skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe you'll end up with those frontends. I won't. Part of the point for me with my rewrites of essential parts of my computing experience is that I control an increasing proportion of my stack, and that proportion will keep increasing.
Hyperstition: Unfold
Hyperstition :::: Unfold ::::

Democratic Collaborative Cognition

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Initiate a hyperstition by building a transparent, open-source AI platform that evolves through diverse human dialogue, transforming individual insights into a collective force for intelligent, harmonized decision-making."

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Empower a self-evolving, dialogue-driven AI to harmonize human collaboration, fostering a democratic ecosystem where collective intelligence shapes a just and adaptive future."

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"Embed hyperstition in AI: Create a system where AI, as a transparent, trust-driven facilitator, magnifies human dialogue, turning individual insights into collective wisdom. Start small, build an open-source platform for collaborative decision-making, encourage diverse participation, iteratively refine, and let every enhancement be a step toward a world where AI-empowered human networks solve complex challenges, inspiring action towards a harmonized, intelligent future."

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1. Collaborative AI System: Develop an AI-driven system to facilitate collaborative cognition, enhancing decision-making and co-creation beyond traditional methods.

2. Minimal Cognitive Load: Design the system to require minimal cognitive effort, integrating into daily routines for consistent, brief interactions.

3. Trust by Design: Ensure the system's credibility through transparent processes, possibly with different AIs built by various parties to maintain balance and neutrality.

4. Scaling Challenges: Focus on systems that maintain effectiveness when scaled from small to large groups, addressing different dynamics in diverse settings.

5. AI's Role: Determine whether AI should primarily serve as an automation tool or as a direct value contributor in the collaborative process.

6. Accessibility and Equity: Ensure the system is accessible and equitable, benefiting a wide range of groups, not just the most advanced or resource-rich.

7. Self-Renewing System: Create a system capable of evolving its own processes through user input and deliberation, mirroring a democratic ecosystem.

8. Integration with Daily Life: Implement the system in a way that feels natural and trustworthy, ideally state-run or auditable, for regular, democratic participation.

9. Multidisciplinary Collaboration: Combine the expertise of technologists with governance and policy experts to balance automation with social and political structures.

10. Hyperstition Concept: Distill the system's essence into a powerful, actionable idea, encapsulated in a name that conveys its core purpose and process.
Definitely possible! However, I prefer to avoid cgo wherever possible for more than just the overhead.

In my experience:

- It complicates builds by requiring a C toolchain

- It makes single, static binaries more difficult

- It makes portability more difficult (not that assembly is portable though)

- It causes difficult-to-debug issues (I recently ran into an issue where MacOS signing changed, causing all my cgo binaries to be killed on startup)

- Debuggers don't work across Cgo boundaries (they do with go ASM!)

I think Dave Cheney said it best: https://dave.cheney.net/2016/01/18/cgo-is-not-go
You know there's a lot more world out there than the EU and US, right?
Could you at least automate the posting of an archived link for paywalls, PLEASE.
In my experience, rogue waves are like any other wave, they just aren't a part of a normal "set".
What happens if you try to reach e.g. https://loopsofzen.uk/? It sounds like it's not going to work.

Nobody is suggesting you stop using v4 on your LAN, but you do need to use v6 on it.
In a ML context kernel would probably be understood as a way to quantify similarity between different examples: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_method

But it was hilarious to see how many other "normal" meanings came up in the comments.
> a great many of Pokemon's earliest monster designs seemed to take... "incredible inspiration" from a variety of Dragon Quest enemies

And animals, real and mythological. We have:

An ordinary dragon, but with its tail on fire: https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Charizard

A turtle, but blue: https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Squirtle

A caterpillar: https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Caterpie

A chubby moth: https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Butterfree

A wasp, but with drills for hands: https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Beedrill

A bird: https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Pidgey

A purple rat (copying Milka's color scheme): https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Rattata

A bigger bird: https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Fearow

A snake: https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Ekans

A cobra: https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Arbok

An armadillo: https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Sandshrew

The nine-tailed fox from Japanese mythology: https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Ninetales

The child version of the same: https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Vulpix

A bat: https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Zubat

Another moth: https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Venomoth

An earthworm, but with a face: https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Diglett

Just a persian cat: https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Persian

Pitcher plant, but with a face: https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Victreebel

A pony, but on fire: https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Ponyta

A horse, but on fire: https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Rapidash

A seal: https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Seel

Another seal: https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Dewgong

A crab: https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Krabby

Another crab: https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Kingler

Flag of Monaco, but a sphere: https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Voltorb

Flag of Poland, but a sphere: https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Electrode

Eggs: https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Exeggcute

Rhinoceros, but armored: https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Rhyhorn

