skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There are no theories of intelligence which would label that intelligence.

Actually, compression-is-intelligence has been a relatively popular theory for a couple decades. The Hutter prize from 2006 is based around that premise.

The idea is that compression and abstraction are fundamentally the same operation. If you had a perfect compressor that could compress the digits of pi into the 10-line algorithm that created them, in a deep sense it has understood pi and could generate as many more digits as you want.
Right, which is why the US Congress is looking to pass a rule that says "don't be beholden to the Communist Party".

Then Chinese companies can either choose to play or leave.
I ask GPT things all the times and it tells me how dangerous they are. Like, everything I ask there is a warning about how I need to be careful doing it.

Maybe someone somewhere asked GPT how to cook pasta and had no idea boiling water was hot, and GPT's warning not to get boiling water on themselves saved them from massive burns?
It won't save from fingerprinting: https://fingerprint.com/blog/disabling-javascript-wont-stop-.... Though I don't think it's used in practice, because disabled JS is a red flag on its own in situations where fingerprinting is used for security.
I am studying physics now (with a CS and math background) and I feel obligated to get up to date on AI and to develop a good working philosophy of how it can be meaningfully used in scientific work. Not that all "apply machine learning to X" approaches aren't interesting, but I lack enough understanding to know whether these are popping up everywhere because people feel obligated to apply new methods. For example, the Fourier transform is deep and interesting and there are libraries and standards and ways to transform different objects over clusters, etc., but I wouldn't say good scientific research is about finding a place to apply a Fourier transform (maybe :)). I am new to this though.
Taonga are shared, for everyone imo.

And getting precious over a word is ridiculous, it seemed to be a common theme growing up in NZ, there's a general apathy until there's some perceived benefit and then suddenly it's about race and culture.
I know from personal experience that getting one really good picture of four people when three of them are kids is quite difficult. To be clear, by "really good" I mean everyone is eyes open, looking at the camera, with a reasonably pleasant, somewhat natural facial expression and body pose. It can be done in a single photo but it can take a lot of tries - and with kids the hit rate percentage falls rapidly after the first dozen snaps. If you aren't lucky enough to get "it" in the first couple minutes, the whole process devolves into a torturous endurance session with ever-diminishing returns which can get pretty unpleasant for all involved. The longer the session, the higher the chances a meltdown or tantrum from one of kids will end any hope of getting the photo in one shot. Occasionally the meltdown is from the photographer :-).

In my case, I just composited together a handful of the very similar shots into one photo in which everyone's eyes were open, looking at the lens, etc. Because kids can't not fidget, especially when asked to hold a pose, the registration between almost identical photos taken seconds apart is often not perfect. I'm certainly no royal watcher but for a self-posted social media photo (vs some official press or journalistic photo), this seems like a pretty reasonable thing to do, if only to spare the kids a stressful experience from which they are likely to develop resentment toward official PR duties.

Applying Occam's razor, I think this explanation is far more likely than some nefarious palace scheme (in which case, I'd expect the composite to be expertly done). The fact the composite is imperfect supports the idea it was done fairly quickly by one of the parents or one of their non-expert personal assistants and not carefully reviewed by a cabal of master media manipulators orchestrating some conspiracy.
I look at our friends and peer aged family who have kids, and can’t help but see them just tired. Physically they are perpetually exhausted and visibly more aged. Financially, unless they were pretty well off before having a child, they’re struggling.

Do they look unhappy? I don’t know. All of our friends with children post pictures of their kids in mundane everyday settings nonstop on Instagram so I almost have too much information on how they live, at least outwardly.

But it’s probably taboo to openly say you’re unhappy about having a child. The closest I’ve come is seeing some cracks while talking to one of my best friends about how tired he is.

Who will be more happy when we’re 60 or 70? Even that I’m not sure. I know plenty of elderly people who have little to no contact with their adult kids. Some with kids who are estranged and hate them. Is that any better than not having kids at all?
All good: your comment got me to dig into some economic numbers - worthwhile for me or I wouldn't have bothered trying.

More importantly it reminded me that comparing group statistics is really hard!
Practice being effective, and homework assignment being effective, are two very different things.
Spent many years contracting within the UK market but living abroad.

After emigrating from the UK, I moved around in the EU (GMT+1/+2). It was the best of both worlds since IR35 cannot apply to non UK domiciled tax residents.

Rates around £450-500 per day for that I was doing. Finally settled in an EU country and then moved to a permanent role after twenty plus years of being a remote contracting bum.

If you have questions then ask away.
https://github.com/danthedaniel/tildes-minecraft-configs/blo...

Basically just enable the unsupported settings. My players were happy with the end result of each one I flipped on so presumably the behavior was as expected.
Cillian Murphy wins best actor Oscar for Oppenheimer – Oscars 2024
I honestly don't mind not being able to sue a media streaming/rental service over the service itself. It's a pretty straightforward relationship, I give them ~$10-$20 monthly and they give me access to their library. If the service starts to suck, I can stop paying them, if I stop paying them, they can stop giving me service.

