skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Swift 6 is amazing - I say this as a big Rust person. It seems like Swift is now its own entity outside the Apple bubble and has a few very interesting features:

- An "embedded" mode that turns off reflection for kilobyte-sized binaries

- An upcoming WASM target

- An LSP for VSCode

- Native C++ interop

- Typed "throws"

- Static linking on linux and the linux sdk

- Porting a number of "core foundation" / foundation primitives to nix platforms

- Distributed actors for concurrency that run on distant machines

- Data-race free by default

- non-copy RAII generic types

Watch the video on Swift 6: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2024/10136/.

IMO Swift 6 is a better Go and than Go, and a better Rust for app-dev type stuff, which seems to be what people want to use Rust for.

Swift has shipped stuff that Rust has been sitting on its hands over for years:

- Anonymous enums/structs in parameters/match statements

- Named function arguments

- A type of `Send` bound that allows Rcs to be sent between threads (not Arcs)

- Swift preview hotreloading

- autoclones (without GC)

Swift also took a bunch of goodies from Rust *[1]

- No garbage collector

- Traits via "protocol"

- ADT for Option/Result

- macros

- non-copy types enforcing RAII

I really really wish Rust had been keeping up with Swift's ergonomics because it's looking like Swift is going to catch up to Rust's cross-platform story much faster. Swift really could end up as the "do it all" language for frontend/backend/app dev.

[1] By "took" I mean if you like these things in Rust you'll see them in Swift
Yeah, I'm really glad for the trend of statically linked binaries that came with Rust/Go. No more version incompatibilities, fights with downstream packagers, weird build configs, etc, just distribute the binary and that's it.
> 1. An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

It wasn't an "error". It was the way things had to be, as shown by pretty much every society that advanced past the hunter-gatherer or roaming barbarian stage. Europe. India. Japan. China. The Americas. All had "nobles" and serfs/slaves/peasants doing hand agricultural labor. Even as far back as Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt!

> 2. Comparing modern economics to serfdom is ridiculous on it's face.

Blind assertion is not proof.

> 3. What, exactly, are you thinking automated career tracks are going to get replaced with this time around?

Dunno, but it's happened every time so far. No one hand-weaves cloth any more (except as a hobby). Essentially no one is a blacksmith any more. Hundreds of professions from broom makers to fullers have been replaced by automation.

Imagine someone asking this question at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. It's not possible that they would have said "programmer" or "airline pilot" or "open heart surgeon", or even "convenience store clerk" or "Uber driver".

That's been the history of technology for millennia now. Probably way back in the Paleolithic there was a person like you grumbling that this newfangled flint-knapping was going to put all the pointed stick makers out of work.
A damn shame such a cool article has no photos.
Try a Firefox Refresh. about:support, click the button in the top right.
> It's a well-established, economically rational business model to subsidize prices in order to gain market share.

Right but it means you can't depend on that price remaining low. If it's below cost, the price must rise. That may be important for anyone building businesses on top.

> it's pretty easy to switch to another.

Well that assumes the others have true lower prices.
OpenAI/ChatGPT is the only household name in AI.

Anthropic could be 10X better, and it still wouldn't matter to customers and public market investors as much as hearing the name 'ChatGPT.' Your mom has never heard of Anthropic.

People think Google won search because they had the best search engine. Yes, they did for a brief period before others implemented similar methods to pagerank (which itself was ripped off from the Baidu founder). But the reason they won the market is because of endless media coverage around them building the brand into a household verb. After that, it was impossible for anyone to compete.

"Just ask ChatGPT" will forever be the "Just Google it" of AI, and any media drama surrounding OpenAI only serves to cement that status.
Not really no, there are far better languages with better cross platform support.
>until a human makes a measurement of that system.

No one sane thinks human observation has anything to do with measurement in QM anymore.
How does this tool make sure not to historize any passwords copied onto the clipboard?
1. An immensely powerful career politician who had engineered several coups across Asia that led to the needless destruction of untold lives

2. A libleft college professor who was not taken seriously by anyone with any modicum of power.

Who's number 3? A coughing baby?
Bah I wouldn't be surprised it is actually safer today. Problem is today there are far, far more rules and regulations.
a windfall
Did Conway's Law originate with Lynn Conway?
No, it's under a paywall.

