skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We have yet to see any examples of inanimate objects exhibiting any sign of intelligence, or even instinct.

Can you give me a clear, minimal definition for both "intelligence" and "instinct"?

Because to me, instinct seems to be already achieved by existing inanimate control systems for decades now, and "decent understanding of natural human language" (as achieved by todays LLMs) is more than enough to count as intelligent for me.

If we just started simulating neurons in a brain exactly, what would prevent us from achieving inorganic intelligence in your view?
it wasn't long ago that 128GB was a gobsmacking number for a home user

I look forward to checking the "+$1000" box for a terabyte of on-chip RAM
How Did American Capitalism Mutate into American Corporatism?
> Do you really think Haidt is lazily missing a causal link here?

To be honest, no.

It's not lazy, the platform he's writing this has the tagline 'Using moral psychology to explain why so much is going wrong', so morality is at the center,
and at the start of his essay he goes "I think it is a very good thing that alarms were rung about teen smoking, teen pregnancy, drunk driving, and the exposure of children to sex and violence on TV.", putting smoking, teen pregnancy and actual homicidal behavior at the same level as fictional sex and violence.

I think he's not even playing dumb, and purposefully chooses arguments he has no incentive to properly research, or straight omits the other probable causes he has knowledge of.
This is my first time hearing about Muphry's Law and I love it
>> Think basic training stuff.

Basic training is a nothing thing in the military. It does not represent what military life is like. It is just a temporary proving ground for new employees. That said, many units still do unit PT in the afternoons specifically so that people head home reasonably tired. Remember too that in the military, especially for young single people, "home" is wherever you rack out.
Intel's "Gaudi 3" AI accelerator chip may give Nvidia's H100 a run for its money
Perhaps surprisingly; yes.
Most likely only because the population density
of tertiary markets still allows it.
Postman makes sense because of the HTTP method POST, but I don’t know about Orbit.
No, what's at question is what "genius" means. He's asserting that "'genius' was made through hard work (and some amount of luck)". This is in sharp contrast to the common notion that genius is "innate propensity", where Smarty McSmartpants just goes around being brilliant because he's born that way. I favor his view and think that essentialism is mostly bunk.
Good idea to stash stuff away. I have access to an IT company (I own it) and a fair amount of storage but nothing like Archive!

One day we shall meet on HN and link our Nextcloud instances, links to some weird static HTML and so on and form a new web of information.

The internet (web) will never die, per se, but it does feel awfully siloed off at the moment.

Mind you I do manage to run my company email on prem (Exchange - soz, but HA Proxy fronts its webby stuff and Exim is my SMTP weapon of choice). I also run my family email domain and several others too. No hyper-scalers here, thank you very much.

I'm looking into the fediverse. I think that's where this stuff really belongs - the front pages of the internet have become mega corps. Its all looking a bit half hearted in fediland but Lemmy and Mastodon and co are starting to look quite useful.

The internet is still really diverse and flourishing but it needs a right good kicking as do the users of it.
The factual elements work as a summary. But the entire aspect of just deserts, getting what you asked for and being unhappy, hypocrisy, it isn't there. So by implying that kind of thing, it doesn't work.

It's almost clever.
Case in point, it’s normalized violence.

This is perhaps more tragic since it’s the fault of bad infrastructure and broken justice system empowering narcissists and criminals
Suppose i believe that- what is the point of preserving resources, if you are not going to use them to keep yourself healthy and alive? What are you saving them for?

But also, that's a very poor proxy - some intangible things like songs cost a lot of money but represent zero resources.

Some resources, like a piece of land, quadruple in price, once a fictional planning permission for construction is attached to them, etc.

And then you can run an economy like Britain does where you use all economic surplus to inflate value of already existing housing resources, therefore destroying any surplus you could have.
the only additional requirement that the AGPL introduces is that if you modify the AGPL software, you have to provide people who can access it over the network the code.

If you just use a pre-built package, the AGPL has the exact same requirements as the GPL.
I returned to this recently and man it is brutally hard, I'd argue in not a good way.

The robots with the hitscan gattling gun just plain aren't a fun design they're just a shield-cost you pay for not knowing exactly where they are in the level - and worse there's a bunch of keycard pickups where the moment you grab the card you're stuck dead center of a room where 4-6 of the things then come out of unopenable secret doors (which basically makes them impervious to foreknowledge - you can't complete the level without going through there, you need a minimum amount of shields to survive the alpha strike, and even knowing it's going to happen doesn't help).

