skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey I think this is a great idea! In fact I am working on putting together something similar! The apps in the meetup space are so bad there is a lot of potential here for new platforms.

It is interesting that both you and the comments are focused on event discovery. I am looking at it from a different angle. I am looking for a platform that can keep a calendar of events and rsvps for already-established small nonprofits and community groups - like book clubs, board meetings, local political groups, etc. In my opinion there are lot of social networks that are doing a decent job of event discovery out there (as much as you can in our very fragmented world). The problem is organizing who is going to what without using Outlook, Google Calendar, etc. - also with better options for recurring events and notifications/reminders, and something non-tech-savvy people can use.
The vast majority of businesses do none of those things.
I'm pretty sure Ilya had nothing to do with AlphaGo, which came from DeepMind. He did work for Google Brain for a few years before OpenAI, but that was before Brain and DeepMind merged. The AlphaGo lead was David Silver.
I am now adding "Silicon Carver" to my resume.
Perhaps you've read it already, but this is a nice article on that topic: http://www.righto.com/2011/07/cells-are-very-fast-and-crowde...
You explicitly asked it to explain?
I have never seen one in Australia.

Whereas drive through bottle shops (liquor stores) are very common here which seems to sometimes surprise Americans.
Cool. So you'd be fine with me coming over and spray painting something of my choice on your house, assuming I assured you (with absolutely no supporting evidence) that it would go away over some unspecified period of time?

I do not think so.

Anyone who's been around small children knows that some food dyes do NOT disappear when washed, even with detergent.
When it comes to a measured time-series, the function is always discrete and arbitrary; there is no 'curve' like that generated by a function well-defined on the reals, and so there is no real closed-form derivative. In this context derivatives are not equations so much as derived data, reducing two points to one. And this process is recursive, such that you can take 4 points, reduce the two adjacent ones to 1 point, and then reduce those two into 1 point. In fact for 2^n points you can get the nth derivative in this way. The utility of this data is highly questionable in almost every context, but its available for every time-series. (One application that comes to mind is a kind of checksum, where you recursively derive a time series and stop when local neighbors go to 0, and you're left with a sparse list of high-order numbers that in some sense characterize the series.)
> I've seen footballers using it a lot over the years (Neymar, Messi etc) fwiw.

The word "craque" in Portuguese was borrowed from English with the "exceptional" definition and is commonly used. Given how many Brazilian players there are in the top leagues, I wouldn't be surprised if it was commonly used by football players in general.
There are plenty of tools which are dangerous while still requiring a human to decide to use them in harmful ways. Remember, it’s not just bad people who do bad things.

That being said, I think we actually agree that AGI doomsday fears seem massively overblown. I just think the current stuff we have is dangerous already.
> I'm sorry.. but what is your daughter selling, exactly?

Did.. did you just post “I’d have to see these images of the preteen girl before I could form an opinion about whether or not the men buying and sharing them were creeps” as a rebuttal to an article about social media enabling child predators?
> Jamais vu

Can’t say it rings a bell.
I'm mystified at the attitude. Why not a "er. I see how that's a footgun, although it is the documented behavior. Lets figure out how to make this safe, just remove it because it's not very useful, or at least put big warnings on it."

Who cares if the user ran random commands? Users are going to do that sometimes, even highly experienced users sometimes have a bad day. Commands ought not erase the home directory unless it's fairly obvious that they're going to do so.

The task of the programmer is to make the computer work well even with imperfect use... if we imagine a spherical perfect user in simple harmonic motion we'd need only equip them with a repl prompt and they could just directly write the code for the computer to do exactly what they want.

Given that we're authoring code for third parties at all we must be assuming that the user is bounded in terms of time, knowledge, and potentially capability and attention... and in every case any fault is a share consequence of the author and the user. If nothing else at the extreme it's the programmers fault for failing to anticipate a sufficiently advanced idiot or the users fault for choosing to run some bozo's software. :)

And here the user could simply have privately cursed the software and went on without reporting it, leaving it to some other hapless victim to blow their foot off... so a bit of explicit gratitude would have been justified in both directions, for reporting the bad behavior and for looking into the report.
They assassinated a potential rival for the throne. The situations are not even remotely similar.

