skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think generative AI is a stepping stone to AGI. I think they’re quite different.

I understand generative AI as a million monkeys on a million typewriters, but we figured out how to rig the typewriters to generate convincing and sometimes correct output.

Neither monkeys individually or collectively understand anything about how they responded. They just get a treat for doing well.

AGI is something very different IMO. Language and speech will be emergent in AGI without requiring massive inputs, like how a child learns.

LLMs seem like sort of a (very impressive) parlor trick. Neat, useful and terrifying, but not a pathway to AGI.
For those interested, that was OFRAK Tetris:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37083309
https://classic.csunplugged.org/activities/community-activit... (see also: https://www.itgsnews.com/the-defragmentation-game-lesson-pla... )

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/376284/defrag

https://www.defraggame.com

There used to be a few old ones in the day that I recall trying which were a bit more direct simulacrums than these. Not sure if anyone else might find them!
If the printers are so bad, can a fax machine be used (that would not have any internet and not have any auto-updating software, if they still make them that way)? Can a FOSS program on the computer to emulate the fax signals? Would that work?
I think Standford may do these somewhat regularly. I enjoyed this lecture from Aaron Beam, who was involved in the HealthSouth fraud and served time for it. You might be interested as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_K7bQpDJzg
[1 hour]

However, Beam seems like someone who got caught up in a criminal enterprise and has the perspective to own what he did. SBF seems like a permanent grifter (but here's to hoping he has the capacity to grow and can turn that around), I don't think he has the constitution to give a useful lecture on ethics. I think SBF will take any opportunity to disclaim responsibility, and it would be just as vacillating and useless other appearances.

Also, Beam already served his time and was at liberty to speak freely. Even if SBF had something interesting to say, he couldn't.
Someone once said to me, it is easy to be enlightened when you have a full belly.

In the same vein, it is easy to grant social gains when in easy times. But we are in the liminal space between the boom of the 20th century and the blow back from same century of reckless growth.

Nowadays a lot of nationalistic rhetoric that would not have flown far has had a lot of traction over the last decade or so. And it is slowly becoming obvious that the frameworks for oppression are being constructed.

The idea that we can only go forwards with minor trips along the way is a very narrow interpretation of history. That the example given before was of the Nazis is especially accurate considering it came after the Weinmar Republic that was known to be particularly ahead of the times in terms of social progress and cultural facets. It could be argued that wouldn't be for almost another 70-80 years that they gained back what was taken away in next to now time.

Unfortunately, the one thing I have taken away from those that work as war correspondents - do not under estimate how fragile society is and how quickly people will turn against others to try and ensure personal safety.

"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.”
― Albert Camus"
Nice. It looks like there are still similar issues, but some things have improved.

I went through my results to check:

1) Floating city came out much better than my results a month ago.

- Prompt: Flying city
- https://cdn.midjourney.com/85e254c4-d782-47a5-b63b-db8d20e54...

- Prompt: Flying city in space
- https://cdn.midjourney.com/d8b9a582-6056-4fec-a0f2-e939c203a...

2) Planets was 50/50. the top 2 are prime examples of the floor issue.

- Prompt: A planet surrounded by the emptiness of space
— https://cdn.midjourney.com/35246b1f-b344-4015-972b-512b770c3...

3)Space elevator, The first image is quite good

- prompt: Science fiction space elevator vanishing point in the sky
- https://cdn.midjourney.com/0a92bbcf-329a-480d-a0eb-aec368eb7...

Vanishing points/ perspective dont seem to be grasped, leaving images constrained to certain view distances from observer as well as viewing angles. (I am not sure if those are the correct technical terms to describe the problem).

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How do solar systems work for you?

Prompt: solar system in space.
https://cdn.midjourney.com/3873cdc1-fa9f-4a54-b5d5-c2336aa08...
Yup, 100%. There's also a huge racist angle to it, they just like to dress it up with other things.
Announcement page, actual document is linked at the end of the advert. (2020, pdf). Not sure why the author prefix is in the title here.

https://samoburja.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Great_Found...

