skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I kind of disagree.

chatgpt will make something that looks much more like it should work than your copy-pasted code from stackoverflow. It looks like it does exactly what you want. It's just riddled with bugs. Major (invented an api out of whole cloth; it would sure be convenient if that api did exist tho!) or subtle (oh, this bash script will bedshit and even overwrite data if your paths have spaces.) Or it will happily combine code across major api revisions of eg bootstrap.

I still use it all the time; I just think it makes already-expert users faster while being of much more limited use to people who are not yet experts. In the above case, after being told to make the paths space safe it did so correctly. You just had to know to do that...
Could you share some of those? I'd be interested.

(Having both "pro-russian" and "pro-western" family members, so I'm engaged in lots of discussions currently and would be glad for new information, no matter which side)

I think it's important which countries the experts are coming from. That our own IR/Russia experts are sharing this view doesn't seem very surprising to me - it's a war situation after all. I just notice that a lot of non-Western countries seem to be at least undecided which narrative to follow, e.g. Brazil, India, Turkey, many African countries. (Ignoring China which is obviously allied with Russia and therefore also has a clear bias).

Also, BRICS membership seems to be in demand, what I wouldn't expect if it was generally believed to be dominated by an insane, warmongering megalomaniac.

Mearsheimer is not alone though (even though it's definitely a minority position here). Jeffrey Sax, Ulrike Guerot and, well, Noam Chomsky come to mind, or also organisations such as fair.org with well-documented sources.
In the book, Dealers of Lightning, by Michael Hiltzik, (about Xerox PARC), chapter 21, "The Silicon Revolution", details the work Lynn Conway, Carver Mead, and Doug Fairbairn did with VLSI at PARC.

Excerpts - text in double parentheses provided for context:

"Lynn Conway and I," Fairbairn remembered, "were the ones who said, 'This VLSI is hot shit.'"

For the next year, Caltech and PARC educated each other. Mead transferred his theories about microelectronics and computer science, and Conway and Fairbairn paid him back by developing design methods and tools giving engineers the ability to create integrated circuits of unprecedented complexity on Alto-sized workstations.

...If the computer lab -- particularly ((Butler)) Lampson, who commanded management's respect -- continued to carp at the money being spent on the hazy potential of VLSI, who knew how long she could survive at PARC?...

While discussing this one day with Mead and Fairbairn she realized the problem was not just scientific, but cultural. VLSI had not been around long enough even to generate textbooks and college courses -- the paraphernalia of sound science that, she was convinced, would force everyone else to take it seriously.

"We should write the book," she told Mead. "A book that communicates the simplest, most elegant rules and methods for VLSI design would make it look like a mature, proven science, like anything does if it's been around for the ten or fifteen years you normally have behind a textbook."

Mead was skeptical...

That's where you're wrong, she replied. What was the aim of all the technology that surrounded them at PARC, if not to facilitate just the project she was proposing? They had Altos ((computer workstations)) running Bravo ((word processor)), a network to link long-distance collaborators, and high-speed laser-driven Dover printers to produce professional-looking manuscripts.

Their collaboration that summer on what became the seminal text of the new technology was only one of Conway's efforts to distill and spread the VLSI gospel. The same year she agreed to teach a guest course at MIT (using the first few chapters of the still-maturing textbook), then printed up her lecture notes for instructors at an ever-enlarging circle of interested universities. By mid-1979 she was able to offer an additional incentive to a dozen schools: If they would transmit student designs to PARC over the ARPANET, PARC would arrange to have the chips built, packaged, and returned to the students for testing.

((Jim)) Clark understood at once that the computing efficiency VLSI offered was the key to expanding the potential of computer graphics. That summer he essentially relocated to PARC, taking over a vacant office next door to Conway's and steeping himself in VLSI lore. Within four months he had finished the Geometry Engine chip, the product of that summer's total immersion.
The Programmers’ Credo: we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy.
2024 is not peaceful.
Apple deploys a ton of their server stuff on Linux. Plus they appear to be doing all new code in Swift and moving old code over slowly.