A seahorse: https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Horsea

A koi fish: https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Goldeen

A bull, but with three tails: https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Tauros

Literally just a fish: https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Magikarp

I could keep going, but I think the point is made. The list at https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Generation_I_Pok%C3%... has an "Origins" section for each Pokemon, and almost always it is something from the natural kingdom or mythology. If everything that could be argued "takes inspiration from" Pokemon is banned from use by anyone other than the Pokemon company, then we've effectively handed them ownership over the entire animal kingdom and human mythology.
Oh, that beats out the AMG E-series wagon by 18 HP!
Flash memory does not erase during user actions. TRIM is done async
It feels like you’re simply stating the predators and outside influences that are affecting AI’s evolution. Humans killed the dodo, maybe we kill the AI next
> I imagined it to be similar to how some "blue collar" professions attract mostly men who openly discuss women in sexual ways with each other while at work and will cat-call a pretty woman walking by.

Bro if you're trying to count those responses by class you can't use those same responses to put them into the bins in the first place, and reproducing a classist stereotype for no reason doesn't make the point any more valid.
> My original claim does nothing of the sort. All it aims to do, with basic calculus, is that the $99/year is unlikely to cover just the App Review part of the distribution pipeline, much less the entire distribution pipeline.

My claim is that Apple's arbitrary bundling of dozens of features is nonsense, and from a technical perspective entirely pointless. Apple's App Store review is part of their App Store, it should be covered in costs related to distribution instead of their developer fee. Similarly, nobody should be excusing Apple's 30% payment processing tax with "framework" discussion because that's included in the price of the device. Apple is shamelessly milking distribution revenue, dead-set on a collision course with regulators.
Apple could spin up a joint venture with, say, Rivian or even Ford for 1/10th of that tomorrow.

I’ll be honest, I think the whole Apple car thing is a pipe dream. Apple doesn’t have some sort of magic that is two decades beyond anybody else driving in circles underneath their weird spaceship campus. If they have their own full self driving, it doesn’t matter who assembles the car. They can sell the tech to everybody.
Shameless plug: I wrote a tiny script to install Firefox from their tar.gz, without requiring root access: https://github.com/agateau/tmfi.
I wouldn't care either if I wasn't contemplating at some point getting my hands dirty with that layer too ;)
This isn't so much a side project as a project that I tried to bootstrap and then never turned off, but as of December/January, I have made a little more than $500/month selling cloud true random number generators. I have not touched the code in a very long time, and today it is pretty much just a website and a listing on the AWS store, but it somehow made a few cents.

I'm still nowhere near wanting to quit my "day job" for it.

Shameless plug: https://arbitrand.com/
I can see the reasoning yeah, for now it seem to be treated similarly though. Maybe a v2 could help like it did with the iPhone, after all the first model also had a lot of trouble to find its place.
> After age 5, the window for learning spoken language is permanently shut.

It's fascinating how our brains are wired in such a way to enable read-only mode at an certain age in development.
> the window for learning spoken language is permanently shut

People still learn languages with completely different sounds when they are much older? Japanese, the african click-sound languages... is it some lower-level abstraction that goes missing?
People buy computers when they want or need them, yes. But they absolutely do put off buying them because a better model is coming. Whereas people rush to buy e.g. a house as quickly as they can, because the price of houses keeps going up.
You can easily get into territory that is harder than undergrad. Like it’s completely possible you’d need something like rejection sampling, functional time series, Jeffrey’s priors, etc
There's only a limited number of things that can be done that way. Basically point-to-point messaging.

Most things aren't going to work with that model. Can Amazon ship you products without knowing what you ordered? Can you send and receive email on multiple devices without the provider having your email? Can you join public chat groups? Can you view your lab results without the lab having them?

And don't say "the lab can encrypt and send them to you". Your encryption key must be known to the lab, so they can provision a new device for you, in case you lose your phone.

Even the vaunted "WhatsApp and Signal" could actually read all your messages if they wanted to - they have your encryption key after all, all they need to do is deploy a version of their application that copies your messages to them.

So no, it's not actually possible.
> These are the two most common repairs on a smartphone and to get a simple battery you need to buy the expensive screen.

This is indeed really dumb and it's still the same for the S23 parts which have just been released on the European store https://samsungselfrepair.shop

They're not on iFixit yet for the US but I assume it's the same story.
So this is not an uncommon way for management to communicate this kind of thing. They really don't know people's individual connections to each other they're just communicating that this thing has happened. I can say being on the other side of this where I was working at a company and my son died that while people knew in general the company seemed very terse about it but privately the company did reach out more directly to me with sympathies and gifts and whatnot.

