skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, but the hard part was the "intelligent" part, right? If you have the "intelligent" thing, and you want to get an "intelligent agent", all you have to do at most is wrap it in a shell script that runs the equivalent of an OODA loop, e.g. AutoGPT. So we should expect a "superintelligent agent" to appear pretty much the next day after a "superintelligence" is created.
It was the government school punishing a university professor for giving a guest lecture at another school. Both university professors (via tenure) and government employees (via the first amendment) deserve special protection from their employers to speak publicly.
Well let's hope that either:

- your "fact" that democracy is the only way out of this is actually and adequately true

- one or more persons doesn't assume your wild guess is necessarily true and launches a Plan B

It's funny: backup plans are considered good for IT Enterprises, but not for the planet they are located on. Seems illogical, but it is what it is.
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> Being disabled doesn't mean that you should be able to bypass the security of any system

Correct, but only in the sense that everyone should have the right to bypass attestation checks, not just disabled users.

> proposals like this help reduce the amount of captchas disabled users get

Citation needed. Chrome's implementation of this API ties directly in the Play Integrity API. I am skeptical that style of attestation will have any measurable impact on the ability to automate requests from an Android phone, and I am skeptical that websites will actually reduce captchas rather than just add attestation requirements alongside them.

Even if it did reduce captchas (which to be clear, it probably won't) disability accommodation should not be conditional. Low vision and low mobility users who run custom ROMs also deserve to access the web. If the level of captchas that are thrown in front of low vision users are problematic or inaccessible, that's a conversation we need to have about captchas more generally. It's not an excuse to restrict those users' autonomy over their computers.
> The program hasn’t even gotten to the point where it can comprehend the possibility of executing that line of code. I mutter to myself, “How did you let it get this bad?”

I support a lot of scientists-who-sometimes-code, and I get this all the time. They bring me in and show me the 5000 line Python (or Matlab if I'm unlucky) script they've written. "It doesn't work."

Turns out they've written 5000 lines of code without having ever once tried to run a smaller piece while they were writing it. Not even once. They write the whole thing and THEN when it doesn't run on the first try, they don't know what to do.
>We had a great nanny for our son.

That's as close to actual 'family' as i feel im not, in the multinational i work for.
This is fascinating, I would definitely frequent a bar with a theme like this. It's amazing.
That only makes sense if the predictions are accurate and highly probable. Time unfortunately, has shown that these dire predictions are often wrong.

There has been a good 20 years of climate hysteria to pull from. All one has to do is look at old newspapers and read the dire predictions from 2010 to have a good laugh at our sensational media.
One time I got a bee in my bonnet about cross-grading my Ubuntu system from 32-bit to 64-bit. I blame Chris Siebenmann for linking me to the HOWTO article.

Cross-grading is not for the faint of heart. It's the worst I've ever messed up any system, personal or at work. All kinds of things broke in novel ways, and it took me about 2 weeks to put it together again, which was a miraculous event in itself. I rejoiced when X and KDE were able to start again.

And that's the price I paid to have an up-to-date system without reformatting.
Which is irrelevant to whether or not they are valid as trademarks
It is not about the steady state being unstable on its own, it is about how easily it can be brought out of equilibrium with a very small force (of a hand full of people). An inherent flaw in the centralized nature of such a system
Absolutely not. NAT was created to help with the limited IPv4 space, and only that. The separation into routable wan and non-routable lan was a nasty side effect of this work around. IPv6 doesn’t have this issue, even though for some reasons it also has the NAT mechanism. Every device should be globally routable and the access should be policed by the firewalls.
It solves them for some cost of power cables < $X, where X is the cost of the power lost in traditional cables.
Space-based solar power >
Safety:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power#Safety :

> At the Earth's surface, a suggested microwave beam would have a maximum intensity at its center, of 23 mW/cm2 (less than 1/4 the solar irradiation constant), and an intensity of less than 1 mW/cm2 outside the rectenna fenceline (the receiver's perimeter).[91] These compare with current United States Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) workplace exposure limits for microwaves, which are 10 mW/cm2

If the beam intensity is lower than than the solar irradiation constant, what is the advantage over terrestrial solar/TPV?

I think that intensity could heat a metal object?

Is all of the inefficiency of wireless power transfer systems due to thermal conversion/loss?
Last I checked there is a thriving techno-political culture of decentralization and privacy rights fighting this. A lot of people are in fact doing a lot. Don't worry kiddo! The adults are working on it even if it seems futile.

FYI it isn't a strawman to ask whether you have a cogent argument for why technofeudalism isn't happening.

You asserted the proposition that technofeudalism isn't a thing (strongly implied)
The respondent didn't construct a superficially similar proposition (I.e. a strawman) and simply asked what support you have for your proposition.

