skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel this thought of AGI even possible stems from the deep , very deep , pervasive imagination of the human brain as a computer. But it's not. In other words, no matter how complex a program you write, it's still a Turing machine and humans are profoundly not it.

https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-informati...

> The information processing (IP) metaphor of human intelligence now dominates human thinking, both on the street and in the sciences. There is virtually no form of discourse about intelligent human behaviour that proceeds without employing this metaphor, just as no form of discourse about intelligent human behaviour could proceed in certain eras and cultures without reference to a spirit or deity. The validity of the IP metaphor in today’s world is generally assumed without question.

> But the IP metaphor is, after all, just another metaphor – a story we tell to make sense of something we don’t actually understand. And like all the metaphors that preceded it, it will certainly be cast aside at some point – either replaced by another metaphor or, in the end, replaced by actual knowledge.

> If you and I attend the same concert, the changes that occur in my brain when I listen to Beethoven’s 5th will almost certainly be completely different from the changes that occur in your brain. Those changes, whatever they are, are built on the unique neural structure that already exists, each structure having developed over a lifetime of unique experiences.

> no two people will repeat a story they have heard the same way and why, over time, their recitations of the story will diverge more and more. No ‘copy’ of the story is ever made; rather, each individual, upon hearing the story, changes to some extent
I can absolutely recommend osmand+ (Android) or maps.me (iPhone) for OpenStreetMap offline data. Streets better than Google maps ;)
Having bought a used computer, phone, etc, always do a factory reset, or something even stronger. Never trust the contents to be safe.
Yeah, you could. Or you could search for shapes of different parts that would maximize the engine efficiency. The goal is to simultaneously build a representation space and a simulator so that anything that could be represented could be simulated.
Hi, I'm the person who wrote the Twitter thread this article is based off of, so happy to answer any questions about it
With respect, they said pollution is the icky part. I’m not aware of any major industries that are responsible for an appreciable amount of CO2 emissions and no other pollutants/icky stuff, but I’d love to be proven wrong about that.
One of the creators of Myst (Rand Miller) credited the original game with being why he got into game development in the first place [1]

Myst inspired many people to go into computer science and game development as well, so it's interesting to see how much of a snowball effect this Lunar Lander game had

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWX5B6cD4_4&t=1099s
Saw the photo and assumed it was Norman Greenbaum.

In case anyone else is interested in the "unbaked bread, and unfired pies", here is a recipe book:

https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.4683/page/111/mode/2up
What a relief, my creativity will not be affected since I do not use Apple products. I am safe
Sad. It was amazing experience working at stackpath as an entry to the industry. Not many cutting edge companies in Dallas and I totally lucked out with the tech and the people! It was an amazing platform when it first rolled out, and if it wasn’t kneecapped, it would be an everyday name in the tech world. After almost a decade of stagnation it was surpassed by every other cloud provider, dev-ops platform, and infrastructure company.

Good luck everyone who needs to migrate on short notice. It’s going to be fun if bootstrap doesn’t have a backup CDN.
Just wanted to share a fun experience I had when visiting Pompeii last month: we were walking around the city (the archeological park, that is) and I wanted to see one of those roman public bathrooms. So I googled "pompeii latrine" and got for search results links for how to find the bathrooms (as in, the guest facilities). I was initially confused as to why such a clear query got me the completely wrong answer, until it hit me that bathroom and latrine are semantically similar, but not in my context.

At least that's my headcanon, who knows. And it seems like the cool preserved latrinae were in herculanum anyway. Still, fun to think about
I don't think there's much in our brain of significance to intelligence older than ~200M years.
I started making a lot of field recordings on my last few expeditions into remote rainforest. This is the soundscape at dawn from a camp in Maliau Basin, Borneo, featuring gibbons, hornbills, elephants, songbirds, insects... https://vocaroo.com/1ofQSNJYXLh2

I've recently upgraded my recording device, and will make a large library available in higher quality one day.
Gas is cheaper. Pharmacy is cheaper, whether you have insurance or not. Perhaps more so if you don't have insurance. The regular stuff is good quality and cheaper than competition too. I don't even shop that much, but I still maintain the membership as I come out ahead even with my occasional shopping.
That sucks..I've been training pull ups for a year now. Making really slow progress. I also have wrist problems but haven't had it for years now. I had some amount of "tennis elbow".. I fixed it with some exercises and can't even remember which ones now. I think it might have been rolling my tricep and elbow on a lacrosse ball. Ever try that? You get numbness in your fingers? Could be elbow nerve..
> Sites that want to do that already have plenty of more sophisticated tools for that.

