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>I put a lot of the blame here on Windows and its persistent refusal to implement a decent way to uninstall programs without using a vendor-provided binary/script

I agree that this would be nice, but which OS does have this functionality?

Android and I presume iOS are the only ones I can think of.

Linux has .deb packages, but when you run the app it can still do whatever it wants across the filesystem. Just uninstalling the .deb after that isn't a guarantee that everything has been removed.
Check out the SOTA resources on the guide

https://arcprize.org/guide

Happy to answer any questions you have along the way

(I'm helping run ARC Prize)
Good news then that you’re explicitly asked for permission each time any query would by shared with ChatGPT.
> Microsoft doesn’t build anything in an afternoon, not even Minesweeper.

Heck, once you factor in alpha, beta, and user testing, I don't think anyone could build a releasable Minesweeper in an afternoon unless it's just a junk implementation.
Ask HN: Random black bar above HN header?
A thin black bar will occasionally appear above the HN header. It contains a table row with an image called "s.gif". What is it, and why does it appear at random?
Hmm. You are right.

On a second re-read it seems we agree.
>Another bizarre thing was positioning items right on the edge of the shelf, as if they are about to fall off. Apparently this creates some kind of psychological impulse as well.

This practice was called "zoning" where I used to work. It was explained to me that people think the shelves are more full and will report in surveys etc. that the store has a better selection.
Author of The Great War and Modern Memory [1], an amazing history.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_War_and_Modern_Memor...
Is intuition a sense - or is that potentially some people excelling at reading physical cues that 99.999999% of people can't see or relate to what someone is then likely thinking?
No, I assume if you're working for a foreign military then you wouldn't be posting about it on here.
It would be anti-trust if they were deliberately shrinking supply to hike up prices on their cards.
For example, I know I have the best card in the industry, so I'm going to force the supply low so I can charge effectively whatever I want.
Swift could've easily replaced python.

but the language got complex and is now a baby C++.
ASML and Imec unveil pricy High NA EUV playground for chipmakers
Passwords are excluded from clipboard history if everything is done correctly.
They do, you can get the little dongle and it has superior audio quality to most audiophile DACs on the market.

But that 3.5mm port takes up a lot of room that could be used for more battery, backup antennas for when the user's hand is covering one of them, vibration motors etc.
Oracle's database is actually pretty good, if price is no object and you've got a team of competent DBAs looking after it, who'll lock you out of most of the footguns. Particularly a few decades ago, when MySQL's query planning was very basic.

And sure, once you're locked in they'll jack the price up more and more every year - or worse, your business will grow and the bosses will try to control costs by not licensing more CPUs. But it's not your money, and you can always just go work somewhere else, whereupon the vendor lock-in isn't your problem.
I find it ok as I'm on a Mac now. On Linux, I used KSnip which was incredible (doesn't work well on Mac). Nowadays I would use Spectacle on Linux.
Were you using a virtualenv? Or were you pip installing into your distro / system python, like a true savage?
Can this do OCR? I couldn't find in feature list so I'm guessing not yet.

I use Windows native screenshot tool because it supports OCR.
Another happy Alfred user here. Mostly for the clipboard history, snippets, workflows.
I also noticed that Starship Troopers threw in hypnosis among its many military technologies, for some reason, which feels like a related sci-fi concept.

I don't think teleportation counts. Feels like either Star Trek-type super-science or outright mysticism.
No, I don't. iPhones don't segment anything, yet they are locked tight.

Apple would have liked to lock down macOS, but it's just not feasible (for now).
This is like offering a one million dollar prize for curing cancer. It's sort of pointless to offer a prize for something people are spending orders of magnitude more on trying to do anyway.
The point of a PIP is to reduce legal liability for the company. It shows that someone was fired for not meeting the requirements of their role, and not for race/gender/sexuality/whistleblowing/etc. When you get sued later, I believe the idea is the company can point to the PIP and say "we documented the real reasons for the firing and gave the employee the chance to address them".

If someone successfully completed a PIP and gets fired, the company has effectively put in writing that the employee was fired for other reasons. I wonder if that would look worse in a lawsuit than not having a PIP at all.
From the abstract of the “ On the Measure of Intelligence” paper:

> We then articulate a new formal definition of intelligence based on Algorithmic Information Theory, describing intelligence as skill-acquisition efficiency and highlighting the concepts of scope, generalization difficulty, priors, and experience.

