skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is notable because it’s the first longstanding camera company to return to making new 35mm film cameras. Leica never stopped, but otherwise it has only been Lomography and cheap plastic “reusable disposable” cameras for the last several years.

Pentax has said that they intend for this to be the first in a series of new film cameras, culminating in a new fully mechanical SLR.
https://archive.ph/Vl3VR
Author here--thanks for the feedback! We'll update the docs to clarify the first three points assume that the database and application always restart and return online if they go offline.

For the last point, we'll clarify we mean that the code of the workflow function must be deterministic. For example, a workflow shouldn't make an HTTP GET request and use its result to determine what to do next, even though that's technically idempotent. Instead, it should make the HTTP request in a communicator (https://docs.dbos.dev/tutorials/communicator-tutorial) so its output can be saved and reused during recovery if necessary.
"Instead of a measurable, quantifiable thing that exists independently out in the world, we suggest that intelligence is a label." Thought experiments lead me to the conclusion that the same is true of consciousness. I make the analogy to how the essay, What Color Are Your Bits? which argues that copyright is "out of band" (my summary) from the actual bits of data. I think the property of a system having consciousness is, like copyright of data, neither intrinsic nor an epiphenomenon but rather at least partially a status of how we regard it.

The thought experiment goes thus:

Assume it's possible to simulate a conscious brain with a deterministic program. (Already a big ask for some, but this is one of the axioms of my argument so bear with me.) Assume that if embodied the simulation would be indistinguishable from the original person, but also if not embodied it could be interacted with in a simulated environment.

If it is deterministic, that means if you re-ran the simulation with same data , inputs, and timing, all would proceed identically. Is the simulation conscious again while replaying it along a fixed path?

Suppose you memoized portions of the computation. How much of the brain could you memoize before you no longer consider it conscious?

Suppose you could, instead of memoizing "in breadth", instead use memoization to skip steps of the consciousness without changing the outcome. How many in-between states could you gloss over while still considering the simulation conscious?

Suppose you divided the simulation among multiple computers, without changing the outcome. If you accept the original premise, you may have little trouble accepting a distributed system with a fast network is also capable of hosting a conscious mind. However as we said this replay is deterministic, there's nothing stopping nodes from substituting internal playback of pre-recorded network packets for actually communicating on the network.

Are you prepared to call it a simulation of consciousness if a "distributed system" of nodes each internally simulating all of it, in portions, while all remaining silent and not sending any network packets between them?

My point with all of these variations is not to say which is or isn't conscious, it's to argue there is no clear dividing line. One could come up with moral arguments about which of these scenarios it's unethical to keep trapped in this experimental setup versus which are the mere image of a thing and not the thing itself, but that's my point: it's only a moral/ethical dilemma and not a physical or informational state change between non-conscious and conscious. The "universe doesn't care;" consciousness is not a conserved property.
When you or I lie on a resume the background check knocks us out of the job. But when the CEO lies on a resume, nothing happens.
I think they would have moved to ads and subscriptions either way. It's hard to resist that sweet, sweet cash flow.
I never noticed that none of the official art for Ms. Pac-Man includes her beauty mark, which is kinda key to the sprite. It's the only thing that distinguishes her from regular Pac-Man other than the bow.
Does it mean that using this mechanism you can only achieve cooling for a narrow temperature range ?

As I assume you cannot shine laser light at a spread spectrum to capture all the possible ΔT
'Token' is the generic term people have settled on. 'Currency' is rare.

A stock would be a 'tokenized equity', in the same way there's 'tokenised real estate', 'tokenised metals', 'tokenised bonds', whatever the real world asset is.

'In-game currency' is indeed used by gaming people, since that was their term from before blockchain.
The Calculi of Emergence: Computation, Dynamics, and Induction [pdf]
> .. . and private contracted security reviews.

How you find those? Or this type of work finds you based on your activity on competitive security review sites?
This is very convenient for consumers. I don't know why anyone wouldn't want it.
Thanks for clarifying the GDPR error.

Also, to be clear - I don't see Google as inherently bad. My opinion here is just about Google Takeout.
Exactly.

Pay your rent on your card, get points.
In Europe it is very different; in Romania they are almost never used, in the Switzerland they are almost mandatory.
To call it unintended consequences you didn't understand the post.
I would like to see a requirement that any drone sold in (or imported to) the US (or EU) has to be flashable - without having to desolder components, or any other such nonsense. Press some buttons and load new software.

An accompanying requirement would be to document interfaces to hardware subsystems (chip spec sheets would suffice).

With drones, the potential for mischief is too great to let malware be smuggled in.

Is this a politically and technically realistic goal ? Or am I talkin' thru my hat ?
> are already at the top of the market for most positions (that I’m aware of).

