.
tl;dr: Not Actually How They Did It.
Ask HN: Approximately what percent smaller would a non-JS/WASM web browser be?
The question is in regarding the lines of code / binary size, of the output subset web browser.

Essentially it comes down to just a modern HTML + CSS standards rendering engine.
The design approach to programming it teaches you will serve you for the rest of your career.
> Or anyone who has witnessed the astounding behavior that dogs are capable of would certainly consider them intelligent in many of the same ways

Interestingly enough, even in the 60's people thought humans were the only animals with intelligence and emotions. Here's an excerpt from Jane Goodall's PIMA interview[0]

> GOODALL: Yes. And when these Cambridge professors told me that only humans had personalities, minds, and emotions, I knew they were totally wrong because I had this great teacher when I was a child. That was my dog, Rusty. You can’t share your life in a meaningful way with a dog, a cat, a rabbit, a horse, a bird, and not know that we are not the only beings on this planet who are sentient and sapient.

Later...

> GOODALL: When I started in 1960, nobody had studied chimps in the wild. No scientist, that is. If, at that time you had gone into some of the indigenous people living deep in the rainforest, they would’ve told you chimpanzees used to make tools. They knew it. But, of course, now we are back on the scientific bandwagon. ... But there’s a wonderful book written by a psychologist, called The Mentality of Apes, Wolfgang Köhler, and he studied this colony of captive apes, and he described so many innovative uses of objects. But at that time, the scientific community said, “Oh, well, these were chimpanzees in captivity. Therefore, our human characteristics had rubbed off onto them. It’s nothing to do with what they, as wild individuals, would be capable of.” ...

Even now there are a lot of people who believe that there is a certain magic when discussing brains. Quite a lot of people think it would be impossible to build one, theoretically. I'll say it loud and clear, unless there's magic, there's no reason we can't -- theoretically -- build a brain. It must follow the same principles of physics that the rest of the universe does. I'll also say that a fuck ton of life is intelligent, even my idiot cat. Just look at how they dream, you can tell that tiny dumb brain can simulate its environment (or else they wouldn't try to eat, run in their sleep, or wake up to nightmares). I know AI can do a lot of things right now, but boy is it not close to this incredible thing that the smallest and stupidest mammal is doing with magnitudes lower computational budget. It really is quite impressive. But this is also why AI research should be so interesting, because there's still so much left that we haven't even scratched the surface of. It is possible to be highly critical in one hand and hold curiosity in the other. The details are important though and we must not be tricked by statistics. But the area we're moving into now is going to get murky really fast and I'd warn anyone from trusting metrics as a way to measure performance more than a guide, because there's a lot we don't know. But that's the fun of it all, the puzzle, the draw to research in the first place.

[0] https://freakonomics.com/podcast/jane-goodall-changed-the-wa...
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> That's just not true, and I'm a bit tired of the tendency online to blame "big bad boogeyman conspiracy" whenever it's convenient.

> Yes, the auto and related industries have had huge impact on the design of our cities that now seems really unfortunate. But I don't think it was some big, evil master plan.

I think I understand your perspective, but why does it have to be an evil master plan? Large corporations aim to make more money for shareholders. If a car/oil corporation can advance a car-oriented agenda through lobbying, PR campaigns, etc, then that's the obvious choice and they'll do it. Clearly it's not an evil plan, it's just business.

And now, those same companies are massively enriched and in the position to lobby and create PR campaigns even more effectively to protect their profits. Again, it's just business.

The whole frustration of the poster you replied to was that these companies are powerful, influential in politics, and are able to stifle the political will to make changes that improve cities by de-emphasizing cars. This isn't to say that there's a boogeyman, a conspiracy of people pulling the strings. It's just to say that corporations advocate for profit above public good or public health.