Killing a US citizen on US soil would not go down well.
Behavioral biology is still a nascent field. Finding concrete biomarkers is the holy grail if diagnosis, but behavioral observation is the best we’ve got, and it so happens that certain traits tend to cluster, so the DSM and the like have resorted to shorthands. When biological mechanisms can be teased out, then we might see finer grained diagnoses and treatments.
Play that out. How do you see that going? Some researcher post doc with access to ChatGPT-12 just casually asks "hey this thing that violates the laws of physics as we understand them, how could that work?", and ChatGPT-12 says "oh that's easy, just frobb the frozzonator", and the post doc just wanders over to Home Depot, grabs the parts to build a cold fusion plant to do that for $50 on a post doc's salary, but is killed by the evil agents of Big Coal on the drive back to the lab? How would that work?

Every idiot who doesn't understand the science and math behind fusion can now get ChatGPT-4o to give themselves an interactive review on the physics and practical reasons why cold fusion doesn't produce more power than you put in. (Muon-catalyzed fusion is a room temperature science thing we can do, but it won't produce power so it's relatively uninteresting).

If cold fusion were possible and a postdoc figured out how with the help of ChatGPT-12, they'd announce it on Threads, write a draft paper, run the theoretical physics past everyone will listen, everyone wound rush to replicate and confirm, or disprove the theory, funding would roll in when it was actually agreed to be theoretically possible, we'd build it, we'd have limitless power too cheap to meter, and then we'd argue over if ChatGPT-12 deserves the Nobel or the postdoc.

Cold fusion isn't being held back by Big Coal.
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I think CDNs led to the demise of "mildly dynamic" websites. They made static websites get served super fast, so you got the most benefit from completely static sites.

You could still include a small amount of JS to make a mostly-static site partially dynamic if you were logged in. Limited mostly to things like including the user's username on the page when logged in.
For some reason, this is the default for text UI elements in Godot[0]. Not Markdown or even HTML and CSS but this ancient markup format that died with forums ages ago. It probably doesn't matter for 99.9% of use cases, and most games probably just use sprites for UI anyway, but it does make more complex uses like parsing the HTML from HN's API a pain in the ass.

[0]https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/ui/bbcode_i...
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Mark Roeberge of Stage 2 vetted 250 AI startups and not one of their LPs (most sales leaders at startups) signed up to use them.

The hype valley is here.
I admit the study looks pretty good, but Id still have to see if these changes are present in those with depression/anxiety, etc and 2. are not result of stimulant use to be convinced. I found this if youre interested which cites more studies
https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ajp.2...

>It's not good enough for diagnosis - you want to hit 95+% accuracy for diagnostic.

This doesn't quite make sense to me, because you're comparing it to the current diagnostic criteria and assuming it to be 100% accurate.

If we want to be totally scientific, we ought to just do these scans and diagnose people with low gray matter volume, etc and drop the DSM, ADHD etc.
“I understand that you believe” …that questioning diagnostic clarity is associated with some nebulous conversational or clinical scenarios that make you uncomfortable. But sticking your head in the epistemological sand and chastising people for being “extremely insulting” (based on your own extrapolated associations with their position) is extremely …condescending argument-by-assertion.

I have skin in the game on this one and in my own experience sloppy diagnostics have caused way more suffering than stigma. I was nodding along with gp’s entire point. Your confidently dismissive chastisement is what feels out of line.
> I don't think a food grade powder that will wash away with the next rain counts

Your evidence for it "washing away with the next rain" would be?

Ever see what a child can do with a glass of "cherry" Koolaid?

A dye being labeled as "food grade" has essentially no correlation with its permanence.

> Does sidewalk chalk count as vandalism?

Sidewalks aren't 4,500 year old World Heritage Sites.
No, I’m not replying in the wrong place and i cited the portion of your comment I was responding to.

I think your idea that a proprietor reducing the quality of the product because they disagree with someone’s private life is literally the problem in a nutshell, you have just said that we need to just tacitly tolerate discrimination in public accommodations. The quality of the cake should simply have nothing to do with the implicit characteristics of the customer at all.

Furthermore, you’re suggesting that since they will just discriminate anyway in lower-key ways if we ban overt topline discrimination, that we should just legalize overt topline discrimination and let it happen. That’s wrong/bad too.

Like you’re just suggesting open discrimination should be legal because we can’t stop 100% of it. That’s a fucking shitty take/shitty belief system you hold.
I think it's fairer to say that the other side has abandoned the academia.

In the traditional Western culture, classical education was basically required for being part of the elite. If you could not participate in a refined discussion on topics elites were expected to know, other elites would not take you seriously.

But over time, the society became more meritocratic and education became more narrowly focused on employment. Today you can be a CEO without knowing classical Greek and Latin. You can call yourself a conservative without having liberal arts education. When social sciences and humanities are no longer something inherently appealing to conservatives, those fields are left to people with other motivations for studying them.
It is absolutely mind-boggling to me that anyone would start a new OS project today in C. Even if you're not a fan of Rust (which would be my choice), there are other, safer, better languages to write an OS kernel in.