Most of which require javascript. Lazy loading is implemented in browsers/HTML so blocking JS won't help prevent tracking/fingerprinting there. There are a lot of other means to collect data without resorting to JS too though. The expectation isn't that you can prevent all your data from being collected, but you can (and should) prevent as much of it as you can, when you can.

In the case of lazy loading, disabling it not only prevents that data from being collected but it does so at basically zero cost to you (for all but the slowest or most metered connections) and in fact will likely improve your experience since many people find lazy loading annoying in the first place.

> if they don't use user tracking and only collect "basic scroll data" anonymously, honesty, I don't see the problem

If people weren't evil there wouldn't be a problem but since there are plenty of people who are, and you can't know which sites are only collecting "basic scrolling data" and not associating that to an IP and/or selling or handing that data over to third parties the only sensible thing to do is prevent anyone from collecting that data.

Sorry if that data is useful, I'm sure that it is, but it's also frankly nobody else's business and the fact that web-developers have largely refused to self-regulate and be responsible with our data means that smart users will do everything they can to keep as much of it out of other people's hands as possible. It'd sure be a better internet if we could all blindly trust random websites with our data when it is (on its own) low risk, but we can't so here we are.
Whilst agreed generally with the principle, there's ... a slight fly in that ointment: the seafloor is largely geologically young.

The oldest seafloor is actually in one of the smaller seas: the Mediterranean, a relic of the earlier Tethys Sea, and is about 280 million years old. Most seafloors are only ~100--200m years old if that, and some basins (e.g, the Atlantic) only began to form ~170--200 mya.

I'd agree that the ecological niche of deep-sea hydrothermal vents is quite possibly the oldest of any, and may have originated life on Earth, there are no particularly old extant deep-sea vents.

By contrast there are continental strata which are many billions of years old. Some extant landforms, such as the Appalachian Mountains, are older than terrestrial life.
> It will also result in housing that looks like a stack of shipping containers.

This is an either temporally or willfully ignorant statement - prefabricated housing hasn’t had to look like a boring box in decades. I’ve been involved in prefab projects where you couldn’t tell the on-site builds from the prefabs.

Also there’s an elevation rendering of the project that clearly isn’t ’a stack of shipping containers’.
yes, it happened to me on manjaro
Just finished my first Waymo rides today in Los Angeles.

Despite what feels like hype right now, it still doesn't price in the massive waves of transformations coming to nearly every sphere of modern life.

This poll needs a fourth option: "What's coming in the next 1 to 10 years is far greater than what today's level of excitement indicates".
Already a thing.
Telehealth fraud indictment may wreak havoc for Adderall users, CDC warns
Calif., Other States Still Grabbing for Wyoming's Share of Colorado River Water
We've banned this account because you've continued to break the site guidelines egregiously after we just asked you to stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(No, this isn't because of your views — we don't care about them and barely know what they are – and yes, we ban accounts with opposing views in just the same way, if they break the site guidelines the way you've been doing.)
Please don't start or perpetuate flamewars on HN, regardless of how bad another comment is or you feel it is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What Made Kathy Hochul Flip on Congestion Pricing?
SAR interferometry has been used to measure increased strain in the Earth's crust and identify where earthquakes are more likely. There a lot of published work which is credible. I didn't read the paper here but if results can be confirmed using other approaches could be a valid approach.
https://archive.ph/thgBp
PyTorch and JAX have very good — but narrowly scoped — compilation facilities, and this suffices for a lot of really compelling AI applications.

A strong general purpose compilation story for Python is unlikely to materialize, IMO.
1453: Printing press will erode human creativity one pressed page at a time. Every copy of every page in a book was unique reflecting the humanity of the scribe copying the work. Now we will just get mass produce pressed drivel.

1822: Photography will erode human creativity one plate at a time. A human creatively chose every color in a painting for portrait. Every form every line was creative. Now we just let light hit chemicals.

The truth is that when you automate a tedium a new art form emerges.

> and compose bedtime stories to read to your child complete with AI-generated illustrations.

One thing about AI stories is the ease of change. Imagine not just reading a bed time story but composing one together and changing it to explore new possibilities. Imagine changing major elements such as plot and characters and villains and heroes and have the story and illustrations reflect that. Imagine the creative fun you and your child can have!

If you can’t see such possibilities, the lack of human creativity is your fault, not technology’s.
He wants the search algorithm to be able to search for better search algorithms, i.e. self-improving. That would eliminate some of the narrower domains.
> “Do they know things?” The answer to this is yes but they also think they know things that are completely false

Thought experiment: should a machine with those structural faults be allowed to bootstrap itself towards greater capabilities on that shaky foundation? What would the impact of a near-human/superhuman intelligence that has occasional psychotic breaks it is oblivious of?

