skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe read a little bit more before commenting? Milei is, yes on one side a lunatic, but on the other side he definitely is talking complicated things and offering solutions that are usually difficult to comprehend for the average Joe.
Does shaming people about their sexual hygiene increase openness and willingness to get tested?

Or does it encourage people to hide from the problem, exacerbating it? I know weight shaming is in this category, tends to make people gain rather than lose.

Do you know if this actually works? Is this definitely positive behaviour, or does it just feel like it?
> Conversely, maybe AGI is not what is wanted in the end anyway.

I dont think it is, if it is trully intelligent, it will probably have rights, so you cant treat it as a slave. And it will likely not be controllable.

Both of these mean it will not be commercially progotable, any more than having children is profitable.
I recommend Pop!_OS (despite the stupid name). It is basically Ubuntu without the annoying bits.
Glad I never stopped using it
Yeah I’m pretty visual.. I draw in a notebook but whiteboard would be equivalent. Good luck! :)
Titanium so widely desirable for knife scales because of not only its strength to weight benefits but also interesting finishes that can be applied for instance anodization can give incredibly beautiful iridescent colors in a wide spectrum of potential colors and tones. I dont know how interested you are in modding your pocket knife but there are several very talented people that can do just stunning colorful and textural finishes on titanium.
They lack support, sometimes documentation.

Here you get everything out of the box. You get landing page, Auth components, emails, billing etc

OSS options are scattered, there is still work to do when you go with free options
> We're so far away from AGI

Are… are we? I think a valuable metric for the development of radical technology is the rate at which the complexity of discourse increases.

In the ‘00s, it was just called AI. Now it’s the ‘20s, and it’s the discussion between AI/AGK/AGI/ASI. Furthermore, there is far more investment in AI research these days.

The conclusion? Things that are far away look like step functions: they exist or they don’t. As you approach them, the detailed specifics & complexity come into view, and you realize that, in truth, the transitions are gradients. AGI is just whenever people are astounded enough.

In conclusion AGI is not so far away. AGI is arriving on the order of decades.
In the backpacking and bicycle-travel community, titanium pots are widely regarded as good only for boiling water in, since they don't distribute heat as well as aluminium for more complex cooking.
> How do you undo a merge that you didn't mean to do/did wrongly?

I usually used `switch` for this:

# Check out the previous commit
git switch -d HEAD~
# Overwrite the branch
git switch -C <current branch>
And well-known existing product name.
But in a way google already fills that role? It does ID, payment, social media etc. Several other companies fill various aspects of that void as well, so there really isnt a void to grow into explosivly. Even if twitter has weechat capabilities, then it still is unlikely to see major uptake. Personally id avoid it simply because elon is at the helm and elon is a conman.

Additional concerns the average citizen would have is the increased reach this would have on them and their life. We are currently dealing with a significant threat to the longevity of social media in gen. pop. We're all netizens here and so are unlikely to stop living part of our life online, but your gen pop folks are less and less interested. Dumb phones are becoming increasingly popular, leaving social media entierly is also increasingly popular. So much so that mainstream popular icons for younger generations like tom holland take a public stand against social media and make a point of leaving it. If that is a move that isn't career suicide for a celebrity then it has to have pretty good mainstream support.

I just dont see how massive broad adoption of a western weechat is going to happen without people being forced to adpot it.
"All of the confusion expressed in the article stems from a misunderstanding that main should work in some special way."

I didn't have that impression when reading that article.

To me it seems that the confusion comes from thinking in actual branches, and not from thinking anything special about main.
Snaps are one of the two main reasons I'm ditching Ubuntu for basic Debian. The other is apt spam berating me to upgrade to their pay security service.
As much as Tesla's well known for thumbing their nose at safety, Qt has variants designed for safety critical things like instrument clusters. Whoever owns Qt these days even calls out instrument clusters specifically.

Electron has none of that.
> The second kind is preventing AGI from enslaving/killing humanity or whatever.

Y'all are crazy for thinking this. A computer program without arms or legs cannot extinct or enslave the human race.
Are you implying that Bash is 10x faster than Java or Go?
The author is the "Dr. Rant" (his own words) of Darktable, so a lot of what he says is probably exaggerated. A lot of it isn't, though - Darktable does indeed lack focus and direction lately, leading to unnecessary bloat and unresolved issues. In other words, typical FOSS problems that sometimes lead to a fork.
No, a killbot is a way to kill parties while trying to reduce the number of 'false positives', aka collateral damage. But because a killbot does that the result then is that you get far more deployment and eventually the collateral damage in total rises because the weapon is seen as effective. That's why killbots are bad.
I’ve really enjoyed watching these while working on a toy emulator during little bouts of free time in the past year. Thanks for making these!