They’re also using embedded Swift in the Secure Enclaves and other small processors due to its safety, though I think they have an extra layer of automated security checking that they use internally that doesn’t exist in the public builds.

But in short, yes. I believe they’re trying to use Swift for everything at this point and getting away from C/C++/whatever even for kernel work.
Yeah, war is one of the most frequent topics of his books: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Fussell#Works

Which actually surprised me, because I first learned about him through his book on class (https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-fussell-on-clas...).
Yes. Having tried it led me to write that comment.
It's Not Just a Blog
Here is some published research on the human difficulty of ARC-AGI: https://cims.nyu.edu/~brenden/papers/JohnsonEtAl2021CogSci.p...

> We found that humans were able to infer the underlying program
and generate the correct test output for a novel test input example, with an average of 84% of tasks solved per participant
> Status codes, I am displaying the list because mostly on a JavaScript driven application you don't want other codes than 200 (besides media).

What? Why? Regardless of the programming language used to generate content, the standard, well known HTTP status codes should be returned as expected . If your JS served site, gives me a 200 code when it should be a 404, you're wrong.
This reminds me of something I like to say, "It's probably just confirmation bias, it's almost always confirmation bias".
Well yes, but I wouldn't be surprised if Starlink was for nuclear?

Why am I being downvoted here?

US, Europe, west, and democracy in general, at current times needs to be 100% at its game on the most significant power in human history.

Ultimately dictatorship is not going to give up, and they want to prove democracy is wrong, and at some points nuclear weapons are going to be used for that.

We are at pre-war right now. But it's a matter of time for all of it to escalate to all out war. We must be prepared for it.
> It should be pretty easy to programmatically update a lock file, run the tests, and rebuild a package.

You still fundamentally need to rebuild (or at least relink) and re-distribute all the packages, whereas with shared libraries... well you just update that one package.
Thank you, although I was more interested about knowing all the paperwork you've had to go through or get done to relocate.
If the author wants to crowdsource the funding of the next operation (if needed) this story would be an amazing push. I sure would donate to solving more cases!
Fair enough, I'm sure "none" is a slight exaggeration.

Two effects I could see (but have no source for) are:

1. A slightly increased return radiation due to the increased proximity of the heliopause and the the increased collision rate with the denser interstellar medium. The radiation from this should reach the surface of the Sun and slightly increase surface temps, but this effect would be dwarfed by the amount of radiation already coming from the Sun itself.

2. A tighter coupling of the Sun's magnetism to the stellar wind and interstellar magnetic field. This would slow down the Sun's rotation slightly, and it if increased differential rotation it could cause an increase in solar flare activity.
I'm still looking for a Windows version of https://screen.studio
Doug Fairbairn: https://computerhistory.org/profile/doug-fairbairn/

Carver Mead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carver_Mead
Wire Bonding: An Efficient Interconnection Technique
Hey Ajaga Abdulbasit here, with OwlAI it takes me less than a minute to generate decent logos I can start using, I hope my software help you solve you logo generation outsourcing.
I'm sure Elon does get involved. The question is, does he get involved in a constructive way.

All signs point to "no". We know this, because of what the Tesla and SpaceX people he brought on to Twitter in early days after the acquission said. I believe the words were, "babysit", "distract", and "manage".

I'm sure some fanboy will mark me down, but this was discussed on this very forum when it happened.
I saw Melanie’s post and I am intrigued by an easier AGI suite. I would like some experimenting done by individuals like myself snd smaller organizations.
Other competing companies in this space charge similar rates for home batteries.

Also, the Tesla Model 3 and Y are currently some of the most affordable EVs on the market. It's only the X, S, and Cybertruck that are the high priced ones.
Thank you for this generous contest, which brings important attention to the field of testing for AGI.