This is not even remotely close to true for high-paying SWE jobs in the Bay, and the part of me that grew up in the middle of nowhere still has a hard time believing it.

Staff engineers make between $500k to $1M a year. My first year at Google I was sat in a row of absurdly high-level engineers, many of whom made even more.
> The point is that most people who will buy a $700 Chinese drone will buy a $1000 US drone if that's all they can get.

the time when the US could actually decide this sort of thing at close to planet scale is long gone. if you ban those devices, there will be countless other nations (including close friends of the US) where you will be able to buy them no problem.
You can choose to only use the open source apps. Using the website is optional.
It goes even deeper than just English. No descends from the Indo-European negation phoneme *ne. You see similar 'n' sound negative words in pretty much every IE language group.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...
I subscribed to gpt4 for awhile and recently I let my subscription lapse. In the chatgpt4 model I couldn't get it to complete anything always getting the // add more lines if you need them but in the free got4o model things work first try. I'm guessing with limitations on the free version everything needs to be one shot output. In gpt4 people are given more calls so they force you to reprompt 4 or 5 times.
In a just world Nathan Myhrvold will be on his deathbed and a simple device could save his life but it can't be turned on because it violates IVs patent on power buttons.
Everything in Crypto (for both meanings of the word) has a built in bug bounty. It's just whether or not the companies want to take part in it.
I recently moved to Spain, after having lived in the US for a decade. It's only been a month for me and I definitely see the over-reaching over-regulation of EVERYTHING in the EU.

It's so much that it literally pushes young people to have a non-risk taking mindset. I have a friend who has some knife sharpening and tooling skills and she's been figuring how to do something with this (some kind of a business). I suggested why not get a garage and get the machinery you want and get started. She listed down all the regulations and how even thinking about it is not allowed.

Starting a business/startups is hard. The EU just adds 10-20 more hurdles to cross to get even with the US startup ecosystem. At least that's been my observation in the few weeks.
> As you can see from this description, just like creating weights cannot be inherently dangerous (since they’re just lists of numbers), neither can running a model be inherently dangerous (because they are just mathematical functions that take a list of numbers as an input, and create a new list of numbers as an output). (And again, that is not to say that running a model can’t be used to do something harmful. Another critical technical distinction!)

Ah, the classic duality of big tech: Singlehandedly bringing upon the next stage in the evolution of mankind (to investors) while at the same time just tinkering in their garages on some silly, entirely inconsequential contraptions that do nothing more than turn ones and zeros into different ones and zeros (to regulators).
Not so sure it is that clear cut. A few infamous stories of bug bounties not getting paid for even trivial amounts

So it is $2 million x probability payment vs $100 million x probability escape without getting caught.

Even with the threat of non-payment, not sure I could ever feel at ease with a multimillion bounty hanging over my head.
I’m not sure if there is a specific term, but it’s basically an example of the problem of induction and confirmation bias. The conclusion does not logically follow from its tenants. Basically, no matter how many white swans you’ve seen, you can’t use that information to prove that black swans don’t exist.
What I really want to see is a guide for SPF/DKIM/DMARC oriented towards people writing apps that send email using other people's domains. I have dealt with so many ticketing systems and marketing platforms that do not understand the roles of SPF/DKIM/DMARC at all.

Things like, insisting we need to include their SPF record in ours, even going so far as to scan the SPF record for the include, only to find out they use their own domain in the envelope address (which is what I wanted them to do in the first place).

Or not distinguishing at all between envelope and header addresses and using our domain in both. Which of course means they're not tracking delayed bounces.

It really becomes an issue with larger orgs where everybody wants to use the main domain for brand purposes and subdomains are just totally frowned upon for whatever reason. If you just leave my SPF alone and rely on DKIM, it means you can still pass DMARC and track bounces properly. Hell I'd be fine with making subdomains for the envelope address that lists your infrastructure in the MX records but again, eyes really start to glaze over when you say "envelope address."

Basically what I really want is a guide that boils down to: if you're not their primary email provider, then don't touch your client's SPF record.
If you 'opt out', service providers can prevent you from sending anything under these new rules. You might not even be able to reach out to support to complain without consenting to your messages being scanned.
I would say quality is difficult to create, and perfection even more so.

You may have to accept that it can not be achieved.

But you will come a lot closer if you do not do things that rule them out.

What better North Star could you ask for?
Thanks for the rec. Yeah that’s the issues I’m running into. What makes it worse is that users can define their own nesting so building the dynamic queries in application code is becoming really difficult. Add on the problem of needing to comply with a rigid external API for those consumers.

I’ve been setting up some test data in graph db and I feel like I can toss out my 1400 loc total to build the dynamic query and just have the client pass in the json of what they want.

Current new implementation is about 200 loc.