The problem is really more in what these "completely eliminate any kind of accountability" represent. It's almost always a harbinger that fundamentally abusive and corrupt people have the reins, and they'll be looking for ways to abuse the attention, data, and money of the people who buy in.

EDIT: appreciate the correction/emphasis on the sunk device cost
Am I sure that I've used Taildrop on my Android phone, Linux, Windows, Mac and Synology? Yes I am sure.

Maybe not great wording or arrangement of statements on that page since it seems to have stopped you in your tracks reading at that point, but you can scroll down and see discussion of using it on other platforms. What you're hyper-focused on is a subsection under the heading specifically dealing with Synology.
Abstract Geometrical Computation and signal machines
Something VC essays have in common with ChatGPT responses is that they make confident assertions in a million different subject areas without any citations at all. I was hopeful that the hyperlinks in this essay were citations to sources, but the ones that aren't links to footnotes with more opinions are links to other pages on the author's own blog.
Works where archive.ph is blocked:

https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=5174619183265&w=zbMAm95aG_...
Ask HN: Why is hosting a contact form so difficult?
I think of all the absurd businesses that shouldn't be lucrative, from selling barcodes to NFTs, you'd think "selling forms" wouldn't be, and yet there's no clean way to make a contact form for a website running on something simple like Github Pages.

I know how to work around this, but it's ridiculous, isn't it? And every "simple" form API service ends up being an oil tanker's worth of extras for having to justify being a paper-thin middleware that charges $10-$100 per month.

Can we do better somehow?
I'm excited to see if Apple's entry into this market (with AVP) will encourage more OEMs to explore these emersive computing environments [as the iPhone did with smart phones].

>the modern view where literally every person's consumption is a step towards collective destruction.

This is just one POV. From a fiat capitalist POV, consumption is essential to prevent collective destruction... although I agree more with your POV.

Thanks for the great comment.
I feel like there's something deeper to it, since there's some recursion to the answer.

But it's not a joke about programmers, so I don't get it either, ha!
I agree. However, there is a strong sentiment with a significant part of the population that "things suck" which leads to a dim view of the world... which is a horrible way to live. I would go so far as to say that it is self-reinforcing and leads people toward apathy toward the world in general.

Alternatively, if people collectively see the world as a place they are responsible for making better, and that it's better for each individual to do so, then the world becomes a better place. This is hard to get to because "better" at scale is really hard to define. People start worrying about things like human-induced climate change, other environmental pollution, social welfare, etc. Even if we can collectively agree on things that are globally "good," sometimes making things better in one arena causes problems in another arena of "global good."
Ya most sane countries have a PAYE (pay as you earn) type system with no involvement at all from the employee unless they make money in other ways that they need to declare (investments, etc).
Show HN: GitHub Copilot => OpenAI API Proxy. Serverless
This article is from 2022.

I'm guessing it's posted now as a response to the Kansas Attorney General's recent Twitter post that questions the benefit of removing lead pipes:

"Biden wants to replace lead pipes ... all for benefits that may be entirely speculative."

https://twitter.com/badmedicaltakes/status/17662226122485760...
https://web.archive.org/web/20240310072040if_/https://www.ny...
This. I think the problem is that its hard to say that its increased all performance by 50%. But every day I hear of a new use case that's turned a single persons life around completely.
Youtube disabling h264 because of licencing wastes about same amount of energy as very small country
I feel like the missing ingredients are risk, variance, cost, time horizon etc.

"Moonshot" type endeavours are not paradoxes. They do involve considerable uncertainty and usually some kind of large investment (time, money or something else). Most can't afford them and don't have any particular reason to believe they will be more successful than everyone else who has tried. Relative to most people's resources, time preference and risk tolerance they are bad bets.

If you are starving then your strategy for getting food should usually be the one with the highest overall chance of success, you care much less about factors like effort/reward ratio or getting the highest possible payoff.

The most common strategy for people who want a tiny chance at an enormous payoff is to buy a lottery ticket. Millions of people do that every week.

Such bets absolutely do feel paradoxical at times because multiplying a very small chance of success times a huge (usually easier to reason about) payoff seems to break people's brains a bit. This is often described as a "bug" in human cognition, though I have always felt it's an instinct for "exploration" in the sense of occasionally making small bets with huge potential payoff "just in case" your world model is wrong. Also that the way humans process probabilities and payoffs seems more logarithmic than linear (making small probabilities "feel" bigger than they really are).
To be honest i find dbeaver well designed. Even though the interface is cluttered with a ton of functionalities, it has everything I need where I expect it to be! I don't recall googling "who to do X with dbeaver ?".
Windows 1.0 had proportional fonts available for use, open up Write and go ham.

