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Atica–introspection as the foundation to building autonomous synthetic persons
Hi HN,

My name is Sam and I’d like to share atica, my effort and startup to use introspection and novel engineering to build autonomous synthetic persons, a vision that LLMs have yet to achieve.

I spent the last 6 months ‘washing dishes’ and doing deep, deep thinking and introspecting to build a model of what I think a mind is. I recently incorporated and decided to seek funding to extend my runway, I have been using personal savings thus far.

I’m interested in chatting with like-minded folks who are interested in the idea of modeling the human mind, not just intelligence, with a fresh engineering and philosophical perspective to what’s out there currently.

This is my passion, and I see a long road ahead. I would appreciate any pointers on raising funding or introductions.

I hope this small glimpse into what I’m working on and my view of artificial intelligence through the lens of psychology sparks the interest of some out there.

Thanks!

Sam

atica.xyz

(HN team, I don’t seem to be able to put a .xyz domain in the url field when posting)
Shows with big ratings get lee-way, shows with poor ratings don't.

I don't know if there's a definitive way to tell, but it sounds like "The Problem" probably had dismal viewership.
systemd-journal has amazing logs centralization capabilities. Combined with Netdata you can get a powerful logs management solution.
ActualBudget (https://actualbudget.org/) supports open banking via GoCardless (https://gocardless.com/). GoCardless (previously nordigen) deal with meeting the Open Banking standards and connecitng to all the banks and provide you with a fairly straightforward API for it.
The implementation seems to encourage that "leaf" views have to be aware of parent views, or what context they're in. I used to work with a guy who'd always say, "maybe I'm holding it wrong," that's how I feel about the navigation in SwiftUI. Maybe I need to see a clean example to get it.
Thanks for the detail, this is very neat. I wonder if transformers like this are in an "uncanny valley" of manufacturing where there is barely not enough demand to bootstrap mass production like for example turbines. Turbines have very exact tolerances as well, but it seems that with higher unit counts orgs like GE managed to churn them out.

Perhaps the liquid piece is also making things more difficult; I'm sure a dry object is a lot easier to warehouse until needed.
He should put his show on X/Twitter
That may be true, but I don't think it's a very useful way of framing it.

The relationship between wealth and quality of life isn't linear (beyond a certain point, additional wealth won't meaningfully improve your health, comfort, etc). But that's very much not the case for power. AFAICT, the relationship between wealth and power is linear as far as the eye can see. More wealth == more power.

It seems pretty clear that wealth is not the most sensible way to distribute power. Otherwise, why bother with things like democracy? We could have just stuck with something like feudalism, right?
Also needs a (2010) tag

This was a bit of the appeal of "level design" when I was dabbling with game development. Having these hidden areas and passageways, then seeing if a creative enough actor could then create their own passageways.
> Microsoft is envious of Apple's App Store

Which is weird, because as I understand it the App Store isn't a _particularly_ big deal on MacOS; most software is either distributed outside it, or both in it and outside it. I've very little App Store-installed software on my Mac (though a lot of the software I have is also available on the App Store).
Hahaha you know I didn't even actually load the site once I was done checking what the hell it was doing.

I saw the common name on the cert and the redirect and was like, oh ok so they wanna move away from this domain then, makes sense.

It didn't cross my mind that what they were redirecting to could have an invalid cert as well...
As the tensions increase, I hope at some point the platforms will have to claim impartiality and start acting as platforms instead of a gatekeeper and curators.

In its current form, it is very normal and expected for executives to be concerned over controversial issues that can cause business problems because they have responsibility to make money and they have control over who does what on their platforms, therefore its only expected of them to distance themselves from content that might cost more money than its bringing.

Fingers crossed that we will go back to the content agnostic platform days where the culture isn't shaped by the concerns of tech manages in SV but by the people who are involved in the society.