Still a heckin' fun game, but yeah once they start throwing those things at you en masse (around the Mars missions) my tolerance fell off pretty rapidly since there wasn't really any "puzzle" to solve.
Yea, possibly overlapping timing and at the opposite side of the earth, suggesting Deccan Traps could be a direct result of the Chicxulub impact.
I get what you're saying now. People do need billets to bridge them to some more higher official responsibility if you want them to grow. That said, I don't think this is a great panacea for mental health days. Generally I use mental health days if I'm overly stressed, burned out, upset, etc...

Would you let a troop take a sick day if they were any of those things?
Sports are a means of attracting alumni dollars and/or accepting otherwise mediocre students who couldn't get in on merit, but have wealthy parents.
When I was a junior in college I took a project class every semester, building a portfolio which showed off my talent and skills.

See if there are clubs which support your interests in engineering and computing.

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> I think their main AI case will be photo and video editing

Sure, AI features will come to all of their content creation apps at some point, most of it being processed on-device.

But I suspect the most impact will be in other apps and areas of the operating systems that typically haven't gotten a lot of attention traditionally.

I'd much rather have generative AI or an intelligent agent to deal with email than filling in backgrounds in images. Because the pertinent information is in my calendar, address book, etc., I should be able to say "email Tom I can't make it to the party" and that email is created for me.
I've seen what you describe but then also can speak for myself that on my time off I'm awfully active. Building things physical and/or software, spending time outside, reading, etc. If I retired tomorrow I'd probably work just as much, if not more, because I'd work on my interests and not what I was assigned. This is common for the majority of adults I know.

I'd say I'm far from fully burnt out (we've all had our moments) but I think there is some career saturation point where people feel ownership over their free time and treat it with respect instead of "drinking/gaming".

Is wasting days off a symptom of youth? Is it because military employees lack autonomy? Is it just natural after years of selling your time to an employer?
There’s nothing you can do to make AI apps reliable. You can experiment all you like and play with prompts… in the end you will have a flakey product.
Use Cloudflare? Just give their server a captcha challenge?
> Over the nine-year period of South Korean troop commitments to Vietnam, 40% of the country's overall export earnings during this period came from the money combat personnel were paid, making an average of $200 million each year.

> The total cost to the United States of paying for Korean participation was "peanuts compared to what it would be for a comparable number of Americans," but those payments are estimated to account for 4 percent of the GNP in 1967 and totalling more than one billion dollars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea_in_the_Vietnam_War -- I did not know this!
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> But critics of the past were never anonymous.

Er, yes, they often were either anonymous or pseudonymous.

> If you review film or food or anything, and it got published you put your name next to it.

It probably had a name next to it, because the publisher wanted to build a brand around the reviewer.

It might well not be a name you used for any other purpose, though.
Kelly and Zach are authors of the book "City on Mars", a well researched and approachable exploration of problems that still need to be addressed before large numbers of humans are sent to the Cosmos.
https://www.acityonmars.com/
You know this wasn't the conclusion the article drew, right?
In almost 30 years of software engineering, I came to the conclusion years ago that most deadlines were entirely arbitrary. The business isn't going to fail if you slip a week, or frequently even six months and if it does its probably not the fault of engineering unless its so dysfunctional as to repeatably blow through its own delivery estimates. Sure there are regulatory deadlines, customer POC or delivery deadlines. But, truly hard deadlines won't pop up as "we need this done next week" unless there is something fundamentally wrong with the business/sales side. A good functioning engineering/business unit will know far in advance of those kinds of deadlines and it becomes a question of whether the existing engineering org is capable of delivering the functionality within a heavily padded schedule.

Put another way, I don't think i've ever seen a customer walk from a product because it wasn't released on a cadence, in fact many aren't actually happy about upgrades unless they are fixing a problem they have requested. And sales/POC cycles are such that frequently the customer may not actually have an alternative solution, or if they do, the chances they will switch to your product simply because you have X this year instead of next year isn't something that hinges on small factors that can be done by the engineering team in short cycles. You win because the product is better/etc and that doesn't happen overnight.

So, stressing and working endless 80 hour weeks likely is going to have the opposite effect and creates a low quality product that people are trying to get rid of because it keeps breaking.
> The two main knobs are

my experience is that those are not enough, multiple algorithms will just fail saying you hit max memory limit. There are many other knobs, for example: when to start external aggregation or sorting. For some cases I couldn't figure out setup and query just hits OOM without any ideas how to fix it.
Your first paragraph is an ad-hominem that you should be ashamed of. "Not really taken seriously by the community"? Which community is that? Last time I saw Marcus he was a co-organizer of a panel on Dug Lenat and Knowledge Representation in AAAI 2024 [1]. Does that sound like the AI community is not taking him seriously? Is anyone asking you to orgranise panels in AAAI?

The question is rhetorical: I can see you're a PhD student. My advice is to learn to have some respect for the person of others, as you will want them to have respect of your person when, one day, you find yourself saying something that "the community" disagrees with. And if you're not planning to, one day, find yourself in that situation, consider the possibility that you're in the wrong job.