Personally I don’t mind if sql can do it or not. I care about being able to test easily, and detect and fix bugs without needing to bring out a whiteboard. Saving 1200 loc is already such a good feeling.
LLMs aren't humans. you can be pushy without being rude. In cases like this I simply ask for the full version. Usually ChatGPT produces it. GPT4o is more verbose, so this should be less of a problem.
I don't understand how the Claude functionality works.

As far as I know Anthropic haven't released the tokenizer for Claude - unlike OpenAI's tiktoken - but your tool lists the Claude 3 models as supported. How are you counting tokens for those?
This is a wonderful essay.

I've always found the term AGI confusing. For example, how general does it need to be to qualify and what specific cognitive capabilities does it need to exhibit? My gut feeling has always been that it's not a helpful guiding star for AI research.

It seems better to be led by the problems we want to solve as that makes it easier to define success and generality is still beneficial since you can more efficiently solve more problems with general solutions. What this essay solidified for me is that what we call intelligence is really just a set of tools that allow us (humans) to solve a certain collection of problems. We mistakenly believe all those tools are cognitive, but really some are just evolved responses and instincts.
"Weak induction" might be a good way to describe this. "Hasty generalization" if you want a more common logical fallacy to name, though ironically it's a more general fallacy that doesn't perfectly describe the situation you're talking about.

Technically all inductive arguments are a non-sequitur, since (non-)sequitur is a deductive concept and inductive arguments are inherently non-deductive.
I manage IT at a mid-size business. At least once a month, I get asked to release some incoming email from quarantine that got sent there because the sender's SPF record is wrong or outdated and doesn't include all the email services they actually use. (What this really tells me is how many small businesses are out there running with no in-house IT expertise or support of any kind.)

I don't do whitelisting. Instead, I always reach out and offer to help the other party correct their SPF record.

It happens often enough that I wrote a script in Racket that will generate the email for me and paste it into the clipboard [1]. The email tells them exactly what they need to change, and links to docs from their current email provider (so they don't have to trust me about edits to their DNS).

[1]: https://gist.github.com/otherjoel/6b8bf02f6db6e0c47ba6bca72e...
Amazon? Oh hell no! No way. I'll email all my personal data to NSA and anyone else who's interested. But not to Amazon.
This example makes no sense to me. An attacker is potentially logging on to the computer and submitting empty passwords to get in. And this is what we're trying to prevent at the expense of having an unclear UX?
A spider has intelligence too. It's far more limited than a mammal's, but it's still on the same spectrum.
And intelligence is not a single linear measure. AIs outperform humans on some tasks and are worse than rats at others. So it's more like that AIs have this weirdly shaped higher-dimensional capability surface that partially overlaps with what we consider intelligence. Haggling about which exact overlap gets to be called intelligence and which doesn't seems like... unproductive border-drawing on a poorly charted concept-map. Considering that they're getting more powerful with each year and such policies are about future capabilities, not just today's.
The US already runs two government healthcare programs. There are 65 million people in Medicare and 83 million in Medicaid. For less money per patient than private insurance.
I'm currently learning Angular and it's an absolute dumpster fire of a framework in the sense that it offers no clear philosophy. It's just a jumbled mess of concepts and syntax.

I think where it shines though is that it's completely batteries included, which I can see being useful for large enterprises where it's near impossible to change things.

Having recently worked on a very legacy React app, it became apparent to me the value of frameworks like Angular. If you can maintain it and upgrade it gradually, React is arguably the better choice. But if you're leaving it to stagnate, Angular is a far better proposition.
As a cognitive bias: That sounds like the "normalcy" (or normality) bias, "the refusal to plan for, or react to, a disaster which has never happened before" [0], [1].

As a logical fallacy: Based on skimming the list at [2], the "appeal to tradition" [3, 4, 5] fallacy seems close: "claim in which a thesis is deemed correct on the basis of correlation with past or present tradition". (Aka: appeal to tradition, argumentum ad traditionem, argumentum ad antiquitatem, back in those good times, conservative bias, good old days); or, maybe: argument from inertia, stay the course.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias

[2] https://biaslist.com/?q=_lf

[3] https://biaslist.com/?q=appeal+to+tradition

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition

[5] https://utminers.utep.edu/omwilliamson/engl1311/fallacies.ht...
I remember when AJAX made things faster.

Then we stopped sending html to insert into the DOM, and started sending JSON with a bunch of extra steps in between.

The fastest sites I see these days usually just reload the whole page pretty often.
That’s a pretty curt dismissal given that tons of artists paint in photoshop and have for decades.

Photoshop is a great painting app that rivals krita for painting. That it does other things well or originated for just photo editing doesn’t take away from that.
This is startup land. We call it a Painted Door test of the truth. He's just selling product roadmap before things are feature complete, we all do it.
This is not just idealistic - it's bordering on naive. Tech companies have proven, repeatedly, over decades, that they are not responsible with our data.
That ship already sailed when Python 3 made comprehension expressions (like list comprehensions) introduce a nested scope. They're even a kind of 'for' too. (Previously, [x for x in y] would clobber any x in the same function. Fixing this meant implicit nested scopes.)