I’m afraid that definition forecloses the possibility of AGI. The immediate basic question is: why build skills at all?
Nice work! It might be helpful to explain what "offline first" means (i.e. the data is stored in your local machine), especially for lay users.
I know it's not your main point, but I think most of us big sci-fi fans agree that "soft" vs "hard" sci-fi is a false dichotomy. Who knows what is and what will be possible? Just because the technology is wrong doesn't mean the idea is not interesting.
His pipedream rocket company just succeeded at launching and landing the most impressive vehicle ever built by man. You could watch high-def live footage as the thing re-entered at the atmosphere at 20,000mph thanks to the space internet system that is rapidly becoming the best in the world. And in two days he's getting a $56 billion pay day granted to him by Tesla shareholders. It's a little early for schadenfreude.
couple of jokes whose punchlines have stuck with me as personal catchphrases:

1. a city dweller was driving through the countryside when he saw a ladder propped against a tree, and a man on top of it holding a goat. he's curious enough to stop and find out what's going on. the guy says "oh, I'm feeding my goat leaves off the tree". the city guy asks "but doesn't that waste a lot of time?", and the farmer looks at him like he's an idiot and says "what's time to a goat?"

2. this one is from back when lift operators were a thing. the lift doors open and there's a furious guy waiting there, who immediately yells "where the hell have you been?!". the operator calmly replies "dude, where can you go in a lift?"
I found it to be the exact opposite. ShareX has a lot of features which makes it hard to quickly get your head around all its clutter, when sometimes all you want to a screenshot utility.

Flameshot has key bindings just like any other screenshot program. If the shortcut is already bound by another program, then it will not let you bind it to Flameshot, I believe.

I have been using Flameshot portable for years and it isn't without missing features but I keep coming back to it. I generally use the copy function, sometimes save to location. It would be good to have a built in editor that can be loaded after the action.
Sure, but then it doesn't work when you're out of the house, which isn't a good pairing with a phone.
Some places the pip is an alternative to unemployment - if they can "show cause", which is what the PIP is, then your unemployment benefits are reduced or cancelled.
Thank you, I do like reading posts about hardening OpenBSD, or using it for desktop. :) I should probably switch to a supported GPU though.
> these personal choices are simultaneously being celebrated by nearly every government institution and major corporation in existence

This is very incorrect, and an indicator that you should broaden the sources you get information from. Your other comments corroborate this, you have skewed view of the world that is based on looking at a small slice. It's not that they're fabricating things, it's that they do not give you an accurate view of the magnitudes of the forces and movements in the world.
Based on their presentations yesterday and accompanying written materials they have a pretty capable ~3B parameter Foundational LLM running fully locally on the devices which is the first line. https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/introducing-apple...
Hard means it's kept within tasteful range of today's sense of technoplausibility.

Usually it also implies that it grapples with the nitty gritty details to "earn" the tech. Hohmann transfers vs. brachistochrone trajectories omg squee https://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/torchships.php
I love the ARC challenge. It's hard to beat by memorization. There aren't enough examlples, so one has to train on a large dataset elsewhere and then train on ARC to generalize and figure out which rules are most applicable.

I did a few human examples by hand, but gotta do more of them to start seeing patterns.

Human visual and auditory system is impressive. Most animals see/hear and plan from that without having much language. Physical intelligence is the biggest leg up when it comes to evolution optimizing for survival.
Wow, I had no idea people were using Swift for Embedded: https://github.com/apple/swift-embedded-examples
The submissions can't use the internet. And I imagine can't be too huge - so you can't use "newest public LLMs" on this task.
If you only care about desktop and don't want to maintain a server, I do suggest taking a look at webview [1]. It uses the platform's own web browser engine (WebKitGTK on linux, WebKit on mac, WebView2 on win) which you can use to run your app using the web stack. Essentially, it gives you something like electron.js but without the excessive bloat. And you get access to the file system and everything else on the desktop.

I believe there are other libraries/frameworks on github with a similar approach you might want to have a look at.

[1] https://github.com/webview/webview
It signifies that a notable person has passed away. Black ribbons are associated with mourning.
The Lua source code and assets for Balatro[1] can be unzipped from its Windows executable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balatro_(video_game)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11335903
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=644954

> It's an online version of the black arm band that's often worn to acknowledge the passing of a great figure in a community.
I'm unsure as well but either way this is fascinating; I've only ever heard the term 'scrip' used with negative connotations so this seems like a very refreshing change. The way the currency value was kept stable also looks to me like a great benefit.
Welp, now I gotta write a blockchain that tries to match this experiment as closely as possible
As my dad used to say: being an asshole isn't illegal.
Nice. Do you actually realise these are just your beliefs and how you view the world? A good way to test this would be to check the number of zeroes in your bank account and Musk's net worth. Are they really close? No? Probably he has a different belief system then.
I'm not an Elon fan, but surely you agree that earth is probably going to be destroyed soon by either WW3 or any numerous climate change issues?
This is quite common for me. I am a chronic insomniac, but there are also nights when I "feel" I'm awake, but somewhat know that I'm not.