I'm critical of the idea of super-intelligence bootstrapping off LLMs (or even LLMs with search) - I figure the odds of another AI winter are much higher than those of achieving AGI in the next decade.
Yeah UW is great but one university isn’t enough to sustain a world class talent pipeline
George Washington is facing the wrong way on our quarters now? He’s always faced left. Now he’s suddenly facing right.

I never believed in true evil until I saw that sentence.
15 - 9 = 6
MOSIS is a fabrication service. The tools are totally separate, and you'd still have to pay to use them. Universities generally get free licenses though.
Historically, Chomsky has been wrong about a great many things.
This should be how spam and other network ills are fought.
Right. You can also do that with Rc and borrow.

When nothing in the call tree is using the parent link, it should be OK to add children. That's potentially checkable at compile time.
Life360 says hacker stole customer data from its Tile support platform
Sometimes you have to do your thing and then enforce change (if you can). Large orgs can be just as odd as individuals but on a far grander scale.

I've worked for other firms and then my own for the last 24 years. My job title is Managing Director but I am under no illusion that my word is final. It is really final but only when I say so and I never do.

Oh a BI thingie. Yes that will fix everything. No it wont.
Are hostages genocide?
I worry that it's worse. They have been working on this for years, but I think that they may have assumed that their desktop market dominance was so sound, that they just didn't care to put the effort into privacy. What are you going to do, Linux Desktop?

This seems like the general attitude that delivers lackluster solutions across many products, like Teams, SharePoint, etc.
There’s also bulk triboelectric effects where the mechanical forces, and the subsequent physical movement of large blocks of material can build up static charges due to having different electron affinity, like a rubber balloon and a wool sweater… by rubbing one against the other a static charge builds up… one theory for earthquake lights is ground to sky discharge of triboelectric charge buildup due to different electron affinity between the two sides of a fault plane under stress… a large enough area can make a small enough difference add up, so even if it isn’t earthquake lights, the triboelectric effect could be contributing to what was measured in this case… fault “surfaces” are going to put square kilometres of differing materials against each other… a non zero effect per square meter, can add up quite a bit when applied to several square kilometres.
If only housing could be more expensive
Every product at Costco is vetted or experimental. Either way, you’ll always be happy because if you don’t like it they have their eternal refund policy (refund at any time without a time limit)

The product return rates are also tied to customer data (membership scanning is required to pay). The better return data allows them to make better decisions on which products to boot.
Just an FYI, SPLADE is licensed as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, no commercial use.
To me it sounds that anyone could implement Microsoft’s approach as an app, there is no reason for it to be bundled with the OS. The only difference would be it would cost users token costs directly as opposed to be paid by other means.
Everyone has more authority over their mailbox than any sender. Hence local spam filters block a lot of content without bring censorship. People can share their findings about the patterns of spam, hence collaborative / federated spam rejection lists. They are not dominated by any single entity or a small clique, and every user is free to heed or ignore any part of the list, or none at all. Hence it's not censorship.

This mechanisms formed in the email network long before the current oligopoly formed, and still works.

So I hope there is a honest way to filter out generally objectionable content by.a collective effort of the users who care, without turning the filter into a censorship tool.
Pepsi had a chance to kickstart the Snowcrash weirdo corporate microstate world and instead they sent their navy right to the scrappers. Cowards.
When looking at unintended consequences, you always go with the worst case when planning, not the best case. That's why.
If that specific part was fine an effectively identical accident would likely have happened later.
This is not necessarily a statement of need. It is an opinion piece:

"The articles and other content which appear on the Modern War Institute website are unofficial expressions of opinion. The views expressed are those of the authors, and do not reflect the official position of the United States Military Academy, Department of the Army, or Department of Defense."

Here is what the Army is buying now:

https://defensescoop.com/2024/02/09/army-600-coyote-counter-...

https://www.rtx.com/raytheon/news/2024/02/08/meet-lids-a-sur...

There are also laser defeaters in development, and EW counter-drone systems are currently in use.
Considering the US pulled his passport he had only two options: imprisonment/death or remaining in Russia. Based on his travel plans, Russia was certainly not what he had in mind.
I find it curious that people generally applaud Costco for paying good wages to their workers yet don't extend that consideration to those who build the stores.

Is it latent classism? Disdain for tradespeople? Is outsourcing bad when it comes for office jobs, but good when it shaves a few percent off of the final $/ft2?
fascinating. you know i feel like AI will eventually have to create its own art because its a way that intelligent beings learn things.
If you start with the phone upright and rotate the screen away from you by turning the phone around the vertical axis, then both rotations are around the same axis and of course they do commute.

My guess is that romwell is holding the phone flat, so that the rotation away from you is about a horizontal axis; then you should experience the noncommutativity.

