skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
I think that was the problem with how Linux implemented pselect() circa 10 years ago. I think pselect fixes the race condition you get when you set a timer then call select(). Linux's implementation was a function that set a timer and then called select(). ... slam head on keyboard.

So I think that fear is valid that they'll implement the API without the guarantees.

Myself I'm annoyed with the reckless push always to remove guarantees in return for 'performance'.
Waymo works pretty well today in the Bay Area. Self driving cars are here. They’re just not evenly distributed.
There must be something you do terribly wrong if you believe it happened to you in normal use.
Lawyers and narrow systems are much more efficient at it.
I have ~8 self-hosted services with docker-compose and one with snap (nextcloud). While I get that snap gets some flak for how cavalier it can be with your system, ultimately my nextcloud is always up to date and I've had very little effort to put into it in over 7-8 years, which is not something I can say from my running docker containers. It might not be for everyone, but from a security standpoint it's much less fussy than basically everything else that I've tried.
Primarily because I don't have to use a mouse

The key sequence customization, motion commands, and editor modes make editing code way easier

I don't seem to be missing anything from VS Code in terms of IDE features (LSP and intellisense like capabilities)
You don't seem to understand what a monopoly is. You can't arbitrarily put an app onto their hardware because they built it so you couldn't.

However, not all hardware is created by them. You're free to purchase a different phone, and you can even make the number of app stores supported a primary buying decision.
I agree but I wouldn't bet on it being far either based on how far we've come on the last few years.
> goal oriented with no empathy

We'll know we have discovered AGI when it gives us a prompt instead of us providing one.
In computer chess, traditionally 'minimax' was the strategy that allowed you to efficiently probe ahead. The only requirement for this is that your evaluation function returns a single (scalar) value.
I think having a standard way to specify exact program dependencies (not package names, but e.g. pkgconfig files, command binaries, deps for specific languages, etc, so they can be translated back to the package name for each distro), as well as allow packagers to check for updates, would go a long way in easing sustainability. We already have other metadata covered by metainfo.xml files.

Packaging software is almost automatic these days. If the program uses the standard build system for their language, and the language's build system cooperates with the way of linux (e.g. C, C++, python, perl, ...), packaging software is as easy as telling the package manager what build system to use and giving it a download URL.

I figure that if we manage to have some standard like that, you could easily have a set of docker containers build your program for every major distro and publish it in a repository, without much distro-specific fuss. Of course, flatpak is probably better if publishing to all distros is your specific goal, but it'd make the life of distribution developers significantly easier.

My biggest fear with regards to flatpak is that people will use it as an excuse to create bespoke and broken build systems that only work on a very specific system, patch all their libraries or require very specific git versions that cannot easily be updated, or etc etc. I've already seen this happen with a few flatpak apps I've tried to package.
Yeah, memory on these devices tends to be pretty tight. The other challenge with buffering ahead so much is that if you do skip, you’ve basically used your energy budget for 0 value. You’d have to make the argument that there’s net savings, but that would only materialize with predictions that are right enough that the savings outweigh the times you lose (e.g. a simplest heuristic would be if the audio stream has been live for 5 seconds without skipping, send the available buffer at faster than realtime).
> And since philanthropic approaches to such aspirations demonstrably do not work, we need extremely high taxes on the ultra wealthy.

Pretty bold to claim that government intervention post-taxes would work better than philanthropic fundations.
New Dells are using fixed storage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPBk9sIK-PQ

Most (all?) Chromebooks use eMMC storage attached to the board.

Even laptops with M.2 connectors still require a hundred screws, guitar picks, heat guns, and other insane things to "replace" storage.
They're lucky that a random crazy person hasn't killed them yet. This is not a suggestion that any particular individual should engage in violence, it's just an observation. (Violence is bad mmk?)

I'm staying well the fuck away from SFO right now because the Californians are so far out of touch they don't even understand that they deserve the hatred they receive.
Finally someone in this whole HN post saying _true_ negative things about Milei. I also consider myself left leaning. And yes, Milei said he doesn't believe in global warming and he was insulting people on the left a huge load. After he won, he invited everyone, no matter which side, to work together to make Argentina better (great again :D). I'd give him a benefit of the doubt. If he proposes something, and that makes sense, I'd be supportive of the proposal. Unfortunately, what I'm most afraid of, is the people who will be against anything he proposes, only because it was him who proposed it.
Map.prototype.emplace
I'm always fascinated by how Gödel's incompleteness theorems, Cantor's diagonalization proof, Turing's halting problem, and Russel's paradox all seem to graze the boundaries of logic. There's something almost terrifying about how everything we know seems to "bottom out" and what we're left with is an embarrassingly small infinite set of truths to grapple with.