So yes, of course there's no conspiracy. But also, these companies are not only directly responsible for the (perhaps unintended) adverse affects of cars on cities' public transit, but also are doubly responsible for the influence they exert every day on the political system to keep the status quo.
Why are you so often in situations where you want to browse code but don’t have access to a general-purpose computer?
But the question is: how many collisions with IPs there are by showing only 4 digits of the hash

I think there's where the anonymity claims might have come from
twitter.com errors out for me every time now. Perhaps due to my adblocker. Not gonna debug: nothing of value was lost.
Daytona floor jacks, good stuff. Icon tools pretty much one step below Mac/Snap on. Cable Porter, Warrior, etc. brand well its cheap and disposable. Pittsburg - well you're buying brass brushes so you use em once and throw em in the fuckit bucket. The names they give stuff do a good job indicating what the quality is.
The opioid addict cases are probably more when entire cities gets fired because a company moves or shuts down.

Surely there will be cases where those that are replaced are unable to find work, but I am willing to bet that

1. Those cases are somewhat rare

2. They "make sense" (e.g. close to retirement anyway)

The common case is just to get a new job. Maybe the new job is not as good, maybe it is actually better in the long run.

There are plenty of jobs to go around these days. Unemployment is very low.

If I were to give advice I would personally tell people to stop looking for work that is "safe from automation" because over a long horizon very little is safe. Figure out how to work with the technology instead. Don't need to code there are lots of other ways to contribute.
You might appreciate then how fossil improves on git. When that happens with fossil you can also still update the issue tracker and wiki, while many (most?) people depends on a centralized system like GitHub or GitLab for the latter.
The trouble in this conversation is that I suspect we both consider each other to be exceptions to a rule. From my perspective, I'd say you're either one of the classifications of people I've identified to enjoy driving, or you're one of the minority that just actually like casual driving.

And on the other side, you're going to think I'm the exception to your rule where most people apparently like being out on the road.

From my subjective experience, driving appears to be an experience that induces some amount of stress that one would prefer to avoid if at all possible. For example, I don't know anybody that's psyched when they forget to pick something up on their last grocery trip and relish the chance to drive back to the shop for it. When remote work was beginning to take off, most people I knew fortunate enough to have that kind of job were just excited to not have to drive in to work every day. I could go on, but suffice it to say, people don't seem to enjoy to drive anywhere, from what I have observed. The destination is usually the thing to be excited by, as in: being finished with the drive there.

And from what I have observed, this generalization has been mostly true in the suburbs and even in small towns.
> We have set an impossible bar for animal and AI intelligence not on objective ontological premises

I'm not saying you're not wrong, but also what is an objective ontological premise with respect to intelligence. We've really been unable to define intelligence for thousands of years and I'm willing to claim that this definition is more complex than that of life.
I think the reality is if you can't afford to live on a single income the chosen area you want to live in isn't where you should be. If you can't get a singular salary which affords you to live in an area then you're selling yourself short.
So much nostalgia here. Arguably one of the late-90s/early-2000s programs that helped me get into software development, as it offered immediate rewards (ad-blocking or re-styling of favorite sites) in exchange for some modest not-too-technical experimentation.
Even with Musk being a divisive person, he's a mastermind when it comes to financial engineering. Tesla nearly collapsed several times and has eviscerated every single short sheller who took a run at it, some taking 9 figure losses.

It's pretty unwise to bet against Musk.
Doxxing people for wrongthink isn’t research.
You can use different httpd backends - webrick if you have ruby, python, etc
People are starving in the streets. I think this is a more spectacular failure than chandeliers produced by weight.
The world wants you to use git for binary file versioning?

I have never encountered that. Binary files are generally kept in something like SharePoint, where it is SharePoint which is then hated by everyone.

It's interesting that regardless of the tool, everyone seems to hate it. Perhaps if all tools are wrong, you are trying to force a bad usecase?
Cant you just feel those gains trickling down? If not, I'm sure it'll happen at any moment...
Depends on how you define quality. A car that feels nice to sit on and drive may not be the most reliable way to get you from point A to point B consistently. The reliability of many (at least older) Toyota models is impressive, while German reliability has been mostly a myth in the 2000's.
> Earth itself as a beautiful ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶p̶e̶r̶p̶e̶t̶u̶a̶l̶ ̶u̶t̶o̶p̶i̶a̶, ... But this planet is brutal, and has killed most of everything living on it

Why do these have to be in contention? I honestly find our world beautiful, same with space and the universe. Same with blackholes and quasars. But a grizzly bear can be majestic and beautiful while still capable, and likely, to rip you to shreds. Awe is probably a more apt word. Maybe the more archaic definition of awful or awesome.
Would it be more reassuring if it has been entrusted to silicon di*d*s?
Brain size correlates to cognitive ability quite well within a species. Outside of species, it gets much murkier on account of glial:neuron ratios among other confounds. As for whale brains, well who knows. Evolution isn't an optimizing force as you appear to believe, rather it is the tyranny of the merely adequate. The oceans are full of remarkably stupid creatures that haven't changed in hundreds of millions of years on account of having a lot of teeth and swimming well has proved sufficient.

