skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s fascinating to think about the number of PUs (procedural units) it takes to make a modern tool. Something as simple as a modern hammer must number in the thousands and a mobile phone in the millions or billions.
Controlling Robots with VR Haptic Gloves [video]
> No you didn't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40703486

If I was unclear - the equivalence doesn't hold because one of these are moral entities and the other isn't.

> No I didn't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40703471

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40711859

> Right back at you.

Fair enough. I was already planning on it, so I'm happy to.
My understanding is that Apple openly declares they have the same encryption standards in China, and that iCloud Advanced Data Protection was one of the things that started getting them on China’s “naughty list” again.
A bit of a stretch given that Chollet is a researcher in deep learning and transformers and his criticism is that memorization (training LLMs on lots and lots of problems) doesn't equate to AGI.
The WIV is 17 miles away from the wet market. They are on opposite sides of the river. There were zero covid cases on the south side of the river during the first month of the outbreak.
>If there are people who can’t picture and people who don’t have an inner dialogue, I think it lends more credence to the idea that we don’t have free will

That seems like a bizarre leap. What's the connection?
> They are different topics with different consequences and which say different things about our society. Each is not simply a matter of pro or anti LGBTQ+.

I believe that.

> And it feels like an attempt to dissuade us from really discussing the issues at the core of each to frame them all as such.

Unfortunately, yes, they do seem to be that. I don't know if that is what is the intention, but it can become the result of it.
Sorry, but this is just total nonsense.

Life is much more difficult in most places in the world than it is in the US. We have had more success with entrepreneurship because of a culmination of specific things, not a generalized "difficulty of life", which empirically does not exist.

It's also more common for successful entrepreneurs to have grown up without financial distress.

Sorry to shatter your dreams, but your theory is very silly.
> Waste disposal is an imaginary problem.

Ah, so the money a utility spends on its spent fuel is just imaginary? It's not actually being spent? And if more is spent (as TRISO fuel would require) that's all financial figments too? What one learns.
I find it hard to believe that they can't at all imagine what a tree looks like or imagine a face of a friend. I can understand some difficulty in a perfect image, but nothing?
Indeed, and very much a point that the article misses completely.

Racial prejudice, homophobia, transphobia continue to perpetuate themselves despite banner moments claiming them "solved".

As these problems persist, so to do the movements to oppose them.
I don't think in words unless I am speaking, writing, or modeling a conversational interaction. The vast majority of my thoughts are in the form of sense impressions, motor sequences, visualization, or wordless intuition.

I'm sure you think that way too, you probably just layer a narrative over it. The sibling comment about picking up a spoon is an example I sometimes use - see yourself walk to the kitchen, move your hand to open the drawer, pick up a spoon, pour the tea, scoop the sugar. I can describe them but it's not natively linguistic to me.

I'm hell at rearranging furniture or putting together an engine, not so good at positive self talk.
There’s every reason to believe that AGI is meaningfully different from LLMs because humans do not take anywhere near this amount of training data to create inferences (that and executive planning and creative problem solving are clear weak spots in LLMs)
In this case stimming refers to repetitive movements used as self-soothing, not stimulants
As annoying as this is - at least it's a very simple HTML page error that loaded instantly. That made me feel glad?
What does it mean to "maintain" an article as something distinct from posting and updating it?
What's amazing is how, if you chew a piece of gum long enough, it suddenly breaks down. All of it, at the same time, into bitter-tasting, mealy soup of gum particles.
Know Your Customers' "Jobs to Be Done"
Imagine what they’ll say 600,000 years from now.

“Humans began to acquire knowledge around the time of Dacro and the Second Wormhole Leap. The farther back we go…”
There's a spectrum, but some people see nothing at all. It's known as aphantasia.
It was great for short term profit and stock value and everyone involved in making those choices is either dead or soon to be dead and doesn’t have to deal with the fallout.
> I don't see any connection between the Guardian and the recovered memory movement.

It’s a comparison.

Respected or not she’s making the argument the “the body keeps the score,” which is redolent of the discredited book of the same name.
The crux is the word 'I'. When I say 'I' think, do I mean the conscious part of me which has direct experience of that thinking? If so, then I am denying all the of the thinking that 'I' don't do, but my brain/body does.

From that perspective, the experience of thinking in words or pictures is distinct from actually thinking in words or pictures. Saying one thinks in one of these ways seems to be saying what they identify thinking with.

For example, I don't usually think of fantasy as thinking. If I day dream, I wouldn't say I am thinking, but that is fairly visual. To what degree am I saying something about myself vs my identity if I say I do or don't think in words given that context?

Relatedly, I've noticed that when it comes to remembering something, it is not 'I' that remember. Rather 'I' set up mental cues and direct focus, which then hopefully causes the memory to be placed within my awareness. This happens below the level of direct experience. But I might say I failed to remember, taking responsibility for something that 'I' - the part separated from the automatic functions of the body - did not do.

