skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The future timeline in Terminator does involve something like an AI making "a billion more robots [to] take over the world."

Yes. That's distinctly different from Skynet iterating on itself a billion times to make itself smarter, which AFAIK (I'm not up to date with full Terminatorverse, but then, most people aren't either), isn't something that happened in that story.

> The popularity of that and similar sci-fi makes that claim that someone has never encountered it hard to believe.

Again, there's very little in mass-market sci-fi of what we're discussing here. And most people, including many in tech, have a hard time wrapping their heads around the idea of a feedback loop, so no, I don't think it's something readily available from mass-market sci-fi.

(But the more niche, better thought-out works, will teach you feedback loops, and this is just one of the ways recursive self-improvement becomes an obvious idea.)

> So how has that been going? Those things should probably be labeled "science fiction."

Eugenics? We had to ban it and create such a strong cultural (and legal) repulsive field around it, that it impedes biotech and medical research.

Designer babies? Weren't attempts made in China recently? And in the West, we're already correcting congenital defects, so all in all, it's less "science fiction", and more "science someone is going to apply soon, if they haven't already".

> How do you know it would have an easier job optimizing itself than humans have?

Because it was created by us, using processes and media that are strongly optimized for malleability. Software, algorithms, digital data, optimization models. All well-defined (and comprehensible to an AGI, by definition) - unlike our own minds, which were not made by us but by a dumb, random process, and that the brains are made of stupidly complex nanotech instead of simple transistors is not helping.

Also because the kind of models we're now worried about gain capability through an optimization process that's open-ended, and limited only by availability of training data and compute. So if e.g. a successor of GPT-4 were to become AGI, it would be set up for recursive self-improvement from day one.

> How do you know there isn't some fundamental contradiction in the concept of "superintelligence" that these fantasies are based on? Or even just some practical resource limits that makes the fantasy impossible?

Maybe, but what makes you think this is the case? We know of some fundamental limits to compute, but we're very, very far from hitting them. Otherwise, I don't know of anything that would put a cap on intelligence at around human level. Remember: by the very nature of evolution, we're the dumbest possible beings capable of learning and building a technological civilization. There may be better brain designs than ours, but ours "took off", and we took over the world.
That absolutely wasn't the issue. Starbucks cost pretty much the same as everyone else. The coffee was dreadful. We have a massive coffee culture in Australia and in general good quality coffee can be found in most urban centres.

I have been told that what most Americans call good coffee we find undrinkable.
I had a similar experience in the same era. In addition to the deviant stuff I also used it to tinker with graphics programming using inline assembly for the “performance critical” (for a 386SX) parts. That experience definitely laid the foundation for what I do today.
I've seen the opposite-ish: Someone who was dual booting windows and linux only had working wifi if they booted into windows and rebooted into linux. The linux install didn't have the firmware package for their wifi card installed, so when rebooting from windows into linux it was still all primed and ready to go but not when cold booting into linux directly.
I'm pretty sure a lot of people making less than 150k buy $60k F-150s.
That is fascinating but true! :)

Would you mind elaborating, since we're here already? :)

In particular, what makes the gray roads superior to yellow ones? I find it significantly harder to quickly figure out the layout / roadmap - this is what my neighbourhood looks like now - everything looks like it's been hit with "desaturate/decontrast" filter :|

https://ibb.co/wJkw84t
Gloria Jeans was financed by Hillsong, and though their coffee was pretty awful, it was still better than Starbucks.
Interior of a F-150 Platinum is way nicer than anything Tesla has ever made and that's where nearly all the $20,000 goes to (along with Ford's nice margin for a luxury truck).

Trim-to-trim equivalency hard to get since Tesla interiors are so spartan and each company is putting their money in difference places, but it's probably Lariat. Lariat big battery comes to about 76K compared to the true purchase price of 100K for cyberbeast.
> Russ Hanneman would have one of these.

