skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Phones are more of a content consumption devices than a communication device for probably the majority of users; a bigger screen directly makes it a better content consumption device, even if you sometimes need to adjust your grip to tap something on the top edge of the screen.
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Too thick and heavy, compared to how small and light smartphones used to be.
I quite like a smartphone. But I am capable of limiting my use.

Perhaps that's the problem no?
A little, but the design of the support structure is dominated by wind loads. Depending on where you are, it can need to survive wind gusts of 90 - 160 mph. At the low end, 90 mph corresponds to 1000 N / m^2, which is more than the weight of any kind of solar panel.
It's too bad Emad didn't get this one out before getting axed.
I've tried remote desktop, feel like its decently easy to use and works well enough (it might require a download, I forget)
> I see that in 2011 there were 32 NFL teams and a team can field no more than 11 players at a time. If I assume an average of 352 concussions a year, one per year per "stylized active player" - and I would bet the number is higher - a reduction of 25 per year is basically meaningles

Really, I'd say those 25 people are very happy to not have concussions. You're begin extremely crass just dismissing the health of 25 people.

Which I guess can happen if you look at things strictly through a stats lens and not a personal impact one
Remember that these same VC firms had large crypto and blockchain divisions and were hosting lavish conferences dedicated to it. Regardless of what their job title is, if someone can't back up their talk with real world experience with the tech, there's no reason to take them seriously.
Backing up keys stored on a GnuPG card (e.g. on a Yubikey) does require that.
> While these mathematical ideas are grounded in data analysis, they metaphorically align with spiritual teachings that advocate for a middle path in life.

You can stop reading right here. The central limit theorem and gaussian distribution do not in any way align with "regressing" the behavior of an individual to the mean. That's a gross misunderstanding of the concept, bordering on complete bullshit.
The phenomenon of showing up at Stanford and telling some 21-year-old that he's Jesus Christ and that you're going to give him millions of dollars is a wen on the American business culture matched only by corporate raiding.

It's the nerd version of college football/basketball recruiting.
His suggestion sounds more like human curated data sets rather than automated curation like you're assuming, although this is a good distinction to make.
I’m surprised tptacek hasn’t shown up to defend DNSSEC from this libel
That's not really true. You don't need to actually solve the problem, you just need to create a first order solution for optimizing your data set, which can enable better models that can be used to create a solution that is second order accurate, and so on iteratively.
You think error handling for a socket connection + send is outside the capabilities of those developing sshd?
I wanted a dumbphone so I could avoid the crapware in android. But then I saw the Punkt MP01 with it's 4G hotspot and lust filled my heart.

So then I had a smartphone with android crapware and a very bad UI.

It did keep me from doomscrolling at the bus stop, so there is that.

I suspect the "iPhone of modern dumbphones" hasn't been invented yet. My gut feeling is there are about as many reasons people want to use dumbphones as there are people using dumbphones so getting "one dumbphone to rule them all" the same way the apple and Samsung have is a ways off.
This is why I was hoping the startup MightyApp would succeed. Then it would be practical to build web apps that operated on GB/TB of data in a single tab. Most of the time people would use their normal browser, but for big data jobs you would use your Mighty browser with persistence and unlimited RAM streamed from the cloud. A path to get the best of web apps with the power of native apps. Glad they gave it a shot. Definitely was an idea worth trying.
I recently moved to Ireland. Here I have Virgin Media fiber, and I was pretty upset to learn the router was very locked down, and I can't even port forward.

I have a bunch of services that I host from home, and with my previous provider (and country) I had a static IP with all the associated DNS and DMZ stuff to make it work.

I was about 2 days into a VPN rabbit hole when I discovered that Virgin gives out IPV6 AND IPV4 IPs, and that the v6 ones are publically routable! I was able to access my hosted service by plugging in the server and going to it's IPv6 address on my phone. Some quick Cloudflare IPV4 to IPV6 proxying later and I'm up and running as before. Can now access the service from any internet network (even IPV4 ones). No more DMZ, port forwarding, etc. Happy days.

So yes, I moved away from V4 in about an afternoon, no issues.