Also, the Amiga independently has proportional font support. You can't say computers would "never" have had them if it weren't for the Mac
A couple factors to consider:

1. The hardware isn't nVidia's primary moat. CUDA is. Currently all machine learning tooling assumes you have a CUDA device.

2. The hype cycle may be real, but nobody really knows how much better AI will become. The uncertainty is driving the hype (which is obviously on the optimistic side), but it could well be that models become so good that everyone "needs" an AI chip like how we "need" a smartphone today.

3. The gaming/graphics market is probably going to slowly shrink. There's only so many pixels you can push to the eye. There's very real diminishing returns there. At some point people literally won't be able to tell the difference between the newer/better/faster graphics and the older generation, at which point the GPU vendor's margins drop significantly.
What sorts of target fields do you think would be worth looking at? I'm very interested in compilers, but my sense is that there isn't much entry-level work there.
bpf tooling generally provides no stability guarantees when you interact with kernel primitives. See [0], for example. Tho things have improved somewhat with CO-RE

[0] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/93a20759600c05b6d9e4359a1517c88...
One of the big wins is not so much “build and run your own stuff” but there are very nice low-cost (in terms of compute) performance utilities built on eBPF

https://github.com/iovisor/bcc

There are so many utilities in that list; there’s a diagram midway down the readme which tries to help show their uses. bcc-tools should be available in any distro.

Also, Brendan Gregg does a ton of performance stuff that is worth knowing about if you check out his other work. Not eBPF only. Flame graphs are useful.
> It didn't save the day.

It absolutely did. Unemployment during the Great Depression reached a high of 25% and was above 15% for nine years (which would probably have been longer if not for WW2). Unemployment during the covid pandemic reached a high of 15% and dropped below 4% less than two years later.

> it just hyperinflated the bubble.

It didn't do that either. Inflation reached an annualized high of 9.1% in June 2022 and is now down to less than 5% less than two years later. That is not hyperinflation. Hyperinflation looks like this:

https://apnews.com/article/argentina-inflation-december-annu...
It’s almost like there should be a registry for naughty and nice websites and their capabilities
Assuming all growth came from logging sure. But efficiency gains are also growth. Assuming that accessible resources are a big counter down to zero is just neo malthusian thinking.
The minute Paul Clement conceded the argument about banning a book Citizens United was toast. Go listen to the audio of the oral argument.
To be fair, GP compared the LLM hype with crypto... And as niche crypto may be in the future, I don't think it will also "peter out without leaving a major impact on society"...
I understood. The phrasing just amused me -- it might even be just the right phrasing get past the people who don't want to help the poor.

Maybe the SRO rooms at the YMCA weren't too far off from this concept historically. I don't even know if that still exists, or just stories from a bygone era.
Yeah this one struck me as the first of several poorly thought out arguments.

I think people are satisfied as long as stuff they dont like remains absent from their new sources.
Good catch. They definitely went the way of Boeing -- more interest in pocket lining than research. I do wonder if it went to zero or just a major scale back.
A lot of people are reporting low context sizes tokens per second without discussing how slow it is at bigger sizes. In some cases they are also not mentioning time to first inference. If you dig around /LocalLLaMA you can find some posts with better bench-marking.
I don’t have good “lane centering” but knowing that it has the lane departure warning and will automatically bounce me back into the lane if I slip up for a moment is enough to make driving less stressful.

I was excited to get adaptive cruise control, but I’ve found I don’t like using it very much. It’s too aggressive with hitting the breaks to maintain the following distance instead of being able to ease off the gas to fall back like a human driver would. Assume some brands are better at this than others, but anyway I didn’t buy a Mazda to not drive it. So I use that only intermittently for long drives as a bit of a break for my right foot.
> Indian Point decommissioning

Wait, what?

The Indian Point reactors 2 and 3 were decommissioned in 2020 and 2021 because of pure political reasons. For some reason Andrew Cuomo wanted them shut down.

> corporations who do bad things.

You know that governors can do bad things too, right?
See the recommendations on /r/SolarDIY or just look at EG4 or Victron as a starting point. The prices for EG4 are very decent.
Counterpoint, I love DBeaver and have used it frequently. Did go through a scare with the schema viewer though where I thought that I had somehow deleted the entire table schema, after doing a backup of course. But it took some googling to find out that I had not committed the changes to the database, and also that there was an option to "lock" interactions with the database to prevent the kind of scare I had. So as an novice/intermediate SQL user, the clunky interface can be a detriment.
People in most Western countries are given a free education. These people tend to be the ones that skipped out on school.