Impossible. He has 3 nannies suing him, one of them for no reason.
while the whole military, munitions, and hostages are underground unscathed

those buildings are damaged because the side with guided missiles wanted to damage them, not because a Hamas janitor was seen on the 5th floor, as if that’s the only way to deal with that
This is being covered in a confusing way. Bezos’ total real estate portfolio is $500m. Arrived owns 388 homes, valued at $122m.
From the HN "Boustrophedon" discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15539373

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15547162

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Scott Kim has a wonderful talent at designing "ambigrams". Check out his classic book "Inversions" and his gallery of more recent work!

http://www.scottkim.com.previewc40.carrierzone.com/inversion...

An inversion is a word or name written so it reads in more than one way. For instance, the word Inversions above is my name upside down. Douglas Hofstadter coined ambigram as the generic word for inversions. I drew my first inversion in 1975 in an art class, wrote a book called Inversions in 1981, and am now doing animated inversions.

A Scott Kim Ambigram for "George Hart":

https://www.georgehart.com/scott-kim.html

John Maeda's Blog: Scott Kim’s Ambigrams

https://maeda.pm/2017/12/17/scott-kims-ambigrams/

The Inversions of Scott Kim:

https://www.anopticalillusion.com/2012/04/the-inversions-of-...

Channel: An Optical Illusion » scott kim:

https://optical397.rssing.com/chan-26600952/index-latest.php

Scott Kim’s symmetrical alphabet:

https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/scott-kims-symmet...

Typography Two Ways: Calligraphy With a Twist

https://www.wired.com/2009/05/pl-arts-6/
In my experience, usually the problem with a non-technical person isn't that they can't implement their ideas. It's that even if they could, their ideas are unworkable for a hundred reasons that they can't begin to understand. So why would the outcome be any different with AI? Even if the AI is a super-intelligent system designer and tells them all the flaws with their thinking, they'll tell the AI to shut up and get to work just as they'd do with a software engineer.

I actually think that for the foreseeable future, the opposite is more likely. A technical person will be required to get good technical results out of AI, whereas a lot of the key growth-related grunt-work that a good non-technical founder takes on will become easier and easier for a skilled engineer to automate.
People still use basecamp? I thought everyone was in Jira now.
Quail can be put to sleep by tucking the head forward and under a wing (this can be a bit of a struggle at first), then grasping the leg on the same side and gently pulling it away from the body and pushing it in toward the body. Pulse the leg about 10 times or so like this and the quail will relax and go limp.

There's also lobster hypnosis http://www.timvidraeats.com/2010/01/how-to-humanely-kill-and...
Yes. And if they're looped enough in their original story, this feels like the spring from a mechanical watch rapidly unwinding.
I won't say that I'm glad, just that I hope the world becomes a better place.
It can only be a problem for the news agencies – and only if those users are a significant number to impact profitability. If those users don't matter, restricting their access doesn't matter. Who cares if someone who isn't helping your bottom line can't access the content you expect payment for? That’s the whole point of this – to keep out those who are not helping the news business.

Now, each successful entrance into an article via allowable referrer would come with an access token to allow future access absent of referral. When sharing in the small scale, the news agency can simply allow these links to be shared. But if the reach grows wide, suggesting that a major tech source has picked up the link and should be using their contractually settled upon authentication mechanism instead, then the token can be invalidated.
Between the whole language approach to literacy and undiagnosed ADHD, I was very slow at learning how to read. Fortunately, my parents were able to force my grade school to put me into special ed for a couple of years and I rapidly acquired the skill. I have no idea how the teaching methods differed though, beyond classes being half the size and the special ed teacher being accompanied by an aide
The easiest way to get fuck you money is to reduce your consumption.
Can you explain more? Not sure how that’s possible
I'm hoping the 800V architecture at least leads to Tesla supercharger stations my Ioniq 5 can actually use after NACS takes over.