It's not quite lucid dreaming, though I think it isn't completely different (I've experimented with that a bit, and I work in neurotech/sleeptech).
https://xkcd.com/1161/
AVR64DD14 is $1.20 qty25 for 64kB of Flash and 8kB of SRAM (and quite a bit more analog features, like dual-power supplies, more ACs, DAC, Differential ADC...).

So I'm pretty sure NOR Flash remains quite cheap. TI's MSP430 are all cheapest with FRAM though, so your question is curious. I admit I don't know where to go or how to investigate your question however. I don't really use MSP430 myself, I just know thats what is commonly associated with FRAM in the literature I've read.
I agree, $1M is ~trivial in AI. The primary goal with the prize is to raise public awareness about how close (or far today) we are from AGI: https://arcprize.org/leaderboard and we hope that understanding will shift more would-be AI researchers to working new ideas
Thanks for chiming in. Always appreciate your recollections.
Mark-up for luxury goods.

Tesla sells megapacks, and it's much more realistic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Megapack#Specifications , a 4MWh battery is $1.4m.
Stop Thinking and Start Building
> SMS delivery has also always been reliable, both on the lower level (both SDCCH and SACCH are reliable) and the upper one (the phone reports successful delivery back to the sending SMSC), so while there are no timing guarantees (is that what you mean by best-effort?), delivery always eventually succeeds once resources are available.

That's the opposite of my experience in the early 2000s. I mean, the whole reason you'd always enable delivery reports is because delayed delivery or failed delivery were almost a daily occurrence. Anyone who sent SMS blind would quickly learn to either enable delivery reports, or just start calling people more.
Thanks. Geolocation is not ideal. I'm just looking for a date tracker and a push of a radio button.
I'm not sure what you're actually suggesting.

Are you saying that under this scenario of N such machines in series the MWI would make different predictions that just solving the Schrodinger equation?
Why does an AGI need to have any knowledge about our reality? The principle behind an AGI should work just as well on a made up world where those puzzles play a part in.
Use geek uninstaller on windows, it nukes it.
They don't mention Twitter, but that's where Willison got it from.
bnnbreaking.com now links to https://bnngpt.com/, so it sounds like they're hoping to just pivot from fake news company to plagerism company.
I think you can move objects around but I believe you have to de-select the tool first. Try pressing ESC first to deselect. Going off of my poor memory.
Tilda Swinton on her trippy film about learning, AI and neuroscience
Yeah, "scratching your own itch" was a driving force for a lot of the OSS stuff
The original Tesla guys recognized and agreed Musk was a founder as part of their settlement, and this is now both the formal and legal truth of Tesla. I think some others were also recognized as founders too. The two initial guys didn’t really achieve anything prior to Musk and other early people joining.

Calling SpaceX Gwynne’s baby is just straight up misinformation. Talk to actual employees from SpaceX, especially early on. They’ll tell you that Musk actually does get involved in various deep aspects of the vehicles. You might not be aware, but Gwynne Shotwell was in BD not product.
Intuition isn’t a sense. There’s no data being measured. Intuition is a processing and synthesizing of past and sometimes presently sensed data into some meaning.

When I understand “sense” in this context I’m understanding “sensor.” A sensor is measuring something.

I think the closest I can get to telepathy without it being a completely wild paradigm shift in understanding is if we could implant technology directly into our brains, thus introducing new sensors.
Business and consumers both benefit from not using a cost-plus pricing model in a marketspace heavily dependent on R&D. Sure, the profit margins are hard to agree upon since it's an infinite scale and they change heavily day to day, but do not trust anyone who thinks all product pricings should be based solely on cost of materials.
That is correct for ARC Prize: limited Kaggle compute (to target efficiency) and no internet (to reduce cheating).

We are also trialing a secondary leaderboard called ARC-AGI-Pub that imposes no limits or constraints. Not part of the prize today but could be in the future: https://arcprize.org/leaderboard
Rechargeable NiMH D-cell batteries have been around for decades for not too much, probably not more than the boom box for several sets 25+ years ago.
Bad means they're different from your own which are automatically good because NickC25 is the ultimate arbiter of how good political and economic opinions are?

Many public figures just copy popular opinions and present them as their own precisely so that most people will like them. They haven't even tried to understand what they're talking about. At least Musk has some understanding and isn't driven by conformity.
Amazing Reddit discussion on this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/1daovey/elons_xai...
Ways to capture links behind walled gardens en masse
How would you go about doing this? Facebook and other large walled gardens are notoriously difficult to scrape on scale.
Well, if i knew what the solution was i would be making it instead of waxing poetic about it on hn.

While sql (or say microsoft access) could be seen as an intermediary, i don't really think it is. It is very specialized to specific applications, and arguably rdbms are more complex than basic python.
We have telepathy, any unspoken private message is as good imo.
A lot of that was due to the influence of John W. Campbell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Campbell
I also have a couple of ARM servers there, nothing fancy. The internal networks and machine are extremely snappy for what they provide. Even the containers I threw in run great.

