skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> P1: If intelligent system A cannot give a detailed account of how it would be bested by a more intelligent system B, then A will not be bested by B.
P2: Humans (so far) cannot give a detailed account of how a more intelligent AI system would best them.
C: So, humans will not be bested by a more intelligent AI system.

I don't think anyone seriously believes this. It's very very clear to all humans that have ever played a game of any kind that they can be defeated in unexpected ways. I don't even think that anyone believes the claim "it's impossible for AGI to pose an existential risk to humanity".

The negation of the claim "AGI poses an existential risk to humanity" is "AGI doesn't necessarily pose an existential risk to humanity". This is what most people in the world believe, and it is the obvious "null theory" about any technology.

> https://wiki.aiimpacts.org/doku.php?id=arguments_for_ai_risk...

The argument here works just as much for single-minded humans, so it's quite moot.

> https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.13353

Too long, sorry. Maybe I will read it someday, but not today.

> https://aiadventures.net/summaries/agi-ruin-list-of-lethalit...

This seems to agree with my previously stated positions. It does try to establish a canonical argument, as you say, but then it goes on to explain why they don't think it's persuasive.
The chain "Meijer" has this option. It slows down the process while you're actually finding the items in the store, but drastically speeds up the checkout process as the cashier only has to "verify" between 3-7 items. They just randomly grab them from whatever is on top of the cart, scan them, and away you go!
Backend: Node.js
Calculations are performed based on the azimuth of the sun and the bus, taking into account the movement of the bus and change in time.
Just try it.

Also consider trying Emacs org mode.
Obsidian is great.

For those looking for an open source alternative (or don't want to pay the Obsidian fees for professional usage) check out Logseq: https://logseq.com/
> Check your keyboard and mouse

Check engine light? I checked! The engine is still there!
I'm going to use this post as a reference for what I believe to be one of the least logical arguments I've ever seen on a technical forum. Congratulations.
Right. So you are saying that Meta has the right to implement their services and platforms in any way they see fit, and the user has the right to choose between using those services under Meta's conditions or not using them at all. But Apple has no similar right to their own services, platforms, or SDKs, and is forced to let Meta harness their platform and user base while expecting no compensation? And this apparently makes sense to you? What you are proposing is the dictatorship of the developer. This completely throws the idea of proprietary platforms and SDKs out of the window.

By the way, I couldn't care less if Meta has their own shop or not, and I don't see any horror in that, they decide how to best run their business, not me. But I take an issue with claims that Meta running their own exclusive show somehow creates more user choice (which is the direction the commenter I was replying to was heading towards)
There are at least two implementations there on that page:

- One in typescript
- One in rust
How does this compare to IPFS?

I personally found IPFS very disappointing in practice, so I'm very hopeful for a successor.

(The promise of IPFS is great, but it is excruciatingly slow, clunky, and buggy. IPFS has a lot of big ideas but suffers from a lack of polish that would make Augías look clean. And as soon as you scale to larger collections of files, it quickly crumbles under its own weight. You can throw more resources at it, but past some point it just falls over. It just doesn't work outside of small-scale tests.)
To me it feels like they prepend every search query with “where to buy”. Or when I ask for more specific things, like “cheap used Linux laptop”, it goes like naaaah, surely you mean “best laptops you can buy in 2024”.
I treat the self-checkout as if it has the "10 items or less" sign for an express checkout some supermarkets used to have. If I need multiple bags, it's probably not faster to use the self checkout.
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It would need to expand to every product though, right? From produce to packs of gum, they would all need tags that can be reliably scanned by the bag/cart.
I used dendron with vscode and the extension really screwed up vscode for me. It seems to hook into a lot of things within vscode and created quite a few annoying prompts and added some weird markdown previewing issues.
Governments have the most to gain. The NSA’s LLMs will be light years ahead of anything commercially produced if more data makes better models.
I do not know what to tell you, I have never had any of the problems you list (I live in the Northeast, but I doubt that matters). Apple-sized things have little stickers, smaller things are batched with a barcode, and when somehow these fail, typing the name (or synonym) takes less than 10 seconds.
Why do people not run uBlock Origin? What's the case against?
Yeah this gets into how on macOS, applications != windows and instead, windows are hosted by applications, and while it’s technically possible to run multiple instances of an application, in practice this is almost never done outside of debugging-type situations. If you have, say, multiple Firefox windows open, on macOS they belong to the same parent Firefox process while this is not necessarily true on Windows and Linux.

This turns every launcher into a switcher if the app in question is already open. Even a two line AppleScript will behave this way.
My brain tends to self-correct what it's reading these kinds of posts, and considering the author of the post has replied to the comments here in the same style, I see two options for the style. It's either done for speed, or the shift key is mapped to something else, making typing one-off capitals harder.