The current 400V architecture would charge even slower than the raw math would imply, because it requires the car to handle the voltage difference internally. Going through that path bottlenecks the charge rate at something Chevy-Boltish like 50kW that's simply not very viable for road trips.
I didn’t see a direct mention of it in the links, but is the junk method referred to called Reading Recovery? First I’ve ever heard of it, at least by name. Found it by googling the name Marie Clay that I did see mentioned in one of these links. (Annoying how hard they work to bury the lede.)
> We’re not going to address each of the many falsehoods and distortions in the blog posts by David Heinemeier Hansson.

But you had time to write a 20 paragraph post? Sounds like you can't actually debate the merits of the argument. Sounds more like you're being "intellectually dishonest."
Sorry to hear you went through all that. Thanks for explaining, and best wishes as you continue to grow, evolve, and heal.
We are not incapable of creating new tests if that's the issue
If you're working in a controlled environment, such as proprietary software with a fixed number of toolchains or a few OSS projects like Chromium that use their own fixed toolchain, then it makes sense to turn on -Werror. However, most OSS projects deal with tons of different compilers, so it is not possible to enforce -Werror, as different compilers and versions handle warnings differently.
Except that pretty much every single number is an outright lie until you find the right grey thing to click on.
I bought a copy of Turbo Pascal at the 10x10 booth they had at the West Coast Computer Faire in SF when it first released in 1983? or 1984. I used it to build a TSR app on DOS 2.2 in my first job. Still the fastest dev environment I have ever used relative to anything else at the time; it was amazing to use.
They must have an entire team dedicated to this as I can't imagine how you would do this with every vendor you use.
True. And yet so incredibly wider than any AI.
For the record you’re not quoting me. I said no such thing.

Misquoting is not an argument.

It’s not shady because it’s clearly labeled.
We've got to make this sort of data "radioactive", because otherwise the temptation is to just gather it and hope hey, maybe someday we'll have a good use for it. Oops, got hacked!
> I believe that languages and compilers should go way beyond just "enable things to be possible", but they also should be user friendly and be safe/sane by default.

Everyone one wants sane and safe default, and ease of use etc... etc... The questions here is more nuance is about should an existing ( and dare i say very successful) language navigate the need for backward compatibility with with security and UX concerns.

> That's why I'm critiquing this chaos.

Critiquing a design is fair. Critiquing without understanding the context and constraints around the said design is not particularly helpful and tend to rub people the wrong way. Adding platitudes like "user friendly and be safe/sane" gets old even faster.

> It is insane.

Not really... it's just the results of very very constrained design space. Reality is messy

>
chatgpt almost cracks this cipher https://chat.openai.com/share/216621d2-336a-413a-9b89-1258e0...
Have you never put quarters into a PacMan machine?
Yeah that price is ridiculous considering the price of the go2 https://shop.unitree.com/en-gb/products/unitree-go2 the go1 can be had incredibly cheaply via aliexpress as well.
4x4 in the summer? Yeah, not so much. 4x4 in areas with real winters with ice and hills and mountains? Yes indeed that is quite an improvement.
I really like Grammarly as a product, but I exclusively use their web editor. I wonder what their web vs desktop usage is.
This argument rests on your views of labor theory of property, which suggests that you "own something" by "putting labor into" that thing.

We loosely apply this as a premise for intellectual property rights, but it's contingent on the state being the referee - and many cases have ended in rights being taken away from inventors because someone else worked the legal system to take it away.

In the case of generative training data, it's largely being used as a commons resource. The more you are inclined towards labor theory of property, the more it "feels like" theft, because the original laborer would be credited as owner - the labor of the machine is derivative of that labor, and largely non-transformative since it results in imagery resembling the original, versus metadata, statistics, etc.

