skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My starting point for a human friendly AGI benchmark is Commander Data from the Starship Enterprise.

On a more thoughtful note perhaps, I believe AGI would have to emulate the human capability of changing the attentional conductor focus (see cognitive architecture chart) based on sensors that bring the attentional element and its aperture onto emergent elements or signals. This would then have to pull the appropriate elements into the simulation space for computation. In the space of LLMs I believe the transformer functions are pretty limited in scope for attentional context. I would be interested to hear how others think about the (technical) evolution to AGI at high level and whether that would include the social signals and behavioral mediation that characterize human interactions and intelligence.
Wikipedia. It’s not enough to call it a wiki
Hydrogen can be created from water and electricity
Boston Dynamics robots and its clones probably has more axes, if that’s what you want. Dynamixel sells servos. Sony does small batches of robots every five years or so. ABB and Kuka makes tons of robotic arms and they’re available new and used. Bellabots(just an off brand Roomba, almost literally) are everywhere.

Oh, and Aldebaran Pepper are easily found being sent to recycling. Because the onboard Wi-Fi has unfortunate tendency of showing early faults, of course. Totally not because it’s not about having human features.

Apparently the software used to convert CG animations into motions for this guy is part of novel development too. That’s what allows him to have these hallmark Disney movements. Are there open source or hackable alternatives to that? To what…
Yeah Cathy Wood publicly said that she’d back off into more reliable cash flow positive businesses better PE ratios or even cash if the valuations got too high — which she didn’t do. Instead, at the peak, and the trough, she bought more Teladoc and Docusign instead! Both still have a negative PE ratio! They’re no-moat, no-profit, no-dividend, hype companies.

The problem was, her ETFs are not paid and incentivized by performance. She’s paid and incentivized by AUM. So her team spends their time writing speeches and on Twitter writing hype posts instead of shutting up, being heads down buried in a laptop analyzing stocks, and performing analysis quietly. She might’ve been worried her AUM could drop if she made big changes like liquidating to cash.
> However nothing existed to produce significant enough output to change this belief.

I thought it was more accurate to say that the lowest frequency a human can perceive as sound is also the threshold between determining if a sequence of pulses is a sequence of distinct events and one continuous sound, whose period is around 5ms (or 20Hz) and this is pretty easy to verify experimentally, even with woofers that can't produce a pure sine below 20Hz.

That said there is another factor which is that we don't just experience pressure waves in air with our ears, but with our full body of senses. And if you can definitely be impacted by infrasound even if it isn't just vibrating your ears, since it will absolutely vibrate your chest cavity and the rest of your body and you can feel that in your bones (or so to speak).

There's also a long history of scientific/pseudo scientific and almost apocryphal stories about infrasound. Off the top of my head I've heard of fans in a building causing subsonic vibrations that disoriented people, subsequent research into weaponizing it, whistles that were designed to vibrate below the threshold of hearing, the legendary "brown note" (a sound low enough and powerful enough to cause evacuation, of a building or a person) and even Havana syndrome was allegedly attributed to infrasound.

It's very interesting to use a fan to create such waves when an electromagnetic piston might fail. But I wonder how useful it is since making a piston vibrate at low frequencies isn't that hard, it's enclosing it that is the problem. I suspect a large enough enclosure with a big enough woofer and enough power in an amplifier (eg, a commercial subwoofer) can do just as well without being so exotic as to require custom electronics.
The Garmin watches with 1+ week battery life have memory-in-pixel displays. Like E-Ink, this seems like another technology that could be amazing if they were available in larger sizes with lower prices.
'Overhyped' generative AI will get a 'cold shower' in 2024, analysts predict
I think they mean firewalls and network segmentation.
>In 2002, Brunel was placed second in a BBC public poll to determine the "100 Greatest Britons".

The person who "sponsored" Brunel on that list was Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear fame, who was given an hour on the BBC to argue his case (other persons of note were given time to argue in favor of their own choices). You can find his video here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwHnVH9jWmU
Even though I lived in Bristol for a few years, and traveled on the GWR thousands of times, I learned a few things from that article. e.g. that he was educated in France. So we have Napoleon to thank.
Apple once argued in court that they ought to be allowed to kick out all games built on Unreal engine by third party developers from their platform.

Imagine you have developed a game, it is selling well, and one day you find out that the game engine you are using has been banned for disobedience and Apple wants you to rewrite your entire game in a different engine.

Apple doesn’t just not care about games, they despise game developers with a burning passion.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/08/microsoft-backs-epic-...
To save people from reading the article before running away screaming:

> But while they’re a big step forward, we know that new technologies take time to catch on — so passwords may be around for a little while. That's why people will still be given the option to use a password to sign in and may opt-out of passkeys by turning off “Skip password when possible.”