And sure, some are situational but at least from my school XP people were bunking because they thought they were too cool for school™
Not re Scientology specifically but have you tried to go deep to understand, or is the inability to believe based on superficial secular knowledge?
So that's about a 8/12 roof pitch ish.
even if humans are unique it seems doubtful that there would be only a single way to coalesce something that would be broadly considered conscious.
I agree with you. / Above, I wouldn't assume a single nor clearly intended "point". Reading it I got an impression more of concern, even fear. I'm guessing one underlying driver may be a concern that AI is creeping into more and more programming. Which is true.
It seems like one of Stable Diffusion’s most popular use cases is give me <situation> in the style of <famous_artist>. I mean the whole point of using AI at all is to get something to give you high quality stuff for free, where the high quality has been lifted from a high quality training set. Getting sorta-kinda copies but ideally without breaking laws kinda is what these tools are explicitly intended and designed for.
Where archive.is is blocked:

https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=4798926249355747&w=6STyd6J...
Is there a resource you'd recommend that would help one understand what `marketing nm` means technically, and why it's a quantity that the industry uses "because it's clear to them"?
Unless you live in California, and use a "time of day" meter [for kWH offsetting], there are few reasons you would need at-home battery storage (other than power outages... get a gasoline generator, instead!). Direct-tie inverters utilize "the electric grid" as your battery/capacitor... unless you are off the grid.

Also, there is a glaring safety defect that violates UL, contained within every Tesla Powerwall 2... so don't get one of those.
Bingo.

Cabcharge and its associated monopolies in many cities is a blight that I am glad uber had a go at. "Flouted regulations" I hate when people associate words on paper, often well past their usefulness, with something physical or tangible or useful that can be damaged.

AI is doing so much to help a lot of people. Give it 5 years and hating on AI is going to go from mainstream to the most boomer of takes.
Well, doing what, for whom and through which years approximately.
Also anything in your marketing apart of the basics, which is portfolio, referrals etc?
It's a quibble maybe, but seems to me the term "fashion" police refers to attempts to uphold fashion, rather than requiring humbleness, etc. Fashion is frothy, it's not basic. Clothing police, ok, antifa(shion) police, ok.
99% sure that unending growth would be proven the second we saw a von Neumann probe.
Where archive.is is blocked:

https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=3662776138357&w=WPObctbDwH...
You can't seriously expect them (or anyone) to always grandfather in old free accounts after starting to charge money, can you? Bandwidth and storage is not unlimited.

The fact that he even engaged with you at all, and to the degree he did, was incredibly kind and he showed much restraint, kudos to him for that.

But you continued to double-down on your opinions and think you're more important and worthy of his time than everyone else. Why is that?
To obtain the encryption key, yes.

The trapdoor method is successive squaring and relies on quite a few assumptions for its security.

The hash method also has the advantage that the sender can utilize multiple machines/cores in creating the encrypted package. By executing the serial hash task in parallel with all available resources and using the results of each chain to encrypt each other in another chain.[1]

[1] <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7848999>
People are working hard in all fields. Just because you see lots of AI news doesnt mean its the only thing being done.
Sabine Hossenfelder just did a talk on this. I wonder if the smartest AIs will go down the same rabbit-hole and chew up a billion CPUs in a loop?
What about time crystals? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_crystal
What's that sound? Oh it's the sound of voters and governments not having made green energy a priority a long time ago, and still not making it a priority.
Yeah the cost of breaking the time lock is presumably less than breaking the order of the group.
With this information here is what Upton Sinclair actually said:

>"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

Thanks for the nomenclature, Censor.
ToS should be considered in antitrust as well. In a world where antitrust was enforced we'd hear arguments like "this is a 100 billion dollar industry, but there are zero companies that allow customers to keep their <freedom / right to sue / right to keep data private / etc>".

When an entire industry adopts the same ToS and customers are unhappy about it, clearly there is a lack of healthy competition.
> if running without swap and there exists any ram which is accessed less commonly than the next-most-commonly-accessed area of disk currently not in cache, the memory utilization is suboptimal.

Memory that is swapped out is a small write operation, which generally is much more resource and wear intensive than a read; a program memory page and disk cache page are not equivalent.

Additionally, the swapped out program memory may be required again and cause an unpredictable delay in program operation; when a user has to wait for a menu to open while it is swapped back in that is suboptimal use of memory.

A modern operating system should have compressed memory rather than swap. Take the pages that would be swapped out for being rarely accessed, if they compress well then free the page and store it in an area for compressed pages. This will get most of the expanded cache benefit from swap without delays, wear, or possibility of the system grinding to a halt.
Surely a stupid argument.

The early earth was likely "oxygen" starved too. We have an abundance on earth because plants need Hydrogen and plants pay a high energy price to get it from water and then plants discard the O2.

Europa has water therefore it has oxygen too. Whether there is enough available energy is a different question.
In the case of Python, I do think the approachability of the documentation slipped after they migrated to the 3.x site, and I think this is somewhat reflected in the search engine rankings.