If you need small needs, it's a good provider. The dashboard is very convoluted, though.
This is unlocking the psionic tech tree in Stellaris when playing a spiritual civ.
To add to that, a house a hundred years ago was nothing like a house today: building codes, square footage per person, heating, plumbing, connectivity... Building and maintaining a decent housing unit is far more expensive in material and energy than it was 60 years ago.
I recently interviewed people for a couple positions where I work. We had to ask questions that got at a bunch of different skills, and at the end we were supposed to score their responses in a spreadsheet.

It quickly became obvious to me that there was a flaw in the method: If the candidate didn't get a chance to answer all the questions, their score would be really low. This is through no fault of their own: they don't know they're on question 4 of 12, and there's only 15 minutes left in the interview. They think they're just answering the question thoroughly and thoughtfully. So, it left me in the position of having to do a "lightning round" style assault at the end of the interview, to make sure they at least got a chance to answer everything, and not be torpedoed by the scoring system.

The solution to this is likely one of:

* ask everyone different questions, or different numbers of questions

* ask fewer questions to everyone, and potentially not cover some areas.

* timebox each response, and cut them off to say "time's up, let's move on".

* ignore questions they didn't answer, which means deciding on a candidate you know less about.

* increase the length of the interview.

I think I'd be happy asking everyone a different set of questions, but companies are apparently scared about the bias that could introduce (at any rate, we were instructed not to do that). Of the remaining options, the best one seems to be to increase the length of the meeting.
I agree with you on this. People that care about adblockers (or something else) care about whether they can do that or not. A minority of people care about the non-default Safari web experience.
I'm annoyed what was once an admirable mission of bringing open-source not-for-profit AI to the world was gleefully abandoned as soon as Micro$oft and now Apple threw some money their way. Seems understandable to be peeved if you were someone who put money and effort into this thing due to concerns about an AI arms race.
Show HN: I gamified AI logo generation for better designs
I recently quit my job at a decent TTS company I was working for as a software developer advocate to pursue what I have always enjoyed doing, which is creating software that is helpful.

Before and after quitting my job, I have always found it expensive and time-consuming to hire a designer that can come up with a decent logo for my software, and as a software engineer, I really enjoy coding, not designing. One day, I made a pretty bold move to design a logo, and it took me a whole day to come up with a logo that looks nice.

This is the reason I built Owl AI, a logo generator that generates top-notch logos using GPT-4o and Dalle-3. With OwlAI, I was able to build reliable software that would make my life much easier by allowing me to focus on my specialty, which is coding and definitely not designing. OwlAI is available for everyone to try out.

Give me your honest feedback, and I promise I will respond to every single comment and make improvements.
Neighborle - Identify border countries and states

https://neighborle.com/
Yeah but the emails with Elon show that the "open" and "nonprofit" part was always a fucking a scam.
People can come back from shattered dreams, and he can afford any therapist.

Being a billionaire makes pivoting to executing on new dreams easier.

Newfound empathy could give him a new dream of making that American Dream happen for others.
<sigh/>

I'm sure the services resent all the "there's stupid, there's really stupid, then there's mil-spec stupid" stereotypes and jokes that are floating around.

But maybe they need to try a bit harder? Sending a $142M airplane to shoot down a $50 hobbyist balloon with a $400K missile doesn't do much to earn taxpayer trust, or dispel the unflattering assumptions.
It sounds like you've discouraged yourself from learning the skill of using an LLM to help you code.
I would gladly laugh, but it's nearly impossible to buy a good phone now. TBH I don't care that much about my phone not having a 3.5mm (even if I would need to use wired headphones, which is very rare now, I can use an USB adapter for that), but there are basically no phones without this stupid hole in the display, or with a good dedicated (not under screen) fingerprint scanner (because who needs that, when you can have face recognition, right?) All top-line phones are like $1500 now, but still are considered like disposable products that are naturally expected to be changed every 2 years. Batteries are not removable, yet devices are not actually (reliably) waterproof.

And maybe I'm wrong, but somehow it feels each improvement like that was actually pioneered by Apple. In the dreamworld of free-market enthusiasts this should have made Apple bankrupt or iPhone a very niche consumer device, but in the real world everything just became iPhone. There are some rare exceptions, but these are either outright experimental and gimmicky (because being different is their identity), or just bottom-of-the-line products that have these "intentional defects" that should make you chose the more expensive option.
> No garbage collector

No tracing gc. Ref counting is the other kind of garbage collector.
It makes things faster without making things faster, at least from this article.
I wouldn't look for any excuses for someone who is as often nasty as Apple is.
To elaborate on Bowes-Lyon’s comment, at the time of writing, a black bar appears because Lynn Conway has passed away:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40648470

You may see this entry on the front page (by clicking “Hacker News” on the header).