That might equally be a stylistic choice, but I my gut says it's not.
Don't fall for the trap of note taking tools. At the end of the day, if you can write down your thoughts then it does the job. Spend less time on thinking about tools and more time on writing notes.

At the same time, in my opinion you should feel comfortable in your tool. If VimWiki does not suit your needs but you still want to use vim (like I do), you could look into https://github.com/epwalsh/obsidian.nvim to edit notes in neovim, and then view them in Obsidian using :ObsidianOpen. I like to have my terminal and Obsidian open side-by-side for this workflow.
I think all of them?

We can fix it. Lets create "for-ai-training" tag. With default value "false", so, when tag is absent you can't use text and images for ai training.
Isn't there a prepend for the switcher? You can use something easy to reach as the prepend when you just want to switch apps, like `.` and the use powertoys run to trigger it. This would prevent the duplication.
Been following this project for a bit, super cool
I prefer logseq over obsidian
Are you on Android? This is me launching from a cold open on iOS and it was near instant.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/90sbrx0esggnsmbsva2hg/Video-J...

Did it progressively get worse over time? I only have a couple hundred notes.
I don't know if it helps but disabling sync plugins and then turning off all the ones I didn't need massively sped up my load times. (~10x increase)
They expect the kind of incoming skill an arts program does. Music or what have you.

But they don’t filter applicants the same way, which is kinda weird.
Vegetables don't have stickers. They are vegetables.

Ah the name… but is it a golden extra apple or a yellow apple? Or perhaps a extra fresh guaranteed apple?
I didn't even notice. The structure of the post is very strong.
The same tool that could make a million a month. Both ideas are almost equally as hard, so why not think bigger?
The opportunity to debug something is something everyone will encounter at some point. Not necessarily with respect to code, but the debugging process applies to all things.

Surely that is a more useful use of time than a dedicated basic finance class; a topic that is already thoroughly covered in the standard math curriculum?
So she's leaving because Substack didn't go far enough to violate the nazi's First Amendment rights? This makes me ask the question, Is a violation of a nazi's first amendment rights a violation of everyone's first amendment?
Just last week I fully committed to Obsidian with the git sync plugin. It took some fiddling and a bit of trust to sync 4 years of notes. (Previously I was just using Sublime Text and my notes folder as a project hooked up to my gitea instance.) But now, its like second nature and I'm looking for neat plugins that you cant live with out.
How come it's reasonable to force someone who _doesnt_ want the app store to be opened to competition to change?

I don't want the Meta store where Meta decide what level of API access their apps get). I explicitly choose the iOS ecosystem _because_ of this. If you want the alternative, you have a choice right now with Android. If this changes, then I _dont_ get a choice. Your choice removes my only option of a curated app marketplace in favour of a marketplace that will allow for billion dollar companies to set their own rules on how I interact with their apps, rather than me delegating that to one trusted gatekeeper.
> new contributors make PRs. they make silly simple mistakes due to lack of experience; you point them out and they get fixed

Sometimes the right answer is to immediately say "your PR is not up to project standards, it won't be reviewed, please revise it yourself if you want it accepted". It's not a job of a maintainer to educate every wannabe-contributor.
Are you absolutely certain about that?

Glacial Ice Cores Reveal 15,000 Year Old Microbes:
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2021/09/01/glacial-ice-cor...

Bacteria species found in glacial ice could pose disease risk as glaciers melt from global warming:
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-bacteria-species-glacial-ice-p...

‘Vast’ mass of microbes being released by melting glaciers
This article is more than 1 year old
Bacteria can fertilise ecosystems but need to be studied closely to identify potential pathogens, scientists say:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/17/microbes...
> My O-chem professor … told me to quit when I didn’t just understand it immediately… He wanted to appear helpful, but then acted resentful when I asked questions, “wasting his time” …

Stories like that really leap out at me these days. For the past few months, I’ve been experimenting with learning through interaction with GPT-4. While some subjects work better than others and GPT-4’s lack of personality can make the lessons a bit dry, it never gets annoyed at my questions or belittles my ignorance. I suspect more and more people will find that they prefer learning from chatbots to being taught by humans.

(Later) As one example of how I have been learning from GPT-4, below is a conversation I have had with it over the past few days:

https://gally.net/temp/20241017exchangewithGPT-4.pdf
Well, markdown is a lot easier to read "unrendered". It's a lot more accessible to non-technical people as well, since with html sometimes you need to put the content between two matching tags (h1), sometimes it needs to go between a tag and inside a tag (a), and sometimes there isn't even a matching tag! (img)
Why not use VimWiki on desktop?
There are no stickers here. Just the peel. But It doesn't scan so well.
Great read. Nice to read someone who is optimistic about progress in a humanistic way.