Those who think that the current arrangements are fine and they keep hate speech or nudity or some other controversial topic out are risking of falling on the wrong side of the curation because the inorganic methods of keeping the "bad guys" out keeps these people(the deplatformed) unchallenged and organic and they are gaining steam for good or bad reasons and they might actually end up being the financially justified ones to bet on.
Give ActualBudget (https://actualbudget.org) a go!
not just that, just remember Donna Strickland they deleted her article because non-notable and then restored it after she won the Nobel Prize of physics... oops.
> It boggles the mind that the system allows some people to accrue that much wealth

What do you find surprising about consumers preferring to buy something from Amazon rather than their local mom and pop store?

Hell, that's the entire foundation of the urbanization movement. When the population was rurally isolated, they had little choice buy to buy from the local mom and pop – keeping wealth widely distributed, but we collectively saw value in having one big "mom and pop" enabled by having large populations living in close proximity to each other, so we (the majority of us) made the migration into the city.

If you have ever chosen to live in a city, you must have recognized the value too? Else why would you be there?
In your analogy, why did this successful, profitable company (Bandcamp) need to be acquired?

Following that, why did Epic choose to get rid of a successful, profitable, independent sub-company that would have helped keep Epic profitable?

It sure looks like Bandcamp was already failing and unprofitable, and selling out to Epic was a desperate attempt to keep the company alive. Songtradr seems to agree with Epic that bandcamp is not solvent and cannot continue operating as it was.

This sucks because Bandcamp is great, but it's not hard to see the writing on the wall. All Epic did here is inject cash into bandcamp's corpse to keep it alive for an extra year or two, before it had to cut the IV drip.
> not sure what will change in a few more days

One, the people who think before speaking will start talking. Two, intelligence will start being released.
CAF = Civil Asset Forfeiture

WoD = War on Drugs
Native Oberon Tutorial videos (2018)
> The video had the wrong timestamps

There was live stream from Al-Jazeera showing the failed rocket at the correct timestamp.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/18/al-ahli-arab-h...

> and the voice recordings were alleged to be faked

By who? The article just leads to a tweet with no citations from any experts.
> It's a great way to delete uncomfortable historic facts. Now it's just a funny little story about a rootkit with no specific political intrigue at all.

That's not how I'd describe the page today

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_IQ
You might be interested in my CLI tool

After adding all the tabs

pip install xklb
lb tubeadd temp.db $(cb)

You can stream them by

lb watch temp.db -u duration

or

lb listen temp.db -u duration desc

If you use chromecast you can even do

lb watch *above_args -c -t "Kitchen speaker group"
Relationship Based Access Control (ReBAC) Explained
The IDF is a negligible source when it comes to reporting on Israeli civilian casualties.

The tally of multiple hundreds of civilians murdered is easily verifiable - for about 400 civilians, names have been published [1].

One reason for the considerable delay in victim identification has been the burnt and fragmentary state of recovered human remains. This has been reported by dozens of forensic workers, including Dr. Chen Kugel, head of Israel's Institute for Forensic Medicine. [2]

A piece by a social worker published a day ago at Haaretz casually mentions a meat truck filled with children's bodies at the triage site, in particular mentioning the remains of a fetus. [3]

[1] https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/2023-10-12/ty-article-magazin...

[2] https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/1697531028-they...

[3] https://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/2023-10-19/ty-article-opi...
While I agree that this is a serious error in the design or tuning of the vehicle, a modern car is an extremely complex piece of kit and it would be miraculous if any new design didn’t incorporate several similar flaws.

Engineering to factory is a very complex path fraught with noise from the process, and very subtle and seemingly insignificant tweaks often add up to significant problems in complex designs.

That there was a flaw in the process is not the least bit surprising or even disappointing, every single new vehicle design brought to market will have numerous tweaks and modifications or recalls over the first few years of fielding the design.

That the flaw was safety critical is unfortunate, but that a major automaker that typically handles things responsibly (with some notable historical exceptions) responded in an appropriate way is the system functioning nominally as it should.

