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> Feeling of loneliness is at its highest

The research attributes this mainly to the decline in alcohol consumption. Which I suppose isn't terribly surprising. Alcohol has been long known as the "social lubricant" for good reason.

> and so is pornography viewing (but, correlation does not mean causation).

Causation is not implied, but at the same time it wouldn't be very human-like to see that decline in alcohol consumption be replaced by nothing, so perhaps you are onto something. Perhaps alcohol consumption is on the decline because porn is taking its place. They do both target dopamine production, so it is not inconceivable.

The temperance movement putting more emphasis on pornography lends additional credence to the idea, although perhaps that is simply because they feel they are finally starting to "win the war" on alcohol.

> I'm curious, do you think AI boyfriend/girlfriend/friend is/will be a plus or a negative on society?

You can always tell when you are around tech people. Hint: The real world isn't binary.
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From what I've seen on Ebay in the last couple of years, it seems like this kind of stuff isn't all that cheap any more. Like the sellers saw the inflation going on in the US, and decided that was a good excuse to double or triple their prices for overstock stuff.
K-9 was pretty nice at the time I was looking… but aquamail was the best android email client for a while.

Not open source but the developer was quite responsive.
Illusion is just the word they try to use to explain what emergence is. I don't think illusion really fits all that well though because illusion implies it's somehow not real and that's not what emergence is about.

Emergent things are real (in the sense of Dan Dennett's real patterns) just not fundamental.
What workloads benefit enough from HT to justify it in a laptop?
Well, I think even that may be missing a bit of forest. How about: institute far more redistributive tax policies to prevent individuals or companies from gaining undue market power by becoming extremely wealthy.
Sure you will, because a knife blade good enough to hold an edge at all isn't homogeneous.

Good high-carbon steel is harder to make than mild steel. It used to be a lot harder to make; carburization in ambient atmosphere takes an enormous amount of time and fuel, and even then is hit-or-miss.

Because that's so, and also because the brittleness that makes high-carbon steel great for knife edges also makes for a very fragile blade if that's all you use, good knives historically have been made by forge-welding a strip of high-carbon steel to a larger piece of mild steel. The mild steel makes up the bulk of the blade, and the high-carbon strip is shaped and ground to form the edge.

You can sharpen that edge by removing metal, but if you do that enough, you'll remove all the high-carbon steel and end up sharpening the mild stuff. That can't take as good an edge or hold it nearly as long, so you end up with a knife that's dull no matter what you do.

This is also why sharpening steels are a thing, because good knives are usually still made this way. Stropping on a steel cleans up the edge profile without removing metal, yielding a sharper cut without shortening the life of the tool.

Granted, all of this discussion of the mechanics misses the point of the koan, which is all about moderation and humility, and nothing really to do with cleverness beyond the always wise counsel not to let it run away with you. But then, too, moderate discussion of the mechanics may in this case cut toward that end, so I don't really feel this an indulgence to excess.
I mean, this is to be expected right, the LLMs are operating at a scale of billions (trillions) of parameters, so it's impossible to explain how every single step or response works.

Overall, people can grasp what an LLM does at a high level. But to debug exactly why an LLM gives a specific response to a specific query, one would have to debug hundreds of billions of parameters.
one can also use page-up / page-down / home / end / arrow / ctrl+arrow etc. ... if keyboard has to be used.

scroll bars indicate visually how big the scroll area is and where you are ... and let you directly click or drag you position. there was a lot of useful functionality available at a single mouse click that has been sacrificed in pursuit of visual prettiness / minimalism.
We all share a single photon in some theories. When time has no meaning, it can run through the whole universe in a strobe.
Large correlated events need to exist because smaller correlations do. It only makes logical sense if you try to remedy the movement / distance paradoxes.

