skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate the thoughtful reply.

The seriousness of AGI risk is a big conversation our society is having right now, and I am not interested in laying out my position on it in detail on here... only that dismissing the fear of AGI as marketing hype is a straw-man argument - and ignores all of the history, discussions, and arguments on both sides of this debate going back decades, or arguably even thousands of years.

Sure, it is fair to suspect that, because I am making that point, that I might also think AGI is a real threat to human civilization. The debate is so widespread right now, with mostly aggressive and dismissive bad faith arguments on both sides, that it sounds pretty exhausting and pointless to discuss.

I share your concern, and objection to making discussions needlessly adversarial. In general, I've seen a huge rise recently in internet discussions mostly reducing to people yelling at each other that the other person is a narcissist. Even in niche technical and hobby forums, it is becoming the norm for disagreements. I feel it is infecting me as well, and it might be time to take a break from the internet and talk to people I actually like in real life more.
>It definitely took out a lot of jobs from the lowest rungs of the market, but on the more specialized / upper end of the ladder wages got actually higher

Effectively all mechanization, computerization, and I guess now AI-ization has done this. In the past you could have a rudimentary education and contribute to society. Then we started requiring more and more grade school, then higher education for years. Now we're talking about the student debt crisis!

At least if AI doesn't go ASI in the near term the question is how are we going to train the next generation of workers to go from unskilled to more skilled and useful than the AI is. Companies aren't going to want to do this. The individuals are going to think it's risky getting an education that could be replaced by a software update. If left to go out of control this is how a new generation of luddites will burn data centers in protest they are starving on the streets.
Probably the best thing we can do at the moment is compile a list of ways in which we shouldn't test for intelligence.
On the ODDTAXI front, I can recommend the currently running "Roots of Odd Taxi (RoOT)" series. Its a nice side-story that adds a lot of texture without making the original worse. Also, the "ODDTAXI in the Woods" movie version definitely added a lot and tied things up in a way that the series didn't.
Google uses one wording for all of these. "Flagged as inappropriate". If you look you'll find examples of people being unable to share their business spreadsheets, and "inappropriate" turned out to mean "I don't like that you have read receipts turned on and nothing written in the message field".

https://support.google.com/drive/thread/172795978/project-ma...

Legally speaking it's incredibly unlikely that Google is actually parsing the textual content of stuff on Google docs. The reason being that if they demonstrate that they can, then suddenly legally they must, and also they open themselves to being sued for doing it incorrectly and failing to remove content that is illegal in certain jurisdictions. There's really nothing in it for them.

Edit: seems like Google has also a different mechanism for telling you if the file itself is the problem - you get an email saying [filename] is a terms of service violation.

See e.g. https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/Workspace-Q-A/Your-f...

So I think we can be fairly confident that it's not a problem with saucy material here.
I don't get this focus of HN with pointing out walking to places for kids, as if it's feature only in rich developed countries like Switzerland or Germany.

Even in the 90's Eastern Europe we used to walk to school by ourselves several km, and pretty sure it also applies in other continents tool.
This is a fair point. I was talking in the context of USA UK Canada but it might not generalise.
I am sure you meant "mainframes." (Supercomputers look like rows of server racks these days.)
There are obviously numerous locally-optimal strategies for bacterial colonies in one's mouth (and gut, etc) as the population of bacteria varies widely across individual people.

That's not to suggest that knocking out one or two specific functions is going to accomplish recolonization, or that we should even trust the effort to be wise in the medium-/long-term in light of gene transfer or migration into the gut and elsewhere, but the broad idea of pursuing recolonization by less destructive bacteria isn't without merit in itself.
I've been happy with the stuff that is supported by Home Assistant. We really just need open protocols/standards and for manufacturers to stick to them.