So, soon passwords will be added to “Killed by Google,” along with my account. (I keep zero devices logged in.)

It’s well past time to migrate off my few remaining use cases. I wonder if my employer will be able to reset my corporate account passkeys when the inevitable happens.
Everyone in the Seattle region is thinking about earthquakes since we just felt the 4.3 quake on Sunday!

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/small-...
It's fuzzy search, so the most relevant ones should be ordered correctly. I can certainly tune the threshold to not keep less relevant ones.
It's pretty standardized in the sense that like, that's what most sqlite users choose to do for dates. But it doesn't have a datetime type, and has native functions for generating both iso strings and unix epoch numbers.

It really is kind of up to and on the user to decide and stick to one approach. So you definitely do see differences between programming languages based on how their sqlite libraries chose to do it. Or between libraries in the same language, if there are multiple good choices.
The irony is that the steam client is basically a web app container. It’s high time they invest in making steam a universal cross platform and cross architecture app. They’ve gotten by with a mediocre app for a really really long time.
The West has been fat and sedentary for 2 generations now. Why is it upticking again?
How much was the CEO getting paid for making stupid decisions?
No, but both of them have at least an order of magnitude (maybe two) more video game players on their flagship platforms (Switch and PS5) because it's solely for playing games, and the engines that are used have tooling to directly support the consoles.

Not so for macOS.
Do you tip your cashier at the supermarket too? How about the guy who cooked your food in the kitchen in the back? What about the person who cleaned the toilets in the bathroom; do you track them down too and give them a tip?

In better-run countries, servers are actually paid a normal wage and we don't act haughty and make ourselves feel superior to others just because we can throw money at service workers like they're some kind of charity case.
CCS Insight predicts a reality check for generative AI in 2024 due to increasing costs and complexity. The hype around this technology is expected to be replaced by a more sober understanding of the challenges it presents, particularly for smaller developers. Additionally, AI regulation in the EU is predicted to stall due to rapid technological advances
“for limited times” in article 1 section 8 clause 8 is what needs changing and clarification, by amendment
If you want something a bit more formal, see Turing Award winner Allen Newell's Bands of Cognition. He breaks things up into four major bands, namely biological (milliseconds), cognitive (seconds), rational (minutes to hours), and social (days to months). Each band requires different tools, as well as ways of thinking about and analyzing them.

Here's an example diagram of it:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bruno-Emond/publication...
I grew in one of the towns where the train ferry landed, which presumably became significantly more peaceful after the bridge was built. (Before my time, obviously)
In a few years energy will be a luxury item.
It needs a new UI, so it can be "fresh" and "modern" looking. And notifications.
As an aside, I bought a hardware TOTP token that I could have access to if i got locked out Bitwarden/Authy: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07RQPJNZH

It would be awesome to have an "emergency" server where I could type in the URL, decrypt it with my passphrase and OTP, and get access to everything I need temporarily so I can re-bootstrap all my stuff. Of course, this doesn't solve the problem of SMS 2fa being used for everything, but it's a good first step.

I am in favor of crossplatform solutions like YubiKey. Apple and Google passkeys are lame.
I pay the content I find useful. "Something looks good" isn't enough to pay.
Summer to winter isn't a real storage case.

If you need more energy in the winter, you build more wind power, not PV to store it an entire year.

And episodes of little wind+sun have a duration of less than a month.

And there are more storage use cases, e.g. short term grid stabilization (<1 second).
Telford's Pontcysyllte aqueduct is still in use and still the world's highest. Not bad for a civil engineering project started in the late 18th Century and completed 218 years ago (1805):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontcysyllte_Aqueduct

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ehX7gKaAL74

Here's another that's somewhat less famous:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirk_Aqueduct

Telford was before Brunel (Pontcysyllte was completed a year before Brunel was born) and no doubt the latter took inspiration from him. Both were giants of the Industrial Revolution.
The only story I've heard of people supporting Metal is by supporting wgpu.

Well and, whatever embarrassing game that Apple will trot out at their developer conferences 2-3 years after it was released and claim Macs are built for gaming.
I made a landing page and a YouTube channel. People found the product via Google and then usually emailed.
A misfire is a failure to combust the air/fuel charge in the combustion chamber during the expansion stroke, and they aren't typically caused by muffler deletes.

They can lead to the popping sound you're describing, but they don't always, and they're far from the only cause, and muffler deletes aren't necessary for those either. Unburned fuel hitting oxygen in the tip of a hot exhaust and immediately burning is the direct source of the noise, and causes for that are numerous.
It is a TON better than it was twenty years ago when I first played with no longer dual booting and running only Linux.

Proton plays almost all of the games I care about, and the games it doesn't play I can either reboot to Windows for or I can run a Windows VM with GPU passthrough.