A non-pdf introduction to it here:

https://medium.com/@samo.burja/great-founder-theory-93751e25...
I created a tool to take project plans from a tool that we use to model schedules and generate gantt diagrams from the data in a way that is better than the commercial tool. It's all just a zip file containing an html file and a couple of javascript files. Others in our company are using it now as it is easier and produces better output than the modeling tool.

When I decided on a local html for the app, I wanted something that did not require installing a language like python, did not require installing, and would work on Windows and Mac.
Awesome Structure Editors: A list of projectional code editor projects
> The much more parsimonious explanation is that “great men” were in the right place at the right time to apply their (undisputed!) talents.

But isn’t this part of the point? How many times did we not get the right person in the right place? How much further would we be if we had gotten, say, a Galileo during Rome’s heyday?
The discussion around Pijul brought up the need to move away from coding on plain text into something with more meaning (and less or no syntax)
I don't think any amount of record showing would prevent the problem that GP had. Regardless of how proactive GP were, management would probably simply say “you should have pushed harder”. Hindsight is 20/20 after all.
Ha. The only world where building upon electron makes sense. (joke)
This is also the natural solution when you're using Datalog to compute with the AST: Datalog operates on relations/tables, so associating types to AST nodes can be accomplished using a table with two columns: One for the ID representing an AST node, and one for the type associated to the AST node. I've recently written about this approach in the series starting here: https://www.mbid.me/posts/type-checking-with-eqlog-parsing/
GitHub only has the FOSS license because the TOS applies only to the owner of the repo, but contributors to the code in the repo are not required to agree to the TOS. None of the popular FOSS licenses except CC0 grant rights which allow LLM training — they all require attribution at least and the copyleft licenses require reciprocity (when the copied code is substantial enough for the license to apply).
A supermajority of them, actually.
FoxIT's free PDF reader[0] has a Fill & Sign feature. And, it also allows you to type text anywhere on a PDF, in case that's what you actually want.

It's available for PC, Mac and Linux. (While the Linux version isn't as full-featured, I'd expect/hope all the versions have these 2 features...though I see that the feature-matrix on their website shows the Linux version doesn't have the Form Filling feature that the other versions have, FWIW, so it might lack one or both of the features I've mentioned).

The Fill-and-Sign feature is accessible from the Home tab -- there's a tool right end of the ribbon called "Fill & Sign".

The text-typing feature is also accessible from the Home tab: you choose the Typewriter tool from the ribbon, move the cursor where you want the text to show up, click there, then start typing -- the text will show up in a faint box (which disappears when you e.g. click somewhere else).

Later, you can click the Typewriter's arrow cursor on the text and the box will reappear -- you can then delete the box and its text, if you like, or you can double-click inside the box and get a text-cursor, which you can use to delete/add text.

I've used the Typewriter a bunch -- it works pretty well. (I think I've used Fill & Sign in the past, but not as often).

[0] https://www.foxit.com/pdf-reader/
So, err, shouldn’t they also be paying their retail workers more? As in, much more? Since they are Apple employees too.
But these are requirements to train ANN and I guess the question was about requirements to process video stream.
>It seems like you're saying that people are mainly using adblockers because the recommendations aren't good enough, and if the recommendations were improved they'd respond by turning off the adblock?

I can see how what I said could be understood this way, but that's not what I meant. Yes people use adblockers to block ads, but if there was a better recommendation mechanism one could pay for and that paid service also blocked ads people like myself might pay for it.

>Oh, no! The people who are not willing to pay for the service and who are blocking ads are going elsewhere! How can the platform and the creators possibly survive without that $0 in revenue?

The value of a person's attention is not zero, even if that person blocks ads. First if people use your service for free, they aren't using the competition. You aren't making much money, but at the same time you're taking away potential revenue from the competition.