There’s probably an information density limit, which is why far away galaxies will never have their information reach us after a certain point. They might as well not exist to us, because their information will never be useable in a correlated way.
As the philosopher's say there is no past or future only present. Nothing exists outside the present. All realities(as well as memories) can only be experienced in the current moment.
A while back I posted a moderately popular comment, which I think is equally relevant here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37949336

Beyond the importance of controlling the placebo effect, I am worried that a lot of the drug-depression research is overlooking an important possibility: that the thing about ketamine/psilocybin/etc that is helping with depression is not some latent property of the molecule, but rather the actual transcendent experience of the trip. In other words, the trip is the point, not the mechanistic neuro-tinkering [0].
Importantly, this tracks with what we know about the protective effects of things like religiosity against depression. As such, the qualitative experience of the drug might not be something we can (or should) do away with. I would even go as far as suggesting that an absence of transcendence in one's life is precisely what causes a large segment of people to become depressed in the first place, and that perhaps drugs are helpful only insofar as they produce a transcendent experience.
This isn't to say we can't take a scientific approach to treating depression, but that has to be balanced with something profoundly metaphysical: the actual qualia of life experience. Wellness isn't the absence of disease; it's the presence of thriving, and that includes within it a component of things like hope, inspiration, and elevation above the ordinary. We used to have various ceremonies designed to turn us towards the numinous, but we've pretty systematically dismantled those in favor of a grounded hyper-rationality [1]. As a scientist, I can't really object to rationality on its own, but it may be worth considering non-rational, transcendent experience as a fundamental psychological need.
[0] If you're a materialist, you might object that neurological machinery is not differentiable from qualia. Fair enough! I even agree! My point is simply that medicine needs to consider qualia as a major parameter in the treatment of depression. Fixing depression is not like fixing a car.
[1] I suspect most people here are familiar with Nietzsche's "God is dead quote". Many people in my entourage are floored to discover that he correctly predicted the dramatic increase in anxiety, depression, neuroticism and nihilism that is present in modern life.
There's a not entirely rigorous, but empirically weighty analogy here to Silicon Valley. Why don't startups just fly into SFO, rent an AirBnB for a few days, hit Sand Hill Road, and split back to wherever overhead is cheaper?
I didn't blame him, I said that he's a tragic waste of potential at the moment.

If he were throwing himself into any of his impressive companies, sure, I'd be singing a different tune. But that's not what he's doing, he's either ignoring or actively sabotaging those, so that he has more time to be a social media influencer. He can do what he wants, but it's not admirable.
> You shouldn't build software based on what you're a fan of.

If you’re doing something as a passion project you should absolutely do things based on what you’re a fan of.
The fix for the MSP di/dt bug made me smile. Lucky but also smart!
Just for example: It could be stored encrypted with the user's credentials. So when you want to browse "Recall" it might pop-up requesting a fingerprint, password, token etc.

Then it decrypts, presents to the user, and closes the handles when you're done. In this way, the "key" isn't present -- the user has it!

That's quite a different security situation to it just sitting around in plaintext on disk. Certainly there's a number of Windows and MacOS features sitting behind authentication already, from a UX perspective.
There are many heavy-handed, dictatorial decisions I could imagine which would be immensely superior to the current situation.
Agree, hopefully King Andreas can carry the torch ignited by Old Mozilla that was lost a few years back.
The Romans tried to build tall buildings, but they kept falling down, and a decree eventually stopped further attempts. They lacked the engineering knowledge and mathematics necessary, not the desire. Similar story with ship sizes. I think the book "Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down" covers some of it...
I guess the penalties for breaking the law are not hard enough…
I think you mixed up your sockets. 8700G is AM5.
That would be great on my bike jersey. Not a stop sign, but a 30 kmh speed limit sign, as all the new cars sold in the EU starting with 6 of July 2024 come with ISA, mandated speed controls.

https://road-safety.transport.ec.europa.eu/european-road-saf...
I remember Emblaze Smarthphone's planned UI, it carried on via this Android Launcher. [0] And Kando was posted here back in January. [1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUDCgZnJvnc

[1] https://github.com/kando-menu/kando
Omnivision's camera datasheets and sample code can be found everywhere on the Internet.
S-expressions are basically an AST with minimal parsing. It’s very convenient to work with.
The model is written in Python. The intermediate language is an S-expression, its just an easy representation of a tree. An alternative could be JSON.
It is an offering for low power segment with integrated graphics and an AI unit. I doubt intel is breaking into phones any time soon so I have no idea where this will be used.