And of course there's the interesting question of size efficiency. Vacuum tubes are considerably bigger than transistors, which in turn are considerably bigger than ICs. Perhaps raw size isn't really an interesting metric for cross-architectural brains either?
I remember a short time when posting "hacked materials" was a thing people were up in arms about, but that ship seems to have sailed.
They didn't say luxury is all marketing (ergo, the "if"); they said scoping your car as a luxury product while it's not devalues the meaning.

They then provided a specific example and pointed out that most products they've bought/researched from China (so, completely anecdotal) seem to be of lower quality.
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"Large brains mean intelligence" is one of those ideas from the Eugenics-and-phrenology era of science that we just can't seem to get rid of.

So if their brains are, you know, only eleventy times the size of a crows, how could they possibly have mastered the supreme technology of "broken sharp rocks" or "sometimes you can keep a fire going from embers and use it to burn shit"? Our best geniuses with IQs of 140+ can barely manage those tricks.

The assumption should be, going forward, that if you deem them closely enough related to our own species that you're putting them in the same genus, they were probably at least as intelligent as the bottom quintile of H. sapiens, with exceptional individuals up above that. Anything else is just bizarre prejudice.
I used the example of your ANS algorithm precisely because I think it's such a great contribution to the entire field of computer science, and really wanted to understand it. If you weren't on the other side of the planet from me, I'd offer to buy you a beer to say thanks for making my phone faster! https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4oie88/apple_h...

(And I think companies like Apple owe you a lot more than just a beer.)

My point is just that people learn in different ways, and often many different approaches need to be available so to that everyone can have that ah-ha moment. The diagram in your paper didn't work for me, and it was just frustrating that everyone else who did understand the algorithm just copy-pasted the diagram instead of re-framing the concept with new terminology or a different diagram.

Speaking of physics and the difficulty of understanding other physicists, I think the PDF you linked to is perfectly illustrative of the style of diagramming that doesn't "work for me". Too busy, many colours without apparent meaning, packing too much into one sheet, etc...

FYI, one of the smartest people I've ever met had the same style. I don't want to call it a mental illness, because it's more a "style of genius", but it's interesting that it's definitely a "recognisable trait" that some people have or don't have, like blue or brown eyes.

PS: I've been poking away at a TOE myself for over a decade, and my approach has been curiously similar to yours, also based on a "particles are topological quantities" concept.
As someone who gave up the academia dream for Big Tech, I can relate…
Sounds like you’re recognizing that the example is positive sum.

And bringing currency into the equation doesn’t change the fact that the plumber is better off for engaging in the trade.

Not all ways of spending money create the same value. He could also spend the money by burning it, which would be negative sum.
There are tons of WhatsApp encryption commercials going on at the moment here
Challenges and Applications of Large Language Models
Can't you just feel all that wealth trickling down?
I've made this same comparison between OS and DAWs and totally agree. I'm a reaper user for like 13 years now. I use it on a mac, though it's cool to see how far audio production on Linux has become, with both REAPER and now Bitwig available for Linux.
Löb's Theorem and Curry's Paradox
There's no user accounts on the system.

I would consider the topic a salt - the problem is that the input is so small - just a 32 bit number which makes the "password" (user ip) fast to break.

The sane solution would be to generate large random ids per ip address, topic. And burn the mapping after some time.
Kudos to eLife for pioneering publishing peer review along with paper.
Ardour was the first full-featured DAW for Linux IIRC. The author sometimes posts here on HN.
Yep, the trick of neoliberalism was they reduced worker shares of wages, but they tried to cover that up by reducing the price of commodities (but not fundamentals like land, education, healthcare etc).
Exactly, also 3year olds are capable of language.