Labor theory of property has many philosophical issues, as outlined with the "monkey selfie" case:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disp...
great polish on the UX.
Even if you were to label it as such, how would that prove the original point? Labeling a trait as a medical condition does not make it vanish. If that alleged 3-5% of the population does not share the trait that you claim is universal, then that trait is simply not universal, regardless of what status or judgement you decide to assign to whatever commonality those alleged 3-5% of the population have. The two matters are completely orthogonal.
It's bold to claim something does not matter without exhaustive evidence to back that up. That is not a scientific view nor a scientific statement.
It is on our near-term roadmap to support ORMs for the client-side SQLite database. Our goal with ORMs is to fit in with existing popular libraries on each platform (e.g. Flutter, React Native, etc.), rather than creating a PowerSync-specific ORM over all platforms. Drizzle is one of the integrations that we're looking at, along with Prisma and others.
That's called the 5-to-60 time.

Car enthusiasts benchmark both 0-to-60 and 5-to-60 because that rollout can change the behavior of various cars.

What we have here is Tesla taking the 5-to-60 time and pretending its a 0-to-60 time. Rollout is fine and all, just ya know, be honest about it. Call it a 5-to-60 time.
Apparently z-nails are inexpensive but excellent caltrops against cars and boy-racers.
Looks great but your page copy should mention it is mac only.
"because sarcasm is weak person's weapon"

I don't like you.
Would you be willing to share it? That sounds pretty awesome!
see also, "things that turbo pascal is smaller than" by james hague: https://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html
or maybe watching-snow-melt.com
You're replying to a blog post by the OpenSSF on how to harden C and C++ programs offering nothing of substance except childish remarks based entirely on your own subjective opinions.

It seems like you're replying to a field of strawmen you've constructed rather than what's being said.
This is another level though. GPT4 wont do that. But maybe whatever is coming next can.
Couldn't software gradually increase power to match the grip of the tires and prevent spinning? Or would that slow it down because a spinout 0-60 (not counting rollout) is faster that a "perfect throttle" 0-60?
genuilely curious :
Do you have a class of warnings or a warning in particular you think should be left out of Werror by default ?
It took me way too long to realize that lights are actually blue (it is stated in the beginning, but I skipped it because intuitively the lighta should be, well, lighter).
Standard "rollout" test is 5-to-60.

This whole thing stinks of misleading and misdirection, once again. Don't take 5-to-60 times and mislead / misdirect people into thinking it was a 0-to-60 time.
Perhaps a few inches shorter? It is almost identical to the F150 Supercrew.

Cybertruck: 223 x 95 x 70

F150 Supercrew: 231 x 96 x 77
winter blues
-60 to 60 would be more interesting to watch, and pleasingly symmetrical.
What I'm actually describing is how each citizen of a country can be described as supporting any ongoing war efforts, terrorism, etc. -- something which many geneva convention signing nations and their militaries believed in and acted upon not just in ww2 but even in Vietnam and the Iraq war.

Thus I'm suggesting that it can be justifiable to bomb a hospital or school in which enemy combatants are launching attacks from, yet also justifiable to do an act of violence on enemy taxpayers + potential conscripts in general.

By this reasoning, my personal opinion is that if we can use less force to get the same goals, or if we can avoid causing as much collateral damage via longer term planning decisions, it's probably a better choice.

In this case they've had an on-and-off military occupation + extreme restrictions on travel and trade and even foreign aid packages. That's a huge source for anger, and it makes it hard to justify often cutting the strip off from the world as much as possible but then bombing first rather than simply admitting they should either give them agency and self determination or make this occupation total and send boots on the ground to go stop Hamas terrorists in a way that might just kill a few less innocents along the way.
It can’t do automatic tiling, it’s a window snapping/resizing app
> for removing natural tonality from a composition

Of course, nothing stops you from using the "removing natural tonality" trick in a way that's ultimately subordinate to broader tonal goals. For instance, a small tone row fragment can be used to set surprising tonal expectations and cleanly modulate to any key - even in a completely monophonic piece with no background harmony! It's just supposed to be a horizontal composing-out of some arbitrary set of notes, but this is also what makes it work within tonality as a pivot point.