Unfortunately there's not much incentive for them to do that.
Tell me you don't understand optics and politics without telling me. There's a tiny handful of VCs who have the guts to fund someone who organized a coup against OpenAI.
It's interesting to me (viewing somewhat from the outside) that as you have more and more two working parent families that the kids have (apparently) less and less autonomy.

But again, it may be that we're not seeing it for what it is; when I was a kid there wasn't much to do at home so we'd go wander around - if I was a teen today I'd probably be playing video games or wasting time on the phone.
But those aren't really in the wild, right? They're in your garden? If they were left to their own devices and started to breed with wild type tomatoes, and/or were subject to selective pressures for an extended period, they probably would either abandon the gene or discover a niche it was adaptive for?

Glow in the dark petunias sound really cool, I want those.
> I imagine that you could, at least on paper, create a Rube Goldberg machine in their genes that, say, killed them if they produced lactic acid

It’s like Jurassic Park’s “Lysine Contingency”, but in your mouth
> developed solely with the benefit of the user in mind

Hopefully accessibility features are never artificially segmented to higher priced devices.
Do you appreciate the irony of that comment on a post about Oracle adopting OpenTofu?
Not just xylitol but also mastic gum, which, in addition to cavities prevention, kills H. pylori and strengthens your jaw muscles as it's a bit harder than regular chewing gum.
I’m guessing it works for the standard Nintendo provided microcodes.
"I promise you"?

This is Hackernews, I would have expected data, not promises.
Ha! In the early '90's the way to go was Live Picture [1]! Your undo would have been instantaneous!

Unfortunately, Live Picture only ran on Mac. Photoshop was a bit janky on SGI back then, IIRC, but still the better of the two platforms overall.

[1] http://lensgarden.com/uncategorized/live-picture-software-th...
I took the exact opposite conclusion from this information. How is it useful for stalking if it doesn't give more exact location? On the other hand if I'm looking for my own car that somebody took out of the city, this at least gives me a general idea of its location.
“Wasting years” is not a risk. It’s a choice. And as I pointed out it’s likely not wasted anyway.
Even for heavy smokers, vape shops will typically recommend 20mg for making the switch. Nobody needs 50mg+ at that level of concentration. With snus, as you've said, each individual pouch is like 1 - 6mg. I would get a massive head high from hitting a 50mg vape for the first time, and barely feel much from a 6mg Zyn pouch.

edit: Basically, no clue how much nicotine you'd technically intake with a puff but it seems absurdly stronger than the slow intake of 6mg in your gums.
Also, recently there was a study that DIM also kills only the harmful bacteria in the mouth.
In my experience, the vast majority of corporate mail filters ban certain file types based on name extensions.

Fewer, but some, inspect files to deduce their type.

None care about encrypted zips with the file renamed to a common extension (encrypted zip manifests are unencrypted, so the file names are still visible).
Hm, not sure I follow why those situations would be especially difficult? Regarding website changes, the nice thing about using LLMs is that we can simply provide the previous scraper as context and have it regenerate the scraper to "self-heal" when significant website changes are detected.
Incidentally in Slack you can easily set up a workflow where "emoji response -> text macro" (aka more information, a text supplement to your emoji). Very useful if you have a Slack channel that is deluged with questions.
You can't build a business on AGI, which is an unbounded research project without any foreseeable end or path to revenue. However, LLMs definitely have some commercial value and OpenAI has a first-mover market advantage that they'd be insane to squander from a business perspective. I'm sure they will continue to do research in advancements of AI, but AGI is still science fiction.
> far-left responses

Can you give some examples? I wanted to test it, but first they wanted my email (okay), then they wanted my phone number and .. nope. So, I couldn't test Claude myself so far.
There’s also inevitably going to be timing/performance-related bugs - the N64’s devkit docs say it runs games under a thin OS for multi-threading[1] so that’s another opportunity for things to go wrong.

Also, after conversion these games are still designed and hardcoded for an N64 controller and 4:3 aspect-ratio - that’s hardly “native” as far as PC gamers are concerned.

