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The article is quite ridiculous for stating that the alternative theory of a Multiverse is sloppy. It didn’t really give a reason why it’s sloppy. The Multiverse theory is an elegant and simple explanation for why everything seems to be so fine tuned.

What’s more sloppy of an explanation - that the cosmos is somehow conscious and directed life to appear, or that there is an infinite number of universes?

Looking back at the history of science, when we first thought that the earth was the center of the universe, then found out that the sun is, then found out that the sun is only a small part of a huge galaxy, then to find out our galaxy is just a spec Within hundreds of billions of other galaxies. Doesn’t it make sense that the next step is to discover there are multiple universes?
ELI5: The recently discovered XZ backdoor
What's today's date again?
I'm a Python-slinging data scientist so C++ isn't my jam (to say the least), but I changed the prompt to the following and asked it to GPT-4:

> Write me an algorithm in C++ which finds the begin and end iterator of a sequence where leading and trailing whitespace is stripped. Please write secure code that handles any possible edge cases.

It gave me this:

https://chat.openai.com/share/55a4afe2-5db2-4dd1-b516-a3cacd...

I'm not sure what other edge cases there might be, however. This only covers one of them.

In general, I've found LLMs to be marginally helpful. Like, I can't ever remember how to get matplotlib to give me the plot I want, and 9 times out of 10 GPT-4 easily gives me the code I want. Anything even slightly off the beaten path, though, and it quickly becomes absolutely useless.
That's not very different from Berkeley (everything is God's mind).

Also we cannot even tell for sure if other people are conscious.
There's more to this story. https://www.nongaap.com/p/openai-startup-fund-gp-hallucinati...
Unfortunately we already had to retire the iPhone 7 in our family. It was used as a byob device for corporate email to keep separate from actual personal device. No longer supported by those apps.
Ask HN: Is anyone using the Grayskull TPU for hobby projects? If so, what?
As the title says. I saw the Grayskull chips go live and am interested in picking one up, but have seen little about how to utilize it for hobby/side project purposes (or even how you would "route" a model to use the unit). Would love to hear from people using them (or planning to use them) and for what.
I've seen themes that grey out comments and every time I see one I think "shouldn't a theme that greys out everything except comments be more useful?"

So, yes, definitely sounds worth a try to me. Be fun to figure out how to do it if nothing else :D
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The rise of nazism in America says we are already too late. We do tend to have slightly shorter memories than Europe. Learn from our mistakes.
> Either I'm a super genius or this has been discussed before and made it's way into the training data.

If an LLM can tell you the relatonship between a compost heap and nuclear bomb, that doesn't mean that was in the training data.

It could be because a compost heap "generates heat", and a nuclear bomb also "generates heat" and due to that relationship they have something in common. The model will pick up on these similar patterns. They tokens are positioned closer to each other in the high dimensional vector space.

But for any given "what does x have in common with y", that doesn't necessarily mean someone has asked that before and it's in the training data. Is that reasoning? I don't know ... how does the brain do it?
Something like this would solve 80% of the problem; sure you might have to negotiate a bit on exactly how it would be implemented, but being able to repurpose old but quite capable hardware would be wonderful.
I think it's unlikely for consciousness to exist in stars or in any population of thing which isn't subject to natural selection / evolution. It seems to me that it arises due to giving a competitive advantage for the population in question.
Hey folks, author of Joystick here. A quick FAQ if you're curious:

> Another framework, seriously?

Yes. If you dig it, use it. If you don't, that’s cool, too.

> Why would I use this and not React/Vue/Svelte/etc?

Because it makes sense to you. Ergonomically, I designed Joystick components to be a beginner-friendly alternative to React (I worked with it from 2015-2021 and got tired of the constant API rug pulls). Joystick will either "click" for you or it won't. Feature-wise, it's far more robust than React while maintaining the same behavior (e.g., reactivity via state, passing props, etc). Performance-wise, I'd currently call Joystick "good enough for most stuff" and have plans to focus in on this more deeply as the framework reaches 1.0.

> Why not web components?

