skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I take your point about familiarity with GPT4 making this less immediately impressive - but just as an end to end demo it's absolutely mind-blowing how far we've come.

Can you imagine seeing this ten years ago? Moving so far in such a short time frame would have been unbelievable.

This gave me the "I'm actually living in the future" vibes that I always imagined I'd get from flying cars.
It seems fairly obvious that if the influence of a nuclear accident on cancer rates is dominated by other factors, one should look to mitigate those other factors before worrying about the nuclear accident as a contributor.
Not sure if this is sarcasm but the main stream media are basically propaganda. MSNBC, CNN, FOX NEWS, WASH POST, NYT et al.

AIPAC wants Tiktok shut down because it doesn't censor content on Gaza.
Does this cost reduction factor in the cost of making a new airplane company? If they transport a million blades then the cost per blade is not that high. But if they only make 10,000 blades then it becomes more of a factor (especially if the useful life turns out to be not as long as predicted).
>less clear national security threat. Though, one could argue they are radicalizing internal threats.

I don't and will never buy this argument that showing people certain media causes violence or is a security threat. People doing violent things is a security threat. What they read or believed that led them to do that is not. Freedom of expression is vital and defending it comes with serious negative consequences. It means defending heinous views, some which have only ever been linked with radicals and violence. But they are allowed to say those views and to say them to other people. And people are allowed to read, watch, and see those views.

I'll die on that hill any day
Some companies do like Microsoft Bing as mentioned by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39695746.

I think Valve still has a version of steam: https://www.engadget.com/steam-china-launch-133119511.html?g...

Activision/blizzard used to have a partnership with netease to release overwatch in China.

It is technically and realistically possible as companies do it all the time.
I think the video said it was a neon bulb, which reacted "fast enough".
> "used to it" is such a disarmingly accurate way of putting it.

This happens for medication too. If you're on a specific drug for your whole life, it may be disruptive to switch to a different medication even if it's notionally better. I take a pill every morning, and will for the rest of my life, would I prefer one I took every other day? Not really, it sounds like I'd just miss days sometimes. If it had fewer side effects? I haven't noticed any effects now, despite the list in the leaflet so "fewer" doesn't sound like a meaningful improvement.

In the first few days maybe even weeks of taking it I'd have been open to any improvements, but now I've settled into a habit, so any change needs a serious justification.
Consciousness and intelligence are not explicitly related. Consciousness co-opts intelligence as a survival strategy.

Transistors are like switch boards and index cards. Rearranging these can produce intelligence superior to human capacity. Intelligence as inference may be statistically devised, and deduction may be combinatorially brute forced (over enough tries/long enough time line).

The relationship of information and intelligence are like memetics to consciousness. Consciousness is attracted to possibilities of outcomes and novelty.

I think consciousness is the material potential of the universe (as bound in our electro-chemical neurons) evolving through life technology to perceive and interact with itself (the rest of the universe.) In this way quantum computers may be closer to consciousness than classical transistors will ever be (which is more like rearranging a vast deck of cards.)
They are mixing predictions that do allow for accuracy on base rates with ones that don't. There is clearly a bias that this particular group has leveraged rather than them being better at prediction.
I wonder what the impact of the production of concrete and steel has on the environments where it takes place. I like the part of the article where they point out that mass timber would be better for carbon sequestration. I also think that buildings should mostly be built with a death period in mind because everything in this world requires maintenance and can be upgraded lol. So why not use a building material that literally grows itself? I agree with your point that destroying all the forests to build housing would be a bad idea, but we can and do sustainably log---all you have to do is plant some trees and wait!
> A person who owns land somewhere should have more sway over local politics than a megacorp developer from another state or country.

The developer's interests come from the local non-land owning residents...
"my own family’s experience with decline after retirement, "

For three generations, everyone who has retired early in my family has thrived. One even retired extraordinarily late at 80 and is still doing well.
I don’t think they were talking about traveling to Russia or China, they’re talking about living in the US. The vast majority of people will not travel to China or Russsia.

For instance if you discuss doing something illegal like getting an abortion in the US, only the US government really cares about that. Whether China knows is irrelevant.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/12/1117092169/nebraska-cops-used...
> and mostly our governments remain responsible if people haven't saved.

That's the point of it being "forced saving".