But I have read several articles on the story and show a dozen or more videos, so.
Am I missing something? Aren't fingerprints a form of PII that everyone just leaves lying around on everything they touch? And that the government isn't really permitted to collect & catalog except as part of a criminal investigation (or a few other minor licensing hurdles like selling alcohol)?
How to Investigate the Federal Goverment
Investors don't know what they're doing. This is laughably apparent. They're monkeys throwing bananas at dart boards. There's that whole negative externality thing. There aren't alternatives to FAANG because they've viciously used their VC money to drive out competition, used their lawyers to litigate competition into extinction, and every other tool at their disposal to press an advantage in consumer exposure. This isn't a fair market where the best product wins; it's a game of "who's got the most money."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

This is how the world gets shittier. It's a whole thing. It's a large part of why things are as bad as they are.

But hey, yeah, don't worry about it, they obviously know what they're doing.
What if I asked my future boss to perform a test of my choice that took as long?

The thing is that any kind of test is going to signal a lack of trust, and that's not a great way to start.
Before 1950, yes.
How to Build an AI Data Center
I'm pretty sure they did exactly that, seeing the way the owner talked about their "innovations" and blatant disregard for safety. James Cameron also alluded to that.
To parent: the spatial reasoning and blind person were great counterexamples. It still might be OK despite the blind exceptions if it showed general reasoning.

To OP: I like your project goal. I think you should look at prior, reasoning engines that tried to build common sense. Cyc and OpenMind are examples. You also might find use for the list of AGI goals in Section 2 of this paper:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.04445

When studying intros of brain function, I also noted many regions tie into the hippocampus which might do both sense-neutral storage of concepts and make inner models (or approximations) of external world. The former helps tie concepts together through various senses. The latter helps in planning when we are imagining possibilities to evaluate and iterate on them.

Seems like AGI should have these hippocampus-like traits and those in the Cyc paper. One could test if an architecture could do such things in theory or on a small scale. It shouldn’t tie into just one type of sensory input either. At least two with the ability to act on what only exists in one or what is in both.

Edit: Children also have an enormous amount of unsupervised training on visual and spatial data. They get reinforcement through play and supervised training by parents. A realistic benchmark might similarly require GB of prettaining.
I agree that something between Python and Excel is a good idea.
But still, LLMs are good at using in context learning to convert natural language to a given pattern language or format, and where people don't know what the syntax is. Making visual interfaces that are so easy to use that they don't need to use such magic would be nice. But it seems hard to do that.
No clue what would give you that idea.
Heaven has the best climate, Hell has the best society.
It's not about the body itself but about how the universe treated the player.

Unfortunately I don't think VR will ever have enough bandwidth to provide an experience equivalent to Sword Art Online, ie full body immersion.

I will see if I can find them again.
How’s the compilation speed?If it’s going to replace Go, that’s gotta be sub second for a medium sized project on my clunky old laptop.
windfall ai just got a windfall

(this kills the joke)
What’s the metric for harm?

It’s a fact that these chemicals behave similarly to, and bind to the same receptors as, sex hormones.

It’s a proven fact that exposure to these chemicals increases sexual dysfunction during development in animal models and in humans.

It’s also proven that these chemicals have made their way into every single food item and most cosmetic products we buy at the store.

If you just Google for papers on phthalates and endocrine disruption, there are decades of research papers supporting it.

Here’s an example of one such study in frogs and rabbits:

https://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_abstracts/index.cfm/fuseaction/di...

