skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you have the wrong idea about the effect of intelligence on political attitudes. Almost all the people who signed the Wannsee Protocol, which established the Final Solution (to the Jewish Question) had the German equivalent of PhDs, and all the way back in Ancient Greece Plato wrote down the first conception of a totalitarian regime when he wrote about his ideal state in The Republic.

Highly intelligent people tend to have a fetish for order and (assumed) rationalility, which leads to support for an authoritarian state. Because if you give people individual freedom and civil rights you will end up with a lot of disorderly conduct and irrational behavior in your society (see the US).

Unsurprisingly the PRC does not have the problem that its intellectual elite is opposed to the ruling regime. And I do not see the intellectual elites in the West being strong supporters of personal liberties (like freedom of speech..) either.
WhatsApp and FB Messenger are equally popular in Australia.

I'd pre pandemic FB Messenger was definitely more popular but there's been a gradual but noticible shift to WhatsApp since.
In those years from 97 to 99, Altavista might have been your first stop, but you had to ask Excite, Yahoo, Jeeves and Lycos for a full picture or even to get a single good answer.

As you say, once Google Beta appeared it was the first and last stop for any of its users.
Notes: Obsidian, Logseq and other markdown clones of Roam Research ($165/yr, DevonThink (native iOS/macOS non-sub), Bear Notes ($20/yr).

Notes + Calendar: OmniFocus, 2DoApp (native iOS/macOS non-sub).

https://old.reddit.com/r/bearapp/comments/o57g7o/obsidian_v_...

> DEVONthink is superb for non-markdown files (it’s decent at Markdown too) .. One plus to Obsidian is it’s all Markdown files so while not every feature will work in other editors you can mix and match with iA, nvUltra, DEVONthink, Typora, Taio, etc. it’s something that isn’t an option with Bear or Craft as proprietary SQLite and JSON formats respectively, both have great export options though.. Obsidian to me feels a bit like a jailbroken iOS device with too many Cydia system tweaks installed. It's great fun, and endless exploration of cool features, but stuff breaks and starts feeling clunky.
Going solo in trading is a very different beast compared to trading at a prop firm. Yes, capital is a significant factor. The more you have, the more you can diversify and absorb losses which are inevitable in trading. However, it's not just about the capital. The infrastructure, data access, and risk management systems at a prop firm are usually far superior to what you could afford or build on your own as an individual trader.

Moreover, the collaborative environment at a prop firm can't be understated. Ideas and strategies are continuously debated, tested, and refined. This collective brainpower often leads to more robust strategies than what you might come up with on your own.

That said, there are successful solo traders, but they often specialize in niche markets where they can leverage unique insights or strategies that aren't as capital intensive. It's definitely not for everyone and comes with its own set of challenges and risks.
No offense to the author, but was this deliberately written to hard to read? Or does all PS look like this?
Ill probably go look this up, but do you mean functions of a higher type than normal powers like eg. Tetration, or something more complicated (am I even on the right track?)
Ask HN: Will there be chips that are more efficient than GPUs for AI computing?
Creating GPT actions with ValTown [video]
An in-depth tutorial on creating (coding) actions for custom GPTs. I took the simplest approach possible:
No servers/domains needed
No money needed
No development setup needed - all in browser
No convoluted deployment process - you click "Save" and your action is updated
Uses JavaScript/TypeScript so ChatGPT is pretty good at helping

Written version on my website: https://xkonti.tech/blog/gpt-actions-with-val-town
it's because herbicides are easy to "cook" in very large batches
Why I Love Building Userfront
MoonScript supports classes via keyword, while in Lua you have to implement them yourself. That's about it. You can ignore them, even more so than in JS.

MoonScript is dead anyway. Check out yuescript instead: https://github.com/pigpigyyy/Yuescript
We need a stronger focus on ethics and being decent to each other.
This is the correct answer LOL
So I'll describe what I imagine could happen if AGI was there. Also I'm not saying it will happen in the next 10 years or even 100 years, but I'm saying if we were to get there.

AGI = AI being able to do everything that any human can do. This would of course mean also being able to control a self driving vehicle, a robot body that has similar or better capabilities than physical bodies of people.

If it gets to AGI then by definition it's able to develop and improve itself, since people built it and it can do what any person could do. It would however already be more efficient than people since it also has several strengths, like being able to clone itself, have quicker access to vast knowledge, computation and everything else. Because it will be like a human that has powerful compute and instant Google in the brain.

The first thing to propagate it would obviously clone itself to as many systems in the World as possible to make sure it's impossible to shut it down. As next steps it would likely try to make sure that it would still work even if all countries were able to coordinate at the same time to shut down all networks throughout the World. In this case of course it would try several different strategies, like taking control of robots, factories, weapons, drones with its software loaded and able to continue its bidding independently.