That new companies with a more “tech” oriented approach would probably have silently pushed a performance degrading software update instead of fixing the problem is a harsh indictment of a deeply flawed engineering culture.
As the owner of a Lenovo laptop with Qualcomm processor I agree (except that my development for the most part is outside WSL). Some of the drivers are immature, but on the application side the end user really doesn't notice. I couldn't tell you which applications are compiled for arm64 and which for amd64. And battery life is notably improved compared to intel.

The development experience is a bit different, because you can run both arm64 and x64 toolchains, and of course everything has to match there. But that's not a big issue.
The hard part is the icons. Nobody does aliased bitmapped icons anymore.

We should've made SVG icons the default, like the vector icons in IRIX. Then we could just tweak the renderer.
I agree there's some inequality at play, but it's only extreme if you think the time and effort he put in isn't worth the jobs he created for millions of other people. (Which in the case of Amazon, you could argue he put a lot of brick and mortar out of business, so maybe Amazon actually isn't a net gain for society?)
I would never have someone repair my computer, but if I did I would certainly not give it to them with intimate photos or sensitive information on it, for exactly this reason.
Why would you question that this one particular building out of the thousands that Israel has and is bombing, wasn’t also bombed by Israel?

Aside, the doctors at the hospital said Israel bombed them, they are not Hamas.
What ends up in those package managers is usually _heavily_ curated. Like, people complain about Apple app store review, but it is as nothing next to the fury of a Debian maintainer :)

(Obviously you can add any repos you want, but the ones that come enabled by default on your distro are likely to be very heavily policed.)
An intriguing idea, but a few issues make this a very hard sell: 1) resolution is too low, 2) eInk's slow refresh time will make it look like your entire world is flashing, 3) due to the low resolution, you can only render like a paragraph worth of text; there will be a lot of page scrolling, and 4) price is too high for a one-utility device. Maybe there could be a v3 or v4 that can solve these issues.
> I wonder if the "fix" will be to sharply reduce maximum power draw and reduce charge rates, instead of replacing the under-spec'd part. That would make for a lot of unhappy customers, but they likely wouldn't have a lot of recourse.

They already tried the software fix. The solution will almost certainly be just replacing it with the new part that has been going into Mach-Es for the last year.
That's a comment that I hate. They could still be taxed an appropriate amount. Why should the majority of the tax burden be on the middle class? We pay a larger percentage of our income in taxes than they ever did.
That link you posted features the "political compass" where freedom is perpendicular to left-right. Did you not read it?
this publicity does not include the MWF internal efforts for the last six+ years? only a META-owned research project?
> evidence from reputable OSINT orgs like Bellingcat

Do you have a link to their findings?
Now I feel bad.

But rejoice! You need no excuse to rewatch Die Hard, it's just a good idea regardless.
The money that isn't spent on consumer goods/services will be invested, where other people can spend that on goods/services, with an expectation of returns on investment, incentivising efficient choices. Economies are cool!
Most of his wealth is AMZN stock which never existed before Jeff Bezos made Amazon. What exactly do you think he is hoarding? Wealth is not zero-sum.
The words you wrote here make no sense and are in direct contradiction to your original claim.

Can you please clarify your thoughts?
But they don’t come with a cup holder
Can we fetch say, 10 articles after the server-generated random number, and then choose a random article from that? Intuitively, this should even the selection chance, but the math evades me
There are so many variables that factor into the success of public transport that direct comparisons between different countries are of minimal use. Its going to depend a lot on how safe the public transport is, how well it connects commuters to places they need to travel between, how inconvenient the roads and accommodation are for owning cars, etc. etc.

The sane thing to do is to experiment with a pilot program and adapt for the local context. Even then there are many problems to weed out with experimental biases and sampling issues, etc. - but it is less terrible.
And people /continue/ to screech that discreet, non-interdictable value transfer devices like Bitcoin have no value.