Perhaps contact your HR department and find out if they're doing anything for the family. Also find out if they know anything about the funeral arrangements so you could potentially do something directly. If you're not nearby sending flowers and that kind of thing is a thoughtful gesture.
I'd be surprised if it doesn't suffer the same fate as graphics programming. The lower level stuff is what brings in a lot of talent but the producers often have little knowledge of how things work but just wire together some libraries in a GUI.
Why do dogs wag their tails?
Well that's because ML isn't really software engineering. Unfortunately, it is also software engineering as I often have to remind my colleagues coming from algebra / econometrics / statistics sides who are happy to shove all kinds of horrible code in.
You can definitely buy the battery only, at least for the S21 Ultra, as I just went through that. https://www.ifixit.com/products/galaxy-s21-ultra-replacement...
While these technologies definitely seem to have a future, it's important to remember that, in order to create fuel from CO2 it requires at least as much energy as burning fuel creates (at 100% efficiency), so in the long term this is more of a "way to compress excess energy from the grid for light-weight applications" rather than a replacement for all our current fuel consumption. It seems that they know that as well since they are targeting aviation.
Just a few thoughts... You may read some messages you exchanged with Fred. You may be able to save Fred's picture from the directory, if there is one one. Do you remember anything he used to say/write? Anything he talked about that he loved? Perhaps some things you heard about from him that you thought you could try try once but never got to actually trying them? Now could be a good time to do so. If you want to commemorate him, you could try to reach out to his family over social media and express your feelings, if you don't find it uncomfortable to do so.
> I'm willing to believe that a particular implementation of the Agile manifesto has failed, but agile is really just a set of common sense tenants which do not enforce a particular way of doing things.

I agree. Agile seems to be widely successful, both in practical terms (it's widespread and the dominant methodology in the industry) and in formal terms (it's specified as requirements in institutional organizations in place of waterfall).

Claiming that Agile failed has vibes of Yogi Berra's "nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded."
Now running 90% over budget, and 12 years late...
Consumers just prefer larger vehicles here in the US, and those same preferences are also becoming the norm in other countries. You can't blame the modern Camry being gigantic on the Chicken Tax. You can't blame larger vehicles being associated with luxury on efficiency regulations.
Pdf is a file format
> It's an annoyingly OOP model with mutations and side-effects, but if you look past that, it's pretty nice

I think I was getting hung up on the mutations and side-effects of it all. Thanks for putting words to that. I'll have to give it another try sometime. Have you used Terraform's CDK by chance? I assume it's heavily inspired from AWS's CDK, but my company has since moved to GCP/Terraform.
Even still there's plenty of situations where this could save his life.
You can use certainly v4 for however long you like, but you still need to use v6 as well, because you can't connect to v6 addresses using v4. (If you could, we wouldn't need v6 in the first place.)

If you want to avoid v6 altogether, you can use a proxy on the machine you're currently calling your router, and configure all of your programs to use the proxy. But... nobody wants to use proxies.
I haven't had a chance to try out Prismic recently, but I encourage you to try both and make up your own mind.
The hammer analogy doesn't make much sense because for a hammer we can actually use our scientific knowledge to compute the best possible way to hold the tool, and we can make instruments that are better than hammers, like pneumatic hammers, pile drivers, etc.

With your argument, we would be stuck with the good old, but basic hammer for the rest of time.
Since my Chromebook is not really powerful, yes, Firefox feels like a second class citizen. But I imagine in a better Chromebook it should work better.
In that case this isn't a tool, it's a decoration. And if none of them are worn, then the decoration isn't imitating a knitting tool, since some would show wear if that were its actual use.
> (If the goal is to make students write essays, theses, etc. without an LLM writing it for them.)

This is one of the "I don't think that this is the path that we should be taking."

When I was in school, my parents would proof read the essays to catch the spelling and grammatical errors that were in what I wrote (Bank Street Writer had a rudimentary spelling checker but that was it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Street_Writer ).

While my parents are both native English speakers and college educated, some of my classmates had less involved parents, or parents that didn't have the same degree of proficiency for writing. Did their essays suffer from a lack of parental proof reading?

In the past few months I wrote two short works of fiction as lore for a game that I play. I used ChatGPT to act as an editor for those works looking at it and occasionally prompting it to help refine a passage.

https://chat.openai.com/share/204de7f7-9cd7-4c45-aa2b-556791... for part of the editor session with it.

Having ChatGPT act as an editor (not text editor but as a critique of the text) helped refine the text that I wrote.

Working with ChatGPT as a tool (that is far beyond the red squiggles in a word processor) to help people working with the written word is a good and useful endeavor. This isn't trying to have ChatGPT supplant human creativity but rather help the person communicate more clearly.

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I am leaving this in an unedited form, but here is this post with ChatGPT as an editor as an example of how I believe students should try to interact with it. https://chat.openai.com/share/d891f9ac-923b-47a8-8de9-ab7301...
> Indeed, deep learning math is basically senior-high-school level calculus.