[1] https://ultra64.ca/files/documentation/online-manuals/man/pr...
Between this and Google removing the ability for you to use any shopping list other than their own Keep app my Google Home has become little more than a jukebox.
Did you stop reading halfway through?
Racing driverless cars is pushing autonomous technology
I don’t think there are risky either.

For me risk is “could go horribly wrong” but the worst case for most startup founders is … get a job?
I'm sure Oracle doesn't want to be gouged by their vendors any more than the rest of us do. They probably don't buy Oracle either.
It doesn't necessarily matter if you follow their guidelines or not, this is all legal facade so that they can retain their trademark. In the majority of instances, they simply have to show they made efforts to retain their unique trademark. They don't care that you say "I photoshopped X" they just care that GIMP isn't marketed as "GIMP: Open Source Photoshop" (or similar instances).
> In the last 10 years alone, engine efficiency gains are really being made. I work with people who literally do this stuff. Not all improvements that can be made have yet been made. It was just 2007 that VVT was used in Caterpillar diesel engines

Tellingly, Cat doesn't do on-road diesel engines anymore, and hasn't for years... largely due to the inability to produce maintainable, efficient engines and meet legislative demands for clean air. My opinion, they could've stayed in the game but saw where the game was headed and decided to let others take the pain. Old Cat 13 and 15 engines were sought after for a time after production stopped, exactly because of their reputation for reliability and maintainability. The most notable changes in the diesel engine scene lately has not been VVT but instead the bolt-on addition of SCR for Tier 4 legislation, which does indeed make the emissions cleaner (when it works) but at the expense of maintainability.

> If anybody can innovate in this area, Volvo are a good candidate.

I appreciate the enthusiasm and I agree there may be engine improvements yet to be made, but I am quite wary of anyone saying significant improvements are ahead while not costing the owner or the supply system more in total over the long run.
On that note, I wonder how kissing affects our mouth bacteria. Like, does making out with someone transfer enough bacteria between the two people to make a difference?
FDA site on Xylitol and dogs:

https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/paws-xylitol-...

Merck Vet Manual:

https://www.merckvetmanual.com/toxicology/food-hazards/xylit...
The New 'Dream Chaser' Spacecraft Prepares to Visit the ISS
Haha, fair point. Anyway, I reckon that for Steve Jobs that attitude was at least as much a branding strategy as a sincere personal conviction. Though then again, it's not so easy to say where Steve Jobs ends and the iPod begins.
Tomorrow (today in some timezones) is Global Accesibility Awareness Day: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Accessibility_Awarene...
At the end he gives two ways running Monte Carlo simulations, spreadsheet plugins, and his own app Casual. Surely there are more. Are there other tools for Monte Carlo sims that HN'ers use and like? Preferably local FOSS apps?
The point is the gene may or may not be passed down at all.

It's possible my glowing petunia has some sort of advantage - the energy use going into the light might be balanced by attracting bugs at night, perhaps - but its seeds won't ever have the adaptation.

The purple tomato, on the other hand, if more attractive to birds who might eat and spread its seeds, might have more likelihood to spread.
No offense but this reply is giving me such “generated by an LLM” vibes, I’m curious if it is
Then the resources needed to discover an alternative to brute-forcing a large model are a huge barrier.

I think academia and startups are currently better suited to optimize tinyml and edge ai hardware/compilers/frameworks etc.
> But why would you control for population?

Because the amount of changes that a society has to make in how it lives to get to net zero is determined by how much each person emits.

The average US person emits 15 tons CO2 every year (there is distribution about it). The average China person emits half that. So obviously the US has to make a larger change in the structure of society.

Of course, it is better to subdivide even further. One way that is popular is to estimate how much do super rich emit and what the average emit, and of course the super rich have to be reigned in a lot more than the average person.
Yep. Funny.