Conclusions for almost all papers like this are the same.
Ask HN: What are your favorite parables, anecdotes, idioms, etc.?
You can lead a horse to water... and what have you. Don't be shy about malapropisms either.
Ok interesting, thanks.
Yes, it is a defect. For many reasons

- it's anti-user: a device spying on you and reporting back to a centralized server is a bad look

- it's a slippery slope: talking about releasing this caused them to get requests from governments to consider including "dissident" information

- it's prone to abuse: within days, the hashing mechanism they were proposing was reverse engineered and false positives were embedded in innocent images

- it assumes guilt across the population: what happened to innocent by default?

and yes, csam is a huge problem. And btw, apple DOES currently scan for it- if you share an album (and thus decrypt it), it is scanned for CSAM.
"Taking russia's side" seems like a wild mischaracterization of the situation.
> Can you link to the post about that? Because I’m guessing there’s a selection effect where only those who had profound experiences commented.

They didn't say everyone experienced it.

> I’ve done similar things in VR and found it wasn’t any different than when I had a robot body or a cartoon carrot body.

Did characters treat you as not man and not woman? And not in the way most English is gender neutral? It seems not similar otherwise.
Thanks, sure, I wouldn't mind releasing a docker container if it'll make it easier to deploy.
How exactly? His tweets (at least to me) come off extremely jealous of the fact that Apple integrated with OpenAI.
The problem is that's a false narrative.

There were never any promises, and Putin barely even cared that it resulted in Finland and Sweden joining NATO.

Because Russia's stated motivation for invading Ukraine was never Putin's actual reason, which is basically an emotional desire for historical greatness by reclaiming Russia's lost empire, combined with war always being an excellent mechanism for staying in power and distracting from domestic problems.

So it's sad to see anyone falling for Putin's lies so easily. (See also Mearshimer.)
Dynamic linking works fine for software that is distributed by distros, but lots of software isn't.
Completely agreed. ESP-IDF is incredible and the dev experience is miles beyond STM32 (my opinion).
The unvaccinated exclude themselves from society.
How can an entire economy have a growth rate? Is it not measuring how much "new money" was put into the system?
Probably precludes him from accepting the invitations.

You cant be anti-imperialist and accept a dinner invitation where you will inevitably be forced to smile at and rub elbows with the same men you critique as war-criminals. The man is principled.

I hope he recovers. He would be sorely missed.
A little late to the party but another game! A music game for guessing where the mystery artist is from in the world based on a song snippet... I usually try to guess by language but it's a lot harder when they are singing :o

https://pindrop.cc/daily
Or maybe his lawyers explained to him the meaning of legal discovery...
Says the guy selling data collection machines on wheels...

Asshat!
This has been driving me mad. I thought I was broken.
What's the small business? What areas is it having difficulty growing? Will AI be able to help with those areas?
https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/usvisit/usvisit_edu_10-f...

https://www.dhs.gov/biometrics
>Swift also took a bunch of goodies from Rust - No garbage collector - Traits via "protocol"

I'd say they took them from Apple's own Objective-C additions who had those for decades before Rust (ARC and protocols).
> I love Noam Chomsky so much

+1
there's no way to remove most bundled software on a phone (Android, ios)
Will we see as much outrage about this as Bitcoin has received about its supposed energy use?
I'm primarily a C++ developer these days, and if the C++ interop is actually good then I'm very excited for the future. For app-dev type stuff it really does seem like it's better than Rust, and I can definitely see a world where we start migrating some code into Swift.

Edit: back from watching the video, and a few observations:

- Swift does not suffer from Rust's refusal to add things into the standard library. gasp regex support in stdlib? Async/await runtimes?

- Default testing framework is a godsend, especially when integrated into the build system

- Rust but better for everything that's not low-level systems development is the impression I get
Because they are platform companies.

If I launch a business that makes sense given the current pricing of LLMs, and the price then goes up by a factor of ten, my own unit economics may not make sense any more.

There's an Uber comparison here: back when Uber was cheap, some people made life decisions about where they lived and worked that were predicated on being able to afford a commute in an Uber (since public transport doesn't serve a lot of places, at least in the US).

This hurt a lot when the prices went up a few years later!
Any source for that is an example?
probably Pacific Symposium in Biocomputing around 2000 but I don't think Lynn ever published in the area. I don't recall the specific details of what we discussed, probably something about molecular dynamics.
> The idea of it potentially just up and vanishing with a browser update.

Anyone writing applications in the browser should be very cautious to note that many browsers will jettison some types of their website storage if disk space is low.

This is frustrating at the best of times, but if there's no server-side backup then frustration would be an understatement.

I am not sure if this caveat applies to localStorage but from experience it does to IndexedDB — seemingly even in Electron applications (??).
I don't think you can separate these two things in medtech/hardware. It's almost impossible to build a product without money, and you certainly can't bootstrap this.

> Like how do you get the data to build the product that makes the product worth buying in the first place?

Our path:

1. Raise the money.

2. Build a better prototype (let's call it a 'data collector').

3. Create datasets from the new prototype through studies/clinical trials.

4. Apply ML.

5. Develop the next iteration with the newly built models.

6. Profit time.
One thing to consider is that they are EU-based. That means they will meet the EU's regulatory demands (safety, censorship, whatever). They will have a unique place in serving EU customers and look like a safe bet for companies headquartered there. They may also be the default choice for governments in the EU.
Can the the defendants request that the case be heard anyway, should they want to have the case dismissed with prejudice?
Some distros do actually break out rust dependencies into separate packages (e.g. Guix does this). It's just that a lot of rust software isn't distributed primarily by distros.
If I have learnt one thing working in software engineering, specifically on AI-enabled products empowering junior engineers, and using Copilot professionally, it’s that you need even more experience to detect the subtleties in the lack of the models understanding of your domain, your specific intent. If you don’t know exactly what you’re after, and use the LLM as a sparring partner to bounce your ideas off, you’re in for a lot of pain.

Depending on the way you phrase questions, ChatGPT will gleefully suggest you a wrong approach, just because it’s so intent on satisfying your whim instead of saying No when it would be appropriate.

And in addition to that, you don’t learn by figuring out a new concept. If you already have a feeling of the code you would write anyway, and only treat the model as a smart autocomplete, that doesn’t matter. But for an apprentice, or a layperson, that will keep code as scary and unpredictable as before. I don’t think that should be the answer.
It would have been shorter to list only the correct markings on the map.
Why’s that bad? If companies were building something that can be trivialized so easily that’s on them.

Imo. A company can use whatever wrapper services but the business they serve should be smarter.
Oracle evil - check. Microsoft privacy violating mess - check. Azure rolling disaster zone - check.

What could possibly go wrong?
<https://archive.is/L0FJy>
Chiquita found liable for financing paramilitary group
ESP-IDF, Arduino IDE is untouchable for serious stuff IMHO.
It would be great if it turns out to be a better experience than iPadOs, even with a pro.

I've just given up my iPad pro due to it being so limited (no good terminal options, dev tools, filesystem access).

Such great potential from a HW perspective, gimped by lack of features, a 2nd hand cheap 13" touch ultrabook with linux or windows is so much better as an out and about troubleshooting and occasional dev tool.
Making sure they build that gambling API early, I see. You sly dog!
Rust binaries (at least on Linux) are not statically linked by default. They depend on libc.
Why, would you care if it's a full second or even 5 seconds?

Go hyped their compilation speed a lot in its early years, but unless it's C++ templates level slugginess it's not like it's that big of deal.
Supposedly faster in Swift 6 but I don't have any big swift projects to throw at it. It uses LLVM so it's not going to be as fast as Go's.

In Swift 6 they:

- Improved parallelism via compilation pipelining (ie top-level object files are referencing not-yet-compiled symbols but can still proceed while those compile in the background)

- Parallelized and pipelined debug symbol generation (lazy debug symbols)
If we get the start of another pandemic, as Trump get's back into the White House, I am going to think god is just this cynical twisted bored old man...
That if won't happen anytime soon neither for the Earth in general nor USA in particular. Media often loves to move goals from population growth to agin g population to fertility rate, etc. All those while connected do not negate the fact that population is growing, and growing fast. That 'once population growth reaches zero or negative' is very theoretical and UN is constantly underestimating population growth. So no, we will not see that in our lifetimes.
You got it! By approximate category and in no particular order:

## MISCELLANEOUS

- [Low Tech Magazine](https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com), a solar-powered website showcasing the amazing low-tech things you can do with a little ingenuity,

- [Stephen Wolfram's Blog](https://writings.stephenwolfram.com) on math, compsci, and everything else,

- [Cool Macrophotography](https://www.barrywebbimages.co.uk/Images/Macro/Slime-Moulds-...) for amazing pictures of tiny things (WARNING: Time Sink!),

## COMPUTER SCIENCE

- [While-True-Do](https://blog.while-true-do.io) has lots of stuff on Linux administration and self-hosting,

- [Backend Banter](https://www.backendbanter.fm) for a great podcast on backend development,

- [Two Wrongs](https://two-wrongs.com) for statistics and functional programming,

- [Math ∩ Programming](https://www.jeremykun.com/) where math and programming intersect! Written by a Googler...

- [Paul Bourke's site](https://paulbourke.net/) where you can get happily lost exploring old pages on every topic CS touches,

- [Jason Punyon's blog](https://jasonpunyon.com) for some fun algorithms and things,

- [Yossi Kreinin's blog](https://yosefk.com/blog) for C, Python, and plenty of non-technical topics,

- [Adrian Sampson's academic blog](https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/blog) for an academic's perspective,

- [Cool polyhedra viewer project](https://georgehart.com/virtual-polyhedra/vp.html) if you like geometry,

- [Another academic blog on CS](https://11011110.github.io/blog) from a prof at UCal Irvine,

- [A Linux & Rust blog](https://harald.hoyer.xyz) which has a lot of older content, but isn't very active now,

- [Matt Palmer's blog](https://hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog) is pretty neat. More varied CS topics...

- [Austin Henley's blog](https://austinhenley.com/blog.html) stays pretty active, and it's a former MS researcher writing it,

- [Jack Vanlightly's blog](https://jack-vanlightly.com/) on system architecture and data processing,

- [Computational Complexity blog](https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org) written jointly by academics,

- [Matt Might's blog](https://matt.might.net/articles) which covers everything related to CS and academia,

- [Dr. Brian Callahan's blog](https://briancallahan.net/blog/archive.html) mostly dealing with UNIX and C compilation,

- [The Dictionary of Data Structures & Algorithms](https://xlinux.nist.gov/dads) from NIST (very old website),

- [Red Tomato's blog](https://tech.aufomm.com) on Linux server administration,

## ART & TYPOGRAPHY

- [Typographica](https://typographica.org) for typeface design news (check out their creator's other projects as well...)

- [Minimal Gallery](https://minimal.gallery) showcases great user-submitted minimal web designs,

- [Letterform Archive](https://letterformarchive.org) in San Francisco, for collections and tidbits on pieces of typographic history.

That's about it for now...
Do you compensate them for their time?

If not, why?

How would you feel if they insisted on you doing home assignments?
> […] eccentric recluses like Howard Hughes.

And not an eccentric recluse like Ted Kaczynski:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski
I'd certainly expect you'd to be able to at the very least disable the stuff that does outgoing network requests.

As for the stuff that's local to your device, how is your privacy being invaded? It's your device's OS looking at data on the device it's running on, as it's always done.
Oracle lawyers, ever waiting to pounce on new prey, extend their claws.
You can read the details of their approach for the privacy/security aspects of the cloud compute portion here. https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
I don't think the intent is to learn the entire problem domain from the examples, but the specific rule that is being applied.

There may (almost certainly will be) additional knowledge encoded in the solver to cover the spacial concepts etc. The distinction with the AGI-ARC test is the disparity between human and AI performance, and that it focuses on puzzles that are easier for humans.

It would be interesting to see a finetuned LLM just try and express the rule for each puzzle as english. It could have full knowledge of what ARC-AGI is and how the tests operate, but the proof of the pudding is simply how it does on the test set.