Look, I'm not saying the government steered everything or even that they thought it through very far. I'm saying that they constructed a bunch of programs (in US, Fannie/Freddy, mortgage tax break, etc. similar other countries) to subsidize and incentivize house ownership in ways that economists hate (creates market distortions). Couple this with policies that support growth of houses as an asset class effectively has people saving pretty aggressively in a way that will typically be available to them in retirement. Less people with no assets upon retiring means less load on government programs. Implicit in this is left to their own devices, most people don't save as effectively.

The trap part is this: once this system has momentum any abrupt policy change will result in a lot more people being directly dependent, or more directly dependent on government programs in their old age. This will have massive budget impacts and governments know it.

The second part of the trap, which we are seeing now, is that if you make housing too effective as an investment vehicle, it will be financialized and further distorted away from effectively functioning as housing.

It's not just financialization of housing - as you note there are emergent outcomes in complex systems. For example, end of life care would probably look a lot different if it wasn't often effectively drawing down some of these savings.
Didn't they already do that with the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in 2021? Or are you referring to other regions of CCP-occupied China?
Everything here is spot on with my experience. They also have little or no perishable items and so stocking becomes simpler, too.
> Can photons collide?

Yes, at high energies and with electrons or atomic nuclei nearby.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-photon_physics

> Hawking radiation would interfere with the eternal orbit

For tractability Hawking radiation tends to be studied using a non-interacting scalar field (often massless), rather than the fields of the Standard Model (which are very much interacting, and have a variety of masses).

Hawking started that in his "Black hole explosions?" (1974) which (if you're not allergic to sci-hub) you can read at <https://sci-hub.se/https://www.nature.com/articles/248030a0>: "consider (for simplicity) a massless Hermitean scalar field \phi which obeys the covariant wave equation ... in an asymptotically flat space time containing a star which collapses to produce a black hole.". In the short paper, he's very much not considering photons or pions, and really doesn't need to in order to make his point.

The thermal spectrum of a real black hole will be in all the Standard Model fields, and except very late in the eventual evaporation will be dominated by very low energy photons originating at a fair distance outside the event horizon.

What do you mean by "eternal orbit"?

Real black holes do not extend to the infinite past. If a black hole ultimately Hawking-evaporates, in finite time there's nothing left to orbit. Late in the evaporation, there will also be a lot of very high energy gamma rays and heavier particles excited in their respective quantum fields of the Standard Model. These will all tend to participate in high-energy multi-particle interactions rather more complicatedly than the end result of Hawking's 1974 description.
Huh. Have never heard that called a tipping fee. When we've had work done there's just a line item for dumpster/removal/etc
The quality and precision of technical documentation indeed has gone down a lot. This is not merely because (some) things have become more complex, and because people tend to jump between a growing multitude of things, but also because people just don’t take the time anymore to do it right, and increasingly don’t even experience good technical documentation, and thus don’t know what it would look like.
If someone wants to subject themselves to CCP propaganda, why stop them? If they’re that lacking in critical thinking, then maybe they’re getting what they deserve. It’s not like anyone is forcing people to use TikTok.
Being able to use a foreach loops is a decent improvement.

And since you now have a proper access API, you could on theory enable bounds checks via compiler flag, even for operator[].
Yeah, I ordered from Sparkfun. I've had good experiences with them in the past, but it's a little frustrating seeing it available elsewhere. I ended up reaching out about it.
To be honest, I still don't see the issue here. TikTok is tying into existing APIs that any app can also use. There is nothing special there other than the user's data may end up in the Chinese government's hands (but... again, TikTok isn't special there).

I think we really need to think about the problem we're trying to solve here carefully, because saying "you can't watch these types of videos because reasons" is the slippery slope of all slippery slopes.

ETA: I do agree that TikTok is probably a bad thing overall, realistically it could be used to subtly social engineer the entire US population by controlling the content people see. But I don't think just outright banning TikTok is the answer. But didn't Facebook also do the same thing in the election? What are the ramifications for something like Youtube which tailors your recommended videos based on your history (you watch one Joe Rogan clip and now it starts to show right wing/conspiracy videos).
The diff one is so good.

Note how they made a model in the wirephoto video too to show the concept but with painted rope.

Models seems to me to be a very good pedagogical tool.
There are several tools in this space now- nix is maturing and people are realizing how useful nix can be for dev envs.

* [devenv](devenv.sh) - I am using it and loving it, but worried that the development is not moving forward
* [devbox](https://www.jetpack.io/devbox)
* [daytona](https://www.daytona.io/docs/usage/workspaces/)
* [devshell](https://github.com/numtide/devshell)
* [bob.build](bob.build) more focused on the build

I am glad that flox is pushing its development forward. Does flox have a way to run services? With `devenv` I run my database with `devenv up`.
Doesn't first ammendment protect even that. Propaganda of other countries are legal under first ammendment.