Edit: Just realized how similar my comment was to a neighbor comment. There must be a lot of folks pining for a better time from their past…
Thank you. I stand by my opinion that gender issues are a factor in global poverty, so someone insisting the cure for such is to respect people and not think you know what's best for them should find gender-neutral terms to make that point in line with their stated values or at least check the gender of the individual they are attacking and insulting (in violation of HN guidelines) and use gender appropriate insults if they insist on getting personal.
Do you mean innocent temporary cast from a pointer to a reference? Cause yeah, those aren't innocent. And that's a newer realization and there were serious documentation issues around it.
Package managers are not a sustainable solution to application distribution. It puts way too much on package maintainers, which is a thankless job. Whether or not you like Flatpaks, Snaps, etc, it's clear that we need some sort of cross distro (and preferably cross platform) application format that's simple for developers to target.

Personally I ship static executables, but that doesn't work for GUI apps.
This is a four year old thread.
Speculating further, during decoding (when GPT is deciding which token to generate next) we typically use something like beam search. That is, we don’t just take the next most likely token, we take the next most likely sequence of tokens when you multiply all of their probabilities together.

In Q learning, a learner can take some set of actions to maximize a future reward. In this case, the set of actions at each step is the choice of token and the reward is something like 1 if the user liked the response and 0 if they didn’t. Or since it seems they’re applying this to arithmetic, the goal is some formulation of the solution.

Putting these together, it’s possible that Q* is some better way of decoding. Something built on top of the prior probabilities of GPT.
Love that profits plunder progress.
So what? Humans again being bamboozled by some machine? That has happened in various forms for hundreds of years. (Setting aside that often the adversarial nature of the test as proposed by Turing got ignored.)
Whether or not people want AGI, corporations definitely want it, as long as the cost of an AGI worker is less than the cost of a human worker. So perhaps we should prepend a C for “cheap” to the term AGI.
I'm pretty sure we're far away from real AGI too, but the issue that worries me most is if these models advance along current trends suggest, in a few years we could be facing a situation where large swathes of the population are suddenly redundant, and labor loses all ability to stand up to capital. That's a kind of political situation that could easily escalate into a total collapse of society into a totalitarian nightmare.
> Or how to check what my current headset is using?

`pactl list` should show you all your input and output sinks and what profiles they are using. Even though, I think the pulseaudio Volume Control app also shows this graphically.

Something like `pactl set-card-profile bluez_card.98_52_3D_7E_5D_DE a2dp-sink-sbc_xq` sets the profile to sbc xq. This is a bit old and I am not sure if newer versions of pipewire have better ways of doing it.
- "Global warming isn't real."

- "Global warming is real, but not caused by humans."

- "Global warming is real and caused by humans, but it's not that bad."

- "Global warming is real, caused by humans, pretty bad, but it won't happen as fast as we think."
First polio cases linked to new oral vaccine detected in Africa:
https://www.science.org/content/article/first-polio-cases-li...
LLMs can integrate new information but they only remember what you told them up to the context length. If they could remember longer then you would have agents with a lot of new knowledge.
Autonomous excavator constructs a six- metre- high dry- stone wall
Giving Thanks for Whales
Yes because we see so much value from a public auditable log. It’s much easier to send crypto to a mixer and conceal origin/destination and much easier for the average Joe to do it.
For some added context on the vaccine distrust:

> In the early 2010s, the CIA ran a fake vaccination program in Abbottabad, offering free Hepatitis B vaccines to children in an attempt to collect DNA evidence linking Osama bin Laden to the compound where he was suspected of residing. It is unclear how samples were to be collected or how they would lead to bin Laden, but when news of this scheme broke, it added proof to existing conspiracy theories about vaccinations. As a consequence, many local leaders began urging people not to vaccinate their kids, various districts banned vaccination teams, and the Taliban issued a fatwa against vaccination programs. To this day, local leaders rail against vaccines as Western spying programs.

- https://www.vox.com/first-person/22256595/vaccine-covid-paki...
that is certainly a very plausible and worrisome risk, and i agree that facial recognition doesn't require strong ai

but i think there are other, possibly larger risks that result from strong ai in weapons, and plausible incentives to put it there
>TANSTAAFL

Man. Way to rustle the ol' memory tree.

I think the first time I saw this in print was in Programming Perl back in the mid-1990's.
So how do you get an app onto the iphone if they don't have a monopoly on apps on their phones? What other store can I use to get apps on a iPhone?
billionaires existing is an indictment on our greed and failures of our systems. nobody needs 1000+ million dollars.
If I were a billionaire and wanted out of leases on properties in Oakland and SF, I might submit plans to convert them into shelters or free clinics for the thousands there displaced by tech gentrification, or to do the same near every other hard asset owned by the same group. Their investors probably didn't enjoy the taste of not being the big fish for once.

Being sued is really just opening negotiations.
If AGI is achievable in 5 years, then we do need to worry now, because we currently have no idea how to solve problems like prompt hijacking or how to durably convey our values to these systems.