I'm not sure if the IP is static though. The server has a reserved V4 IP for internal stuff, I hope the router is clever enough to then keep the V6 one also static. With the address space being so large, I guess giving clients entire blocks of addresses that are static is perfectly fine?
The question is if other animals even do have the kind of intelligence that most people call AGI. It seems that this kind of adaptive intelligence may be unique to mammals (and perhaps a few other outliers, like the octopus), with the vast majority of life being limited to inborn reflexes, immitating their conspecifics, and trial and error.
That may be, but it sounds like the GP was just sharing a story.
Temporary numbers are net not gross so if a tourist enters and leaves the country in a single year they count as 0 not 1.
There are ways to do it. E.g. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System...
I think they are only using the “email address verified keys” that these “new-style key servers” use, so you’d be able to at least revoke that binding as long as you can receive unencrypted emails to that address.
I have recently migrated most of those “important” apps to an old iPhone that has no SIM card

My interrupt driven life is segregated to a WiFi-only device and I am available most of the day. However the rest of the day is my own and I have a barrier to divide the two.

I am still weaning myself away from link/discussion sites like HN (Gen AI is making this easier) but ditched other social media a decade ago and have had no regrets at all.

There really is something about returning to a “slow” lifestyle. Read more long form media. Listen to albums in their entirety. Go for a walk with zero notifications or distractions. Take time, be bored. It’s better for you.

Stop letting your life and worldview be controlled by some algorithm that is not acting in your best interest.

I think we will look back on the decade or so post-smartphone and realize that the never ending feed was the most impactful innovation, and it didn’t do us any good at all.
We made a sustainable free tier for SingleStore
Chip dreams: Young tech workers are flocking to Taiwan
Why one of Africa's most-funded startups is betting on India and the U.K
I went on their website and immediately got a bot chat window and three notification sounds I never asked for. How unpleasant.

The phone sounds great though!
Justice Dept. finalizes rules to close 'gun show loophole'
The Illusion of Productivity: Why We Are Addicted to Busyness
> It’s pretty clear that renewables will lead to an extreme abundance of energy.

Its pretty clear they won't, because of the intermittent output issue and the price of storage. Germany has been on the forefront of renewable energy, and our energy security and price has only gotten worse over time. Its gotten so bad that we are de-industrialising energy-intensive sectors right now.
> But scaling isn't what got them there. It was tons of labeled data, both from rules based implementations and shadowing human drivers.

Isn't the second half of that saying that scaling up the dataset was what got them where they are?

When I hear about "scaling up" models, I think there are two parts of it: 1) use the same architecture, but bigger 2) make the training data bigger to make use of all those new parameters.

So when I hear about something that's not scaling, it would require some sort of fundamental change to architecture or algorithms.
Patents are in principle supposed to be non-obvious, and detailed enough that an expert in the domain can reproduce the invention from the description.

I can assure you that in practice they are neither.

There are merely a lot of people in the legal profession whose jobs depend on ignoring that fact.
Seems fishy that this was posted almost 2 years ago under a different name (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31828077). Add to that it seems like a fundraiser ('how many people are interested in purchasing', 'planning to create a...subscription service'), flagging as it seems to me to go against Show HN rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html).
> I figured they must be running DNSSEC on that zone (or some part of it), and it must have a "not-before" constraint

Since clients will attempt to resolve ntp.org in order to actually sync their clock, there is a good probability that some clients will be way off.

Enabling dnssec on that zone was probably not without important drawbacks? I wonder if the operators thought about that potential pitfall. Seems like they might be doing a disservice to their core mission of allowing devices to sync their clock.
OEC Tradle: Guess which country exports these products
Still being worked on.

https://interestingengineering.com/energy/paderborns-new-sol...
Sometimes you don't leave by choice and staying ahead of the layoff treadmill takes its own toll on mental health. Probably doesn't hurt to patch things up with the parents if possible.
I want to reply to your (antiframe) comment from 21 days ago in the Alzheimers discussion ("Can you point to some evidence that increased saturated fat consumption does not increase LDL? Or that there is no link between serum LDL levels and plaque build up? Or are you making a different claim?") but there's no reply button anymore; here is a talk from Dr Paul Mason about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lRXZfs6Sjs

Specifically that high levels of LDL alone are not what causes plaque buildup, and why not. Higher LDL cholesterol goes with lower chance of death, found a review of 19 cohort studies over 68,000 people, published in the British Medical Journal, for one.
>No trust in the team. Always doing shit themselves. No discussion.

Yup, I've had a boss like this. Maybe my company was particularly dysfunctional, but I didn't have much experience with the projects and tasks I was being assigned. I definitely was not hiding it either. Then when I spent time trying to figure things out on my own, my boss would simply do the work himself and provide no feedback.
I think a watch is indeed a better 'companion' for people that want to detox from screentime. I do find Apple is hesitant to make it act as a primary driver. I find myself needing my iPhone too much for my liking. Hopefully this will change in the future.