Imagine all these people that use ad block would get up and go somewhere else? More people that watch ads would follow in short order.

Then there are other things these people do. Patron payments, even just popularising certain creators has value to these creators, finally simple engagement like comments etc have value that they create data that can be used to improve the service and so on.
“To compete your registration, tell us whether this image has a stop sign. And hurry it up, our self driving car needs this.”

https://xkcd.com/1897/
~35 years ago I was 10-11, had an older friend (through my older brother) who was studying computer science at University, and we played videogames together. We discovered Core War and I was instantly hooked.

I designed several "viruses" (that's how we called them), and made them play in a tournament, which would last a few hours on his 386. Tons of fun, and tons of learning.
We should probably have auctions for IPv4 space to encourage more efficient use. Not that we have some kind of authority to require this, but we've often suggested this in connection with our proposal to prepare to allocate 240/4.

While one can say that there's no way that IPv4 demand can ever be "satisfied" (which seems right to me), one can also imagine a different quantity demanded at $0.50/address than at $0.00/address, and also different levels of effort to make sure that almost all addresses that are allocated get put into use on the Internet. (I know $0.00/address isn't exactly the right way to describe what RIR allocations cost, but economically they've been more similar to the "beauty contest" than the "auction" allocation method.)

In the final direct initial allocation phase, people learned that something (with substantial economic value that can likely be sold in the future, no less!) was very scarce, and was being given out nearly at no cost for almost the last time. It's not surprising that they would have jumped at the opportunity to get as much of it as they could qualify for, somewhat independent of what use they expected to make of it in the short term. Maybe especially when they were hearing how other people were jumping at that opportunity.
Regardless of whether her parents were even able to feed properly her as a child?

I'd actually be quite curious about her own views on the degree to which government-provided assistance made it possible for her to get where she is today, though she seems to have avoided voicing them publicly.
how much of microplastics come from sea salt?
Water = moisture = mold. Not exactly ideal, either.
So what if it’s privately held? You have a privately held car, say. I come to you and say “I wanna buy this for 15k”. There, I made an unsolicited bid. You can sell or not sell. The bid is a bid.
You could just as easily argue: "never ever use windows, it can't even get fonts right".
The tangled problems of asking for people's '(full) legal name'
That's a hoax, they were both identified as straight married men as far as we can tell. They also both fall into the "army officer recruited after few years of active duty" GRU pattern.

They got a prostitute the night before their botched Salisbury trip, rather than shag each other. The whole gay bit came from their Russian TV ruse appearance.
Without the money, there wouldn't be any Apple left regardless, they were already quite red.

I guess you weren't part of the community culture of the said languages, which is something that cannot be really explained in a HN comment.
The probability a Division Manager was purely internally sourced approaches <0.001%... given the vast majority of Jr people are burned out... then churned out in less than 3 years. It actually was a joke tradition at Apple, where engineers tended to leave at the exact same position they started.

If you want to grow in tech, than expect to hop companies every 2 years.

Good luck, =)
We looked at a (YMCA) daycare center and it was more expensive, but certainly not as expensive as that. The infant section in particular was...dystopian, though.

Also, no windows. They built it in an old mall. I couldn't get past those two things.
That’s going to be hard to prove.
How big is your family and how big is your house? Your situation is so far from anything that I've experienced in my life that I cannot even imagine it. How can you use a dryer that many times per day? Do you even need to use a dryer? Can't you air dry things?

I normally don't stay in places with a dryer and just let things air dry. If you're running heating/ac, they normally lower humidity so things dry really fast anyway.
"Arm" and "hand" are two very different things (I guess?), but they are the same word (рука) in Russian.
Considering a certain politician is getting special treatment, based on the "I dare you to jail me" attitude around threatening judges... Do you really think a new rule will prevent politicians in that party from abiding by any regulation??
Rules typically work best if they have equal treatment.