A strawman would have been like if someone argued against your proposition that "But the Snowden leaks showed we live in a surveillance state!" This is a Strawman because it constructs a superficially similar position to "technofeudalism is a thing" without actually at all arguing against the position that technofeudalism is not a thing.
> Marsha uses this to provide more information to the LLM to generate the logic you want, but also uses it to generate a test suite to validate that what it has generated actually does what you want it to.

What I can't find here is the component that reads "what you want it to" from the mind of the user.
Thank god for emojis! Those people would say, "No one in our org would use chinese" and refuse to fix things... but now I just point them to latest message from upper management which contain emoji or two.

(And emoji are such a fine example - once they ate on the table, you need support for combining characters, characters outside of BMP, ligatures.. a large part of Unicode spec)
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> "We attained a new record... in the daily median sea surface temperature of the Mediterranean: 28.71ᵒC," Spain's Institute of Marine Sciences said. "The last record was in August 23, 2003 with a median value of 28.25ᵒC," it added.
> I don't like the normal mechanical keeb market, because they're loud.

Happy owner of 5 original IBM Model Ms here, plus Das Keyboard, Apple Extended, 2 x Apple Extended II and others.

If you don't like "normal mechanical" K/Bs because they're loud, you will not like a Model M. They are much, much louder. I don't know any 21st century keyboard that's as loud as the real IBM deal.

When I moved to Czechia in 2014, I took a Model M in my suitcase, in the spirit of "accept nothing less than the best."

People crossed the floor of my open-plan office with 40-50 co-workers to ask what I was typing on. People multiple rooms away asked what the noise was. My boss' boss, in his own private separate room, said my "typing sounded like rain." Heavy rain, outside, he clarified.
Interesting. They pushed all the politics onto the font designers.
The best way to learn about a browser is to use it. No article is going to convey whether it will feel right to you. If needing an account is a dealbreaker, the consider the deal broken and move on. I've tried out a bunch of browsers over the past year, and Arc has been my default for a few months now. Being able to easily swipe between sandboxed profiles is great, and I like the rest of the UI. They also have a YouTube channel[1] that will give you some idea of how it behaves; scroll to the earlier ones.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@TheBrowserCompany/videos
You're not wrong, and I'm a Firefox user as well.

But as it comes to the urgent matter of stopping this proposal in its tracks, switching browsers won't do it.

It requires other methods of immediate protest.
I said "fairly open-ended" and didn't limit the question to a mid-2023 LLM.

The point I'm aiming at is that an increasing ability to solve an open-ended range of problems affects the choices we have to make, no matter whether you object to calling it "intelligence".
Well, I don't want dynamic linking and loading of user code to be done in the kernel -- that only increases the attack surface on the kernel.

> In any case, modern security considerations have already shown that dynamic loading of foreign code into process memory isn't that much of a good idea after all, [...]

As with many things it all depends on best practices and how you use the technology. Dynamic linking can be a big performance win. It can also be a performance loss. Dynamic linking can also be a big win in terms of code size, which even today is a good thing to have because container images can get bloated and you can need to have lots and lots of them, and it all adds up. None of that means you should be willing to dlopen() untrusted code, say.

And again, you can always implement your own dynamic linking and loading regardless of what such facilities (if any) the host OS provides.
Yeah! How much memory do you have?

If by lower-end Macbook air, you mean with 8GB of memory, try the smaller models (Such as Orca Mini 3B). You can do this via LM Studio, Oogabooga/text-generation-webui, KoboldCPP, GPT4all, ctransformers, and more.

I'm biased since I work on Ollama, and if you want to try it out:

1. Download https://ollama.ai/download

2. `ollama run orca`

3. Enter your input to prompt

Note Ollama is open source, and you can compile it too from https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama
Perhaps the economics of batteries has changed? Or the economy can't support $80k trucks as much?
Interesting idea! One of the problems with any primary research (surveys included) is the delay in collecting responses, which can take hours to weeks depending on sample, IR, incentives, etc. This would solve that!

It's not surprising that LLMs can predict the answers to survey questions, but really good primary research generates surprising insights that are outside of existing distributions. Have you found that businesses trust your results? I have found that most businesses don't trust survey research much at all, and this seems like it might be even less reliable.

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Context: I co-founded & sold survey software company (YC W20).
I understand this reaction, but you're missing the point. It's precisely that the rendering engine is not what drives value; it's what you build on top of that sediment layer.
I have tried just one.