So much easier than chasing patches to Wine and bashing your head against the wall to get even simple things running.
CDN is the ultimate solution for DDoS, so any report about DDoS finally become an ad for CDN
American of mostly Irish extraction & raised spending a lot of time in the Boston metro area; I get a bit more than a tenth of these. (It’ll inspire reading next time I’m hungry for roots.)
Debian without the GUI, and your favourite CLI text editor. You turn it on, log in, run "vi book.txt", and you're writing.
Cascadia Subduction Zone[1] is why I never considered living in Seattle/Portland once I found out about it. Funny, cause I live in the SF Bay Area, where the earthquakes are frequent, but they can never reach the magnitude of what's possible by the Cascadia Subduction Zone.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_subduction_zone
I've been watching a bunch of Nick Zentner's lectures for the last few weeks and I live nowhere near the PNW, so my case I doubt it was algo based. I have no doubt that in general you are right and the topic is "trending" (for whatever that means these days).
Loading cookie consent banners from a 3rd-party domain is probably a GDPR violation because it transmits user information to a 3rd party without consent.
Are you using ChatGPT 4 or 3.5? GPT 4 is phenomenal.
7/8 billion years...
Non-tech people have a fundamental misunderstanding of what makes a good password, and stupid IT policies like password expiration lead to really bad habits like frequently forgetting passwords, frequently reusing passwords, and end with writing it down on a post-it note.
external, not every vendor will do this but if you are big enough and they are big enough it never hurts to ask.
What incentive do most businesses have to make your checkout process smooth, have automatic doors, or provide shopping carts? Simple: customers like the easiest business to shop at.
> it would not be hard for valve to write a source 2 rendering backend for it (few days/weeks at most for an experienced dev).

Put your money where your mouth is and write one. Just write one. If it's that easy, do it.

Which is more likely - a company that dumps tons and tons of resources into Linux, Wine, DXVK, and put out the Steam deck didn't do this supposedly easy thing because they just don't care or could it be that they don't have the talent in house and wouldn't recoup their investment by doing it?
That would be changing the actual piping, which they mentioned.
>Sometimes, visualizing scenes from whatever story I'm writing as I fall asleep. This can both help me get ideas for the story and help me fall asleep.

This is how I would fall asleep as a kid (when I had a flip phone). My mind was so active yet I fell into some amazing sleep.
"... This phone NEVER NEVER leaves the house, except ONCE if the bank app requires on location authentication of the phone for the bank app to function ..."

Can you elaborate ?

What does this "on location" process look like ? What do they ask you to do ?
I think people here are open to reasonable examples of the utility of crypto
> the topic is "trending"

In which case they might suggest it to you as well, even if your personal interests are not closely related to whatever happens to be trending?
Felt it up here in Victoria, too.
TVs also spy on you. That data offsets some of the cost. They also often have lots of other compromises, from chroma subsampling to overscanning, that make them unsuitable as computer monitors.
The server kernel won't communicate the new connection to the application until you go through SYN-SYNACK-ACK.
Metaprogramming can be applied in ways that makes code hard to reason about, but that doesn't mean all metaprogramming is that way.

Decorators, especially the newly standardized decorators, provide a structured for of metadata where the possible actions are limited. Decorators can basically only replace the decorated class member with another member of the same kind: replace an accessor, or a method.

This should make things easier to reason about. The Lit @property() decorator for instance wraps the decorated setter with one that calls `this.requestUpdate()` - that's it.

The alternative is writing all the boilerplat by hand, which most users don't want to do (but is possible) or the adhoc metaprogramming systems that are fairly popular now, and I think those are much harder to reason about.
That's a lot of money coming from just one service.
It sounds like you need real talk therapy with a licensed psychologist to deal with anxiety in the workplace. They're medical professionals who can work with you.

Avoid BetterHelp and shortcuts, find a real professional. There are no shortcuts to mental health, it's like dealing with any chronic medical condition.
However, there might need to be nuanced, such as if there are both mandatory and non-mandatory fees in a service. It will need to be managed in a satisfactory way which does not hide any fees but ensures which fees are not mandatory, must somehow be specified so that you can know what fees to expect. Furthermore, if fees are not mandatory then they must tell you the fee before you decide to purchase that optional feature. (For example, in a hotel there might be a fee for parking that only applies if you use the parking; they should mention that so that you can add it up yourself before you ever go there, and you will know exactly how much money you need.)
The Witcher 3 on Switch is a Vulkan title for example. While a lot of titles aren't Vulkan, some heavyweights on the platform are.
You're wrong about that. It's hard to make 65k new connections on your average client OS, but a packet generator has no problem with it.
You never reach 100% freedom and security. You only approach it asymptotically as you gain more money. So maybe for some, their threshold for "enough" is higher than you think. Maybe for someone else, they just haven't figured out what to do with the freedom yet, so they keep going and moving marginally closer to that 100% so they can better enjoy it when they do know what to do with it.
Whoa, please don't take HN threads into programming language flamewars, "slap fights", or attacks on other users. We're trying to avoid all that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Here's a better write-up I did:

https://kozubik.com/items/2famule/
CSS is, in fact, awesome (2021)
HTTP on SCTP on UDP. If only protocols didn't ossify.
Random Data on Linux
No, it signals that that manufacturer didn’t follow the established process for certification.

