skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with these childhood trauma theories is that there’s an obvious genetic confound. If your biological father abandoned or abused your mother, you also share 50% of your DNA with a man who abandoned or abused a woman.

If there is a childhood trauma explanation, I think it has a lot more to do with stepfathers being far more likely to be abusive.
Jamulator didn't take it farther than what NES emulators could do beyond the way it ran. If Jamulator had released with similar enhancements for Zelda it probably would have been a lot more popular. I.e. the interest is more from what is now available with it than about how it does it.

That's just Nerrel, a real person, narrating. It's crazy (in an interesting way, not necessarily a doom and gloom way) how we have AI voices these days so good we start to suspect people who don't speak like we expect are AI.
The biggest reason is access to capital. There's lots of institutional investors who are going to primarily invest in US equities, so if you're on the US stock market that's good. Even if those institutional investors do look at worldwide equities they're going to be limited in how much they allocate to it. It's also easier for investors - a single regulatory environment, no currency risk etc.

This used to be mitigated by the fact that other countries would have their own pools of capital, like domestic pension funds but with the reforms to pensions UK pension funds are no longer a particularly good source of capital on the UK stock exchange.
A soft-gpu driver backed by real hardware "somewhere else" is a beautiful piece of software! While it certainly has application in virtual machines, and may even be "optimal" for some use cases like desktop gaming, it's ultimately doesn't fit with the modern definition of "virtualization --

I am talking about virtualization in the sense of being able to divide the hardware resources of a system into isolated domains and give control of those resources to guest operating systems. Passing API calls from guest to host for execution inside of the host domain is not that. A GPU providing a bunch of PCIe virtual functions which are individually mapped to guests interacting directly with the hardware is that.

GPU virtualization should be the base implementation and paravirtualization/HLE/api-passthrough can still sit on top as a fast-path when the compromises of doing it that way can be justified.
> Also call me when ChatGPT can manipulate matter.

You mean like PALM-E? https://palm-e.github.io/

Embodiment is the easy part.
Guix is not that difficult.
> The writer of the article doesn’t seem to understand how nix works

I am the writer and the submitter too.

I have written about Nix before, and received thanks and praise for my articles from the Nix community.

Examples:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/13/nixos_2211_raccoon/

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/23/flox_1_nix/

https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/03/nixos_linux_os_design...

I think that I do more or less understand it, at the trivial level of what it's for and what it does and how it achieves it.

For those reading, as in that thread on Discourse and indeed here, to fail to appreciate that means that you've not understood the point of my article.

Nix achieves its goals. I am not disputing that. I am saying that the cost of that is just too high. That cost is losing a filesystem layout that to ordinary humans is readable, makes sense, is navigable, and most of all, is maintainable and can be modified, used, changed, and updated, by hand if Nix fails in some unforeseen way.

This, though, is fixable.

That would give the fork a goal and a chance. Without that, I don't think it has one.
Really interesting! Can't wait to try it out.
There is emulator hack for Goldeneye that add WASD + mouse support and I heard that it works great.

https://github.com/Graslu/1964GEPD/releases/tag/latest
I agree, 'but' is the wrong conjunction here and 'still' the wrong adverb.

It should've said:

Amazon made record breaking profit because (among other things) they laid off more than 18000 employees (2023)
I like it! The tutorial levels were quick and effective. It's a new game mechanic I haven't seen before. And today's puzzle is a nice intermediate difficulty. Some other thoughts:

- I always wish daily puzzle games like this had an archive of past puzzles.

- The scroll down section felt odd. Maybe an HTML #anchor tag could jump the user to the game screen

- Settings button wasn't working for me. Not a big deal tho

- some extra UX polish always feels nice. Like animations, sound effects. Maybe some color and spacing tweaks. Maybe making the taps/flips numbers more noticeable.
This is just what I'd do -- not saying it's the best thing to do.

With a new product, you're still working out what aspects of it appeal to customers more than others.

My habit has been to find that out as quickly as possible, then focus the product to just do that as well as possible. If I were in your shoes, I'd focus like a laser on the mind maps. Once that's nailed down and polished, I'd consider bringing in the other aspects.

The advantage of doing this is twofold: by focusing on a single thing, you can really excel at that thing and attract more customers because it rocks so much. Then, once you have solid customer base, you have a receptive existing audience for expanded capabilities (and to guide you as to what form is best for those new capabilities).
As an MS employee working on LLMs, that entire saga is super weird. We need approval for everything! Releasing anything without approval is quite weird.

We can’t just drop papers on arxiv. There is no way running your own twitter, github, etc as a separate group allowed.