It really feels to me as if the distinctions between countable vs uncountable; rational vs irrational; discrete vs continuous; all represent the boundary between physics and mathematics – an idea I wish I could elaborate more precisely, but for me stands only on a shred of intuition.

I've been interested lately in Stephen Wolfram's and Scott Aaronson's writings on related ideas.

Aaronson on Gödel, Turing, and Friends: https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec3.html

Wolfram on computational irreducibility and equivalence:
https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/chap-12--the-principle-of...
> If I need some bleeding edge software I would install it through docker

Or if you use Arch, just install it using pacman or the AUR.
The timing of the submission is far more important than the nature of the article.

Time of day, time of week, other prominent distractions, etc have an increasingly outsized influence.
What I mean is if context length wasn't a limit, you could have your own AI agent that remembers that article forever, along with everything else you've ever discussed with it.

If it generated text on its own, without human interaction, and developed its "personality", then you could say it's more like what we consider an intelligent being.
Bill Gates predicts AI can lead to a 3-day work week
It would also be easy for a benevolent actor to counter-flood etc.
That's kind of the nature of non-destructive editing. While I do think the operation stack could be smarter about collapsing edits that are commutative, once I got a workflow order down I haven't really worried about this much.

The documentation actually has a pretty good example workflow that flows through mutations in an order that makes sense for most cases. Though it's not really that simple, and so you'll find yourself trying to relearn each time if it's something you do only on occasion.
> let's replace...scientific research

That doesn't seem like a very good idea to me - I will vote to object.

> let's replace democratic politics...With what?

Consider how all problems in the world are solved: analyze the problem, develop a solution.

Bad news though: analyze democracy and suggest solutions, you just became an employee of Putin (or, some other meme), and no one will be able to take you seriously. So it seems we have nested problems here.
It’s not a browser stack but includes an HTML painter and V8 engine in your project? This sounds pretty close to a browser stack to me. If this isn’t true then this is one of the confusing aspects. In including pieces of a browser stack or whatever is going on doesn’t really help it make it look not like one. It seems like the ideas are obfuscated just to call it something else.
Feds would typically pay yearly through classified budget to have this access. They simply procure it like everything else, then hide it in reams of black budget.
Well I did not know that. Perhaps that's why it works so seamlessly. Well one of the upsides then is that switching to Firefox in IOS is very painless then.
I recently tried Turtle but ended up throwing it out in favour of typed-process.

Afaik a Turtle program has a single current directory, which makes it hard when you want to run concurrent jobs that need to be executed from particular directories. I partially solved the problem by using locks/queues/workers. But it got too much for me when Turtle started failing due to its current directory being deleted.

In contrast, typed-process lets you spawn separate processes, and execute within a working dir (rather than needing to cd there), so it works great for big, complicated workflows.

And it also has good support for OverloadedStrings, which means you can generally copy & paste what you would have typed into bash, and it just works.

I also use the interpolate package (with QuasiQuotes) to make the raw strings nicer in the source code, but it's not compatible with hlint, so I'm thinking of looking for a different package for string-handling.
On days with perfect weather, with heavy reliance on extremely detailed pre-computed maps, with constant internet access, on paved roads, in scenarios it has encountered before. Getting from where we are to what is promised is not trivial at all.
Why not change your homepage to something you prefer? And don’t create or sign into a Mozilla account; host your own sync server instead https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34674569
>sending funds to Apple so that Apple sends those funds back to you is what makes the money clean

No, because it is extremely easy for anyone to see that these funds came from an illegal activity, Apple would just say "these were stolen credit cards" within hours of it happening. That's the literal opposite of concealing the origin of money.
fertilization?
Author has a blog post here, https://ansel.photos/en/news/darktable-dans-le-mur-au-ralent..., which exhibits some example code, for example, this: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/blob/darktable-4....

That's a far cry from what I'd find acceptable in any project.
A three day week at one job, then a 3 day week at the next, then your moonlight job, then a side hustle, and then maybe you can afford to live in your car.
Yes, the communist argument - everybody else is at fault but not myself. Yet the communist paradise, the 1/6 of all the land with incredible riches stayed poor and finally collapsed.
I think (probabilistic) logic programming also relies on graph traversal/path searching, which is part of the symbolic AI paradigm.
Jinxing means you hat people might consider the problem solved and pay less attention to it.
Anyone remember grey goo from the nanotechnology apocalypse?
How is GPT-4 not AGI? It is generally intelligent and passes the Turing test. When did AGI come to mean some godlike being that can enslave us? I think I can have a more intellectualy meaningful conversation with ChatGPT than I could with the vast majority of humanity. That is insane progress from where we were 18 months ago.
The DB is compatible with Darktable v4.0 and below only
It is around 60%. Nobody is rushing to the bank to get that sweet -20 interest. Trust me.
You'd love that until the phone rings and you want to pre-empt all that buffered stuff with your incoming call rather than to first listen to the next minute of Led Zeppelin.
I’m surprised there’s so little discussion of the form of chlorine. Chlorine dissolved in water can be dissolved Cl2, HOCl, OCl-, and chlorinated cyanurates. These are all in a pH-dependent equilibrium, and the latter is most of what you get when you mix “NaDCC” with water.