I concur. Not a patch on the real thing.
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It's terrible, and we IMHO owe that to some introductory university courses to Java (plus some Win32 veterans). I got very close to being rejected by a professor that was obstinately convinced that Unicode "characters" were 2 bytes because it drunk the Kool Aid in the '90s about Java's `char` type representing a Unicode character. Ugh. I still get angry by thinking back at that sometimes
All this is true but you forget the cost. Mainframe do not allow to start small. I have no idea how much the cheapest mainframe cost but it's porbably more than a dirt cheap x86 server with a bunch of free software so important for student projects, training, hobbies, start-up and cost constrained industries.
In a nutshell, KYC!
Imho, unicode should stay out of politics. Country flags, vaccine syringes and pregnant men should have nothing to do with how computers handle text and writing systems.
Remote attestation is already available on big cloud providers and Windows runs virtualised on many servers across the world for remote work. Excluding all of those browsers would probably be problematic for almost every use case.

I don't think big websites will block every VM (especially since Microsoft has some kind of super secure browser implementation that uses virtualisation). You may need to make KVM fake HyperV, though.
Ah interesting, thank you! Maybe I can hope that the discovery leads to further novelty then :) Maybe the same effect can occur in lower temperature superconductors as well. I guess there's a sweet spot for ease of construction, field strength, and temperature.
ChatGPT is explicitly trained on human writing it's training goal is explicitly to emulate human writing.

>It should only attempt a distinct style if prompted to.

There is no such thing as an indistinct style. Any particular style it could have would be made distinct by it being the style ChatGPT chooses to answer in.

The answers that ChatGPT gives are usually written in a style combining somewhat dry academic prose and the type of writing you might find in a Public Relations statement. ChatGPT sounds very confident in the responses it generates to the queries of users, even if the actual content of the information is quite doubtful. With some attention to detail I believe that it is quite possible for humans to emulate that style, further I believe that the style was designed by the creators of ChatGPT to make the output of the machine learning algorithm seem more trustworthy.
Simply using a lower temperature with a known SC would be an easy way.

He should hold it in his hand for 10 seconds before the test.
If we can't handle / get motivation for long-line HVDC transmission I guarantee you we aren't going to be able to put together the will to make an entire transmission system out of a novel material with unknown mechanical constraints. Long distance transmission is not a solved problem, but it's close. We have the technological capability now to make much, much better transmission systems. We just don't want to.
If you want a quiet keyboard get one with Boba U4 switches.
Is that really the right takeaway here? Do you think a private university based in Texas wouldn't have done the same thing?
> For input that does not have the fields of the destination well you can use other libraries

Right, this is what I was thinking, but that this is the case is the point being made here, and it's consistent with the rest of the post. The default option doesn't really check things for you.
This is not front running.

You having a faster computer and network is just your alpha.

Front running is where I take your order to buy a large amount of a stock and buy some for my self first before executing your order.

Being faster is perfectly legal.

Trading Based on a clients order is not.
> 2) They'd make you pay extra. You know they would. Maybe not to start but they'd introduce monthly fees for it all once they've got you locked in.

They have to, because in order to drive these features natively in your infotainment system they need active LTE/5G service.

Which is a total waste for the consumer, who likely already pays for such service for their smartphone, which has built in software designed to provide all these features to your infotainment system.
Perhaps, I don't discount the possibility that an LLM could be used as a primitive as part of a larger more complex system that could rightfully be called intelligent.

But a script running a LLM in an OODA loop is a lot easier to monitor and control than some inscrutable "ghost in the parameters" that a lot of AI alarmists seem worried about. You can actually see a transcript of its "thoughts", for one!
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Believe it or not, the levitation effect can be found in non-superconducting materials with a high diamagnetic constant such as pyrolytic carbon. Induced magnetic fields are created by "effective currents," which can occur in zero-resistance systems that are not called superconductors (because they can't conduct across a significant distance, only around a tiny loop) like molecular or atomic orbitals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrolytic_carbon
The effect is weak, but seeing that it behaves the same by flipping the magnet means that it can't be a standard magnet like we're used to seeing. (If I understood some of the other comments correctly).

Other comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36867758
that is an excellent point, it's kind of a distraction to drag in extraneous protections that don't apply, namely speech between citizenry. There is a government focus to the amendments that's worth keeping foremost in mind. Your statement helps me to keep this understanding in the foreground which I don't always do all the time.
Easy to criticize, much more difficult to provide solutions
Every group of people who's remotely decently specialized... will get very smug assholes. I've met IT people who just want to help you get your shit done, and those who look down at you for being a "stupid user". Also I've met Doctors whom think they are god, and Doctor's who want to be a partner in your health journey and are totally non-judgemental (at least outwardly).

I'm sure you'd find the same in any similar field. Engineers. Pilots. Mechanics. Nurses.

And yes, everyone looks at the world from their personally centric view of the world. It's the only way we, as humans, know how. After all, how would you get to your oh-so-important job if not for the road engineer, or the mechanic who built your car, or the city designer who designed the routes that you use every day.

Some are more aware of main character syndrome [1] than others... and some are just less assholes than others.

[1] https://www.cxomedia.id/human-stories/20220722170529-74-1756...
I've had two real gripes with SQL. The rest of it has been, as you said, pretty good.