Why should we be a nanny state that should dictate which apps one can or cannot use on one's device.

Also even at the hight of cold war, Soviet Life magazine was published and disseminated widely in the US.
Can we link to the blog post instead of the tweet?
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/sima-generalist-ai-age...
If plethora of designs in search of perfection is an indicator of something of interest, then take a look at the many variations in valve gear design, particularly for locomotives, which needed to operate reasonably efficiently over a wide range of speeds, gradients and loads.

Even more so, consider the many attempts at making non-turbine rotary steam engines, wonderfully documented here: http://douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/POWER/rotaryengines/rotaryeng...

My personal favorite is the Tower spherical engine: http://douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/POWER/tower/tower.htm

Unlike most of the designs here, this one was built and even put to a little practical use.
Too great resources on the value of hardship:

Michael Easter's The Comfort Crisis
https://www.amazon.com/Comfort-Crisis-Embrace-Discomfort-Rec...

A Boy Named Sue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOHPuY88Ry4
I am really glad that worked! I am pretty paranoid about the downstream breakage of things but I probably just need to let go a little more.
A neon tube was used on the receiving end because it reacts more quickly to current. This is mentioned at about 6:45 into the video.
Buddy if some meaningful proportion of your population is finding foreign propaganda convincing, your problem isn’t foreign propaganda.

USA in terminal decline and, in typical fashion, it flatly refuses to look at itself and wonder why. American power elite has no one to blame but itself.
Granted, I think I used a somewhat different sense of the word "perfectionist" than the usual one, in an effort to contrast it with "incrementalist". I'm not sure what the better wording to contrast those things is; "incrementalist" vs. "full-solution-ist"?
Are you seriously suggesting that everyone in the USA should be forced to live in apartment blocks, or am I misreading you?
LLMs arguably cracked conceptual awareness already, not to mention demonstrated that you can bootstrap it unsupervised by throwing enough data at it.
If the plane really is task built that would be super cool. Huge plane (108m/356ft), carrying pretty light cargo all in all (blades of this length weigh probably 20~25T), that ideally can land and takeoff on short runways (to maximize the number of airports it can deliver to). By compare, a 777 will be either 60 or 75m long and carry 220t, and itself weigh 160t. Neat idea. Being able to get bigger blades to sites would be great. It also would enable centralizing the production better, which could be an efficiency win; a couple big factories cranking out blades. There's a lot of practical scale-out this would enable.

The plane really is pretty wildly proportioned. I'm not sure what the total internal volume/cross section is expected to be but that's a long plane! Carrying not much weight! The blades are big but not colossal: by compare, the offshore Vestas V164 10MW turbine has 160m blades (weighting 35t); this is being designed for ~100m.

It's definitely good to ask what else such a craft might be useful for. The low capacity is an obvious downside, but if it can access lots of airfields that could be quite enticing.

Edit: Missed this: With a capacity for 80 tons. That's a lot more than I expected! It doesn't seem to make sense to me, for the payload it'll carry.

Also: The WindRunner includes shoulder-height tires and has the ability to land on a packed-dirt 6,000-foot runway, which would need to be built for each project. Well, that's neat & potentially immensely useful for a lot.
Everyone is captivated by the current hot thing, LLM/GPT's.

But LLM's are not the whole of AI research.

A lot of your arguments are based on 'embodied' reasoning. Humans live in the world, they need to eat and survive. LLM's just compress what humans generated in the world. Correct, current LLM's are mostly regurgitating, but they don't "speak because we are in a shared world of social intentions".

I'd say game worlds are the frontier, because they are able to simulate a lower resolution world for current AI's to learn in. And in that world, they do embody it and have purpose (rewards/goals), they need to survive.

DeepMind's AlphaGo was when I switched.
https://www.wired.com/2016/03/two-moves-alphago-lee-sedol-re...
Move 37, it was called alien, creative, inhuman intelligence.

Now, scale that up to our world, with admittedly, thousands/millions of more variables. Put it in a robot body, with vision (the latest studies show AI vision building a world model context). Add some goals. Bam, some dangerous stuff, AI embodied in the world, with a goal to survive.

It might be far away, but where we are now was supposed to take another hundred years. So who knows.

The military is already running world simulations where the AI's goal function lead it to kill the soldier operating the AI in order to bypass him. It 'learned' to bypass the operator by killing them to achieve its goal.