How do you prove that something that lived 300.000 years ago could communicate?
Truly impressive endeavour! I would definitely love to contribute, thanks HN for showing this up this morning! Rust + architectural models + wgpu is a great combo!

I am still in the mid-early learning phase of Rust, but it's where I'm putting my learning juices in... and at this point I can consider myself a professional architectural 3D modeller (https://www.myminifactory.com/users/TheLazyForger).

Would be happy to contribute (in fact I opened a couple of issues right now), is there a Discord or equivalent? I couldn't seem to find it on the github readme.
If you find a security vulnerability, I don't think the right course of action is to spend thousands of dollars of GPU time to determine as many IPs as you possibly can, then write an economics paper about it.
I've had the misfortune of living in the district of the Assemblywoman behind this and getting email updates elucidating her PTA mom worldview. She is making a perfect transition from Covid neuroticism to this control-other-peoples'-kids lawmaking.

I bet she picks her kids up from the bus stop every day.
Interesting magazine! Here is another article from it, by Graham Priest, involving another kind of "Standard Model" (a logical notion, not related to the physical one): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36832916
I didn’t insinuate that at all. If I thought it was adaptive, why would I use it as an example of a non-adaptive property?
You've missed the point entirely. We do not live in a meritocracy.
Homosexuality is still on the books as a crime in the State of Texas and probably elsewhere, it's only a 2003 Supreme Court case that makes it unenforceable. A court case a lot of people on the Court wouldn't mind overturning, I might add.

You may think these things are way in the past, but to many who aren't even that grey haired it was only yesterday.

I'm not necessarily arguing for or against asylums, but just arguing what seems to be something fixed in society can easily be overly assumed as the standard. It wasn't long ago that abortions were federally protected, now it's much less so. I wouldn't assume that things always march forwards, especially in the current climate. Then again, it all depends on your point of view which way "forwards" is.

So sure, you and I here, we can agree we shouldn't just say "you're gay, therefore need to be institutionalized." But honestly, there's a lot of people still out there that think differently. And in some ways, they're gaining influence and power.
If this passes and non-App Store app downloads take off, then the biggest hit could be taken by Apple’s App Store revenues… and the UK gov will loose even more control when people start downloading properly encrypted software off platform from the open internet.
Well... I had some with dinner tonight, and I disagree. It's definitely distinguishable, and as a sibling mentioned Pibb is a lot more sugary, but it tastes pretty similar to Dr Pepper to me.
This company needs a factory factory factory
Insightful... not.

If Elon cared about maximizing ROI on that 44 BN, he wouldn't have bought Twitter.

Btw the amount of damage done to the cults of DIE, ESG, climate, globalism, and statism since last November has been multiple times greater, and done completely on Elon's dime. I really appreciate that. If the US Gov knew this beforehand I think they would have done something to prevent it.
It certainly wasn't intended to shade, I posted with the intent to show someone who obviously has an interest in something, something that might be of interest. Please check my comments, criticise yes, fairly juvenile sense of humour, check, shade, I hope not!
Is there a way to follow this research or you, personally? Do you have a blog? Just few your comments on HN demonstrate that you have tons of knowledge about modern science.
Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessel_function
Two-year-olds qualify as early small-brained-humans; many can talk and count.

The relationship between brain size and intelligence it tenuous. The human brain is not the largest.

The smallest (known) woman in the world, Jyoti Amge, isn't noted for any intellectual disability. Her head is obviously tiny compared to the average adult.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyoti_Amge
There were a couple of deleted tweets in the original thread.
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By way of contrast there's the final atomic blast sequence from Nicolas Roeg's Insignificance (1985) (with Gary Busey, Michael Emil, Theresa Russell, Tony Curtis, Will Sampson).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZeio-qk_2A

It's a simple premise, what if Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, and Joseph McCarthy meet in a hotel room.

From the director that bought us Walkabout (1971), Don't Look Now (1973), The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), Bad Timing (1980) and The Witches (1990).

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UguoW3xKP8U

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insignificance_(film)
The US is the team captain of the status quo coalition
Threads is the perfect Twitter alternative, just not for you