(And if the atonal fragment can be snuck in initially as a melodic "variation" of motivic material from the piece, it needn't even surprise the listener as such - until, that is, they find themselves listening in a completely different key area and have to wonder "wait, how did that twist work?")
However he and his quartet were the first to lay down Golden Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qs1J612nZs

Yet another best thing Dave Brubeck never wrote.
The man/woman color inversion one was the most impressive to me. On the rotations, I can rotate in my mind and see the other view… but I find it very hard to color invert mentally
https://github.com/magiblot/tvision
What Happens to a School Shooter's Sister?
I cannot use my mac without Yabai because the forced transition delay between spaces is extremely annoying for me.
It doesn't really make sense to me... If there are military targets underground what good does blowing up the above-ground buildings do?
> Yet it's actually one of the most peaceful, gentle systems we've ever found

You shouldn't assume that. With so much synchronicity I have to wonder if it creates any forces that would result in things like wildly high tides if a planet had any water on it, or increased quakes or some other phenomena caused by the alignments. It could be far from peaceful.
> possible that the purchaser income limit wouldn't apply when it's the dealer taking the credit

The credit changes when you get the cash, not its eligibility [1]. If the dealer mistakenly gives you the credit, it will be added back--with interest and penalties--when you file. (The dealer reports it, so if someone forgets to include it in their filing it will accrue penalties and interest until the IRS gets around to collecting.)

[1] https://www.irs.gov/credits-deductions/credits-for-new-clean...
Perl at 35 (almost 36)

> How do you do, fellow kids?
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I think this trope of 'technical people = awkward introvertive nerd' is becoming less and less true. The normies have learned our craft, and they're not necessarily worse at it.
I’ve noticed large regional differences in truck prevalence (vs. more jeeps and even more SUVs, it seemed to my eye, in the relatively-low-truck regions) so that may be account for difference in perception.

In my part of the Midwest, the vast majority of trucks aren’t seeing truck-like use more than a countable-on-fingers number of days per year. A relatively small proportion are owned by tradespeople, who are at least as likely to drive a van-body vehicle as a normal truck, from what I’ve seen. Most are owned as status symbols, in-group signaling consumption, and (no joke, many owners will tell you this) so they’re more likely to “win” in a crash and/or so they feel bigger on the road (again, not mean-spirited speculation, I’ve repeatedly heard that cited as a reason to favor trucks, from truck owners)

Some of these folks will say they really need them for that handful of times a year they tow or haul, but the price and gas consumption difference vs a sedan would likely cover years and years of delivery fees, paid towing, lake slip fees, et c, so that’s not really what’s getting them to sign on the dotted line for these things.
I am curious what cybertruck will charge like at existing superchargers that max out at 400V.

GM's clever solution is to present the battery pack as 2 400V packs. It does pose some very tricky pack balancing requirements though.

Other 800V cars charge quite poorly on 400V stations, usually with a hard cap at much lower than the potential max charge due to inverter limits.
This reminds me of an old Chrome bug we ran up against involving the auto fill feature. All day, our software users are entering patient data, including address information. Chrome would grind to a halt on certain pages trying to provide all their previous entries as auto fill options to the form fields. Our sysadmins disabled the Chrome feature for all of our internal users and the issue disappeared.
I wonder how these numbers would look without Teslas. The complaints about body fit and mechanical problems makes me think Teslas skewed the numbers.
Big rigs used to not have power steering, i think with adrenaline you'll be able to steer. I do concede that the power steering fighting you would be bad
Maybe not LA or NYC, but some parts of the country are not urban:

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

Folks there have country roads and long gravel or dirt driveways and ...

That said, yeah some people just buy 4wd to go skiing in tahoe without chains.
How's that even supposed to work, given that the average corporate ecosystem is so vastly cloud-based now that the majority of services use desktop and mobile apps that pin HTTPS certificates?
I'm sure all those citizens will be allowed to return to their rubblized homes soon. /s
A Dark Room[1]

[1]: https://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/
The man/woman one stuck out to me as well. I probably watched it ten times. Probably because it seems so forlorn.