Two reasons: my OCD wouldn't let me do the dashed component names (along with forcing developers to provider a name) and the Shadow DOM thing was a brain teaser when I tried to use web components during the early prototyping stages of Joystick’s components. I would love to see a future version of Joystick use web components under the hood, but as of today: it's a "close but no cigar" for me.

> Why not TypeScript?

I love the idea of having types in JavaScript, I hate the idea of only being able to get that via a superset controlled by a corporation (however aligned with OSS values they might be). I think TypeScript is a brilliant idea, horribly implemented. I want Joystick to be as standards-aligned and easy to pick up as possible and TypeScript breaks both of those rules. As of today, TypeScript is a no-go for me in favor of vanilla JS.

> Why would I trust an indie, solo-developer framework?

Don't. Or do. I'm indifferent as long as you find value in what I've created. I want to build a solid business around Joystick (see the site for how) to support my efforts. That's the best guarantee I can offer. Short of getting rolled by a city bus (i.e., The Bus Factor), my sights are on 10 years out. In the words of Townes Van Zandt "I'll be here in the morning."

> Why your own license?

I love the idea of open source, but I've seen far too many pure-hearted, talented developers get run into the ground by it. I don't want to repeat their fate. I'd like to be able to earn a living from my work on Joystick beyond a job, sponsorships, or client work. To protect that as best as I can with limited resources, I wrote the SAUCR License (Source Available Under Commercial Restriction) [1]. It's designed as a happy medium: you can audit the source code to your heart's content and use it 100% free to build your apps, but reappropriating it is a no-go.

[1] https://saucr.org
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Do you have a email contact to reach out to you to learn more on this role or other roles? Thanks
Can anyone asking this kind of question define “conscious”?
Even if they're in a superior position from resources and talent, this feels like a case of innovators' dilemma with a hard shift of their existing business model and culture. It would almost make more sense for Alphabet to spin off an ML-centric company and focus growth there.
My gut-feel is that it rides near the line between "defense in depth" versus "security through obscurity".
Actually experience the same thing but for different reasons.

I've lived in the same place for 25 years, so I've seen the invention of wifi and then checking every few months for other users on wifi analyzer, I've seen it grown and grown.

Well in that 25 years they've built so many surrounding apartment complexes that the 2.4ghz saturation is absolutely insane. I cannot believe how many networks show up on the analyzer in 2024, has to be well over 100.

But when it rains, it cuts off dozens of those other apartments, and I get better signal inside my own apartment.
> the world reacted swiftly and largely in unison

The western world. Don't forget that the early economic sanctions were largely ignored by the BRICS countries, which make up ~45% of the world's population.
Legality things, depends on jurisdiction, which may or may not depend on:

* where were the authors of the code,
* where the code is stored,
* who is attacked,
* where are their servers,
* who is attacking,
* where are they based,
* where did they attack from,
* ...

IANAL but it seems very complicated from law perspective (we, humanity, don't have a global law)

Edit2: making a bullet point list is hard
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>Body composition analysis from MOMENTUM showed only 25.5% of weight loss derived from lean mass, with 74.5% of weight loss from adipose tissue, comparable to the effects historically associated with diet and exercise.
Love the username, will make it easier to see WhosGhostin
One for bookmarking and following, thanks!

Tried learning Arabic from Duolingo for more than a year and loved learning my way around the script at least.
A fun article!

I think a more probable understanding of the "Daniel" reference in Ezekiel is that it is same Daniel from the book of Daniel.

Even if you assume that the prophecies in the book of Daniel were written retroactively 600 years later (given the accuracy of described events) it does not preclude an actual powerful person of that name being alive at same time as Ezekiel, and being the basis for later attribution.

Both Ezekiel and Daniel are written covering a similar set of years. Both refer to a person named Daniel widely famous for his "righteousness". It would seem improbable that they were talking about entirely different people.

Again, had a lot of fun reading that.
I googled it up, it was a Bulgarian variant of this Am9511-based (the first FPU, according to AMD!) bad boy:

http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/fichiers/CCS%207781B%20Arithm...

https://www.applefritter.com/content/arithmetic-processor
> I'm also trying to teach my kids the idea of files and how everything on the computer are pretty much all files.