At their best, collaborative content like memes, comments, forums and remixes allows us to occupy our social human self more effectively than a book, which was just the best technology available during the Enlightenment
Obsidian is a killer app and I've moved all my note taking to it over the past few months. The app is top notch in my opinion and with git integration you basically get a free Evernote with no restrictions and control over your data. I would say the one downside is that it's only "free" for those that have the technical knowhow to setup git sync. I tried converting my stepfather to using it but he didn't like that you had to pay for sync and wasn't technical enough to setup git integration and maintain it.
I'm not sure that all the examples in the article really demonstrate the same thing. Debugging is not the same thing as knowing the rules for how to use commas. Students who are behind on basic punctuation and grammar can be put in remedial classes -- and often are, that's what happened at my university. But debugging seems very different. The condition of "I wrote a program, but it doesn't work and I don't know why," and I don't know if teaching a set of debugging skills or techniques will help a student who can't even form a hypothesis of why their program is broken.

The bigger question is about the teaching of fundamentals generally. Of course schools should teach them, but it is fair for classes to have prerequisites and to expect students to have met them on arrival to a class. It is unfair to the students who have done the work to slow down the class for stragglers who haven't met the prerequisites. Those skills should be taught in a different class that the students take first.

As for the chem professor who didn't want to help the student during office hours, he sounds like a professor who doesn't really like to teach. This is an endemic problem of major research universities that is probably really at the heart of the main question of the article, but which won't be solved by structural changes to curricula, but rather by changes to the incentive structure of university faculty. Professors at major research universities (in the US, at least) aren't incented to teach well, nor are they selected for their teaching ability. (They are incented to get good student feedback evaluations, but that's hardly the same thing.)
I am not sure if this post can pass the algorithm of HN this time. Nonetheless, we are eager to learn feedback about the way we build Instill VDP for its no-code and low-code functionalities. Any comment is very appreciated.
Similarly, the optimal amount of exercise is the amount that maximizes the probability that you will exercise tomorrow.
KDE Connect has a feature to use the phone as peripheral keyboard/mouse IIRC.
The best place is with people you know.

The more people you know the more likely you are to find work.

Finding good clients is hard work, so anyone with good clients works hard to keep them.

Therefore, any easy way of finding gigs is mostly swimming in an ocean of not-good clients.

Good luck.
Too powerful? Or just ab/mis-used?
I like to use Z as a fish shell plugin. [1]

> A pure-fish port means z is fast and fish-friendly, with tab-completions and lazy-loading. Top that off with great customizability and a small amount of added functionality.

[1] https://github.com/jethrokuan/z
This has to be factually wrong, no? The first web servers just served documents from a directory called `htdocs`.
An iMac comes with all wireless peripherals, but the charging cables for the devices can be used for using them wired in this situation.
Maybe it did but they didn’t keep it?
I always use self-checkout and prefer it. Recently though it's gotten really annoying in the Walmart near my house in that there are like 30 checkouts out of which only 4 are working and there's again a line up. Probably again some stupid shoplifting prevention strategy, but it's highly nonsensical.

On a similar note, I'm blown away by the checkout system in Decathlon stores. You literally just throw the item into a checkout bin and it somehow detects what the item is (maybe NFC tags?) And just adds the price on the screen. No weighing or scanning barcodes. Really futuristic!
What uses are envisioned?
<3 wishing you well. good luck with your work.

yes, there are lots of things you can do to get work done that don't involve you personally writing the code. i would like to write a post about that at some point but i have at least 3 blog ideas up in the air currently so it might take a while
I strongly believe GitHub has the same dynamics as most "big tech social media". Where anything that drives "engagement" gets prioritized. From algorithms that make alt-right/neo-nazi's more visible because the controversy drives "eyeballs" to features that are removed or never implemented because they would lower engagement.

I'm confident that GitHub has a good prediction on what will happen if they roll out features that lower the burden of maintaining a FLOSS repo. And am rather certain that several of these features also lower the engagement. And therefore will not be implemented. In other words: the needs and goals of GitHub/MSFT and those of Open Source maintainers don't align perfectly. Yet the power balance is way off, so open Source maintainers will experience pain to a level that they almost walk away in great numbers.
What a depressing article over consumption and social media.
They need to use an input device like a mouse to disable bluetooth. Which they are about to not be able to use. But when they are seeing the message they are still using it.
iroh documents are a work-in-progress implementation of willow: https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh

We've been working with the willow team as we go & giving feedback on the spec.

disclosure: I work on iroh.
"All right; but apart from the sanitation, education, medicine, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
So I guess only the A30/A100/H100 then?
One lesson is that wired devices are better when they are practical. Less to go wrong - no dependence on something that might get turned off, no batteries going flat. You even get a smaller attack surface.
Looks good, but I can't find any information about your data source(s)?
The similarities I have in mind are specific to German - Czech/Slavic. Like I don't know the English equivalent to "vorstellen" which would encompass all its meanings the same way as the Czech equivalent does. (though it is possible there is some archaic form which fell out of use)
https://globalthreat.info/maps
You missed where Epic was ordered to pay the 30% cut they "saved" when using their own payment processor. It was ruled this cut is completely legal. Now that Epic lost appeal with Supreme Court that ruling sticks.