HOCl is generally considered the best disinfectant, and OCl- is weaker. Chlorinated cyanurates are very weak (and fairly UV-stable and non-irritating) and can replenish HOCl and OCl- as they are consumed.

Yet somehow the food-and-beverage-service standard for disinfection seems to be “100 ppm as Cl2” without regard to the balance of chlorine species.

On the other hand, this paper tested concentrations up to 10000ppm, which is really quite high.
>tacit agreement

Not a law or regulation.

Why can't a company have a goal other than profit along side it? there's no reason they can't coexist and worthy of investment for the goal too.

If people don't want that they're free to not invest.

>You don't list unless you actually want to become a generator of increasing shareholder value.

Says who?

>There is no law or regulation because it is what it is.

There's no law in physics for it either. So in conclusion it's a layman's myth.
Google's New Gmail Tool Is Hallucinating EmailS That Don't Exist
They could just secure all the hatches and redesign any above deck elements to be locked down as well, kinda like how a secure door fixed aircraft hijacking’s. Just keep the crew inside behind locked steel doors! You don’t really need windows, a few cameras would be fine to drive with. Pirates can come onboard but couldn’t do anything from the deck in this case.
> the issue seems to be that there are a lot of people who feel otherwise, whether right or wrong, including some of the people involved in the research and/or running these companies.

I think the problem here is this view isn't widely held in academia and more traditional AI companies, but the relatively few AGI labs are commanding all of the attention right now. And we have a whole new crop of "AI engineers" who haven't actually studied AI (this isn't a dig, it's just the truth), and so mostly just parrot what the AGI labs say.

It's like going to a flat earth conference and becoming convinced because the majority of the attendees believe that the earth is flat.

Of course, this doesn't mean that the AGI labs are incorrect, but thus far the evidence mostly seems to be "trust us, scale will work". I wish that more technologists realized that the prevailing opinion amongst AI experts is not necessarily aligned with the prevailing opinion amongst AGI folks.
Well, let's see what you've built so far. :^)
>but all signs seem to be pointing toward a longer timeframe rather than a short one.

What signs are those? If anything, the "signs" point to timelines being much shorter than anyone would have thought two years ago.

I keep asking those who are confident AGI is a long way away to argue their case. For some reason they never do.
So my scripts look normal, like everyone else's.
abstracted out to the c-suite level, cars are just faster horses. the ceo needs an item moved from location X to location Y, and it will cost Z dollars and take T time. doesn't matter if it's by car or boat or train or horse or donkey or a person on a bicycle.

Or say, the logistics of, say, warehouse management. it costs V dollars for a team of people to do the job by hand, W dollars for a forklift, X dollars for a forklift operator; compare V to W + X. If there's a machine that can do the same for office jobs, the math will be done.
Sure, but the PME approach Qt uses makes constructing complex UIs quite a lot easier.
True, but you can imagine something like a websocket to all clients getting reset and everyone re-connecting, re-authenticating, and getting a new payload.
It is a tree. What makes you think it's just a DAG? Are there commits with multiple parent commits or what?
Well they can advertise how much memory they have...

RAM uses less power than keeping a radio alive, so I suspect aggressive buffering is a net energy saver.
I'm starting to come round to the belief that the only robust remedy is to release the chaos monkey: have the kernel delete all the state of the filesystem driver at randomly-chosen intervals, a few hours apart on average, and force the driver to recover itself.
Nah, my personal policy is to ignore that in most cases. If you aren't insulting me while lecturing me that the cure for what ails this world is genuine respect for others, I generally interpret that as "DoreenMichele fits in with this overwhelmingly male forum and her behavior doesn't just scream I'm a woman."

You would know that if you read my blogs. I wrote a long and detailed blog post about that once.
Omg stop reading my future. Are you an LLM?
What is it like to be a crab?
From a security point of view, Python is better because it is less of a footgun. So if you expose an interface to untrusted users, you should use Python because its behavior is more intuitive. An arithmetic expansion or missing quotes do not easily become a vulnerability in Python.
Correct. It's also the case that human generated requests will lose their relevance within seconds, a quick retry is all it's worth. As for machine generated requests a dead letter queue would make more sense, poor engineered backend services would OOM and well-engineered would load shed, if the requests are queued on the application servers they are doomed to be lost anyway.
I had this realization when I was like 8 years old. It goes to show how undemocratic our governments are that we still cannot get the leaders, who are more insulated from the effects, to act on our vulnerability.
Somewhere very recently I encountered a quote from Ansel Adams, in which he seemed to anticipate that "electronic" photos would be the next big thing, in (IIRC) 1980. Wish I could find that again. Seemed remarkably prescient.
How about this? https://github.com/darktable-org/rawspeed/blob/develop/data/...
Not to mention how slow Electron would run on the embedded CPU on the Tesla dash board.
There is a strong likelihood that these agent swarms will be significantly smarter and more effective at not only solving problems, but also operating in sync and spreading information and software than any human or group of humans. Put that in the context of the track record of avoiding privilege escalation we have with human actors, and the idea that these systems are connected to critical infrastructure and military assets.
Take a look at the darktable docs:
https://docs.darktable.org/usermanual/4.0/en/overview/suppor...