Yes, Hyperbole. But really, not by much.

But back to our discussion. At that point, does the robot have an internal subjective perspective? Did AlphaGO when it was reasoning about its small low variable world?
Looks like WSJ is blocking archive.ph on this one...
Screeps was fun but I really wish they made one simple change to the programming model: I want my screeps independent and acting on their own knowledge, without a global coordinator. The way I remember it scripts processed all entitles as a batch so you could "play god" and coordinate at a higher level. I really wanted it to be so each screep was independent and had to coordinate through agent interactions.

act(screep) for screep in all_screeps // Independent evaluation

act(all_screeps) // Global coordinator
> The Max became Boeing’s top seller soon after it was offered in 2011.

Seriously? I mean, could you still order anything but a Max from Boeing in that size? And that being the most useful size, of course it became the top seller. Because it was the only offering.
Whatever you think of our home-grown propaganda outlets, the US govt taking different approaches to foreign outlets should be uncontroversial. Unlike the CCP, US citizens have first amendment rights.
From how I subjectively see it, 5% of effort gets rid of 90% of spam. Of course, this would never catch any targeted attacks, but in the grand scheme of things, those are exceedingly rare. In other words, good luck keeping out the remaining 10% without significantly degrading the experience for the innocent majority of your users.
But the US protects people's ability to influence others by protecting the freedom of expression
Interactive website taken to the next level
My mind is blown at the quality of this website. The minute interaction detail is on point.
Clearly you have never known a blind person.
It might be correlated, and it might making a difference at the margins (eg the people who have a job and can afford to live in a car). But the vast majority of the homeless population does not fit in that margin. Most of them do have other problems preventing them from getting any job, like severe mental health, substance abuse, or criminal records. Affordability is a moot point when employment is unattainable.
On popular online platforms, predatory groups coerce children into self-harm
They don't, but I have respect and sympathy for developers who prefer to dig deeper with learning their tools, and how that might make them tend to prefer stacks with fewer layers sometimes. I think it's a valid concern, especially for hobbyist and experimental/autodidactic use cases. In a corporate environment or within a team, people typically specialize and defer to each other in various areas, so maybe it matters less there.
Darklang classic had version control built into the project. We'll build version control into the new version of Darklang as well. If you need something to reference, Unison's mechanism for version control is an inspiration.
Social media of US owned companies was already used as a weapon and still is. Perhaps instead of this legislation we should clearly lay out the regulations that all social media companies need to adhere too.
Good to see the crowd we're joining then.
Affordable isn’t only about price, but price relative to income.

Not everyone can have a location independent job. Many places that seem “affordable” lack decent paying jobs. And the areas with the highest paying jobs are filled with people who scream that people should go live somewhere else.

These are people who started the race a mile ahead and think they are superior runners. They’ve done very little to earn what they have and are fighting like hell to avoid even mild inconveniences to themselves (e.g. an affordable development for low income seniors or teachers).

Before you say “well this is what voters want” voters at the state level got legislation through that mandated changes and the minority of voters in a handful of well off areas are actively disregarding that law.
I enjoyed this game! I have the ][ and played it on the "The Apple At Play" [1] disk (both are in the closet right behind me.) I think it actually might have been a different version than the one you have.

I made a handful of GPT "games" a couple of months ago, one of which was a Lemonade Stand clone. Can try it out at [2].

It does some interesting things around rolling random numbers in Python for the weather and it's nice that you can put in free-form text to say what you want to do for your actions. It's definitely more hackable than the original (good prompt security test.)

[1]: https://archive.org/details/3d0g_059b_Apple_at_Play
[2]: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-e7DwANYTS-lemonade-stand
You're muddling issues. China restricts free speech in all contexts, and also separately puts onerous requirements on or outright bans various kinds of foreign businesses.

If TikTok is banned for geopolitical reasons, reciprocity reasons or whatever you want to call it, that doesn't change anything about free speech in America. It's not the unrestricted speech that was deemed a problem with TikTok, but rather the specific geopolitical risk (or whatever).
Both Pyramids Are White
Boeing overwrote surveillance footage of door plug repair
I don't think courts will see it that way, but if the ban happens I guess we'll see.
Well, the growing consensus is not big enough to sway the local governments. I guess you need to wait for it to grow until is big enough....
Ex Cerebras engineer. In my opinion, this is not going to be the case. The WSE-2 was a b** to program and debug. Their compilation strategy is a dead end, and they invest very little into developer ease. My two cents.