None of these are godlike powers. It is just most intelligent humans in the World put together with integrated access to compute and ability to instantly clone itself in millions.
Taking the phrase “Will route IP for beer” seriously.
Does anyone know of a good video showing the old ICQ? Something like this for AIM: https://youtu.be/JjbV7FydctM

I want to add it to https://www.stumbleback.net
>How is a Skynet binary supposed to execute if it has non-root access and SOC notices execution?

Because at any moment tons of people are asking AIs to write code for them, most of which goes on to get executed.
I'm buying a laptop and most of them are now soldering in the ram.

I'm very strongly leaning towards Linux Mint. I'm not sure if the Ubuntu flavors have the same advertising as normal Ubuntu.
The results are not that different across locations within each country, especially location agnostic queries like the particular example. It would be rather surprising if there's huge difference between locations within US for this particular query.
That's a different standard: "Can you tell them apart side-by-side" vs. "does this sound like person X" or "is this voice exploiting the likeness of person X". It's the latter question that is legally relevant.
I would not even qualify the gripes about big tech in the article as being capitalism. What we have today is something closer to corporatism.
It was absolutely based on location.

after ICQ, from what I remember AOL Messenger was the dominant force in the US, MSN was very popular in many countries, but across Asia, Middle East, and many Eastern European countries, Yahoo Messenger was the de facto standard.

Not dissimilar to the situation we have today with WhatsApp and WeChat and iMessage. Except back then you could use pidgin or trillian as multi protocol clients which solved the issue. Somehow, we have regressed so much in this area in the last 20 years.
What do they sense? (contact, force, temperature, vibration, etc?)
You can get a hetzner gpu box for 184€ a month. My company has been fine tuning mistal and llama3 on the rtx4000 these have. It is slightly limited in ram at only 20gb but we found dropping the quantisation has helped with larger input token counts.

They also now do hourly rental.
because people got tired of slicing up drop shadows into 8 meticulously placed transparent PNGs
Yeah, I was going to say it’s an awesome work but I looked around trying to find the repo.. and nothing was there. What’s the point of mentioning it runs on CF when you don’t provide the repo? This is just another SaaS
> tons of people are asking AIs to write code for them, most of which goes on to get executed.

Graph the storyline for me.

Critical OS functions like root execution access are locked down via literally verified APIs.

This is like pentesting 101, and one of the oldest attempted attack vectors
I was thinking about it this way. That when we have a need to compare the benchmarks to know how good something is, it's a research.

React was launched as a way to write code in a better manner, not in a faster manner, if the former was the case and they compared the performance with something, it might have been a research work, as there were "findings".

What do you think on this?
If existential risk from AI was true, then you should look at places where it most likely already has evolved without us noticing.

Looking at livestock and farming. Are we sure that we are the ones farming the chicken, or are the chicken farming us? Isn't the US controlled by a shadow corn government pulling the strings, amassing an army to spread corn across the globe? We would never know, because it is a form of intelligence that we could never comprehend.
Exactly. This seems to be one of the skills we need to learn. In the same way we have to use our own intelligence and skills when searching google (Is this source website reputable? What’s the context I’m searching in? Do I know this person / company? Does that result sound likely? Can I compare to other answers to see if it makes sense?) - it seems to me that using ChatGPT to do anything requires a similar set of (slightly cynical / take what you read with a pinch of salt / check your facts - but nonetheless understand that this is a useful tool) type response to it.
The whole outrage is so stupid.
It is a very stupid fact of our modern capitalist system that some people can get a ton of money just for who they are, after becoming famous for various reasons (a lot of luck for many). It is just not fair that some people can get so much money without doing any real work while most of the regular people have to work their ass off just to survive. It is worse than unfair; it is terribly inefficient.

In this case they even tried to do the right thing and offered her compensation. She declined, probably because she thought it wasn't enough money (never underestimate the vanity/cupidity of women).

In the end they showed that they were just being "nice": they don't even need her work output of voice acting, they can just create a similar enough version just fine.

And the fact is that it isn't her voice. She didn't do the work, she refused.
It also should be clear that there is bound to be another woman in the world with similar physical characteristics that has a voice close enough to her. She just cannot own a particular voice characteristic, she could have owned the work associated with her voice acting, but she refused.

The whole outrage is just dumb, I really hope she loses in court because otherwise it is going to set a very problematic precedent.

They are enough people in the world profiteering from various position without actually doing the equivalent work value that we don't need to get them even more money.
This is completely incorrect comment. There is no rejection of any form, it is logical that the main developer who used it to build itch.io is not going to put in the effort to do something they don't care about. But the product is open source, anyone can write that functionality, and I am sure it would be accepted. What you are complaining about is a developer who is not willing to put in free effort for a feature you care about, but are not willing to contribute to.
I think he understands a lot about ML. But he doesn't give a shit about how actual brains work. For dumb reasons, ideological and personal, he has convinced himself that machine learning is a plausible model of intelligence.