The really big deal there is that this is an Intel processor built at TMSC.
> the Lunar Lake SoC platform also includes up to 32 GB of LPDDR5X memory on the chip package itself

Is this similar to Macbook M series chip with shared memory ? Will this allow intel chips to run local llms efficiently ?
> should have a virtual address space

I'm pretty sure that most of the GNU POSIX command line tools were written before virtual address space (VAS) was common. And, as I understand, VAS is hidden from the programmer behind magical malloc().
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Actual article: https://doublepulsar.com/recall-stealing-everything-youve-ev...

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40540703
Most things (other than highly optimized HPC) benefits a ton from hyper threading. Code that's unoptimized (e.g. everything web/interpreted languages like python/JS) spends all its time chasing pointers which means that your cores are doing a whole lot of nothing. Hyperthreading means that you can run twice as many applications per core which means that while one thread is waiting for data from RAM, the other thread can utilize the execution units. This also helps power consumption since if you can consolidate all the tasks onto fewer cores, you can put the other cores to sleep and save power.
Well, if you believe in causality, everything that happens in a certain progression might seem as the consequence of a previous event

And that seems totally right and it’s a great model to understand our everyday life

Now imagine for a second, that the whole universe was a big cycle, and that you are going to be repeating this very same life in a “future” cycle, and maybe infinitely many times

Which one of those times is the first one? And what is happening first? Did you die first and then were born again, or were you born first before dying? If it’s a never ending cycle, would you know, or would you just be picking a point that seems convenient to you?

At another extreme, when you feel like you are hungry, what is the cause for being hungry? Is it a certain signal in your brain, is a special hormone, is it because you have a habit of eating at a certain time? When exactly do you get hungry and what is the cause? There are pretty much infinite many possible causes to choose, because there are an infinite way of understanding and modeling the meaning of the question and how to answer it

Usually we just take the fastest, “most reasonable” explanation as the reason, but it is arbitrary and subjective. Causes are agreements expressed in language and our models, they are not an absolute unbreakable order of reality
The way I read these arguments is: the lack of security adds to the case against this product. The reviewers aren't saying there's a self-evident solution, just that there are self-evident problems. How did this get through review? So it's not that there are two separate arguments, but that the security issues strengthen the main argument that this is a product that shouldn't exist.
This is the first time that I heard about it. Can you tell me about other examples?
For that first one, it should be read as "the only thing to manage is a single set of credentials", not focusing on the numbers of credentials per se. Good examples of things you don't have to manage with streaming: how to setup syncthing on any devices, any storage to hold the media, or any configuration to make the storage available over the internet. Maybe it's not that hard if you know what you're doing, I'm confident I could manage, but it's darn nice having to bother. It certainly takes far more marginal work to manage than streaming, if only because streaming requires no marginal work to manage.
How can YC be responsible for something their former executive does?

And more importantly, doing one thing while advocating a policy prohibit the exact thing isn't necessarily wrong. If the tax rate is 20%, and I advocate a 25% tax while not paying the extra 5% until the law is passed, I would say there isn't any contradiction in my actions.
Hey, can you go into this more? When I search Adderall bravado online, your post is the top result. I have a friend whose behavior changed wildly after being prescribed Adderall, so I am interested in learning more.
Indeed, but then I can’t measure the true positive rate. :) I suppose we’re really talking about having an anxiety disorder that impedes the ability to deliver vs feeling anxious on the day. The former should manifest noticeably somehow, by definition.

As for which companies? Basically any large enterprise except absolute top-tier tech. I wouldn’t necessarily call such people incomponent though - I’m sure they were perfectly good button-pushers within the corporate machine. Low-skill high-specificity.
It's much easier to work with LISP. It's functional, trees are easy to reason about. We're using an even more simplified language in this work. It's kind of like the MNIST for progsynth research. Scaling this to real and useful programming languages and domains is still non-trivial, and is a major drawback of our work here.
As a recent father: low sleep.
Long reply but last October I had pretty enjoyable interview experience during a front-end screening at Google, for which I absolutely grinded LeetCode.

To my surprise, it was an actual front-end task. I told him jokingly "What, no leetcode?" to which he laughed saying "I have my ways".
To my even bigger surprise, it was also a DSA question in disguise.