And what is the above article saying that you think should not be taken seriously? Is it not a widely recognised fact that neural nets performance only improves with more data, more compute and more parameters? A five year old could tell you that. Is it controversial that this is a limitation?

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[1] https://aaai.org/aaai-conference/aaai-24-panels/
Factorization and discrete log are also polynomial on a quantum computer, and we are very good at just increasing bit widths. If CRYSTALS is also polynomial in BQP, there is very little reason to invest so much into it.

I am still of the (very controversial) opinion that the only PQC algorithm worth investing in at the expense of classical algorithms is Classic McEliece. This is a code that has stood up to classical and quantum cracking attempts for a very long time - cracking these codes is equivalent to creating a very valuable algorithm in error correcting codes.

The NIST also is dead set on people using only PQC or classical crypto, not a wrapper with both. That is stupid IMO.
I want both the ability to sockpuppet, but also as a consumer of reviews, I very much would rank your opinion based on how much public persona you offer.

Be anonymous! Fine! But I will be highly suspicious of your words unless I see aomg long track record I can evaluate against. Tat can all be anonymous too, but there needs to be a past with which to decypher & interpret you, to decide whether to take you seriously or not against.

No history means no value. No probability there's not some agenda.
Jeffrey Albert Tucker is an American libertarian writer, publisher, entrepreneur and advocate of anarcho-capitalism and Bitcoin. For many years he worked for Ron Paul, the Mises Institute, and Lew Rockwell.
“I divide my officers into four classes as follows: The clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the stupid. Each officer always possesses two of these qualities.

Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General Staff. Use can under certain circumstances be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy qualifies for the highest leadership posts. He has the requisite nerves and the mental clarity for difficult decisions. But whoever is stupid and industrious must be got rid of, for he is too dangerous.”

-- General Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord
I would add WebGL to the mix, for when you need that GPU performance in a browser that doesn't support WebGPU yet..
For example in a plugin system, I can say you must inherit from BasePlugin and in code I can enforce that, BasePlugin can then have some protected functions that I can disallow from being overridden.

It's good for frameworks and extensible systems where your code needs to guarantee certain things will happen when running third party code.
Doesn't the 4-day week already effectively already exist for many companies already. Sometimes it's called flex hours.

Converting a Monday or Friday into another weekend will cause all sorts of unforeseen problems in terms of long delays for things like mail, bank transfers, applications, etc. It will make business even less efficient, hurt economic productivity. Workers may also be less productive on the 'bookends' of a 3-day weekend, similar to observed on the day before holidays. So rather than a 4-day week, it's closer to 3.5 when one takes into account productivity loss. 5-day workweeks are probably optimal; any more or fewer comes at some cost to productivity.
Fine-Tuning Increases LLM Vulnerabilities and Risk
And Zach is the author of the Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal webcomic.

https://www.smbc-comics.com
I hear what you're saying, but I don't feel I said it was universal in the sense that you're describing it. On the whole I would rate the average software engineer as having a less stressful life than the average doctor. I acknowledge that there are outliers and individual experiences that go against the average.

That said, I would argue that you underestimate the number of people in medicine who are burnt out. Many of my colleagues stay because it is a sunk cost financially/time-wise/reputatationally. You can pull up the numerous studies on burnout rates that have been done.

I'd anything it affirms my statement that you don't realize how much worse it could be. Like I said, there's a difference between taking down prod for 6 hours and getting sued for accusations that you killed a living being. This isn't intended to be a competition but it does become a bit absurd to watch people in the software world act like burnout from a micromanaging PM, unrealistic stakeholders, etc is the pinnacle of human suffering.
Am not a comparative linguist by trade but thought the Dene-Yenesian hypothesis was pretty well established at this point?

Edit: wiki link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den%C3%A9%E2%80%93Yeniseian_la...

First link was proposed by Merrit Ruhlen in 98. People have opinions about him but he and his mentor Greenberg did very well received work on African comparative ling
How likely is it that smokers will smoke so much more during a recession, vs during a non-recession, that the effect shows up in nationwide mortality rates?
So a thing which is currently useless because it runs at a speed that makes the Harvard
Mark I look fast, might be rendered useless if a thing that doesn’t physically exist despite decades of effort is constructed?
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>We get it -- repeating it 4 times in 6 sentences is a lot.

No, I don't think you do[0].