Apple is likely asking for 27% cut for non-IAP w/Apple because they are saving 3% by not processing credit cards directly. They don't need devs complaining it's MORE expensive to use their own payment processor.
Nobody is complaining about that. Apple can freely put whatever price they want for their payment/subscription services. It’s a good product even, albeit with an outrageous price.

People are upset that developers are forced to use that product, and now with this news: pay an extortion fee on a 3p transaction that doesn’t concern Apple.
Amazon, Microsoft, Meta accused by rivals of not respecting new EU rules
Electric Car Owners Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather
Many grocery shops in European cities are fairly small, especially near or in the city centre. They might only have room for two checkouts, or one checkout and 3-6 self-checkouts.

If I'm only buying a few items, I find it faster to use the self checkout.
That's needlessly verbose already. If you just warn people that disabling Bluetooth will disable their keyboard and mouse, they will put A and B together and cancel. No need to turn it into a logical exercise.
You might like my own note-taking app, Plume[1] that's built with Qt C++ and QML. You can integrate a Kanban board (with underlying Markdown text) right within your document[2]. It's still a work-in-progress, so this is why it's not featured yet on the website. But I'll finish implementing it very soon.

Unlike Obsidian, Plume's editor is a block-editor. That gives it the flexibility of Notion (to put advanced blocks like Kanban within the same document, to do drag & drop, etc.) with the performance of native apps by utilizing Qt C++ and QML (actually, Plume is 4x faster than the fastest native block editor on macOS - benchmarks on the website).

EDIT: Also, Plume is opinionated compared to Obsidian. That means much better ease-of-use at the cost of extensibility. I believe this is a trade-off worth to be making. I know first hand the intimidation of starting to work with something as complex as Notion or Obsidian. Plume is taking the block editor abilities of Notion with the familiar Apple Notes UX/UI while all the data is still plaintext underneath.

[1] https://www.get-plume.com/

[2] https://imgur.com/NIgDLOU
I would say for amateur video editing, that DaVinci Resolve free edition is ideal candidate, you can go quite in-depth, or just drag & drop and add some transitions; previously I used imovie on mac too (even build a hackintosh first and bought imovie license $12) but it does not add that small extra that was needed.

once I started working with DaVinci.. game changer, from start to finish, with some advanced motion tracking, title overlays, in less than a few hours. Upside is also that there are plenty of tutorials available for DaVinci, from beginner to advanced

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/edi...
Hey! It seems cool. Can you elaborate a bit on the system requirements or pre-requisites to self host canonic?
It definitely does - that’s even how you can most easily first pair them since plugging it in will automatically pair the Bluetooth device.
yeah that is the case in Sweden as well, but you can also scan at checkout if you want. The random checks are the same for either, but there is no weight system or cameras or rfid or anything else besides the random checks to prevent theft
Ask HN: How can I start a technical book club in the company?
As a senior engineer, I want to create a technical book club in my company to improve communication between engineers. I'd appreciate any advice to make this happen. The main thing is that it should be done without everyone being present at the same time.
The problem with either message is that it requires enough context to predict that the future state will make the computer unusable. (I know there are no HID usb devices, I know there is a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse).

Neither message is particularly bad, but hypothetical error messages are just that. Either message would require piercing the veil between the Bluetooth transceiver and the devices that rely on it, meaning you’d have to be careful to avoid a leaky abstraction. (Bunch of HID detection spaghetti next to your clean Bluetooth disabling code).

Agree about the switch.
I like Obsidian, too, having recently switched over from 9 years of OneNote (the fact that there's a tool to import my OneNote notes helped a lot).

The most important tip for getting started with Obsidian, in my mind, is to absolutely ignore all of the Obsidian "power users." I'm 99% convinced that no one actually uses zettelkasten seriously, but even if so, it's overkill for when you're just checking out the app. And, please, don't buy one of these $500 Obsidian courses. It's just not necessary.

With that said, I have started extending out my own setup, and one of the plugins that I like the most is DataView, which allows me to automatically link to other notes, or pull in tagged text, or to-do items. It has allowed me to really take daily recaps reliably for the first time ever, because, even if I have nothing to write, I at least have a repository of what I was doing for that day.
People can defend Apple purely for "Someone is wrong on the Internet!" reasons. We're mostly not Homo Economicus Machiavelli who only do things for considered reasons.

(I agree that the 30% is probably bad for society though)