I checked fairly recently to see if the model was actually released again, it doesn’t seem to be; I find this telling.
Yea, I think its fair to say that Hoare was actually arguing for something like "value semantics," because he saw all the problems that references cause. But I would claim you can't actually implement a realistic system without some amount of references, if only to synchronize state between concurrent components, so the language of implementation should restrict references in a similar way to Rust to make using references without error tractable.
Apple says the majority of Mac users also own an iPad
It's important to remember that a community is not a single minded entity. It's members can hold many contradicting beliefs, while each individual is ideologically consistent.

This shouldn't be unexpected and it's not an excuse to be dismissive to an imagined hypocrite. Not saying there aren't hypocrites in this world, just that we shouldn't treat members of a community as some kind of superset of everything in that community.
I hope she is right, and in a way she may be. The main reason is how expensive it is to buy a car, insure and maintain a car in the US.

Insurance rates in many places are raising a lot, people blame the expense of repairing EVs and some blame tracking of people's driving habits via many internet connected autos.

With new proposed mandatory "dodads" like automatic breaking, rear cameras I can see Auto prices will continue to increase.

And in cities you can have parking fees, the slow elimination of parking on the street, never mind rent and housing costs. Something will need to give.

So the end result for people in cities, stop using a car and rely on Public Transportation, Bicycling, Walking and things like uber and taxis.
I don't see anything that says they've changed their policies yet. Just that they're looking into it. I also tested 4o and it still gives me a content policy warning for NSFW requests.
Hi everyone,

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It's a platform that allows you to create conversational AI forms without code.

The idea behind Formshare is simple: you describe the form you want to create using natural language, and the AI takes care of the rest.

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1. FROM scratch
2. RUN echo ...

Spot the error.
Has it? It's my understanding that GPT-3 was 12,288 and GPT-4 went down to 3072.
> What do you imagine under basic intelligence?

Consistency, for one. I have asked LLMs the exact same question twice in a row and got wildly different answers. Intelligence presupposes understanding. When I ask an LLM “give me the first X of Y” and it replies “I cannot give you the first X of Y because there have only been X+10, here’s the first X+5 instead”, I’m hard pressed to call it intelligent.
Isn't Nintendo hunting every one of their fans^H^H^H^H IP abusers with their black helicopters?

Why do people even bother when they know they'll get lawyers at their door in 3... 2... 1... ?
It matters because if it was a customer error I would want to know what the error was in order to better avoid it myself.
>The theory is that there's nothing more disturbing for a boy than to see her mom with different men as the boy grows up

That's an absurd theory. Anyone who's actually spent time around single mothers would have observed that they many have more difficulty discipling male children, and lack of discipline is what causes boys to grow up into criminals (as we see with boys raised by two parents who fail to discipline them).
I think the point they were trying to make is that enterprise software (served as SaaS for internal-to-the-business users) frequently has awful UX. Think things like SAP & Oracle (or anything Oracle has acquired, like Cerner, AgilePLM, etc) -- those big, heavy, complicated enterprise softwares rife with decade(s) of technical debt and no-longer-understood features that were tied to long forgotten business or technical requirements and created by commodity developers who weren't particularly skilled or particularly knowledgable about their domain.

I ran an Enterprise Apps org for a F500 where IT was purely a cost center and we created crap like this all the time.
These kind of articles always come off as short sighted to me in terms of ownership. Sure, short term transportation rentals (bikes scooters) are nice now and then, but they have external costs. They have to be moved/charged, people throw them in the river, they are mostly operated by independent contractors getting exploited etc. Having said that, I fully support sidelining cars in urban areas, but a bunch of rental services and Uber are not great replacements.
I'm pretty sure half of that code is still running in WASM on photoshop.adobe.com
Both super-alignment leads resigned. One way to interpret this is that it's an interesting research topic that has wide repercussions the closer they get to AGI, but it's more of a extra cost that doesn't directly help with monetisation and productisation. The real killer applications are in business verticals with domain specific expertise and customised (and proprietary) datasets, not so much the 'pure' academic research.

OpenAI dedicated 20% of compute to the effort which sounds kind of like Google's 20% side project time :)
You forgot the H5N1 with 50% mortality rate raw milk thing. There is an article on Ars about raw milk drinkers actively seeking infected milk in the belief it will immunise them against H5N1. I’m not a biologist but this feels like it could be very dangerous to everyone.
Literally only one of the drugs you mentioned can kill you due to withdrawal. Hint: it's not LSD or tobacco.

Alcohol is an _extremely_ harmful drug.
I read what you said, and I apologize for not being a bit more clear.

I completely understand your perspective, and I hope I'm always strong enough to listen to my conscience and obey my morals.

One of the first interviews I was ever offered in a technical role was for Bechtel, in 2004. I was desperate to break into a career, I accepted the interview. I was in the car driving to the location, and just realized I couldn't do it. I couldn't ignore my morality to work for such a clear and direct war profiteer, that as a private company, had no oversight.