The rawspeed lib is at github here:
https://github.com/darktable-org/rawspeed
It is basically a solved problem for developers.

https://build.opensuse.org/
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_supported_bui...
https://github.com/openSUSE/open-build-service
I wonder whether it supports normal (as in, vscode-like) tab switch behavior these days.

When I tried it a few years ago, it forced some history-based keyboard tab switching, rather than behaving like everything else.
Here's the difference,

In the art world there is (or at least, was) some level of secrecy in the transactions and parties involved.

Apple would give up all information it has about you to law enforcement at the slightest suspicion of some shenanigans happening. They also comply with all KYC requirements from the law. That's how (among other things) they "actively prevent" people using their platform for criminal activities. Heck, at their scale, they must have an entire team devoted to doing just that.
- "Global warming is real, caused by humans, pretty bad, but it's far enough along that nowadays we can pretend to feel bad about it while we continue to cozy up to our terraforming reptilian overlords."
Current problem in Africa is that their capacity to produce food, while it is increasing relatively fast, doesn't increase enough to keep up with the population growth. This is why Russia can play with the grain shortage to begin with.
It'd be easy to add [[ to dash as well. The only thing preventing it is the certain level of buttheaded-ness among the Debian crew.
A lot of crime is obviously very local. The 2-5% of GDP number is irrelevant in this context.

> “What about priorities?”

Yeah, whataboutism is the primary line of defense for crypto.

It’s possible to do multiple things at once. If we shut down this environmental disaster of a virtual casino that’s used primarily by the criminals, it won’t take away anything from all the other efforts to fight crime.
It’s all about trade-offs. Sure, they can do that. But what’s the likelihood of it happening really? Do we have good numbers?

If you want to be creative and earn money apps are a decent way. Apple/Google take care of a lot of things and you get their reach.

Is it without risks? No, nothing is in life. Is the risk high? Probably not for 99.99% of developers.
Alas, spending their untold riches to make the government better is not in vogue. Never has been.

Instead, their mission is to gut governments, "burn it all down" for the sake of eradicating those cursed regulations, in the name of making the government "more efficient". In reality it just means "get those pesky bureaucrats out of my way of making even more money with immoral, destructive, and even illegal ways".

Instead we get "effective altruism" which basically means - "my mission is to get as rich as possible in unholy ways, and if you are lucky enough to be within the gravity field of the pet causes I happen to be a fan of, then you get some money".

You cannot find a worse way of a civilized way of distributing money to those in need. It's ineffective by definition.

People need to remind themselves once in a while that the world like this already existed. A bunch of feudal lords running around, trying to get favors with the king. Most people suffered, and rivers of blood were spent to shed that kind of system to create, you know, a civilization.

So stop worshipping the ultra-rich - they are the most destructive anti-civilization force were are dealing with right now, unleashing their wrath if they are not adored enough, stewing in anger and grievances.

And no, I am not saying Capitalism is bad. Sure, greed is good and all that, but running amok and without any oversight, it leads to no good.
BLE Audio supports bidirectional audio up to ±1300kbps ("2Mbps" but with overhead subtracted) which is a LOT better than HFP, especially with LC3 as a replacement for the older codecs.

I don't think many devices support it yet, but the spec has a perfectly acceptable bitrate for modern audio calls. We just need to wait for hardware vendors to pick up on BT5.1 features. Last I read about these I think the focus for BLE audio was on hearing aids and such, but there's no reason the spec couldn't be used for headphones.

BLE audio also allows for things like connecting your headphones to multiple sources and broadcasting audio to multiple receivers. The standard has improved significantly, but without cheap, mass produced chips, these advancements will probably be stuck in expensive purpose-built devices for a while.
AGI is general intelligence at human level, which GPT-4 does not have. Passing the Turing test is ill-defined as it entirely depends on the timscale. I'm sure Turing gave some time limit originally but we do not have to stick to that. The Turing test for a conversation of complexity perhaps ~1 minute may have been passed, but giving several hours of interaction with any chatbot that exists it becomes easy to distinguish it from a human, especially if one enters the conversation perpared.