>Happy to answer questions!

1. Can humans take the complete test suite? Has any human done so? Is it timed? How long does it take a human? What is the highest a human who sat down and took the ARC-AGI test scored?

2. How surprised would you be if a new model jumped to scoring 100% or nearly 100% on ARC-AGI (including the secret test tasks)? What kind of test would you write next?
“the only exceptions to that rule happen in the years in or around wartime. In peacetime, r has always been much greater than g”

This explains the enduring link between populism and war mongering.
This! Ive worked for these places- I remember after a really stellar year (By all meaningful metrics I was our strongest performer), one poor interaction with this really whiny waste of space led to me being talked to by my "manager", someone younger and less experienced by all counts- I straight up started the conversation with "Am I on a pip", "No", and then proceeded to derail their entire attempt to justify someones personal complaints about me. Ended the call, started applying- peaced out 2 weeks later. Your comment is spot on for that work environment... You being on PIP or not, run.
They claim that the average score for humans is between 85% and 100%, so I think there's a disagreement on whether the test is actually too hard. Taking them at their word, if no existing model can score even half what the average human can, the test is certainly measuring some kind of significant difference.

I guess there might be a disagreement of whether the problems in ARC are a representative sample of all of the possible abstract programs which could be synthesized, but then again most LLMs are also trained on human data.
It's not conceived as an LLM dependency, but really more similar to the way I currently use LLMs as an engineer: as a consultant. I don't think current models are up to that task on their own, certainly not for someone without significant programming knowledge - but the sense I got, especially as the talk touched on still needing access to a skilled dev for a while at least, was that the author also understands this. Too, in sketching out so broad a vision as this, I wouldn't necessarily expect any author to treat what's possible today as a hard limit, any more than anyone else working in tech does or should.

I also don't understand why you'd consider LLMs as a blocker to local-only. You can run a 7B model on a $600 refurbished M1 Mac mini today. It won't be the fastest or the cleverest, and you probably will need an hour or so from
someone who knows how to set up Ollama and Open WebUI, but it is absolutely usable after that with no Internet connection at all - I have a Mac mini so configured on my desk right now, actually. Or for an order of magnitude more outlay, you can get a Studio capable of supporting multiple concurrent users with 70B models producing tokens faster than you can read them. Again, sure, it won't be GPT-4o, and it won't be up to the standard of the sorts of tools described in the talk - not this year, anyway. In 2026 or 2027, though? Again, this talk looks to a possible future, not just today. And with a setup based on open models running locally as I've described, there is the countervailing advantage that once you have it, you own it.

As for the term 'barefoot developer' itself - it's a cavil, I grant, but I still want to quibble, because as a child in rural Mississippi with an Apple IIc and a couple of books, I was a barefoot developer, writing my own programs to solve my own problems, and often enough going to play in the woods by the road cut when I got stuck. (It helped! These days I'm more likely to chase wasps with a camera, but it still helps, when I can force the time. For what it's worth, though, I do wear shoes these days.)

Now I'm what Amazon would call an L5, earning as highly as almost anyone in this generation of my family - and not for a lot of student debt, because I never went to college. Whatever I am as a professional, I am in large part because I've been discovering and developing my craft since my single-digit days - and was free to do so without my parents having to pay anyone a damned subscription, besides.

True, the technology has grown far away from the kind of locally and individually empowering model this talk describes, and that I recall from my own childhood and early career days - that proto-SPA I mentioned nearby, for example, was hosted on a machine that everyone who ever worked on it could physically touch without leaving the office we all shared. And this in 2011! It really has not been that long a time since a model very much like what this talk describes was actually present in reality.

I see no reason in principle why that can't be true again. Certainly I'm convinced that it should.
Research Progress on Bonding Wire for Microelectronic Packaging
I tried both Firefox and Chrome/Edge under Windows 10 running on my MacBook Pro from 2019 — they have this issue. FreeTube doesn’t and I’m happy!
Liberalism is free trade, property ownership, etc. Many people are excluded from that-- it's an ideology where both the rich and the poor are forbidden from sleeping under bridges.