After writing a component to render out a filesystem tree view, the interviewer asked me which algorithm I was applying for this task. I never really think of algorithms when doing front-end, only in terms of design patterns, but the answer was immediately clear that I was using DFS.
Sadly I didn't get a follow-up, I thought I just didn't pass. Then a few days after one of their massive layoff rounds, got an e-mail saying I did great but weren't hiring anymore, lol.

But I liked this approach so much that I've used variations of this question when interviewing candidates at my job.
The task itself is incredibly simple, but a surprisingly amount of people can't solve it or complicate it unnecessarily without or before asking for clarification.
I also tell them it's not necessary to write executable code. This somehow confuses people a lot? I've found a lot of candidates not comfortable writing code without an IDE, even with an "open-book" and when told it doesn't have to run.
There is no such thing as "the current moment" unless you arbitrarily choose an inertial reference frame.
Studies has shown that unstructured conversations has 0 correlation with on the job skills, if you just ask questions and go with the flow of the conversation it is extremely unlikely that you actually learned something important.

More likely is that you got biased from that conversation and that bias colors your later evaluations of them. A lot of people are biased like that, studies shows that, maybe you are one of the very few that would be the exception of these studies, but it is unlikely, much more likely you are among the large majority who overestimate how well they can read people in free form conversations.
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You can also call '__import__' as a function to save yourself a few characters worth of rsi

>>> python3 -c "print(__import__('httpx').__path__)"
I don't buy "cacafuego" as a real name any empire would give its ships. HMS Spitfire was real enough, but who'd ever take seriously HMS Sh...
Is not wanting to be tracked by every single web property you touch not a good enough reason for you? I rarely use clearweb for anything. It's simply bad internet hygiene to go out without protection. It's dangerous and you might get hurt.
Yeah, that's basically my objection. The convenience seems to hide something important. I know you can write any program with LISP, but using LISP for this kind of thing seems to be a symptom of limited applicability.
For reference another site that does this with images is https://trace.moe/
Part of the problem is that ignoring legal advice hasn’t meant anything to him up until this point.

When you are wealthy enough, fines are just a price and there are plenty of statutory penalty limits that make a lot of rule breaking make financial sense.
I'm trying to learn about ISAs.

And, after taking a class and watching a whole bunch of RISC vs CISC videos, I still don't know 'why' Apple Silicon is faster at a lower power consumption than Intel's chips.

Can someone tell me?
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Could someone elaborate this for an uninformed like me? Does it mean if you (a company) pay $1M as salary this year, only $0.2M can be treated as cost?
Yes, you both understood what I meant. I just coined the term, having in mind illustrations like Fig. 1 in Low-Pass Filtering SGD for Recovering Flat Optima in the Deep Learning Optimization Landscape (https://proceedings.mlr.press/v151/bisla22a.html)

Reviewing the literature, I see the concept is more commonly referred to as "flat/wide minima"; e.g., https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1908636117
He’s talking about performance and then using a database. It’s the wrong tool for the job.
About how many people in the USA do you think are on an insurance plan that doesn't limit what procedures they can get, and/or can afford to pay out pocket for whatever other procedure?

Also, Healthcare companies are wildly profitable. If they were negotiating prices in the USA just like they do everywhere else, they would only be profitable. Woe is me.
>sharpening steels

Are you talking about honing rods? Because they 'sharpen' nothing.
The title seems a bit misleading. I thought they were talking about LSD or psilocybin. But this is referring to an MDMA-based therapy which I feel is more of a stimulant, or at least is used as one more often than it's used as a psychedelic and it's an amphetamine.
Blows my mind how much this guy knows. From embedded to native apps to fabrication. I feel lazy as fuck.
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I haven’t heard anyone make sane case against the doomsday argument. Only attacks.
This isn’t really true. In JS, the JIT can optimize many routines to be much more CPU bound than “just pointer chasing” would have you believe. And of course in Python the bulk of your time should be spent in native code. Whether it actually is is a different question.
A big factor is that Apple buys out all of TSMC's capacity for new process nodes, so they get the smallest transistors that run at lower power and higher speeds.