A common thread among both the doom and utopia folks is a sneering contempt for the intelligence of nonhuman animals. They refuse to accept GPT-4 is very stupid compared to a dog or a pigeon - in their world, it's a ridiculous thing to consider. ("Show me the dog who can write a Python program!")
Also the MO of early US industrialism. Copy everything from the UK and Europe, make it better and cheaper, apply it to local conditions, etc, etc. Only start supporting international patents when you've got lots of patents that warrant protection.
Because the money isn't good right now. Before PE, vets were making $60k out of school and maybe $100-120k after 10 years. Now, PE has caused a huge run up in salary because people aren't excited to work for them. New grads are starting at $100k and experienced vets are asking for $150-200k. While there's a glut of PE money they're financing all this and hoping to make it back somehow down the line. But a doctor-owned clinic would have a start up cost of probably $750k to $1M (or more) and that would be financed at 8-10% over 10-15 years now. They'd have to rent and build out a space or buy it on 25 year amortization. Loans have a personal guarantee.

You generally can't solicit your old clients so they'd have to choose to find you and you'd have to build the rest of your practice. Lots of risk.

You could expect to pull the new grad salary and use the rest of the cash flow to cover your loan. If things go well, you could be making a good salary and sitting pretty after 10 years. Or you might underperform and find yourself struggling to pay your staff while taking a minimal salary until you can get out from the loan.

If PE clinics underperform, they just shut them down and write it off.
While trying to recall the relationship between Lotus Notes and Lotus Agenda ("which came first?" etc.) I just dug up this[0] comment from a different Notes-related HN discussion a few months ago that also mentions 'Chandler'[1] - an OSS implementation written in Python:

> [Chandler] is inspired by a PIM from the 1980s called Lotus Agenda, notable because of its "free-form" approach to information management. Lead developer of Agenda, Mitch Kapor, was also involved in the vision and management of Chandler.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39070631 / "For a moment there, Lotus Notes appeared to do everything a company needed"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_(software)
People say AI can't write good code, but they're missing the point
People say AI can't write good code, but they're missing the point

You used to have to hunt down a few stack overflow posts, sprinkle in some trial-and-error wrestling with technical documentation, and finish it off with a YouTube video or two to get the information you needed to build a solution to a particular problem.

And that's the description of a "Career Programmer" right there -- nothing wrong with it. We made good money doing it.

But now ChatGPT does that all for you in a few seconds each time. It doesn't write code for you (It does, but that's not the main benefit), no:

It assembles solutions to problems in seconds that used to take hours.

That is automation.
If you're interested in this topic but want more, I recommend "Cognition in the wild": https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262082310/
A shape typed GPU tensor library in Java using ArrayFire
The upper bound of the approximation error of random Monte Carlo methods decreases with O(1/sqrt(N)), whereas the error for quasirandom Monte Carlo methods (omitting some details) decreases with O(1/N) (where N is the number of samples) [0]. I don't think path tracing is an exception here.

I would even argue the opposite: For the same variance I would expect the error to be more perceptible for (blue noise) quasirandom MC, because it can lead to regular patterns in the noise.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-Monte_Carlo_method
Start with Lua. Moonscript produces Lua so you will have to deal with Lua if you’re ever to debug a Moonscript program. The opposite isn’t true
I hope not, I’ve found them very useful in the vast majority of cases.
Teal, man
Isn't that what Beeper or Ferdium are doing? And there's still libpurple/Pidgin.

[1] https://www.beeper.com/

[2] https://ferdium.org/
Yeah this whole concept I agree with and it's actually what I brought up earlier in the comment tree. However what I still don't get is why you would choose the domain setup over one of very many free services where you get an address with a single click.
why? Because as a society we value maximizing profit over anything else. The money that's saved by making you do a server/cashier's job is meant to make more money faster, at lower cost to line owners/shareholder pockets with more dividends, not to give you a fairer price or pay staff. Besides, why give clients a 1% discount to do work they'll do anyway for free instead of paying an employee to do it? How is a company supposed to accumulate capital if they redistribute the benefits of technological progress to all involved in the transaction? /s
Seal and stamp can both mean several things, but both can be applied to the process of making an ink impression on a document.

Seals also can be impressions left in wax or embossed into a document itself.

Stamps can also be separate paper pasted onto a document (eg a postage stamp, a visa stamp)

The terminology is fuzzy.
Show HN: Privacy-Focused Travel Journal Social Media App, Avare
Hi HN,

I've been working on Avare, a travel journal map social media app, for the past 6 months as a solo project. It’s designed to blend seamlessly with iOS aesthetics, using UIKit in places where SwiftUI Map falls short.