Personally I'd start outside of politics, which would help make precedent be very obvious.
To be fair, there's a lot of low quality security research out there, pointing at totally impractical attacks. But ok, these are not Dan Bernstein ;)
That would be a feat.
My point is that engineers sometimes view anything that goes wrong with their tiny corner of the system as a disaster, which is not always the case.

My (engineering) boss is more risk-tolerant than I am, but after 30 years in the business I respect his judgement that a particular risk is worth running.
You are both working in tech. Are you really saying you only make the median household income for your city?

And then not to mention there are probably literally millions of enterprise devs living in major cities across the country making much less than you are probably making in cheaper places that are living a good middle class lifestyle with 2.1 kids in the burbs, going on vacations and not struggling.
Welp, maybe rysen framework will be good enough in battery life to motivate me switch from a macbook)
Native plants do that just as well, if not better though.
>epiku (nimi ku suli)

>

> adjective: epic, awesome

Not sure if this is meant to be a joke, but I like it.
> The police aren't the government,

The police is the dog of the government. What difference does it make to you if the dog or the master attacks you?
> I’d like further transparency on this: why didn’t they anticipate that the array would be offline for this expansion?

People who can give solid explanations are probably busy right now, and those who aren't can only write what you already seen.
Until you have to distribute it!
Again that's this language constraining you to that. With procedure overloading it's not required that you have to have that ugly API. For instance the following is valid Nim:

type
Cat = object # these are just 'struct' in a different skin
Dog = object

proc greet(c: Cat): string = "Meow"
proc greet(d: Dog): string = "Bark"

assert Dog().greet() == "Bark"
assert Cat().greet() == "Meow"
Trinitron was an example. A lot of tv are repaired and sold in East europe, Asia.

It is negligible because repair is difficult.
There is nowhere to go for Americans who have become completely disenfranchised.

I read recently that many political philosophers think the U.S. has become a (de facto) oligarchy.

In Republic book eight 552 it's argued that oligarchies "admit the greatest of all evils... Allowing someone to sell all his possessions and someone else to buy them...". Now this is particularly true in regards to land (which even when "owned" is essentially rented from the government in the form of property taxes). I don't know the history but I've seen hints that much of this land acquisition was pretty coercive.

I think it's difficult for many Americans to admit this because their thinking is biased in the same way that someone becomes biased about a person they love - no matter what anybody tells them, "loving eyes never see". Only the love here is the love of "the good life" - the materially rich one.
About yoga nidra : wikipedia tells us about a n=1 study[0] that found NREM sleep waves during yoga nidra, it seems that if this generalize, it would be equivalent to taking a nap
[0]: https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.pbr.2018.10.016
Those engineers are the one facing the court, as they failed to obey the requirements posed upon them by the legal system when they did their oath for professional title, and signing their name on the project.
Something along the lines of `socat readline exec:<cmd>` should work, e.g., `socat readline exec:cat`.

I tend to prefer using rlwrap, though; socat has a tendency to mess up your terminal if you SIGINT it. rlwrap does its job extremely well, except for the parenthesis matching flash (which I find annoying, but can be disabled with a config option).
In the sense that you’re calling objc methods, defining classes, never calling malloc, not creating structs, etc.
Here I thought nitrogen filling was to avoid oxygen being pressed through into the rubber, reducing oxidation...
Yeah more or less. Just without the quotes..

I mean we don't really blame US or Britain for jailing openly (pro)Nazi propagandists operating inside their territories during WW2?

OTH few people are willing to justify Nazi Germany imprisoning/killing opposition activists in Germany.

Of course Ukraine is deeply flawed country in many ways (just like US/Britain/etc. were back then) that doesn't mean that the war itself is necessarily morally ambiguous or that Russia's action aren't wrong/evil.
I can. I do high school senior photography and I asked the kids last year where they worked, and how much they made doing it. Oddly, that doesn't seem rude to ask 17 year olds.