It's true that this would've been a further change (every loop entering the implicit nest, rather than entering one nest which then mutates per loop). But this design was a decision, not a necessity. JS's "for let" shows this by example.
React in particular puts out a point release with breaking change warnings, along with an upgrade guide, several months before the next major version so that developers have plenty of time to prepare for any required changes. (For React 19, this was the 18.3 release at the end of April 2024.) They also try to provide scripted code updates ("codemods") to ease the upgrade process.

This is admittedly rare in the JS ecosystem.
The article says she wanted to record the news as an important record of events. It's a contrast to these days, when news broadcasters are seen as sensationalists and at times politically motivated (by me anyway).
paint is also plastic
> we need to fix expectations
The problem is that even one individual neuron is really complicated. The model we imagine of how a neuron works is very simplified. Useful for some things, but not for simulating a worm's brain.
What happens when output licensing is enforced. Will be a shitstorm no?
There are many on-going studies but so far none have found a protocol that clearly and reliably improves IBD. Many people find fecal transplants compelling because they seem safe and have a plausible (albeit vague) mechanism of action, a gastroenterologist emphasized to me: at least one (elderly) person has died from a fecal transplant and another got dangerously sick; they are not without risk.
Given the recent (warranted) currency of these issues given the Sun's change of spin ...

... do excuse my ignorance, but, is -this- also cyclical?
Well, you've got brain wiring that causes you to respond to stimuli in a certain way. A small portion of that wiring is genetic (e.g. opposite sex attraction, fear of heights, disgust at certain smells), and the rest comes from prior sensory exposure (i.e. is learnt during your own lifetime).
Big Jump in Insurance Costs Strikes Condos
These have been on the market for years. I have a bunch of them.

They are a bad gimic in every way.

They generate heat. They waste power. They create light pollution. They are distracting. Their measurement capabilities are often very limited or mediocre or don't update quickly. And finally they often burn out and stop working anyway.

If you want a USB power meter, buy one for $10 or less.
I'm happy that exists as an alternative for those who care about this.

I (meat-eater) am done with leather alternatives for now. A while back, I bought the official leather-alternative case for my everyday-carry Roav sunglasses, but it didn't last me very long. Frustrated with that, I ordered a custom made case with real leather, that cost me double the price, but it has been aging really nicely.

For me, paying extra for good leather, that will last longer and is byproduct of meat I already eat, seems to be the best decision in terms of sustainability. Hopefully technology will improve so that we have more options in the future.
The competition is literally an arm of the state of China, which is able to subsidize the business and send prices through the floor. Why would any entrepreneur choose to compete with a state-backed enterprise? And by the way, have you heard of tariffs? We literally "ban" all kinds of products with very high tariffs.
The Surgeon General's Fear-Mongering, Unconstitutional Effort – EFF
This is much like saying the DOM is not truly part of the view because it doesn't directly represent the pixels that the user sees. Both the vDOM and actual DOM exist entirely to facilitate a particular kind of presentation, and can be logically separated from the model which could in principle be presented in purely audio format or something. If that's not a "view", then what is?
What's that supposed to tell us?
Google might be the worst run unicorn. How they fell so low from that high is truly an achievement. They will continue to print money, but to think Google was once programmer Utopia and Googlers were regarded as demi-goods... inconceivable now.
> Functions in Haskell including Prelude can throw exceptions which is not reflected in the type signature of the function. That is an effect that makes seemingly pure functions impure.

No, bottom, or _|_, is an inhabitant of every lifted type. An exception is bottom. So the / function is still pure even though it can throw a divide-by-zero exception.
Neat! I must try this.
Not to mention, if your app is horizontally large, and depending on how it's configured, cold starts can really kill your overall performance.
I grew up on pirated windows, and never had the opportunity or means to pirate Mac software. I now cannot stand the mac software - alt tab is broken (for me), as are copy / paste. I think piracy had a huge involvement in my preferred software.
this was all true 20 years ago. today trading is so universal and available that only buy VTI if you hate money :-)

if you have the time then start trading or leverage up and you'll beat the index.
Indian Suspect Extradited to U.S. over Plot to Kill American Sikh
Could suddenly come into the picture like LLMs
Yeah, they're putting ads everywhere and selling all your activity data.
'Vacuous' is a good word to describe comments about Ptolemy and tokens, when copyright law forbids making and distributing copies without permission from the copyright holder, and that is exactly what IA was doing.
Claude identifies a mix of False Analogy, Hasty Generalization, and Appeal to History