So I'm suggesting statements about words vs pictures are about ego, metaphor and meaning-building, and not about actual mechanisms or communicating actual differences in the experience of thinking.

It can be difficult to talk about these things because such conversations implicitly occur between our identities, not between who we actually are - something beyond our grasp - and the noise this introduces is something I don't know how to surmount, or if it can be surmounted.
which is why I switched back to vue.js, who so far is much simpler and get the job done if you need a true SPA with SSR only as an option instead of being the "new" primary focus(which made things much more difficult to use, and slower)
But like China had the printing press and gun powder and plenty of other things that went on to be repurposed in the Renaissance. I feel like the narrative of the modern technological exponential growth curve kicking off with the Renaissance is rather Eurocentric and misses that the left end of that graph is likely so shallow as to be hard to differentiate the “before” and the “after”.
AI/GPU communication is definitely driving it forward now. It is a speed race for how quickly you can move data around.
Yup. These days I pretty much have to spend like $3k on a purse.
> powerful people would rather look like they're ahead than actually do something actually novel.

Except China actually has done a lot of novel huge investments that led to their manufacturing might. If their authoritarian excess weren't beneficial or productive on-net, they wouldn't be the second biggest economy in the world with the largest manufacturing capacity. Likewise, with VC hype, if VC's were wrong more often then not, they wouldn't be trusted with billions to invest, they'd be penniless, and more sound, rational investors would naturally adopt their role in the market. Of course hype is a major part of this, but every groundbreaking technology had a hype cycle, it doesn't mean they ended up being useless.

However, even if this is all hype, your previous comment said "nobody is talking about this", which is obviously not the case, unless the stated aim of Chinese manufacturing, Tesla, Figure, Sanctuary AI, Boston Dynamics, the hundreds of AI startups popping up securing unicorn funding, etc. count as no one.

Regarding my original thread, I don't believe it is 100% likely to happen, but I feel it's important to be able to map out possible futures clearly so that there is substance to argue against why the premises leading to that future are more/less likely than implied. Simply saying "this is all bullshit, nobody is talking about this, nothing will happen, everything will be fine" is a pleasant thing to think about but it doesn't address the nature of the premise or how things are shaping up.
> sell cakes to white people, and refusing to bake a cake for a white nationalist event.

Good job comparing a gay wedding to nazis.

> Quick internet search:

And here's the followup story

https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/opinion/story/2022...

The novel was not pushed by the liberals or whatever. It was a rouge and fired staff member that decided to place the novel which ended up in the library doing an inventory. Nobody is advocating for that book to be in an elementary school library (including the author).

But this is the issue with this hot button conservative issue. 5 more seconds of googling to find the followup and response and you would have seen that the library board did exactly what you'd want them to do. But now, it's a national issue because one library had a rouge (now fired) employee.
Was Holmes ever bulletproof? Anyone with scientific experience was calling BS on her from the beginning due to the reality of current technology and physics.

I remember only knowing her because there were posts on this website calling her out very early on.
It's worth noting that `dang` is one of the people who noted the evolution happening.
Yes we are going too far. Go treats us like we are inept.
Thank you for your reply.
For users: AI search can provide content for what your need, but there are still many users want to have depth feature with the ai tools.
For developers: They need more backlinks to improve their SEO, so that they can get more growth with Google SEO.
Does Haiku still have unaccelerated software rendering of the UI?

Edit: yes, seems their nvidia drivers don't have 2d acceleration.
> Are you rude?

Are you?

> And parent wrote: "Lots of Japan may have a bidet but most I’ve come across are in much worse shape."
>
> Not that they don't have buttons.

They implied toilets with button controlled bidets are "luxury" toilets, and that most toilets they came across were in bad shape.

I'm saying that the norm in a lot of Japan now, for public toilets, is what they called out as being "luxury" toilets.

Their experience is so outside of the norm that it's either extremely outdated, or exaggerated to make a point (and the point is related to how things are unsanitary, so it has a tinge of painting Japan as a whole as being unsanitary).
A $5 coupon is also worth ~100x more than a few cents so it's worth ~100x the hassle. For a sense of scale imagine if the topic of grocery coupons came up and someone started mentioning they still make sure to take the time to enter their $500 off member code at checkout because a $500 discount is $500 discount - well duh, it'd be free groceries at that point!
My career is doing just fine, actually. Like, better than ever and I'm not making this up.

Feel free to add me on LinkedIn, I have no issue in people knowing who I am; should I be scared or anything? Lol. You should try not being anonymous, just a suggestion, :).

You said:

"Memory [...] is separate from epigenetic changes"

I replied with a study that seems to suggest otherwise. That's not really hard to follow ...

>IT tech website

Hmm naw man, Hacker News is way more than that. Also, why would I be embarrassed? You are just projecting too much unto others, chill.
A decent way to render Markdown files directly in your terminal
Influencing Without Authority Through Aligning Incentives
So did "twinkle twinkle little star", or the alphabet song come first
The Trauma of the Dog Dying
I don't know what the intended treatment of the text is, but did you consider using an img element and stacking the text on top of it?