Of course it's alienating to ordinary people.

This is why you got movements like social liberalism, to try to temper the madness and turn into something less socially useless, but everything moves back towards its origin, so here in Europe even once reasonably decent social liberal parties have now decayed into liberal parties, into the inherently alienating position that is liberalism's core.
As someone in a corrupt country with tons of sun, I can't wait to be independent of the price-gouging grid.
Co-founder and head of produck at MotherDuck here - would love to chat. We're running DuckDB in a serverless fashion, so you're only paying for what you consume.

Feel free to reach out to tino@motherduck.com.
> fewer available data points

we've probably gone as far as we can go on this.

When you don't have a lot of data, you have to torture what you have more and more. That makes the discipline not "science" but "sciencey." Just like economics is not science but sciencey.
We run https://pico.sh on their free tier, can’t complain about our experience.
That’s the one big loss from moving off Objective-C. Because the language was so stupidly simple to parse and didn’t have a lot of “we’ll figure that out for you from what you wrote” it could be compiled incredibly quick on today’s machines.

I know they’re working on improving it. I’m glad they are. But that speed is something I definitely miss.
I worked for / with Lynn at Xerox PARC from 1980 - 1982. She will be missed.
- homebrew

- 1clipboard

- kitty terminal

- raycast

- yabai tiling WM ( i still prefer it over magnet or
rectangle )

- icemenubar ( i prefer it over bartender )

- busycalendar ( expensive, but so good )

- trillium notes

- iina video player

- bitwarden

- speedcrunch

- firefox

- jetbrains IDEs
The original map was produced by CIA in 2004, you can see it in Library of Congress.

https://www.loc.gov/resource/g5700.ct001785/?r=-0.179,-0.051...
Yeah. Poorly done.

I was trying to make some connection between how Turing was treated compared to Lynn.

They were both 'different' and persecuted for it.

And It seems like frequently people that are 'different' make big contributions, but are then just exploited by the 'system', whether a corporation, government, or capitalism in general. And, how maybe, all 'creative' types can fall into this trap in some way.

My comment didn't really spell it out very well.
Pretty much, but even if I couldn't that would not prove a third party was inserting thoughts into my mind.

To conclude as much would be a well known logical fallacy called "Denying the Antecedent"
IIRC Flycut did that. Loved it but it only copied text and was abandoned a long time ago.
Martin Shkreli accused of copying and sharing Wu-Tang Clan album
I always thought the products like the $700 computer wheels[1] and $1,000 monitor stands[2] are made exclusively for the companies who are trying to signal their wealth. For anyone who knows how much these accessories cost, walking into an office where all the workstations have these components puts out a message of wealth (much like standing desks, Herman Miller chairs, expensive art, super espresso machines, etc).

I don't think it tarnishes their reputation as long as the products are both actually good quality and there are inexpensive alternatives. Why not get some easy cash while letting your customers display their vanity? It reminds me of the "I am rich" app[3].

[1] https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MX572ZM/A/apple-mac-pro-w...
[2] https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MWUG2LL/A/pro-stand
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich
We don't have to speculate on his motivations. He's literally bankrolling a competitor.
That's been my experience. I've been using a rolling release distro and haven't had problems in years.

There was a period where any screenshot/recording app didn't work at all, including Flameshot, due to limitations in Wayland implementations.
I don’t think they were trying to claim that, just that it was a feature that was in Rust that they liked and wanted to keep using.