The ones working at Walmart absolutely made $17 an hour (then). It's Walmart. They aren't playing games with stuff like that. I'm sure they're mostly doing under 32 hours a week where possible with their employees as usual.
Plato's Republic [1] really shifted my view on this. It was written 2400 years ago, and with but a handful of real exceptions - like his casually referencing slavery, it reads like it was written by an edgelord writing with hindsight of contemporary times and events. And in that regard you'd normally just dismiss it, but given that it was written 2400 years ago, in a world nothing like today, yet 'predicts' the events of today down a tee is a somewhat absurd degree of proof that the notion that 'history repeats itself' is not just in the abstract, as I always thought.

In his book he sees a system of 5 political systems, what he calls regimes. And he argues that they tend to each transition between each other, not out of some revolutionary cause - but because of an abundance of the virtue of each system. In democracy that virtue is freedom, and its transition is into tyranny. He argues that excesses of freedom gradually leads to the decay of social values, norms, and ultimately the rule of law itself. And in the process of this leaders would emerge overtly appealing to the base desires and emotions of masses as arguments for election; ethos and values of times past not even feigned at.

But these leaders themselves are of course also only driven by their own endless pursuit of self indulgence and power. And transitioning from democracy to authoritarianism is but a matter of one man, supported by the masses, turning against the normal system. With the catch, yet to be seen, that this man also eventually turns against the people that supported him - becoming tyrannical and obsessed by the pursuit of his own ideals and virtues, which need not inherently run contrary to the interests of society. Napoleon is the 'classical' example - which came thousands of years after The Republic was written.

The point I make here is that it often feels like we're entering into some wild unknown, in many things. Yet when you look back at things like the classical philosophers and other writings, a lot of what they're saying suddenly seems more apt than ever. And so I think the issue is not that we're entering into some strange and unprecedented era in human civilization, but rather we're just leaving one. The relative era of peace, rationality, and stability that we all grew up in was the bubble, and it seems to have to burst.

[1] - https://www.gutenberg.org/files/55201/55201-h/55201-h.htm#Bo... (This link is already to the exact 'book' (chapter) which is about what I am referencing. To get to the exact meat of it, search for "And democracy has her own good, of which the insatiable desire brings her to dissolution?")
> keyword lists are constant time, ordered list

Unless there’s some kind of behind-the-scenes magic that I’m unaware of, keyword list look up is O(n), not O(1).
The article explicitly states that sorting is O(n log n), giving rise to log n per element.
I think you missed that I'm talking about adding/removing/reading a single element at a time.
I often print something to read it not distracted from everything else on the computer.

Recipes to mark done parts and note modifications/clarifications.

Text for copyediting.

Checklist to do in the morning before starting computer.

Tickets as a backup (not used so far but if it will be used one time in 100 of cases it works then it will be still useful).

Some paperwork.
This stat is not relevant.
A more relevant stat would be to filter out apps with a threshold of downloads.

I would be curious to know how many apps with a 1M+ downloads use these frameworks.
Wait, how did they go from we dont care if die from heat or being shoot at to this?
We had a Core War tournament in a high school programming class, about 1990, running on classic Macintosh computers. That was when I first saw how loop unrolling could speed up a program (used in the winning program).

I remember we had an LCD projector that was literally a monochrome LCD in a frame without a back that the instructor put on top of a standard overhead projector.

C-robots was another programmable game that was lots of fun, but the simulation was not as visceral as watching the programs in Core War fight inside the memory of a virtual machine.
When this patents are expiring?
> How much further would we be if we had gotten, say, a Galileo during Rome’s heyday?

Who says we didn’t? There isn’t a single point in human history that wasn’t covered by exceptional intelligence; the observation is that this doesn’t make discoveries fungible over time. Discovery, innovation, invention, etc. are instead all compounding processes.