> There is no point in worrying about it now when it is fiction.

I find this sort of epistemic nihilism completely baffling. Just because we have wide error bars, doesn’t mean we have to give up on trying to steer the future. If your 95% confidence window for “path A” includes ruin, and “path B” has lower EV but no ruin, why would you pick A?

The problem with alignment right now is we can’t even align GPT-3.5, let alone GPT-4. I believe this is a tech tree. New things building on old things at each generation. If we can’t keep up with the frontier, how will we align GPT-Omega? Concretely, things like Mechanistic Interpretability seem required. If we could pause progress for 5-10 years I feel optimistic that we could fully understand GPT-4 and how it actually renders concepts and decisions. (I don’t think we can pause progress, this is my case for why we should be at least a bit worried, and invest much more in interpretability research.)
> https://jmmv.dev/2021/08/useless-use-of-gnu.html

Tangential, but your blog software seems to have mangled the headings; it's serving eg:

make $(shell &amp;mldr;) expansion

instead of

make $(shell ...) expansion

(note that (as is correctly written in the body) that's three pediods, not one elipsis, so mldr wouldn't be correct even on it's own, meaning there's two probably-unrelated bugs affecting it).
Pop!_OS is good, but going from Ubuntu to Pop!_OS doesn't really help with the Snaps issue.
Sweden's housing market teeters on the edge: Is another bubble about to burst?
Show HN: Lua Carousel, create little programs on desktop or mobile devices
> Basically the treatment was given when there was a flare up, because the organism was only vulnerable in that mode

Committing the sin of a double reply, different subject.

There are treatments for HSV, some experimental but I thought I heard one had just about cleared the FDA, that are a cocktail of drugs that kill serum herpes simplex but as a chaser to a drug that tricks HSV into coming out of dormancy. So while it would always be good for big pharma to spend more research on prevention and less on treatment, it's not like no progress is being made.

Whether they're sandbagging I really couldn't say.
I valid point (I don't think we will give machines rights quickly, but the point stands). Maybe all we want is some universal reasoning machine to go with the chat bots.
So if the machine is so good at bamboozling humans that they can't tell it's a machine any more, who's to say it isn't intelligent.
Banks in the US must follow kyc and other forms of reporting.
How? Is Russian government sent by God or elected by people?

Looks like Russian majority has been supporting occupation of Georgia, occupation of Crimea and probably now doesn't care about current occupation of Ukraine.

Ruling party was reelected before, during and after that.
This is actually a plot point in H. Beam Piper's _Little Fuzzy_:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18137

the audiobook read by Tabithat is just about professional quality and is highly recommended:

https://librivox.org/little-fuzzy-by-h-beam-piper/
The thing is that accessing an untagged union's data is just inherently unsafe. Say you made a union with a `u8` field and a `bool` field. If you had an instance of it and set its value to `5`, that's just not a valid `bool`. Hence the requirement of `unsafe`; you need to tell the compiler that you _know_ it's a valid value at the point you're accessing it.
I guess it means keeping improvements/changes to yourself instead of contributing them to the project.
Progress i suppose
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Self hosted jitsi, nothing special beyond that. And i'm still on copper.
Can confirm, snap / flatpack / appimage has been nothing but slow bulky disjoint nightmare.
A possible contender for the top spot: The Eyes Have It by Philip K. Dick

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/31516/31516-h/31516-h.htm
Hmmm I wonder why large corporates can collect so much data on everyone without competent regulations….. /s
Why? That would heavily imply that master/main is somehow technically different from all other branches (since a trunk is certainly not a branch), which to my knowledge is not true.
Personally because it's quick. Sometimes I just need to automate some set of CLI commands... Of course sometimes things evolve and it's time to replace the script with something more easy to handle at the new scale, but for simple stuff, meaning something that can fit a single page or two they are far quicker.

BTW in a broad topic: a classic system with a user-programming language as the topmost human computer automation/interface is obviously better, but we have had such systems in the past and commercial reasons have push them to oblivion so...
I had the same opinion in the past. But after some more years of work experience - mostly in the managed services area - I don't think it's that clear anymore:

- If you offer your users a library, you are competing with tons of open source libraries which claim to offer the same thing. A lot of those will be incomplete, buggy or insecure. But most potential users will never know and try to get them work instead of looking at your offering.

- If you are offering a library, debugging and user support can at times be challenging. Do you expect user to look at the internals (source code) of your library? Provide core dumps?

- Having to support N different [major] versions of libraries can become challenging. It's hard to know when all users have upgraded. With a service, you can control the update schedule. Even though changes to public APIs of the service certainly are still problematic.