Just like Rust didn’t invent not using garbage collection.
Oracle lawyers-
Tucking their pencils away-
Extend their sharp claws
Not true; my wife has seen dozen's put on pip's and one of them both didn't leave and wasn't fired within 30 days. So it's only mostly hopeless.
This. The map could be used in geography class as test.
On their conference call tonight, Larry Ellison indicated Oracle will be building a dedicated data center for OpenAI to use for training, with 1 GW of power, and its own power plant and DLC. Stocked with newest NVIDIA chips.
You too may be laughed out of court, then. IANAL, but your feelings aren't the law.
Let me say that my previous comment was unfair. It's unfair to say that no one sane would consider quantum measurement related to consciousness. Rather its an extremely fringe position at this point.

It's certainly a deep mystery of nature and I don't claim to have an answer. Quantum erasure experiments strongly suggest to me that measurement has to do with information about the system that entails constraints on the evolution of the system. Nature seems to abhor inconsistency. If the state of the system is such that one can in principle derive constraints on its evolution up to this point, then nature ensures its evolution up to this point is consistent with that information. A measurement then is just any interaction with the property of imparting a constraint on the evolution of the system up to now.
I discovered this when I was playing around with i3wm a few years ago. It's a really nice piece of software that does what you need it to do, and it stays out of your way otherwise. I mostly use it for screenshots, but it can edit and annotate, and pin images.
I had the other issue. I was at a standup comedy show with my phone appropriately silenced because I knew I could ignore the alarm this once.

And the alarm still went off making noise. I managed to turn it off superquick such that the comedian got as far as looking in my general direction and saying I was lucky I was fast because he couldn't pick me out exactly.
Looks like Oracle employees have managed to beat the brigading protection on HN.
> Having said that, I wish we can select the objects (e.g., text box, arrows) we have created and move them around. […]

On Windows I like to use Greenshot because the editor opens up in a dedicated window and gives me full control over the objects I place (move, resize, change colors, duplicate, cut-copy-paste, reorder, save objects to file for reuse...). It's also open source, but seems unmaintained for some time now (but there is a fork implementing zoom in the editor).
I didn't realize Bruce Schneier was involved with DiceKeys. That lends them great credibility (although the product is already technically sound).
Yeah I mean.. I have nearly hired people before who turned out to be scammers, no coding skills at all. I need some kind of signal before turning off the recruiting pipeline, emailing a bunch of people "no thanks," and making a commitment. Sometimes strong referrals work but that might unfairly advantage some, can be gamed, and doesn't work at all for most junior devs without a work history. Shoot, even a strong history elsewhere doesn't mean they will be successful on a different product/platform/team/etc.

Both interviews (live and homework) have downsides, referrals don't work for all and hiring blindly isn't an option. I need some kind of signal, some way to choose one of hundreds. I have successfully used contract to hire before, and while that does lower the anxiety on the interview track, many can't consider that option. And that (again) unfairly advantages some.

I.. don't really know. Just over here trying my best. The market is broken in many ways.
Great comments!

This is exactly where we see ourselves contributing: both making pgvector faster and more efficient through pgvectorscale, and working to make the AI on Postgres developer experience first class.
Apple is using it for some low-level stuff and they appear to be trying to improve that every year.

I think they want to be able to use a limited subset of it in their kernel. Actually I think they already are but I’m not positive.

Obviously it started as an application level language but I do think they’re trying to move it down the stack as well.
Related:

Flameshot v11.0.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30071766 - Jan 2022 (30 comments)

Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26446070 - March 2021 (125 comments)

Flameshot – Superb Screenshot Tool - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26113753 - Feb 2021 (83 comments)
Do computers need 10,000 examples to distinguish dogs from cats when pretrained on other tasks?
Not a super-expert but I've used Vapor on some personal projects. Do you have a link to the mention for "protocol server"? I'm not familiar with the concept but might be able to help.
Telepathy would convey instant understanding in both the receiver and the sender. I don't think humans in their current form could handle it. We'd be completely exposed. It's not at all like verbal communication if you read accounts of NDEers.
In theory practice is just like theory but in practice it's not like it at all.
mamba mentality