Even if you're going for a microkernel design, there are still consequences to writing memory-unsafe code outside the core.
In general it can. In this specific case, I really struggle to see even a single dimension in which young boys are more misogynistic now than they were 2 decades ago. The original comment mentions Andrew Tate - in the early 2000s there was an entire genre of Andrew Tates called "pickup artists".
I also want a wearable and app that can alert me when I'm not breathing deeply and rhythmically.

And I'm not talking pulse oximeter here. I'm talking my chest expanding enough with each inhale.
Many industrial countries already have lots of gas power plants. If they don’t actually need to run that often and don’t need that much fuel, just run them on hydrogen or biogas instead.

Near zero investments to be made. Just somewhat larger operational costs per MWh delivered.

If you collocate some industry that needs hydrogen (necessary for green steel and fertilisers for instance) then making and storing the hydrogen on-site should be fairly cost efficient.

Running hydrogen in gas turbines has been demonstrated already btw.
> all of these "blocks" editors sprouted from the original one I designed for Etoys more than 20 years ago now -- most of the followup was by way of Jens Moenig -- who did SNAP. You can see Etoys demoed on the OLPC in my 2007 TED talk.

I was curious about this TED talk, and found the part where he demonstrates Etoys in the section called "Personal Computing & Children Today".

Alan Kay: A powerful idea about teaching ideas

https://youtu.be/Eg_ToU7m1MI?feature=shared&t=740

The way he interacts with a running program, moving statements around and editing them, observing the values of variables as they change.. It's really an ancestor of Snap, and I can see its influence on Bret Victor's talks like Inventing on Principle.

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Mike Travers' thesis, "Agar: An Animal Construction Kit" is an entertaining and thought-provoking read.

> An animal construction kit is an interactive computer system that allows novice programmers to assemble artificial animals from simple components. These components include sensors, muscles or other effectors, and computational elements. They can also include body parts such as limbs, bones, and joints. A complete animal construction kit must also provide a world for the animal to live in, and must support the co-existence of multiple animals of different species.

It reminds me of the book, Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology. It's about modelling a world of autonomous agents with sensors and actuators, motivations and behaviors.

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

(EDIT: This book is listed in the bibliography of the thesis, so it is a kind of precursor.)

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> ..in SimCity, the first and most useful breakout for children would be to allow various UIs to be made that would let children find out about and try experiments with the "city dynamics rules".

> ..I'd advise coming up with a special kid's oriented language for your SimCity/Metropolis system and then render it in "blocks".

This is an intriguing idea, especially now that SimCity's world dynamics engine has been separated and compiled to WebAssembly. It will allow different views and interfaces with the underlying data, events, actions.

> it’s dawning on me that [Snap] is a full blown undiluted Scheme with continuations and visual macros plus the best ideas of Squeak!

That's lovely too, it makes sense that a visual programming language that evaluates tree-structured blocks will naturally correspond to a Lisp.

So it seems these ideas are pointing toward a visual Lisp environment that allows programming robots and interacting with a living model of a city/world.
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I've been very confidently informed that these AIs are not AGIs, which makes me wonder what the "General" in AGI is supposed to mean and whether generalization is actually the benchmark for advanced intelligence. If they're not AGI, then wouldn't another word for that level of generalization be more accurate than "generalization"? It doesn't have to be "transcendence" but it seems weird to have a defined step we claim we aren't at but also use the same word to describe a process we know it does. I don't get the nuance of the lingo entirely, I guess. I'm just here for the armchair philosophy
Why do I have to click Show More on almost every post in this thread?
Are you thinking of referer? (A misspelling of referrer, present in HTTP headers.)
>Just watching robots trundle around as though it's normal is an interesting slow creep towards what seemed so futuristic in Star Wars in the 70s and 80s.

My nostalgic reference for this is R.A.L.F. from Flight of the Navigator - https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/R.A.L.F.
And how would we discern a stochastic parrot from a sentient being on autopilot?

So much of what we do and say is just pattern fulfillment. Maybe not 100%, on all days.
I've followed Sandofsky for years, brilliant mind, and shaves ever more of the aggro edge off it, but it's still there. This is brilliant writing. Absolutely top-notch. This is the most minor of nits: The moment for me was the abrupt shift to a paragraph about "Utah MLM"...then you remember the un-needed reference to Mormon missionary...and you wince, then smile, "Ben...you still got it, baby"

Of course it's all fine and it's all understandable because he's from Utah and Mormon and Utah has a lot of MLMs. And it's relevant later anyway, it illustrates that it's a Potemkin village company / depths of humiliation that Austin moved back to Utah. Blah blah blah.