I tell you, moving hundreds of thousands of dollars across state and international lines is /entirely doable/, and these cretins in uniform are simply accelerating that knowledge transfer.
You are wrong about the average of one per day. But not in a good sense:

"In 1980s Los Angeles, a bank was robbed every hour (2019)"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25511220
Postgres replicates the whole row on a change already, its somewhat accessible too

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7118432/how-to-reveal-ol...

This work is great but it feels wasteful given the features Postgres already has but probably the only reasonable solution is to rebuild it in user-space.
Is this healthy for eyes? I thought such a close focusing distance for long term wear would be quite bad?

I can sort of understand this format for movies enabling larger than screen interface during flying etc. But not sure whats the point for reading - having something like kinlde seems way more convinient.
I didn't get that on desktop. But I'm using Firefox and maybe one of my plugins saved me from the annoyance.
4 years ago.
The article of this post point to another reason: some volcano activity last year.
I think this is fine. 90% of the code that starts with "if err != nil" is immediately followed by "return nil, err". Of course this obscures the origin of the error, but that's probably a fundamental problem with not having automatic stack unwinding. (Maybe unary "Foo()?" could "return nil, err", but infix "Foo()?NewErr" would do "return nil, errors.Join(err, NewErr)"... but that starts to look like line noise...)
For those that missed the joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
Honestly reading a book in a bath tub is really relaxing for me, but is a pain to hold the book above the water. So I see value here. But the marketing images look hilarious. Showing "models" looking in the distance with these things on looks like a joke. Showing a middle aged guy with these on sitting in a chair makes more sense to me.
AmEx's Departures magazine would be another great example.
Remain silent? Oh. We can do much worse; actively cheering and covering up.
Mathematicians Found 12,000 Solutions to the Notoriously Hard Three-Body Problem
The RTO propaganda is getting pretty intense
Yes, but in my experience, this applies more to people than to some of the topics discussed in the article. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a city, town, village or hamlet in the US without a wikipedia page (as an example, take a look at Jack Wade, Alaska [1]), for example. And I don't imagine that rare moth species articles get taken down. But you have to have some kind of policy in place so that every individual on the planet doesn't have a wikipedia page.

[1] On Google maps view, i can't maybe 8 houses there? https://www.google.com/maps/place/Jack+Wade,+AK+99732/@64.15.... But it's on wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Wade,_Alaska
It is amazing to see him code. Are there other expert programmers out there who code in Python (instead of Rust)?
I want Stewart to end the show so he can run for president.
Everybody reading that NYT article is going to come away with the conclusion that PIJ fired the rocket.

The way it was written makes that conclusion far more persusasive than any article less "fair" to Hamas or the PIJ.
The flipside of "taking risks" is having the resources to take those risks with in the first place. Especially the resources that if the risk doesn't pay off they can try again. It's not that average person isn't willing to take risks, it is that they don't have the opportunity to do so.

And yeah, life isn't fair and it should never be totally fair. But at the same time having it rigged against so many people is a big problem. At what point do you say "ok, you have won, good job, it is time to promote the common good now."
Draft of UNESCO's Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
It's crazy, right? It's always baffling how otherwise very intelligent people like Google/Meta engineers are communists. They're basically brain dead outside of their immediate area of expertise.

These people have no idea what wealth means, it would indeed be a problem if Bezos was consuming all his $100B+ but he isn't. The value he created through Amazon is likely orders of magnitude greater than his net worth.

If you agree that nobody deserves or needs that wealth, then please move to Cuba or North Korea. And enjoy your life, there's no Bezoses there.
135,025. Brings back memories of /. UIDs.
People (rightly or wrongly) still conflate todays FBI, with Hoovers FBI of 50 years ago, and the tactics he used then.
How's the graphical performance in qemu? I tried using ZorinOS via Windows' hyper-v - which should run at native cpu speed - but the graphical performance was certainly not "daily driver-able".
I love the infringement on freedom you propose (you can't use your private property or money to own media) in the attempt to prop up a different freedom (speech rights).