What evidence is there that anyone is picking and choosing?
Yes it's quoted by many like a sneering elitist condemnation of religious sentiment of "the masses", when it is in fact empathetic / sympathetic.
Figure of speech my man
It wasn't suggested to me. I am working my way through his lectures and I explicitly went to the channel and selected the video.
> I’ll give you almost instantaneous reflexes.

This is almost probably not what you want. Your nerves respond pretty quickly already and you can do things faster than you can think about them (e.g. catching a ball) so there's more to the computation than the "CPU".

I have read that the myelin sheath on your nerves is thicker at birth then as an adult. The theory (not mine!) is that as it thins the capacitance goes down and perhaps this helps keep the transmission time more constant as yu grow, so that what you have learned about walking, catching a ball, drinking hot coffee from a cup continues to work. Imperfectly -- kids are clumsy -- but enough that you can quickly adapt and not have to keep learning all over again.
How do I actually give them my real government document with it's physical security features through the internet? Just take a grainy photo of it? Really secure!
> Funny, cause I live in the SF Bay Area, where the earthquakes are frequent, but they can never reach the magnitude of what's possible by the Cascadia Subduction Zone.

What makes you think a big one ("The Big One") isn't going to hit the Bay Area?
Can we decide to band together as an industry and call this “zero factor authentication,” since you login without using something you know or something you own/control?

The only way I can think of to explain this to a non-techie is “your account is now tied to your [singular] device, and neither a password nor a replacement device (like a new sim card) will let you in.”

So, it really does remove both factors from 2FA, and the logical conclusion holds.

Either anyone can get into an account with a “I broke my phone” social engineering attack, or the account owner cannot reliably authenticate.
You get a budget gaming machine for 1k these days, if that. The GPU almost steals your 1k budget by itself. Apple's new top end Mac Mini goes for $1300 and has a 10 core M2 Pro with a 16 core GPU, 16GB memory, and a 512GB SSD. More than enough to play Counter Strike 2 if Valve decided to support the platform. It's not comparable but not as outrageous as people say.

But again, you're still thinking in terms of money here. Where the problem isn't with how much the computer costs. It's completely irrelevant, actually. The problem for Mac users is that the software providers in question in this discussion don't want to support MacOS, which is a decision totally on them. I have no strong opinions against their decision to not support them if the user base just isn't there. There's no doubt that there are tons of MacOS users, they just might not be users that intend to game on those computers the majority of the time. But I do feel empathy for Mac gamers, as that was historically the opinion of game studios refusing to support Linux machines. And to be honest, it's still the case that Linux users are second class citizens when it comes to games that require an anticheat to run (many online FPS games fall into this category.) None of the big anticheat providers want to port their software to run on Linux.
Hopefully you got a copy of the Bolland APEX edition.
would it have made a difference if the function was static? The compiler would then be able to deduce that it isn't used anywhere else, and thus could do this inline optimization.
After pressing the button on the microwave you'd be frozen until the machine beeped.

Unless you had a tinfoil hat (well, suit).
Question for you. I always saw the problem as: only one company or limited companies can manufacture them. Those companies are having issues manufacturing them so the price is high. But if more companies were allowed to manufacture them, wouldn’t we see more people solving production problems and lowering prices? If there is one company with low yields and high prices, if everyone is allowed to make them then there is a monetary gain for new entrants willing to solve yield problems. But if things are heavily patent encumbered then the whole world is at the whim of one organization to succeed or fail - there is no competition.

That is to say, it’s not that they’re charging high prices out of greed, but that there’s no competition forcing prices down.
Once again, it's up to the vendor. You submit your test reports showing compliance with the standards, and you get your certification. The only ‘pick and choose’ here would be by Xiaomi who apparently don't think the Canadian market is large enough to bother with.
I saw the announcement and was quite excited as I haven't played CS for a long time, and the new version looks great. I was looking forward to playing it on my speedy (last gen Intel) Mac...but I guess that's not happening. I doubt it will run better than mud on my Windows box, and I don't feel like buying a new computer just to run one game.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...
The worst situation player in this market is Kioxia. They only make NAND chips unlike Micron with DRAM or Korean conglomerates.