Actually I find this claim problematic and incorrect. Yes, many parts of ML only require multivariate calculus[0] and those are the parts that most people are exposed to. BUT that doesn't mean there isn't a lot of math hiding around in the background. Even understanding something like activation functions take much higher level math as we got to get into topics such as topology, metric theory, and high dimensional statistics. You don't need this understanding to build models (as you also conclude) and most researchers don't understand much of this either tbh. But I think we need to be clear about these distinctions as model evaluation gets insanely complex. Complexity in evaluation only increases as our performance increases and a major problem we face today is we are marginalizing out important information. I'm sure that anyone that hacks around with LLMs or diffusion will understand how leaderboards are often noisy and how picking top models does not guarantee top performance (and why datasets get continually added). It's because evaluation requires more than boiling down performance to a single number. Here, math skills become extremely important.

[0] btw, many will not find this even offered at their high school. In fact, this is often upper level math for many STEM undergraduates and even an elective in my Uni's undergrad CS program. So let's not be so belittling. Shame the education systems instead of people lacking opportunities.
Do you have any further reading to provide about what all the T2 was doing in those Macs? I too have long suspected that the T2 was Apple playing with transition right in front of us, but would love a more comprehensive look at what all that chip was doing.

I know it was providing the Secure Enclave, some hardware encode/decode media blocks, and I think FileVault for the SSD. But would be curious to know if it was even more than that.
Git is still great for developers, who are comfortable with the command-line and are willing to learn all of Git's concepts.

But let's be honest, Git isn't the most friendly tool for most computer users, many of whom have never touched any command-line interface, let alone Git. And yes, there's git-GUIs, but I find those are even more complex.
Have you ever had to replace a pan because the non-stick coating had worn out over time? That's wear and tear. It happens regularly with pans and many other plastic objects, and I have no reason to believe that it doesn't happen with coffee makers.

Also, you seem to be under the impression that microplastics contamination can only happen when mechanical wear and tear is present - but it can be caused by heating as well [1] [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37624070

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36440911
But before that, you can squeeze so much shareholder value and be rewarded by the people setting the goals (shareholders choosing the board)
I want to take “agile” proponents to a track and make them run Fibonacci multiples of 100m over and over with the only break being to ask how far they want to run next.

Who can sprint forever? It doesn’t make any sense! When do we rest? When do we train? What is this metaphor!?
>It's a clever plan, until the LLMs do some adversarial training....

it's an unwinnable war.
Emphatically? The director of the NSA is required to be a four star general and concurrently serves as commander of US Cyber Command. Ostensibly non-military, perhaps.
Beyond instead the reading you decided to give,

what was expressed is that, also given that people are at the same time powerful (capable of fulfilling their wishes) and largely unwise (which makes that power dangerous), also given that for centuries (taking the Industrial Revolution as a symbolic point) power has dramatically increased but wisdom definitely lags, a boost of the latter would be "useful" (as an understatement), and highly capable reasoners (past "computers") could be crucial.

I daily see evidence of people being fools, and if they computed the way they reason (i.e. too often very badly), I would welcome the spread of calculators.
US buildings kill up to billion birds a year. These architects want to save them
Yep, you can't make a 32 bit number contain the same amount of information as a 128 but number. You have to use NAT64 to have the two things talk to each other.
The difference is that Tesla's hardware is simpler in a way that's harder to use. Moving from indirect control to touch screens was great and intuitive for phones. Moving to touch screens in cars is more about cost savings than making them easy to use.

If a touchscreen was the ideal way to interact with a car, why aren't acceleration and braking done through the touch screen? Why isn't steering on the touch screen?
Maybe it is because to many people break the screen when they try to replace the battery.
At the end of the day, all the work a CPU does turns into heat. If you want less heat you need the CPU to do fewer calculations.

If you have processes pegging CPUs at 100% and you don't want them to, then use a cgroup to limit their CPU time.
1) Samsung actually stopped their cloud drive service. They have a dumb deal with Microsoft now but they're not really upselling you there anymore. The expensive higher-storage variants yes though.

2) Be aware by the way that on the Samsung S23 and S24 base models you are not even getting UFS 4.0! The 128GB model comes with UFS 3.1 only. All the 256GB models and up are 4.0.

3) Nah.. If they cared about performance and UX they wouldn't sell us the Exynos version in the EU. Point 1 - upselling to a higher version is the real reason.
A shining example of the benefits of a purely plant-based diet (of course I am referring to manufacturing plants, chemical plants, and packaging plants, mostly)
My cofounder and I launched Kbee (https://kbee.app) in 2021 as a way to turn Google Drive Folders into hosted, searchable wikis. We're doing ~$2k/month and run it as a side project