If I join a non-profit that has a humanitarian mission, I do so because I'm into the mission and feel fulfilled by that more than my comp. I can't imagine trading that in just because @sama got thirsty.

The mission is futile, the mission at this organization has been compromised and corrupted. Resign and continue your mission elsewhere.
This time we have a genie in a lamp which will not be ignored. This should mean that a previously unknown variable is now set to "true" so discussion is more focused on reality.

However the paranoid part of me says that these crises and wars are just for the sake of letting people continue to ignore the truly difficult questions.
Having someone to talk to, who is somewhat emotionally intelligent, who doesn't have strong biases against you, and so on...

If you are fortunate, you have people like that in your immediate circle, but increasingly few people do.
When you start focusing on increasing speed and trimming the rough edges, the technology is maturing. It can't be maturing AND making huge leaps expected of GPT-5.
When I worked in manufacturing IT for a F500, a full 20% of our IT organization was various flavors of Oracle support.
Long term use aside, the amount of life changing (mostly in the bad sense) interactions I had while using alcohol are in a class in its own.
Prison statistics reflect that especially in violent crime.
AVM Computersysteme Vertriebs GmbH vs. 3DNS Privacy, LLC, John DOE [pdf]
Oracle ended OpenSolaris although forks continue. Nokia and friends ended OpenSymbian, no forks afaik.
I live by the Unix philosophy, so one simple tool that does one thing
very well is how I roll.

I could literally see myself on the command line typing

pdf2mm -i report.pdf -o report.xml -f "sales, drivers"

where -f is a list of strings to direct focus (seed the "centre of the
map")

Dump .xml or .opml

Get this right and you'd have no problem offering that as a paid Web
service and throw the cmdline util out there for free please. :)
Sydney was an early version of Bing GPT that was more than a little nuts.
"Run away" AI is total science fiction - i.e, not anything happening in the foreseeable future. That's simply not how these systems work. Any looming AI threat will be entirely the result of deliberate human actions.
When do you use GPIO with Linux?
This is the fritz.box case
> they could not have imagined that they would be adding a word to the dictionary.

Adobe tries to fight that, as this leads to genericization[1]. Their trademark guidelines[2] state a number of examples, like:

"Always capitalize and use trademarks in their correct form. Correct: The image was enhanced with Adobe® Photoshop® Elements software. Incorrect: The image was photoshopped."

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark

[2]: https://www.adobe.com/legal/permissions/trademarks.html
This is very true, and I would add to it that the dominant paradigm in most therapy these days (at least those forms coming from a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy background) have "graduation" as an explicit goal: the client feels like they've addressed what they want to address and no longer need the ongoing relationship.

This is largely due to a crisis in the field in the late 70s/early 80s when several studies demonstrated that talk therapy had outcomes no different than no therapy. In both cases, some got better, some got worse, some didn't change. CBT was a direct result of that, prioritizing and tracking positive outcomes, and from CBT came a lot of different approaches, all similarly focussed on being demonstrably effective.

Talk therapy isn't a cure-all, but it's definitely more results-oriented than it was 50 years ago.
If you farm a siberia that's 5 degrees warmer and more humid (also in ipcc data), you can maybe feed 10 billion just from there.
People subconsciously reject agendas that authorities (parents, school, government, corporations) push into their throats, what a surprising discovery.
We're at +1.5C, more or less, and growing the usual grapes in France - of all places - is already becoming much harder (they keep dying of frost after waking up due to wild temperature swings).

At +5C, there is no growing food in any substantial amount outside of high tech, low yield approaches; approaches that depend on complex planetary supply chains (both for initial deployment and maintenance), which will have disappeared by then.
Those are fundamentally different things. You can tell a joke without understanding context, you can't express emotions if you don't have any. It's a computation model, it cannot feel emotion.
Yeah, that’s just a bad meme at this point
It's funny when people that have been managed out of an organization don't realize it and then resign with indignation. I guess clues aren't for sale.
This seems spuriously dismissive, even reading this thread you can see people think the world will end, any thread on this subject or Just Stop Oil interview should show you many people hold this view, or at least claim to.
Ideally Docker would support a lockfile format so you don't have to manually manage the hashes. I'm still surprised how commonly people use named Docker tags when Docker Hub let's you mutate the corresponding image.