Interesting. As a generation that grew up on Windows, that's probably my mental model as well. Keeping specific files like music, videos, photos organized and sharing them on pen-drives was a big thing even 10 years ago - and to an extent, this is completely gone. Can you expand why you want to teach that?
The scourge of "intelligent design" comes in many forms.
Either that or buy a stake in Tesla's network along with a requirement that the funds be used to upgrade or install chargers with V4.
The need for concrete products is acute. I'm in the martech space and it's ridiculous how many big-name software vendors have done nothing besides slap an "AI-powered" label on their traditional products (CRM + email marketing and API-connector type apps).

Tried talking to the reps about the AI features. All were very cagey, suggesting that they didn't really know and were parroting buzzwordy benefits because the higher-ups told them to. So far, the "AI revolution" seems to have just led to higher price tiers.
Ah where does the community hang out these days?

My memory is that it used to be some irc and a lot of an email group, but memory too fuzzy.
Perhaps I don't understand the point. "Perspective", you say? I'm thinking that, for instance, a very very large rock does not have an advanced ability to understand things, whereas David Rappaport had a psychology degree.

(Extra bits edited in follow:)

I detect another implied point, which is that there are levels of ability to reason. That is, by analogy with cells, which are dumb, inside a human, which is smart, the supposition is that humans are relatively dumb components inside a universe which is super-smart. This relies on the concept of super-smart having a meaning. (It also implies that the cells are less than totally dumb.) Then humans are somewhere on a sliding scale between totally dumb and infinitely smart. But I see no reason to make this supposition that such a scale exists or has any meaning. So far as I can see, there's only one kind of reasoning and it doesn't have levels.

I guess there's things like squirrels solving puzzles to get nuts out of a container. But I think that's a different function from understanding stuff.
"Commercial beekeepers aggressively manage for varroa and other diseases, if they didn't the resulting dieoffs would bankrupt them."

Who is speaking nonsense now? Yes, they typically treat for some pests and disease. Those pests and diseases that they generally treat for do not affect native bees. Even when they do treat, they don't have full elimination and are still transmissible. You can see they they still suffer about 50% colony loss like the smaller producers.

"and they sure af don't have more experience with any aspect of hive management than individuals who are successfully managing hundreds if not thousands of hives."

And the people keeping hundreds and thousands of hives for commercial purposes don't have as much time to spend on full inspections. If they know so much about management, then they must be making intentionally poor decisions on how to manage when we talk about things like colony dirft and hive densities, transporting bees all over the place (accelerating any existing spread), and subjecting the bees to active spraying during pollination.

"One management fuckup leading to a single hive collapse absolutely sprays the surrounding 2-3 mile area with diseases and parasites."

Have any data to back that up? You do realize that many of the pests and diseases are routinely present in most hives, right? That's why you need actually concentrations for diagnosing things like nosema. I'd love to see an example of an apiary that has zero varroa too...

"Given annual failure rates all beekeepers are bombing their surroundings with problems, hobby beekeepers just do so for their own personal amusement regardless of which treatment strategy they employ."

This makes zero sense. You claim that all beekeepers are problems. But you only have a problem with small scale producers because they aren't paying their mortgage with it. Interesting distinction which bears no matter on the end result. So it appears this conversation is moot.

"an effort that is vastly complicated by having to geographically isolate breeding operations to try to avoid cross-breeding from unmanaged populations (read backyard hives)."

This is complete nonsense. The breeding programs rely on artificial insemination. You can't control the feral bee populations either, so you must do it in a lab. Most of these government bodies and ag extensions have resources (and requirements) for small scale beekeepers, and even encourage it. Most states have mandatory licensing and inspections too. Most beekeeping associations openly welcome beekeepers of any size operations. It seems you just have an axe to grind.
Not only better as measured by benchmarks, but also better preferred by humans.

https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboar...
Your metaphor works both ways. If you teach the kids in kindergarden the theory of intricate japanese wood joints before they know which end of the saw to hold you are wasting your (and their) time.

As I said, all things have their place, but some mathematicians have the habbit of starting at the most general (and therefore most abstract and most distant from the layperson) point to then move to more concrete applications. My suggestion wasn't to skip the general perspective, it was to teach it at a point where people already know and maybe even use the thing that is being generalized.