- Write a library - but in which language? You might prefer Rust, but your users might prefer Go, Java or Python. You could write the core in one language, and add wrappers in other languages, but some users will still be unhappy with it (e.g. because it makes compilation difficult, people don't want "unsafe C code" in their high level language project, or the wrapper might slow down performance).

- Libraries which are general-purpose and are not targetting a specific application/service can over time become feature bloated since things are added "just for the case that someone might need it". This makes them hard to maintain. And since there's no feedback/telemetry, it's also hard to say whether something can be safely removed.

Note that all of this doesn't mean "don't write libraries". Even if you write applications/services, its good to structure internal components into libraries. It's mostly about "what is preferrable to offer for users".
Thats cool! I didnt know there were specific common applications where grade 1 would be desirable compared to the stronger alloys available.
I don't think there's really any issue with it being Linux specific. There are plenty of Linux specific APIs that people happily use already.

Seems to me the bigger issue is the deification of POSIX and UNIX. There's a stupidly large contingent of people that think that they are flawless and must be followed unthinkingly.
Why post something if it's a paywall?
I've uploaded the code for all of my visualisation posts here: https://github.com/samwho/visualisations.

Enjoy! :)
Rust already has things called unions, which are C-style unions. Using the same word for two different things would definitely have been more confusing, not less...
Pitch deck got our startup a $865M valuation
Trading volume should not be confused with real transactions.
The problem with "${arr[@]}" only exists on bash 3 and before, since bash 4, [@] will never throw unbound variables even in cases where the variable is truly undefined. This is still a problem however, because macOS, to this day, still installs bash v3 by default and doesn't update it automatically (absolute madness, the last release of bash 3 it's from 20 years ago!).

In any case, you can workaround expanding empty arrays throwing unbound by using the ${var+alter} expansion

echo "${arr+${arr[@]}}"
This is and has always been the fundamental problem with Apple owning the app ecosystem.
Who is to say that it is intelligent or that that is even a relevant question to ask? People being caught up in the magic of their own creation isn't something new.
TIL it's paternalistic to give people in 3rd world countries free things that they like.
If only the laborers could organize in order to perform such an election to determine their collective actions.
A little info in the subject.

https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/28152/when-and-h...
Programming as a career isn't right for me
Who said slicing the state to zero? Why do you have to go to the extremes? Yes, Milei said he'll cut down on the number of ministries (currently 18) to 8. So how is that zero?
oxidizing and bleach compatible is an unusual pairing is it not? There are a bunch of chemicals you can't mix with bleach because you create chemical weapon precursors if you do. Even the precursors can send you to the ER.
> The whole threat of AGI is so overblown

Do you think AGI is impossible? Seems pretty possible to me. That it is far away? We have no idea. We don’t need many more breakthroughs on the level of stacking transformers to make an llm smarter than humans for most tasks.

Or do you think having an ai model that’s smarter than humans poses no risk to society / humanity? It’s essentially unlimited capacity for thought. Free, smart employees. Doing whatever you want. Or whatever they want, if they’re smarter than you and have an agenda. “ChatGPT program a search engine that’s better than Google”. “ChatGPT I am a dictator. Help me figure out how to stay in power forever”. “ChatGPT figure out how to bootstrap a manufacturing process that can build arbitrary machines. Then design and build a factory for making nuclear weapons / CO2 capture / houses / rockets to space”.

Things have the potential to be very interesting in the next few decades.
"Amaterasu": Astronomers detect highest energy cosmic ray since 1991
The original topic was whether Artifical General Intelligence is far away or not, and I'm saying you can't say for sure it's far away when even ChatGPT-level intelligence was considered science fiction a few years ago.
> any first AGI will only be able to run on large data centers

Until you task your newfangled AGI to optimize its own code so you can get your cloud server costs down.
> A standardized abrasion machine made real-time breakdown of products into microplastics and nanoplastics.

Under normal use, the bio-availability of "bad" plastic compounds is much less.

If you're sanding your toys you have far more immediate problems than plastic toxicity.

That said, good material is worth the investment. for multiple reasons including health. Some of the stuff on the market is no better than fishing lures.
Yup the theorem gets proven in the book. It's very very verbose but the content is clearly there.

"I am a Strange Loop" elaborates a bit on the parts which may have been confusingly explained, notably both in the proof of the theorem and in the author's AI philosophy.
Ignoring Snaps - what are Flatpaks like today?

Totally understand the value in a distribution model like Flatpaks and am willing to adopt them but I haven't had the smoothest experience with them in the past so I tend to avoid them right now.

The last time I tried them was longer than 12 months ago - I installed Discord and it was missing some features at the time due to sandboxing (I don't remember exactly, it was either push-to-talk, hot-mic, or showing what game you were playing that didn't work).

I also had some other issues with other Flatpaks - I think there were theming issues.

How is it today? Can I install VSCode, Chrome, VLC, Steam, Discord as flatpaks and have no idea they are Flatpaks?
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