In this case Oracle is the user, not the vendor.
Well, if only Geneva was considered Switzerland :D

(/s just in case for people unfamiliar with the sarcasm)
Perhaps the ESP32-C3?
From my experience doing IT in industrial manufacturing, there is a ton of room for them to replace expensive PLCs where they aren't really needed. The company that makes the big fancy automated machines also make the simpler auxillary ones that supplement their main offerings. Since they know how to build with PLCs, that's what they use instead of sticking a Pi or some small form PC in it instead. Stuff like barcode readers on a manufacturing line or some simple piece of QA equipment at the end of the line measuring the height of a bottle or something. Adds thousands of dollars to the BoM but is complete overkill.
An Analysis of Berkson's Paradox
Mobile Firefox Bug:
I cannot swipe down, it scrolls.
Did dinosaur blood run hot or cold? Both, according to a new study
Unfortunately their website is not built from a large, redundant array of off-the-shelf server parts.

Here's a mirror,

https://web.archive.org/web/20240507234024/https://www.dunla...
$$$ is a much easier explanation. People selling things that they know won't work in the way they claim is as old as time. Never attribute to incompetence that which can be attributed to malice, when it involves earning a ton of money.
Agreed. My 9 year old has finally started getting comfortable riding their bike around the neighborhood and going to the park by themselves. I had to convince them to do this, because they didn't think it was OK. Luckily there's some other kids the same age who also have started venturing out alone too so I didn't feel like I was the only parent doing it, otherwise I would have been more apprehensive about the nosy neighbor possibility.

My kids don't walk to school (I get to sit in the maligned drop-off lane) because our school is unfortunately at the intersection of two very busy roads. I still think my kids could manage it, but literally not a single other kid walks to school so it feels like having my kids do so might draw too much unwanted attention. The school doesn't even have a bike rack, which is appalling to me. My memories of elementary and middle school were of many bike racks stuffed full each day.
I am sure you can make a similar argument that the chance of hitting 31 on a roulette table is ‘lower’ compared to 2021 highs or whatever imaginary gambling stat we can conjure up.

These are all made up numbers so number go down or up isn’t the issue here.
The subtle differences (or lack of) between threads and processes don't really matter IMHO. A data race happen when two concurrent accesses on the same memory location happen, one of these accesses is a write, and there is no (correct) synchronization in place. The means by which this memory location was shared don't really matter. Whether it was because both processes share the same initial memory space, or whether this memory space was mapped later on, or even whether both accesses were from a mapped space, is really not of the matter. You could have two threads mmap the same shared memory to communicate for what it matters.
Just spent 15 mins working as the OS, it's much harder than it looks.

I just had a nice word with my browser with the 200+ tabs open, I now know how it feels.

Only upgrade I'd make is how fast my "task switching" is, I'd like to think it was subsecond, but it's not.

If you haven't played give it a shot. Then play the insane mode, with all the cores and memory it's pretty amazing to keep it all running.

As to your code, pretty interesting idea. As noted (above?) I've also done control work, we only send a message to update the display when the value actually changes. Since we are on something like a CAN bus, we can't hog things making display changes at the expense of sensor readings.
On the other hand, being too safe might make them easier for business to adopt (you don't want your support bot touching certain subjects)
Tomatoes are largely self-polinating.

Yes, mutations will creep in, but the gene will persist more based on a) can it be passed down to seeds and b) does it infer an advantage in natural selection?
"Locally" here means, calls to the Gmail API are triggered directly from your browser(device) not on any third-party servers.

I totally understand your concern. Unfortunately, to perform those actions(unsubscribe/delete etc..) on your behalf while using the API, those "intrusive" permissions are required. If it wasn't needed, Google oauth verification team would not have approved.

I tried to explain the usage for each permission here:
https://www.inboxpurge.com/permissions
Thanks for sharing! A bit of css, and it's possible to read mastodon posts with a web browser!

head {display:block; background:Canvas; color:CanvasText;}
meta[content] {display:block; padding-bottom:1em;}
meta[content]::after{content:attr(content); display:block;}
> because you can make every right decision but still get bulldozed by the economy in ways you can not predict.