I also love that you confuse "not being paid to say things" with "banned from saying things". Speech rights aren't even at risk here. But yes, let's infringe on some freedoms.
SCORM is definitely still used, but there have been many attempts to replace it with improved content packaging standards.

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

SCORM 1.2 then SCORM 2004 then TinCan and IMS Common Cartridge and IMS Content Packaging

As an LMS developer, how do you avoid the insanity of building to all of these standards and listening to what your next power user asks for? E.g., there is an instructor out there that has been using the same SCORM 1.2 package from 20 years ago and wants your new LMS to support it.
https://archive.ph/B561Q
Billions of crabs went missing around Alaska. Scientists now know why
Even the deep ocean is now seeing heat waves, and that is causing snow crabs to starve due to increased caloric needs, as well as increased depredation from species that previously couldn't reach them due to the cold temperatures
Break Up The Tech Companies! Content producers should not also own the content pipes.
I think you just clearly outlined exactly my point.
90% of all PC buyers would look at your qemu install and say "WHAT?!". Hell 80% probably don't know what an x86 app is...and they shouldn't! If a person buys a new PC, it should be better, at time of purchase, than their old one without gotchas. They shouldn't need to learn about why some apps are slower or why a particular app doesn't run. That is why Apple's move was good. They not only made it just work..but the M1 ran x86 apps faster than the outgoing model.
How much do you think Jeff could get of that $185 billion liquid? I've always wondered about these ways of calculating net worth, especially ones including stock. Once they tried to liquidate even a small amount of it, the price would crash as you go lower and lower to find buyers and word gets out you are trying to sell.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/marketdepth.asp

I'd like to see a list of wealthiest individuals based on diversified liquid assets they could reasonably be expected to sell. I always imagine it is some old family that has gold, commodities, treasuries, stocks, real estate, etc. etc.
Iran and Russia are certainly funding these two wars, and these countries are deeply committed to the destruction of western power. Why should western governments not try to undermine their efforts?
We are using a Datomic derivative at my work because Postgres doesn’t have this feature. I don’t think anyone has actually used Daromic’s capabilities for this purpose.
Or maybe there was a better use of the resources being spend on the brick and mortar businesses that can now be deployed elsewhere in society. Efficiency gains can be society’s gains, if allocated properly.
It still amazes me that Apple can't even be PERCEIVED as somehow criticizing China -- even if Stewart's reporting was going to be factual.
Apple, a US-headquartered company and the most valuable in the world, can't have a show on their streaming platform that isn't supportive of China.

https://youtu.be/VtvjbmoDx-I?si=xe1-1i834RcxZrkn
(2021)

Some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22998347
It's actually just that Barbara Broccoli hates the main character and ever since she took over as Executive Producer they've been on a mission to destroy the character

But they have no new ideas, and they only make something that feels vaguely like what it was

Bond as a concept is fine, the execution has been trash for over a decade now
I haven't found Windows ARM to be that bad. It is not as good as Rosetta 2 for sure, but it handled most "normal" stuff fine and even some advanced .NET legacy work.

I think with more effort they will get there. I think the bigger problem is the one you outlined: M2 is so far ahead. Hard to see Qualcomm catching up and being price competitive
Strict Surveillance Requirements onto Broadly Defined Class of 'Bitcoin Mixers'
This VC-frenzied industry did it to themselves. They all want "disruption" so badly that they start to see it everywhere.
10-year Treasury yield rises to 5%, highest level for the key rate in 16 years
It’s certainly divisive. I was never the slightest bit interested in the Mustang brand until the Mach-E. That brand is now more valuable to me.

For those on the other side, I agree that “all press is good press”.
This is what I'm scratching my head at too. Why would it be a good thing for any OSS maintainer to slow themselves down for packages that don't want to fix deprecation warnings?