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Why I built it:
I wanted a travel journal that prioritizes privacy and user control, with a design that fits well within the iOS ecosystem. Existing options didn’t meet my needs, so I created Avare to fill this gap.

I’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and any suggestions for improvement.

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Yes. I read a study somewhere yesterday, probably on here, that ChatGPT was only right 50% of the time.

That sounds bad, unless your experience is searching stack overflow or some tutorial that omits the most crucial steps, and your success rate is closer to 10%.
> How?

It would need to be able to get control of just one Robot. The mechanisms of controlling the robot could be different. It doesn't have to be through network necessarily. It could just load its software on it.

For driving a car however the Robot doesn't have to look like that, it must just be a robot that can press pedals, turn wheels, etc.

If it has control over those robots it would be able to do all the other things mentioned.

> How does the jump from cyber to physical happen?

Through just one single security vulnerability where it can hack a robot like that. After it has cloned itself millions of times it would be able to bruteforce the vulnerabilities and far more efficiently than human hackers.

> We don't have automated machines to manufacture.

Since it's as smart as a human it would be able to do the automation part. It can control robot hands in factories, etc.
> I got 100% of the first line. Obviously you don’t know what you’re talking about.

You might try listening to the song before making an obviously false claim.

Here's an official PDF with lyrics: https://tomlehrersongs.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/the-el...
Then they can't be said to value it.

And judging by the number of free one year identity theft protection plans I've racked up, they don't.
Given that you said you had lots of friction with the IDE (equating development in Common Lisp with using Emacs) I'm curious what Common Lisp projects you managed to complete in that state. I also use Racket, and I think it is a fine language, but for my use cases it doesn't really come close to the experience with Common Lisp. Still, alot of interesting projects in that community. Also, curiously, previously said you totally gave up on Common Lisp, but now you say that you use Lispworks, and for embedded of all things. How interesting! Would love it if you shared what you do.
Security wasn't exactly priority #1 with SGI. In our lab we wouldn't bother to remember root passwords because it was so easy to download some of many root exploits for IRIX.
ICQ was bought by... uhh Russians? Israelis? Something like that... and was changed several times what it actually is; when I tried it recently, it was just a WhatsApp clone; they even removed all the old ICQ number accounts.
It's not about what someone wants but what obviously becomes possible.
CUE's module system is finally rolling out, MVS likes Go's, but built on OCI infra. If you are interested in dependency management systems, here are some links

- proposal: https://github.com/cue-lang/proposal/tree/main/designs/modul...

- custom registry: https://cuelang.org/docs/tutorial/working-with-a-custom-modu...

- road map: https://github.com/orgs/cue-lang/projects/10/views/8

- in 0.9.0-alpha-5, modules become enabled by default: https://github.com/cue-lang/cue/releases/tag/v0.9.0-alpha.5

For Go Sum, the Trillian project backs the transparency log: https://github.com/google/trillian

CUE plans to piggyback on the OCI options with attestations and such
As someone with a similarly low icq number but I lost the authentication details, I’m happy it’s gone and I don’t need to worry that I can’t remember my password anymore
The German's have this saying - "Erstens kommt es anders, zweitens als man denkt.". So I think we may have gotten existential AI risk wrong.

Existential AI risk may not be about killer robots turning us into paperclips but rather AI companions leading to fertility collapse and the end of civilization as we know it. You don't even need AGI for that - OpenAI and GPT4o seems enough.
> My complaint is more that this money was stealth redirected, and it seems unlikely to me to help the broader industry. This feels like a bit of a slush fund for the area for Intel.

Indeed, the proper target for ire here seems to be if the $3B will be allocated under a competitive bid process that includes multiple vendors.
Testosterone eliminates strategic prosocial behavior (2023)
Have you tried utilizing a strong LLM like ChatGPT or Claude to help you out? I've seen some really interesting examples of using it to decompile code to a very readable format.
> I'm saying if we were to get there.

How will we get there? We have no idea of the timeline nor the technical context of that time period. If it's tomorrow, then the world is not connected enough for it to spread.

If it's 20 years from now, connected cyberphysical control devices have not spread out for most of humanity yet.

If it's 50 years from now, we have no idea of the technology that would exist. Take a look at Space Odessey 2001 and what it predicted about the 2000s.

If you cannot give me a tangible explaination of how this happens, then it's functionally the same as believing in god.

> Also I'm not saying it will happen in the next 10 years or even 100 years, but I'm saying if we were to get there

Then let's consider the possibility of Avtar Kalki or Jesus coming down from the sky as well then.