(The resulting orientations are 180 degrees apart, which indeed makes it difficult to say that any one orientation should be the unique average. But this is due to the geodesic structure of the space of rotations, not the noncommutative product that happened to construct these points, see above.)
It was a pretty smart decision by gorhill to make a different content blocker for manifest V3 compliance rather than having ublock origin have wildly different capabilities depending on the browser it's installed in.
Totally. Having retirees would also quickly require a reasonable medical system - another thing that small towns struggle with providing.
This video has some good examples of the nuances of door design:

Why video game doors are so hard to get right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYEWsLdLmcc
> there's a host of other places across several countries who can match Zeiss for what is essentially bespoke builds.

Ah yes. No development time involved here at all. They just built it. I don't know what ASML, TRUMPF, Zeiss, and occasionally the Fraunhofer Institute were mucking about for 25 years. Completely boring bespoke build. Bah. Could get it from anyone else by next week. Pick an off-the-shelf coating too and be done.

It's a wonder nobody else is taking a slice of those ~4 billion USD of revenue Zeiss is making off a bunch mirrors for lithography machines each year.
Sun sold expensive hardware and low cost systems flooded the market with decent performance, so the sell was to businesses who liked the reliability and support.

First big deal was the megapixel workstation, meeting a science and engineering need. Motorola chips gave way to RISC, (SPARC) which worked well.

Next big deal was the dot-com boom, and timing was perfect for expensive, powerful and reliable computers. Larger systems and networks of Suns powered many dot-coms, and even Pixar. [0]

100 E-4000 servers.

But dot com faded (crashed) and compute farms were built on cheap redundant hardware.

I was systems engineer in education sales, and it got tough. After I left, Sun eventually sold to Oracle.

Sun bought Cobalt for the Qube, which was pretty cool for education but schools below college level ran on “educational” windoze apps, like the infamous “Reader Rabbit”, so we ended up with windoze servers running them and accessing them via Citrix to Sunrays, one per teacher. I’d have much preferred Linux apps ported to Solaris, the likes of the very amazing GCompris set of educational apps.

There’s a TLDR kind of summary at Slashgear. [1]

Sun pioneered lots of great technology, or advanced it. Some include Java, ZFS, and virtualization (Solaris Zones and E-10000 ) and more.

I supported university computing before joining Sun, and it was a good fit. Sun had donated a raft of workstations. And universities made good use of the gear, such as NOW [2], the network of workstations. Arguably the progenitor of Google and Facebook style compute farms.

[0]: https://www.hpcwire.com/1998/12/18/pixar-used-sun-systems-po...

[1]: https://www.slashgear.com/1352662/forgotten-computer-compani...

[2]: http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/
You know any servers?
Widen ChatGPT Screen
I meant more like people who dropped out for their startups
I’d be curious if people really ever switch from ffmpeg and if yes, what to?
The python already exists. These efforts enable increasing performance without having to rewrite in a very different language.
I don’t think we need to worry about a real life HAL 9000 if that’s what you’re asking. HAL was dangerous because it was highly intelligent and crazy. With current LLM performance we’re not even in the same ballpark of where you would need to be. And besides, HAL was not delusional, he was actually so logical that when he encountered competing objectives he became psychotic. I’m in agreement about the odds of chatGPT bootstrapping itself.
I feel a low effort ios cashcow game is begging to be made
That was what struck me. Sure it could look like shipping containers, but that seems very uncharitable.

Without plans or a render showing that’s the case I don’t know why we can’t assume it would be at least a little better looking.
No it isn't, this is exactly what babies do.
Microsoft answered Congress' questions on security. The White House needs to act
Points for originality, at least. So many conspiracy theorists nowadays are just boring and predictable.
The gas alone is worth the membership.
The thing that's always got me is how loose a hold Excel has on the clipboard. Copy a cell and you best not do anything but paste it where you want to, cause so much as breathing will clear that copy.
> HAL was dangerous because it was highly intelligent and crazy.

More importantly; HAL was given control over the entire ship and was assumed to be without fault when the ship's systems were designed. It's an important distinction, because it wouldn't be dangerous if he was intelligent, crazy, and trapped in Dave's iPhone.
That's great, and they're probably on to a cool learning technique. But it's really just another case of smart parents with a smart kid thinking they reinvented education because the kid is smart.
I'm late in replying here, I know, but I would say that this is not an exception to the rule "ignorance of the law is not an excuse," but rather a new rule: "secret laws are not enforceable."

That said, we're getting into the weeds here and I understand (and don't disagree with) the gist of what you're saying.
This is about OpenAI getting former NSA chief on its board. There's no probability involved here.
"How would you perform under those circumstances?"
My son would recommend Improv classes.

"Given its limitations, ChatGPT is phenomenal."
But this doesn't translate since it learned everything from data and there is no data on "sit and think".