I want the connectivity, I just don't want to...
- carry 2 devices.
- have a media consumption device with me all the time
Apple's electric car loss could be home robotics' gain
https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Overview_of_the_Nix_Language

> The Nix language is designed for conveniently creating and composing derivations – precise descriptions of how contents of existing files are used to derive new files.

I’m getting Wikipedia math vibes.
I wasn't there, so I don't know who was threatened by who. There are a lot of sources that do support the claim that no law was broken, and that judges could challenge the nazi agenda. But they didn't. Were they bought, intimidated, convinced? It's not really my job to prove it.
The Humane AI Pin is the solution to none of technology's problems
When macOS started dropping the ball for some, and Windows was doing some things right with stuff like WSL2, Microsoft decided it was time to self-sabotage once more and turn Windows 11 into total crap / adware / spyware combo.
Megafires are spreading in the Amazon – and they are here to stay
The youth in china are overwhelmingly overeducated _relative_ to their economic structure.
Indeed, except if you run an in-memory overlay filesystem this might change dramatically for you. I have several Pi's that run for years and years without SD card corruption this way. Normally, however, as in my sbts-aru project, I don't just do that but also create separate data partitions that are read-write. It appears that even though there are some partitions on the card that are read-write, if they are not the system one it is also much more resilient to fatal corruption.
You're talking about agency there I think. No your phone didn't do that, you did.

However, if later down the line we create autonomous agents that can initiate the creation of said music themselves then I'd call that enough agency to say that the machine is "making music". Could probably almost do it now; tailored LLMs, image diffusion, music diffusion and you could have an ML agent that acts as a musical artist; posts to instagram etc with images of their persona "working on something new", releasing new tracks, bantering, etc. There are already AI OF stars apparently.

We could say "yeah but a human still set it up and told it to make music" but I would discount that; pretty sure no human has total agency, we are all impacted by our environment, peers, culture and all sorts of other external influences.

And I don't think sparsity changes things (maybe in the material world) but culture certainly does. Things are popular because they appeal to us in bulk, rarity/sparsity always result in higher effort for the payoff and so decreases popularity.
> Also I do light reading/research on my phone, which I would miss.

Same. I particularly like queuing up items to read when I'm on transit, in a waiting room, standing in line, etc. It helps me both be more patient during those odd 3-10 minute blocks of downtime and read a few things that I might not otherwise take the time to read.

I suspect the light phone could fill this roll for me, as far as the reading is concerned.
Oh, having language models sit on top of autoencoders is 100% the right way to go, even if we weren't moving towards multi-modal models, just because right now LLMs can be brilliant in one language and retarded in another based on the training data set. Putting an autoencoder in front and using "language agnostic" encoding would solve that problem.
I think it is so important to be able to disconnect from whatever it is that we are doing, even for a very short period of time.
Go for a walk, brew a coffee or simply close your eyes and breathe.

Many times, stress is created artificially.
It hurts our performance and deteriorates our ability to think.

Encountered numerous situations where work was "urgent" and would likely land a contract or sales for the company, and everyone would be a superstar if they delivered this "crunch".

After 2 months of pulling all-nighters and sleeping for 3/4 hours, we deliver the project ahead of time. Apathy begins to set in after management/decision makers keep on giving these gifts we call "crunches".

To help the company and go the extra mile is something most of us have done in the past and will possibly do in the future. However, it's like the story of the boy who cried wolf, if everything is urgent and every task is to be done NOW, then there are bigger issues at play.

Like everything in life, there is usually a limit/budget of money, time and effort.
By abusing these limits and tolerances, people will lose respect for the people crying wolf and will put less effort into their work.
I'm skeptical of both the people who claim we'll achieve AGI and self-driving cars in just a few years - as well as of the people who claim it can't be achieved by LLMs at all- ever.

I feel that we don't understand well enough (scientifically) what "general intelligence" even is, and how it comes to be in humans - to make claims either way.

To me, the only honest answer right now seems to be, that we do not know. We have absolutely no clue how close - or far - we are to AGI.
You can order driverless taxis right now in some cities:

https://www.axios.com/2023/08/29/cities-testing-self-driving...
The File System Access API seems promising.
Early days, but it would be nice if the install guides were written out, not just links to videos.
Yep, that’s what I meant!
Herman Goldstine and the IAS Machine: Unveiling the Modern Computer (2023)
PV cells on thin flexible substrates are interesting for space applications, where they could have very high power/mass.
People are promoted to their level of incompetence
It's scary, agree, but there are often uncertainties and challenges in predicting future climate trends
I am patiently waiting for the industry and VCs to pivot their "visions" to "vertical AI", then to "targeted ML applications", and "knowledge-assisted automation systems for the manufacturing and logistics industries". They really burned a lot of money and energy on stuff noone seems to want or need. That money is going to run out soon.
I lost all respect to Gary Marcus when he in 2018 claimed that autonomous driving is decades away.