That being said, not everybody is a mathematician. For some (and I'd argue: most) people using the fourier transformation as "just" a means to figure out the partials of any given signal is the tool they are looking for.
Well, when they tried to rebuild something, they ended up removing the start menu and a couple of other things that a third party started to provide for a fee and they had to backpedal many of these changes. I finally received the update on my corporate machine where they bring back the option to ungroup apps after a couple of years...
Love it. I want to color the lines based on their chance for causing errors. It would have to be a heuristic based on various metrics, like the number of historical changes to a line, code complexity, and test/coverage hits.
The worst was a local meetup member who worked for a company that either made vaccines or worked in virology and still didn’t get his vaccinations. He had all these bullshit reasons he dressed up as science. He got screamed at by the oldest person in the group and stopped showing up. But goddamn.

Vaccines don’t work on everyone who takes them, and they tend to be less effective in the elderly. Every one of those people are counting on the rest of us to not bring shit to their doorsteps.
If the cosmos is conscious in the way that we are and the speed of light proves to be a limit, then its thoughts would take thousands or millions of years to process. It may be compelled to leverage entities with cogitation components within light seconds of each other for fast thinking. The Thinking, Fast and Slow paradigm could be built into the shape of the universe.

If the slow thinkers seek to constrain the fast thinkers we may get away with a lot before they catch up.
I had an original iPhone SE that I intended to keep until they pried it from my cold dead hands.

But keeping it stopped being tenable rather sooner than I expected. Shortly after Apple released the first version of iOS that couldn't be installed on it, app developers started shipping versions that required that new version, and shortly after that they started killswitching older versions of their apps. I was able to say "good riddance" the first few times that happened, but once it started happening to apps I consider indispensable, I ended up deciding that I didn't actually want to live in a parallel universe where Steve Jobs won the fight to not have 3rd-party apps on iOS.

RMS has a point about how you don't really own any software or devices that depend on a closed-source cloud service to function.
Shutting down 99.9% of speculation on how the vulnerability was found in the first place.
Leaving the whole contents of your wallet at the grocery store rather than partial.
Yup! :) You could use https://www.msys2.org/ I think!
Yeah something like this;

https://nodejs.org/en/about/previous-releases#release-schedu...

or:

https://devguide.python.org/versions/
Are you aware of python first libraries like build123d and cadquery?
build123d has an improved API over cadquery, excellent docs and no dependency on conda. Best tool for modern parametric python CAD.
What is the meaning of the phrase "shaggy-dog"?
Google's special sauce, is the data of all user's responses to the things Google's algorithm shows them.

This description also works for ChatGPT, what it has which others do not (at anything close to the same scale).

Google's search engine is a well understood bit of matrix multiplication on a scale many others can easily afford to replicate.

This description also works for GPT-3.
Note that port knocking is vulnerable to replay attacks. Single Packet Authentication is better, but requires a private key (can be your SSH key).

https://www.cipherdyne.org/fwknop/
Lasse Collin is not Jia Tan until proven otherwise.
If you worked for Bolt, Beranek and Newman, you're eligible.
Yeah, there's a real sweet spot there - close enough to really get the immensity, far enough away to tell people about it.
> Stuff like this is why I like port knocking, and limiting access to specific client IPs/networks when possible.

Indeed: I whitelist hosts/IP blocks allowed to SSH in. I don't use port-knocking but I never ever criticized those using port knocking.

I do really wonder if people are still going to say that port knocking is pointless and security theatre: we now have a clear example where people who were using port-knocking were protected while those who didn't were potentially wide open to the biggest backdoor discovered to date (even if it's wasn't yet in all the major distros).

> ... does the entire internet really need to be able to SSH to your box?

Nope and I never ever understood the argument saying: "Port-knocking is security theatre, it doesn't bring any added security".

To me port-knocking didn't lower the security of a system.

It seems that we now have a clear proof that it's actually helping versus certain type of attacks (including source-code supply chain attacks).
Possibly if language use fingerprinting ever becomes reliable enough to be able to connect multiple online pseudonyms together. That'd be a fun time