But a really good example younger me, and even today me, would learn from. Stay focused. Delete the punches that feel good, and you excuse by saying they drive the point home / are explicit. People understood what you're saying without it, so it reads as gratituous.
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LeCun has his own interests at heart, works for one of the most soulless corporations I know of, and devotes a significant amount of every paper he writes to citing himself.

He is far from the best person to follow on this.
This reminds me of how from an early age, when driving with my dad, I could sense when he was about to say something just because he breathing changed for like 3 seconds before he started.
Really good. This is just geometric analysis though. Geometric in the sense that the model likely doesn't understand what it's rendering. All it sees is some shape.

The next step is geometry with organized contours that make sense, meaning that the model needs to cohesively understand the picture and not just the geometry. For example, if a person in the picture is wearing armor the model generates two separate models overlayed on one another, the armor and the mesh.
I wish this project well but the main problem here is the network effect. Pretty much everyone I know is on meetup, and if they're not, they're on facebook. The experience isn't great but good luck getting anyone to sign up to a new random site. It's also very risky for people hosting events to switch over.

So I would focus on that more than any technical features other than group/event discovery.
I see no issues with it.
Maybe you could’ve looked for meta study instead of just confirming your bias by denying one exists without looking.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10332820/
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The FINRA response was because banks blamed FINRA rules for RTO 5 days
I mean I think he can write his own ticket. If he said "AGI is possible but not with autoregressive approaches" he could still get funding. People want to get behind whatever he is gonna work on. But a certain amount of hype about his work is needed for funding, yes.
I thought the app itself had to support losing the display and safely/sanely recovering from that?
This is cool, don’t know how I’d use it yet but having access to the huge library of node modules sounds like a win.
Title is very confusing: this has nothing to do with swimming pools or the color green.

This is about monopolized rent fixing.
This could also just be an indication (and I think this is the case) that many Manifold betters believe the ARC AGI Grand Prize to be not a great test of AGI and that it can be solved with something less capable than AGI.
> ... before Linux and the Intel 80486DX-33 permitted me to first boot X11 on my own machine in 1992

A tiny bit later for me, with the Slackware distro, around 1994 I'd say.

I remember manually editing the modelines to create "uncommon" screen sizes (in pixels), like 720x492 instead of 640x480, etc.
The publication that I linked includes references into the peer-reviewed literature. The author has a PhD in microbiology, and is currently employed as a co-PI at the UC Davis Western Center for Food Safety:

https://www.wcfs.ucdavis.edu/linda-j-harris/

So while it's possible that she's mistaken, I think it's much more likely that you are. If you still think it's the former, then I'm open to review any references that you link.

> It's very clear that uncooked garlic stored in an anaerobic environment goes bad quickly, but if you have a good standard of cleanliness, cooking (part of the industrial canning process) almost certainly does retard the growth of bacteria.

You are continuing to assert this on your own authority. I linked an expert who explicitly stated that roasting didn't make it safe; but you seem to have disregarded this, seeming to imply--again, solely on your own authority--that it's still fine for "a few days".

Is there anything that would convince you to stop this? I understand the process feels safe to you, since you've done it hundreds of times without incident; but unless you'd consider p ~ 1/100 of a future incident to be an acceptable risk, that's not meaningful information.

The rest of your comment shows no familiarity with any modern canning process, and is filled with mistakes. But most fundamentally, are you not aware that botulism spores survive at 100 C? That's the reason why pressure canning is required for low-acid foods, elevating the boiling point of water to ~121 C. (That might be what you mean by "industrial canning", though many people pressure-can safely at home. That's what I meant by "elevated pressure" in my first comment. There don't seem to be any published methods for home pressure canning of garlic, but one could be developed.)

Normal roasted garlic still contains some water, which means it couldn't possibly have reached a temperature above 100 C at ambient pressure. So I don't see why you think that's safe. Perhaps the surface gets hotter and the spores are mostly at the surface; but in the absence of studies, and considering the downside, that seems like a remarkably bad gamble.
> The ExectOS community keeps in touch via Discord.

100% Non-starter, such a shame.
> I had a professor in undergrad named Kanapathipillai Thirugnanasambanthan

My son had a high-school classmate whose name was something similarly long. Everyone called him "R-18."
I'm not knowledgeable in this low level systems stuff - which other, safer languages could you write a kernel in?