Oh wait. I lost all respect to those hype-men who claimed it's just around the corner.

Before transformers, people claimed that you just need bigger neural network, not something new. It did not work.

Then came transformers, the new thing can again scale up better than previous era. Transformers have obvious limit: the computational complexity of self-attention module scales quadratically with the sequence length. We are trying to get partial fix with sparcity and linear tranformers and other techniques, but it gets harder at every turn.

We make progress, but "just scaling" is not working.
IMO, It's just not something that can be improved no matter how much effort is put into it
Speech IO is unreliable for anything serious, not to mention awkward in public, it's also easily attenuated in very trivial situations.
> We had near zero interest rates for years, but I didn't see any private investors making infrastructure investments that wouldn't possibly produce a return for 50 years.

We had short term near zero interest rates (and even below zero real interest rates), but that doesn't mean that long term interest were that low. See eg https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1jVdN or https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1jVe8 for the inflation adjusted one. Those are interest rates that the US government is paying on 30 year bonds. Private issuers typically pay more. (I picked 30 years, because that's the longest duration the US typically borrows at.)

> It's anyone's guess, and no interest rate will allow that kind of private investment.

If you can lock in a zero or negative interest rate now, it might still be a good investment.
Yeah I have noticed that Suno's lyric generation is very canned sometimes, but also for timing - it oftens generates 3-4 (longish) lines for a verse where for the music there should be 2-3.
In addition as a leader your best use is often to be interrupted with questions from junior engineers. This means you can never (or rarely) get into a flow where you are productive, as you are getting close someone interrupts your thought with a question.

As such if you have time to work on engineering (which you should make to stay sharp) it needs to be something unimportant to the business so that you can be late. Trying to add a new warning to your static analysis tool, checking out the latest framework to see if you should switch to it in the future - and other such things that you really want and long term are good but short term won't pay the bills.
Isn’t it possible for out of band systems to improve data distribution?

You don’t need a fancy model trained on all languages to tell you its training set underrepresented Finnish. You just need the training set curators to say “hey there’s no Finnish in the inputs”.

If the goal is high quality models, why be a purist about only using the resulting model to measure deficiencies in the training set?
My impression was easy to build, as he had an engineering background. It seemed like he expected AGI was ready to emerge fully formed like Athena from the head of Zeus.
If enough people do have a problem with a thing, the cause could either be seen as the thing, or human nature. But we aren’t changing human nature, so we can only really go after the thing.
> If you're isolated and safe, why would you care if others go out and do what they want?

To answer this question:

Because almost nobody was isolated. Most people couldn't stay at home exclusively and indefinitely. You gotta get groceries, lots of people have to go to work, lots of people have partners and family members that can't work from home, you gotta receive parcels, you had to receive food deliveries, and some people had to be the ones delivering parcels and food, some people could get OTHER diseases. The list goes on.
Maybe You Missed It, but the Internet 'Died' Five Years Ago (2021)
Thanks for taking the time to reply, really interesting stuff.
Software Engineers are the biggest group of Tesla advocates that I know - and they loved Musk. Until he bought Twitter.

Then the Cybertruck rolled out, and it immediately started rusting in the rain. Tesla will sell you a $5,000 solution to "fix" that problem. At this point we can say the response so far has been "tepid." Certainly not overwhelming.

And Tesla's sales are dropping.

This is the reality - Tesla's market capitalization has been greater than Toyota, Honda, Ford, GM, Fiat, Volkswagen, BMW, Mercedes, and Audi combined. I've been saying for years that it's insane that anybody thinks Tesla is worth that much. Now people are starting to realize they aren't.

Does that mean Tesla is going to go away? Of course not. They're still a major player in the EV market and will be for years to come. Perhaps for decades to come. Wouldn't surprise me if one of those companies I listed above goes out of business in the coming years because of Tesla. But to think Tesla is more valuable than all of those companies combined? That's simply insane.
No, I think he meant they are literally here. I see one everyday.
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/983286-4chan
Security is an illusion, even in the physical world. The only "winning" move is to have your stuff in multiple locations so you only lose a part of it.

Underwriters Lab conducts the test and provides certification to the safe manufacturers. It also helps determine the maximum insured value you can get out of a particular safe. Their process is essentially white hat safe Crackers evaluate products. Pretty neat stuff.

https://www.ul.com/
All of this is public information, so it shouldn't leak anything. So indeed we'll look into whether we can make this information show up in an interoperable way.