There are hedges available to individuals for most common asset classes?

But almost no one I know hedges, beyond basic diversification. (Caveat: I don't have a lot of friends working in professional finance)
Would you classify k8s in this bucket?
I am German. German culture does not have the Anglo Saxon obsession with swear words to begin with. The US/British obsession with keeping dirty words from children's ears is a never-ending source of amusement for me.

I think you missed my point. "As universal as you will find" does not mean universal. It means There is nothing "more universal" - no word understood as a swear word by more people. There is no absolutely universal swear word. Obviously.

But English is spoken by a lot of people, most of them not native, most of whom don't have a native word that sounds like cock as a first association.
Agreed, this is a major breach of trust if iCloud backup is not honoring my delete actions.

I am sure this is also a GDPR violation and EU is probably already looking into it.
Can we install alternatives to Google Home on our Google TVs and use those to control our homes? Or does it have magic special permissions like everything else?

Smart TVs (including Google TV) are the single biggest security and privacy train wreck in most households. This is only going to make that a lot worse, which is the whole idea.
Yes, you're very clever, congratulations.
Really surprised this topic didn't come up anywhere. I couldn't find anything in the linked repositories either. I guess there's no self-modifying code due to it being mapped into the address space from a cartridge?
Starting with a 0 dimensional (0D) point:

1. create a copy of the point and move it a fixed distance along a specific direction (which we will call the X-axis) and join the two points together -- this is a 1D line;

2. create a copy of the line and move it along a specific direction that is orthogonal (at 90 degrees to) to the direction the line is facing (which we will call the Y-axis) and join the two end points together -- this is a 2D square;

3. create a copy of the square and move it along a specific direction that is orthogonal (at 90 degrees to) to the other (X and Y) directions (which we will call the Z-axis) and join the four end points together -- this is a 3D cube;

4. for 4D and higher dimensions you can repeat this process to form other hypercubes [1]. The 4D version is a tesseract [2] on whih you can see this construction.

The general approach of visualising these is to use a projection [3] in a way similar to how a cube is displayed on a 2D screen or image. The idea is to cast a shadow to the next dimension down. For a hypercube you can project this to 3D space and then to 2D space.

Dimensions are typically defined in terms of unit vectors. These are vectors pointing in the X, Y, Z, ... directions with a length of 1. I.e. all coordinates are 0 except for the direction which is 1. For 4 dimensions they will have the values x̂ = (1,0,0,0), ŷ = (0,1,0,0), etc. Thus, you can express coordinates as multiples of these unit vectors. (This is similar to the x + iy notation for complex numbers, where 1 is the real unit vector and i is the imaginary unit vector.)

A hypersphere is an n-dimensional object where the points on the surface are a fixed distance (radius) away from the hypersphere's origin. This is typically defined as sum(s_n^2) = 0 -- for a circle (2D) this becomes x^2 + y^2 = 0; for a sphere (3D) this becomes x^2 + y^2 + z^2 = 0.

A manifold is just a generalized closed n-dimensional surface, such as the surface of a cube, circle, donut, or other object [4]. It is defined as a set (collection) of the points on that surface. These points can be defined as an equation, such as the equation of a hypersphere, or more generally. For example, you could define each face of a hypercube separately.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projective_geometry

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold
VFX supervisor, exec producer, and story by, but not director of Rogue One: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3748528/reference/
> person who was caught using a pseudonym

You mean doxxed. Since when do we condone doxxing?
Preliminary NTSB Report on Dali Collision with the Francis Scott Key Bridge [pdf]
I don’t know. My opinion is no.
I worry this would impact your gut microflora too. Imagine the downstream systemic effects and diseases this might trigger.
I think either the therapist or the patient was not devoted to therapy.
oh no, it's just a real world reinforcement model
iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes