skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can think of a few reasons:

AGI could help solve a lot of the problems we currently have. As long as they don't solve them in a way that boils down to "destroy all humans" it could prevent a huge number of possible disasters and drastically improve our situation.
For at least some of our problems we're working against the clock as it is, so the sooner new solutions can be found the better. Generally, major leaps in technology have been beneficial for the world and AGI could be no exception.

If you're very wealthy and believe that some combination of climate change, lack of food/water, another pandemic, or violence could cause a large percentage of the population to die off in the near future while your wealth will likely allow you and/or your children to survive then AGI will be important to replace a lot of the poor people you've previously depended on.

AGI means corporations can stop paying many if not most of of their employees which means their profits will go sky high. AGI will likely mean a return to legalized slavery. Computers don't take vacations, sleep, get sick, show up late, steal, insist on basic human rights, cause expensive sexual harassment lawsuits or workplace violence etc (at least not to the extent that humans do) so the sooner you can get rid of those pesky human employees the sooner you can increase the rate you've been stuffing your pockets with cash.

Whoever gets to AGI first can use it to rule over and oppress everyone else in order to make sure they can't create it or take advantage of it to pursue their own agendas.

If you think that humanity is just a stepping stone that will create the machines which will in turn create something superior to replace all of humanity than it'd be good to get that going as quickly as possible before inferior humans destroy/waste the resources those superior machines could put to better use or before humans cause some crisis that sets humanity back delaying our ability to fulfill our destiny and bring about our replacements.
“Demographics are destiny” as the saying goes.

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/11/1169314853/union-rutgers-stri...

https://www.frbsf.org/research-and-insights/publications/eco...
Realistically, including avionics and medical devices where the software is restricted by regulation (in theory) and where the manufacturer is legally liable for failure of their device?

More specifically, the radio in an iPhone can almost certainly be made to operate outside of licensed/compliant limits by tweaking the software. Should they be forced to allow that but still held accountable when their device is noncompliant?
In The Netherlands, thanks to land reclamation and WWII we don’t have many old buildings. Most buildings in Amsterdam are 19th century or newer. The center of Rotterdam was largely rebuild after WWII. If I look at homes for sale and filter on 20th century and older that is about 5% of all homes.
no comment on this product specifically, but large takeaway from hitting a point where my side thing had actual users + communication -- CRM is critical

if you asked me 24 months ago I'd tell you CRM was a BS category, now I think of it as a backend component on par with the DB
More papers published doesn’t mean more science. It just means more people incentivized to publish “science”. Most published papers don’t matter. They may not be read at all or applied in any way. They are mostly about individuals making progress, like towards a degree or the next funding grant or next title. A small percentage of science is actually moving things truly forward. It also makes sense that after all the progress so far, further research will be increasingly expensive and time consuming and unlikely to make a finding.
Apple's interest is in generating social angst among young people to marginally increase their already-massive market share through ostracization. I can't imagine how that supports your interests.
> I hope that this trend continues.

Err, which one? You've mentioned a few different things. :)
If we’re talking about crimes like “murder”, yes, it’s pretty clear.

If we’re talking about crimes like “bribing a public official”, it’s less so. There are countries where that is simultaneously 1) technically illegal by that country’s own laws, 2) absolutely an expected and required part of doing business. So what do you do in that case?
Ship of renowned polar explorer Ernest Shackleton found on ocean floor
Algol was infamous for:

"10" + 1

does that mean 11 or "101" ?
When I was in Nepal, they were getting USD to "fight the communists" and when I read their manifesto, it was all about removing corruption from the system. Nothing "communist" about it.

Same as this shit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Massacre#Strike
The brain is not a computer (2016)
100%. And the sooner low level folks like me can provide this signal, the sooner the execs can make decisions. That saves cycle time and is the real secret sauce for growth.

That’s why my favorite interview question (I’ve done hundreds of interviews) is “tell me about a time you cut corners on a project”. My role as a data person is to provide enough signal as early as possible - not necessarily to give a precise answer to everything we want to know.
What crm did you settle on and why?
wat

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
Soviet designs tend to be more artisanal. Sometimes it gives them oxygen-rich rocket engines and better engineered ejection seats, other times it malfunctions and flip over ISS or send a space probe back down to earth by accidentally cryogenically freezing out a computer.
I guess they have magnetic personalities.
Apple uses your data in ways that they see fit to improve your user experience. The only material difference is that Google wants you to buy whatever from whoever pays them ad bucks, whereas Apple wants you to buy Apple products for Apple.
There's not a consistent story but there are a bunch of options, principally divided into wrappers around existing libraries (SwiftGTK [1], Qlift [2], LVGLSwift [3]) and
SwiftUI workalikes (Tokamak [4], SwiftCrossUI [5], AdwaitaSwit [6], there are others too).

After exploring most of these for my use case (something that needs to run on an "embedded" RPi CM4 as well as iOS), I wrote a Swift bridge/runner for Flutter [7] which is working well. That enables me to write the UI in Dart and the business logic in Swift. I looked at all the other options below (that's how I know about them, indeed [3] I wrote as part of my research), in the end I felt that none of them were at the time of investigating sufficiently mature to base a product around.

[1] https://github.com/rhx/SwiftGtk

[2] https://github.com/Longhanks/qlift

[3] https://github.com/PADL/LVGLSwift

[4] https://github.com/TokamakUI/Tokamak

[5] https://github.com/stackotter/swift-cross-ui

[6] https://github.com/AparokshaUI/adwaita-swift

[7] https://github.com/PADL/FlutterSwift
> found at least 1 other manufacturer

that's Zvezda K-36
> _my_ React app is hard and challenging for me

I love the idea of "essential vs artificial complexity". React claiming to solve the essential complexity of state management, among others, creates bunch of artificial complexities. And software engineers are no better as a result and become masters of frameworks, but not masters of their arts. That is why the comparison to assembly line is apt. Doing assembly line work is still hard, but it is not software "engineering" in a certain definition of the word.
Both my kitchen timers are sealed panels, one above the stove and one on the oven so I guess I just got in the habit of using them years before I had an Alexa.

I don't really even use the small one in the kitchen except to ask for a weather report now and then. But I see how the timers can be useful. They're very handy for my dentist etc. and would be for timing anything when you really don't have a free hand or want to touch anything.

Bedroom is light and alarm. Sometimes music but I don't really listen to music in bed. Downstairs I play off the AppleTV connected to my stereo system.
At the bottom of the page, there are examples.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtv_LjleEgM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
I haven’t watched the video yet, but I was instantly reminded of the Alan J. Perlis quote he and Abelson used for SICP’s dedication:

> I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don’t become missionaries. Don’t feel as if you’re Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don’t feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What’s in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.
Individual papers are never supposed to be reliable truth so it's good to lack faith in them. It's a pity so many are fraudulent but even when they're not, they're still often wrong. They're there for researchers to communicate between each other, not for the general public to make personal life choices from, nor for companies to remove their products from sale because of.
No, that would be open access to data, which is how science has made progress since time began. Or are you saying the scientific method doesn't apply to implementing self driving cars?
I know, my PhD was about verifying software correctness with SMT solvers.

The reason we don't do this in production is that the solvers take an unpredictable amount of time. A small problem can take forever and a large problem can be instant. You can't gave that in a compiler.

There are enough people at Apple who know about SAT solvers. :)
UUIDs are an inefficient bloated way to store PKs and only make sense in scenarios where distributed clients need a way to independently generate conflict-free identifiers.
I think that is unfair. The productivity per person in old projects like RollerCoaster Tycoon is impressive. But the overall result pales in comparison with modern games. Saying the field has stopped producing anything of real value is very wrong.

To me it's like comparing a cathedral made by 100 people over 100 years to a shack without made by one person in one month. Like it stands I suppose. It gives him shelter and lets him live. But it's no cathedral.
Roughly 5 Percent of All Cybertrucks Are for Sale Online
My last two cars have had acoustic/noise dampening to the point where one of them (Audi) even pumps engine noise into the cabin at a low level (and it's not a particularly quiet engine - twin turboed 2.9L V6).
I think it's likely Nvidia's GPU's, many of which are $50,000+ for a single unit, far surpass Google's custom silicon otherwise why wouldn't Google be selling shovels like Nvidia?

If Google had a better chip, or even a chip that was close, they would sell it to anyone and everyone.

From a quick search I can see Google's custom chips are 15x to 30x slower to train AI compared to Nvidia's current latest gen AI specific GPU's.
I bought a 2024 Honda Acura MDX SUV in December and it's definitely the quietest vehicle that I have ever owned. Now I know why ;<)
I think it’s much more nuanced. Remember Ford’s “we make cars in everyone’s favorite colors (As long as it’s black)”

When you’re making a product you have to spin up the flywheel with marketing in order to get accurate feedback from customers.

The previous method was to use focus groups to make new products. That was far worse.

Even harder, nowadays the biggest impact comes from platforms instead of products. Multi-sided marketplaces are even more challenging.

It’s not hubris, it’s collective complexity, increasingly sophisticated consumers, and less low hanging fruit.
Hmm, I don't get anything in this thread.

What's so bad about Nintendo's or the Sony PlayStation's software? From my perspective they're like... almost perfect, except for the fact that there are updates sometimes, but they're fast.

What's so bad about JR's ticket vending machines? What could be improved?
never heard of here, but I think I remember the operation when I was a very young kid being on the news.

She was a extraordinary person from what I read.
Even recent times aren't that great either. With eBay heavily implying they were going to murder a reviewer over bad reviews.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/60073359/steiner-v-ebay...
They already fire people attempting to form unions, I doubt it’s from twitter likes.
Can Neurolinguistic Programming Transform Your Life?
It's more about potential protocol conformance than overloading.

If you discard that, we are back to Objective C.
You know, I never considered that almost all plants we eat are angiosperms (flowering plants, monocots + dicots).

I immediately went looking for exceptions and found a few:

- fiddlehead ferns

- pine nuts

- juniper berries

- gingko nuts

- nori (red algae), kombu (brown algae), and kaipen (green algae)

But, almost everything else, is an angiosperm.
The only thing that can stop Google is Google. Somehow every bet that isn't Search doesn't pan out. And inexplicably, they're working hard to kill Search now. As a shareholder, I hope they succeed. But I am more pessimistic about it than you.
Those already using Keyboard Maestro will find that its built-in Clipboard Switcher is awesome and has all of these features. And you can set up a custom system-wide shortcut … with Keyboard Maestro.

My preferred shortcut is Meta + Q.

(I use Karabiner Elements to set Caps Lock to Meta while pressed, and to Escape when tapped. And I also use it to set Right Command + H/J/K/L to work like arrow keys. Makes flipping through the clipboard history a breeze.)
CRM selection heavily depends on stage of the company and GTM motion complexity. I would never recommend to anyone to ever start with SFDC, but I can't not recommend ending there.
If there is a human in the loop, how can it be worse than the status quo in accuracy? And since policing is overall a benefit and necessary for a functioning safe society, making it cheaper while maintaining the same accuracy rate seems like a win. A nonzero rate of false positives or rare human mistakes isn’t a reason to reject this technology.
I think the first proclamation about how x86 has reached its end I read was in 1992 when the DEC Alpha came out. (It's possibly of course there were even earlier ones.) The chorus became louder when Intel successfully convinced the entire world IA64 will work just as well as it is shown in a PowerPoint despite the failure of Multiflow, Cydrome and their own i860. The new shiny is always shiny... but it doesn't mean it's that much better. You mistake a very tight integration of the stack from silicon all the way up to UI for some miraculous efficiency of ARM vs x86. This is not so.
This entire article could be a sentence: Apple is taking a small model approach to Generative AI so they can run them on-device.
It's worse that infer everything.

It's infer everything and make sure there's only one possible interpretation, with certain exceptions.
thats still not causality. silly.
Do you expect it from being different from Windows with the average person having at least a dozen game launchers, update services and downloaders running in the background?
You can order them super cheap and in bulk from a variety of retailers. Ranging from simple toy things to rolls of it
One could make the argument that if the corporation is required by law in all the non-legal countries to abide by those laws and not bribe officials that the practice will necessarily have to die out among the few countries you would be arguing for, simply because the risk is too great to the corporation. Maybe it would be maintained among local businesses, but it would be an understood fact that a politician could not expect a broad multi-national to participate in it, irrespective of their desire or willingness, if they stood to face prosecution from... however many countries they operate in, all of whom would demand a penalty be served. Even if they're slap-on-the-wrist penalties, that's going to add up real fast.
The fact that we need to check this point is one of the issue.

There's a bunch of other organisations, in particular some are built by brands, and of course in a way that advantages them.

Then there's coffee that has absolutely no audit and no designation, mostly because it's produced at low scale (the farm manages its own international sales in a way or another) and is extremely good on an ethical POV but can't be bothered with a registrtion authority.
Sounds like hard won experience there. I've long thought CRM was BS but been wondering lately - this helps, thanks.
Interesting problem: how would you locate unmapped abandoned wells for triage and plugging?
Saying Google didn’t have to reinvent containers when Google invented containers is .. something (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cgroups).
ChromeOS-like implies an immutable image with the AB partition scheme for me. Other than Fedora Silverblue there is nothing like it as far as I know.
That may be true, but EricE is parroting long-since-debunked fake Facebook memes:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40664837>

Enough bullshit flinging already, eh?
Those are literally just morality plays with no scientific grounding whatsoever. The "positronic brains" behind the robots only exist because Asimov thought it sounded cool and futuristic.
Everyday Astronaut did a fantastic video of his visit to Stoke Space, that goes into a lot of detail on what makes them so interesting. It's a really nifty design, and they do the same kind of rapid development that SpaceX does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY8nbSwjtEY

Given that Starship is so big, I think it could work out for Stoke to start with a smaller but fully reusable rocket, giving cheap rides to people who don't want to rideshare. Plus, governments tend to be interested in having multiple launch providers.
Civilization and Its Discontents
How's that even an issue in Linux? If anything, vanilla Linux users have way more power over their computing platform and are never locked out of anything.
Except Microsoft is making their own chips as well?

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/15/23960345/microsoft-cpu-g...
Not if you didn't know about this problem and have switched to Android.
Unlocked article: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/science/mushroom-hunters-...
Been following your efforts for a while, and this feels like a big win to me.
Is no one else working on custom silicon?
The old factory is now kind of like a new-age mall with small stores, good restaurants, bars, etc outside of Denver. Very cool spot.
They do sell shovels, you can get Google TPUs on Google Cloud.
> I don't think we see a cat and our brain have it frame by frame adjust our synaptic weights (or whatever brains do)

I think that "whatever we do" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Some of those "whatevers" will be isomorphic to a frame-level analysis that pulls out structural commonalities, or close enough that it's not a clunky reductionist analogy.
That's it! Hat tip for this source.
This also tripped me up. I didn't think to try cabbage. I did think to try brassica which is my preferred way of referring to the species.
I dunno how they got the text ("SD3 at FAL") to appear like that in the example. If I change it to anything else it's either completely garbled or placed on a shop sign.
There is noise, it just isn't a loud as here in the US. Germany has vehicle noise emissions standards, including the tires. Further, Germany doesn't have nearly as many large trucks and SUV's, which typically have fairly loud tires.
Let's generalize the question. Why are our brains able to engineer machines that produce forces greater than a human body?

Because they understand the forces, and set them into motion with tiny efforts to build mechanisms that eventually unleash and reform large amounts of energy, creating the force.

And what if intelligence is another kind of force that can be created by taking tiny, human efforts, building a machine, then pumping huge amounts of energy into it, outputting the intelligent force?

Or let's consider evolution. How could it create intelligent brains from single celled organisms? Incrementally, as the organisms randomly accumulated mechanisms of adaptability and eventually sensing and cognition.

In the first view we see ourselves as engineers, building a vast engine that, through its sheer size and energy, and our basic understanding of fundamental laws of intelligence , produces an intelligent force greater than a human mind.

In the second view, we see ourselves as blind watchmakers, jamming AI components together at random, until, by accident, we get something smarter.
> I wouldn't trust anyone to define what's a "dog whistle."

Courts are up to the task — it's Con Law 101.
Trolley Problems
SFDC for the uninitiated?
That's just the next phase of the mysterious mushroom's life cycle!
I thought NVIDIA's moat was mostly software/CUDA?
Yeah, ops comment makes it seem like they are building racks of RTX 4090s, when this isn’t remotely true. Tensor Core performance is far different on the data center class devices vs consumer ones.
I could probably beat any of them in chess.
As most internet arguments, the original examples were a bit flippant, pot and slavery at opposite extremes. Yes, the shifting balance between some natural order and polis/federalism. I am saying 'same argument' you are saying 'opposite arguments'. I am meaning the same thing. It is the balance line, I was saying 'same argument' as in arguing over the point where to draw the line, not two different argument pushing from both sides.

Yes, today, there is a 13 amendment. So technically slavery is settled?

But I have heard many people use the argument that the Civil War was about 'states rights' (not slavery) in the context of today. As in re-contextualizing, saying that generally the causes of the Civil War, being 'States Rights', was actually correct, and Lincoln went too far trying to keep the Union Together. That the states should be allowed to do what they want, which generally would re-instate slavery. If a state were to secede, then the constitution would not apply. And generally that is the argument, that the central government has over-reached, and we should split.

Of course, nobody is saying bring back slavery. What is being said is that we need to join the Church and State into one, form a theocracy, and women will really just be for babies. That is an actual position people are taking today, and they use the 'states-rights' as an argument.
The chips are somewhat irrelevant. It's the overall system architecture, management, and fault recovery that matters.
So just re-use your own internal apis with better access control? What else?
"Salesforce dot com". "SF" would be a little hard to differentiate.
Here is the fastest Java result on the same machine with 48 cores, https://github.com/REASY/1brc?tab=readme-ov-file#fastest-jav...

JVM: 2.133 ± 0.236 1.857 2.586
Native Image: 0.4121 ± 0.0051 0.4019 0.4163

It is very fast :)
Yes. Google was building custom HPC hardware 5-8 years before Nvidia decided to expand outside the consumer and "workstation" markets.
It's funny because it's doubly exponential WRT code size. However it's also almost linear (n log*(n) due to union-find) WRT the size of the type and sane humans don't write programs with huge types.
Steam is an issue, but honestly, its xbox games pass that's keeping me on my PC