In the meantime, the article is right that you should use the full-length digests for situations where you care about reproducibility.
I even use a cli rss client and i have no issue with images. They get pulled out of the article and mapped to a number on the keyboard, hit that and the direct image link opens in a firefox window behind my little article window. Works for me. Beats looking at the website. Javascript I am glad I never see it. As far as no discovery, I have discovered these feeds I follow somehow haven’t I.
Consumers didn't ask oil companies to run multi-decade campaigns of lies. Your second sentence is accurate but incomplete - the management of multinationals did what was in the best interest of the management.
Daily now supports dial-in and dial-out, https://docs.daily.co/guides/products/dial-in-dial-out#main

Which means you can connect a bot to a call, and tell it dialout to a phone number and it will.
It's predictable, navigable, and fast. 10/10 compared to most other websites
I did a quick Google. The pi 5 4GB MSRP is $60 I think, there are some available on Amazon UK for £54.90 with delivery tomorrow. That's apparently $69.53, so above MSRP, but not terrible. There may be cheaper sources I've not googled hard.
right, if I can type into it, I expect to be able to paste into it, like every other text field in every OS GUI of the past, what, 40 years?
> One could also say that therapists prey on lonely people who pay them to talk to them

It is indisputable that one could say this
LSD is absolutely NOT the poster child for safe illegal drugs:

Something like cannabis, MDMA, or amphetamines would be. I think all of those have a decent claim to being safer than or comparably safe to alcohol.

Tobacco, as you say isn't particularly bad in the short term. But it is particularly addictive, so you end up with a large proportion of addicts / long term users for whom the longer term effects apply.
Slightly off-topic, but one of my greatest pet-peeves of working in devops is every few years a new "killer tech" comes out that some contingent of very-highly-opinionated (though not always very senior) people insists is life-and-death stakes and wants the whole company to move to (e.g. terraform).

Too often it's a failure. Too often it has some upsides, but also is a LOT of work that is discovered over time. Too often it's seen as good BUT now some incompatible new version or alternative requires the whole debacle start again.

I only want to learn technologies that will be relevant until the day I retire, otherwise I'm not advancing, it's all just a treadmill.
Side note on this clever work around https://github.com/aaronraimist/DontFuckWithPaste
Using the cheap cadence sensing pedal assist seems like a bad idea for a heavy cargo bike.
What is "right"? They haven't been a good value for over 2 years.
Yup, that’s the real anti-drug movie. Stuff like this works. It’s not pleasant though.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-pv-prices

https://ourworldindata.org/renewable-energy

Seems like we're moving directly and rapidly towards a real solution. Perhaps not rapidly enough, but the only way to change that is billions more in "losses"
Maybe that means that Jan and Ilya feel they have achieved some definition of AGI.

What's going on with the Musk lawsuit (Morgan Chu etc) against OpenAI (Wachtel Lipton) claiming that they abandoned their original open vision?
For those of you who are not familiar with the concept, essentially, the forms are generated on the fly. In the community, this has a fancy name, "generative UI", although it is nothing like its closest cousin by name.

While this is early days, obviously, the idea is pretty interesting to me. The LLM can not only generate the interactive elements but also tailor them to the users' specific circumstances. This requires some new types of tools as well because the interactions with the app are non-deterministic and prone to failure.

There are more examples here: https://github.com/chatbotkit
Honestly, 1Password (& co.) should have an option to "Type password" next to "Paste password".

Prevent that, you stupid website, I dare you!
You need to think about OpenAI specifically - Ilya basically attempted a coup last year and failed, stayed in the company for months afterwards, according to rumours had limited contributions to the breakthroughs in research and was assigned to lead the most wishy-washy project of superalignment.

I’m not seeing “the good ones” leaving in this case.
Economics is the only "science" I can think of where the leading thinkers refuse to practice anything remotely close to the scientific method.

If we ignore the obvious political aspect, then the field is entirely based on trend prediction. Trend predication is not science. It's observation.

You can't have science without testable, falsifiable hypotheses. I recognize that the nature of macroeconomics makes testing hypotheses comparatively difficult. But it's not impossible, and anyone who says it is, is likely an economist.

Imagine what the world would look like if physicists got together and told the rest of the world that testing hypotheses isn't possible/feasible. That's where we've been at with economics for it's entire existence as a "science".
What's the soil quality over there?
My favorite part is not having the ability to create a single Workday applicant profile that they can persist across all their customer companies.

For that matter, Peoplesoft isn't any better.
Brain biopsies on 'vulnerable' patients at Mt Sinai set off alarm bells at FDA
Safer for... who? The 500 miles of mostly empty highway through no-man's land between two population centers? The US, unlike Europe, is mostly empty. You can drive for 5 hours and not just still be in the same state, you're still on the same road.

The only type of road where a regulator would make sense is the kind of road where in the US a regulator makes no sense. Every other type of road already has speed limits at or below what a regulator would be set to.
It's a technological salve that gives individuals a minor and imperfect remedy for a profound failure in modern society. It's of a kind with pharmaceutical treatments for depression or anxiety or obesity -- best seen as a temporary "bridge" towards wellness (achieved, perhaps, through other interventions) -- but altogether just trying to help troubled individuals navigate a society that failed to enable their deeper wellness in the first place.
I don't follow what this has to do with money hunger. Is your contention that Google profits somehow from having these images be higher rather than lower in search results? Why would that be more profitable?