Complaint 1: Not being able to use selected columns later in the same select.

SELECT
gnarly_calculation AS some_value,
some_value * 2 AS some_value_doubled

Instead:

SELECT
subquery.*,
some_value * 2 AS some_value_doubled
FROM (
gnarly_calculation AS some_value
) AS subquery

Complaint 2: Not being able to specify all columns except. This combines with the above, where I have to pull some intermediate calculations forward from a subquery, but I don't need them in the final output. So I have to then enumerate all the output columns that I actually want, instead of being able to say something like `* EXCEPT some_value`.
> Your regular reminder that the biggest threat to free speech is the government.

Absolute though it crosses over with social platforms alot. There is currently an injunction against the Biden administration to stop them from instructing social platform on what to censor.
I’m maybe overly cautious about my online footprint. I understand your skepticism and think it’s well placed. For what it’s worth I don’t see my comment as FUD and would wager that the authors of the study would agree with my comment. I enjoyed their study and was just trying to provide additional context (see also the link in my edit).

You are totally right that my comment is worth significantly less than a peer reviewed study.
|| short-circuits.
I'm something of a keyboard collector..

I have the OG model M from 1993 or so, the Unicomp Model M, and a Model F keyboard from modelfkeyboards.com.

Of the 3 my favorite is the New Model F. It has a satisfying ping-y The Model M is good too, but the cable is fraying and I'm afraid to use it and accelerate its demise. Probably I can send it to someone for fixing or fix it myself somehow but haven't gotten around to it.

Nothing is wrong with the Unicomp technically but it is my least used... not sure why.

If your complaint about mechanical keyboards is that they are loud, be prepared that the buckling spring keyboards are several times louder than anything Cherry-like.

On the other end of the spectrum I have a Realforce R2 PFU edition. It has silenced topre switches which are sort of a fancy rubber dome. This is the keyboard I use 90% of the time and for this comment.
But would anyone disagree with "humans are more intelligent than slime molds"? This feels like a re-hash of the argument discussed in the article.
I've had two Unicomps over the years and they treat me very well.
I think the idea is that they didn't ignore as much as you can along the way. They spent a lot of time on each of their foundations, completing (to some degree) each layer before moving onto the next.

> It had passed through our new modeling tools, through two different intermediate converter programs, had been loaded up as a complete database, and been rendered through a fairly complex scene hierarchy, fully textured and lit

They didn't do the bare minimum modeling without tooling, didn't hack together (or avoid making) barely enough converter programs, they didn't hack together an in-memory database as a prototype, and they didn't do the bare minimum rendering to show a triangle.

They built out a fully working system, layer by layer, the entire breadth of each layer, until they got to the rendering and display layers. At the end of it, they got a triangle. But, since they put in all of the effort to build a strong foundation, the second triangle is 1000x easier to make than the first.
Another good talk! I also really loved "Email vs Capitalism, or, Why We Can't Have Nice Things"[0] which has one of the best audience participation gimmicks I have ever seen in a talk.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrGfahzt-4Q
>The conductor would move towards the magnet and try to stick to it.

No, only ferromagnetic material would behave like that. Copper foil will also move in a moving magnetic field, and won't be attracted to a stationary magnet.
> much of that team cohesiveness happens outside of work hours

whaaaa?

is this a common view? doing team building on personal time seems... off. To me.

remember taking my small IT team out for lunches on the company dime, and even to the movies... we even went to an escape room once... but this was all during the work day...
I think that is treating each other "like friends" rather than "like family". Friendships begin and end, and friends will help each other, even if it means the effective end of a friendship (eg helping load a van for a cross country move).

Were it like family, you'd still invite each other to birthdays and the like.
> it'll change society quickly

True.

> and permanently for the better.

You can't know that.
From the report, these were the headline numbers for the quarter:

- Revenue was $56.2 billion and increased 8% (up 10% in constant currency)
- Operating income was $24.3 billion and increased 18% (up 21% in constant currency)
- Net income was $20.1 billion and increased 20% (up 23% in constant currency)
Absolutely, I can't wait to get my MS Paint on over ssh. But more seriously, you're absolutely right. There is clearly a large degree of utility in utilizing the terminal as a visual interface/platform. A project such as Textual, which makes development for that platform simpler, is something I can stand behind.
I certainly see how that would be frustrating, but this is also true of login walls or paywalls even without considering any automation. As an example, I think it's bizarre that the Hacker News guidelines encourage links which are paywalled.
Desperate people do crazy things. This is career-ending fraud. South Korea has the highest suicide rate in the world. The pressure to achieve is enormous and makes people shortsighted.
The First Amendment is only one aspect in one country of free speech, though.
I immediately notice that o8vm targets RISC-V, whereas rxv64 targets a legacy ISA.
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