[0] https://literarydevices.net/repetition/
They say that pessimists see the world more accurately. And, I often think about how programming makes you see the world more accurately. Because, when you're programming, over and over and over again the computer tells you when your program doesn't work. No amount of wishing or insisting will change it. Yelling at your computer is unlikely to fix your program. People who work in other careers, like if they mainly deal with people, can more easily believe in wishful thinking and that everything will just work out because you want it to.
Friends don't let friends become Vietnamese billionaires!
Soft boil your eggs and you can add zero calories and still get the flavor.
They were underground long enough that we lost the genes to repair UV damage.
> I guess what’s great for both of us is that there’s just so many movies these days

I vehemently disagree, and I'm not simply being argumentative -- this is something I've held as a strong opinion for decades.

I can count on my hand the number of high fantasy series that have been filmed and that have been good. Or the number of spacefaring sci-fi films.

I've seen thousands of movies, yet I'd consider fewer than 10% of them "good". Very few sit with me for days after the theater.

This world doesn't have enough film. I know my interests aren't being catered to.
What are your goals with this comment? What, do you estimate, has been your outcome?

If you want to bring medical profession stressors to light, go right ahead. This is an article about a real phenomenon. Not every complaint must be universal or superordinate.

You don't sound "insensitive," you sound juvenile. If your profession is harmful to practitioners, perhaps attempt to cultivate solidarity instead of actively working to demolish it?

As someone who's familiar with artisanal cobalt mining in the DRC, I can attest that medical practitioners have it good, but I won't because that would be unconstructive in a conversation about the latter's working conditions. Grow up.
I know in theory that is how it should work but is there a study to back that up?

The thing is, in my estimation, in most places the demand is so high that whatever makes the builders the most is what will get made. Which isn't necessarily what the majority of the market demands. Builders profit more off high square footage and buyers -- desperate for just someplace to live that's not the rental market -- will snatch it up. A 4 bedroom house in my market (granted one of the hottest housing markets in the US) is usually gone just days after listing.

Or, to use an analogy, if you open a water stand in the desert and sell flavored water for $5, it doesn't matter if the buyer really wanted plain water for $1, they are still going to buy your water since it is the only water available. And why start offering plain water when the flavored one sells out instantly and makes more profit?
You can't even refund with the OSS version. It's so hamstrung as to be completely unusable for a real business
And if they use any of it the entire worlds corporate lawyers will show up on their doorstep

Unlike googles victims (individuals) corporations can and do fight back when someone plays it fast & loose with their confidential coms
In war there are rules of engagement. Finishing off a downed enemy is a war crime.
Because it's not actually so bad ;)
> By contrast, motor vehicle accidents and liver disease
each account for less than 2 percent of 2006 mortality, and so their contributions to the total
recession-induced mortality decline are only 6.9 percent and 2.6 percent, respectively.

The paper did briefly cover accidents. Didn't check the rest.
> A unanimous three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday agreed with Inhance Technologies that the EPA overstepped its authority by issuing the orders, since they were rooted in a section of the federal toxic chemical law reserved for regulating "new" chemicals.

That's pretty ridiculous. It would be nice if Congress did the obvious "right thing to do" and amended the law that defines the EPA's power, but we all know that they won't do anything of the kind, and it will be left to a higher court to reinterpret existing law and reverse the decision.
this is a pretty harsh potential sentence. damn . he may spend more time behind bars than SBF or even many murders, rapists, etc.
Read the first article, great example, I'll have to remember that next time I'm trying to teach OOP
Why should I have to pay money to a avoid incuring an incurable disease?

I can understand, possibly, possibly, fronting the cost. But, only while they sort out the details with the installers. The first contaminant to make it through on a federally recognized level...9 billion dollars in funding. Holy shit. And this is just getting started.

This, after looking just now ( https://www.google.com/search?q=pfas+funding+sources&oq=pfas... ), Seems to be in addition to a 10 billion dollars that was earmarked in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of '21, and 2 billion from the EPA.

That's in addition to the up to 12.5 billion that 3M has agreed to pay directly to water providers through 2036. I didn't know there was a tort case, either. It finished last year.

33.5 billion dollars. I can't wrap my head around this. Seems like a significant amount for an equally significant problem that most people have never heard about.

And this is likely not nearly enough. This is shaping up to be a 100 billion dollar public health crisis / 3M offset.

Surely, I am missing several more broad funding allotments, this is just just getting started.

When I can't understand the scale of something, I tend to look at the size of the response. It's not perfect, but it's a start
> It's wrong in medicine and it's wrong here.

This can be said so many times over regarding so many unproductive comparisons. Two wrongs, I've heard all my life, don't make a right. Nevertheless, people insist on dismissing wrongs that aren't, as it were, up to snuff.

Well, we as a society can both walk and chew bubblegum. If the OP isn't in here begging us for scarce resources, then he's wrong to interrupt our exchange of lived experiences.

I think stressors in the medical industry should be talked about. That seems important. And when they are, I won't be in the comments whining about software on-call.