What you have is basically just an image element with width: 100 height: auto, but it has children.

Here's an example, written with tailwind for my convenience but should be pretty legible to anyone who knows CSS:

<div class="grid place-items-center [&>*]:[grid-area:1/1]">
<img
src="https://picsum.photos/500/400?grayscale&blur=2"
class="w-full h-auto"
/>
<div>Hello.</div>
</div>
<div class="grid place-items-center [&>*]:[grid-area:1/1]">
<img
src="https://picsum.photos/500/400?grayscale&blur=2"
class="w-full h-auto"
/>
<div>Hello.</div>
</div>
<div class="grid place-items-center [&>*]:[grid-area:1/1]">
<img
src="https://picsum.photos/500/400?grayscale&blur=2"
class="w-full h-auto"
/>
<div>Hello.</div>
</div>

The height of the container is governed by the height of the image (until the text becomes taller than the image). You still have fully fleixible in terms placement (place-self) and/or sizing (height: 100%) of the text container.
And you don't need to run your own server in order to escape the big players. I have been a happy Fastmail customer for many years now.
I only ever got to play with BeOS 5 PE in Be's twilight years, but it was incredibly zippy on the 800Mhz PIII Dimension 4100 tower that was the family computer at that point in time. It handily beat Windows 98SE (what the Dimension shipped with) and was a solid step up from even Windows 2000 (which itself was a step up from 98SE). The vaguely Mac-like yet unique feel of its UI was also fascinating (and unsurprisingly worked well as a Kaleidoscope scheme on classic Mac OS).

Never was able to run it full time though.
Gray beards unite
Tires have been around for a while, but the average weight of a personal car greatly increased after the 80's. Sure there were some heavy land-boats in the 50's and 60's, but it seems now everyone is driving something 3.5k lbs or higher.

Also consider the expansion of the US highway system (starting in '56), increased freight trucking, popularity of tuning / high performance cars etc. I'd imagine more tires are getting shredded into the environment than at any point before the 80's, even with improvements in tire compounds.
Anduril unveils Roadrunner and Roadrunner-M
Anti-Personnel Computing
Arm security defense shattered by speculative execution 95% of the time
SF rolls out first 100 license plate reader cameras to combat crime
I’d say read the first chapter. If it doesn’t excite you at this point in your career it might not be for you and that’s ok.

I’d say it’s actually more valuable to people with programming experience. It gave me a greater appreciation for solving complicated problems in elegant ways. And perhaps ambition to solve other more practical but still complex problems in similarly elegant ways.
Maryland pardons 175,000 people of cannabis convictions
You don’t have to use it is probably the most common worst argument ever. The mere existence of the construction means it _will_ be used and you will have to know about it and eventually use it.
Is ARM really that special? Why do you believe this is the case?
Rogue 1 Lethal UA System: Precision, Speed, and Versatility [video]
Nice!
I saw the upload form, I will fill it later
Would you have any recommendations for someone looking at learning vdom frameworks today?
The link you posted is a list of "About 1,870 results".

I really don't have the time or energy to go through all of them, tbh.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Interesting... I worked for a much smaller company that used it and it was a terrible experience. I was really glad to go back to Teams...
It's almost like that, but more like the headline was misleading.
"Pure evil" is the only way I can describe what human beings do to each other.

There's goodness too in the world, but reading this and other experiences of war, genocide, slavery, terror, crime et al—human beings can be unspeakably ugly in their actions.
Bird flu virus outlasted pasteurization, study finds
That may be because it freezes there, and there's a hazard of ice falling on vehicles etc. In both Texas and California, generally the drive through order thing has a ~8x8' cover over it. It never freezes for more than a day or two in populated areas of TX and CA
Also very big in professional studio recording equipment back in the day
tactical voting is normally what we call it when you DON'T vote for your favorite, e.g. a green party supporter votes democrat.

with approval voting they'd obviously vote for green too.

some of the people who normally vote green under the current system might _still_ only vote green with approval voting, but very few would do it unless green actually had a chance to win.

https://www.rangevoting.org/BulletVoting
Being the one best suited to meet your customers needs is a sales strategy. That might include staying open late if you can convince people they’re going to regret not tasting your food after a night out of drinking.
Of note, Australian Consumer Law applies to almost all consumer products and can have very big $$$ implications for selling defective junk: https://legalwiseseminars.com.au/insights/defective-range-ro...
No, this isn’t true.
Yeah, I counted myself lucky if I could get them, or Maxwell.
That's sadly why I stick with Windows. I am perfectly comfortable in Linux, but I know my next place of work will inevitably throw Windows hardware at me. And some vital professional tools only have Linux support in the most superficial stance.

But yeah, trying to make sure anything else I have control over.
Equal – Human-only social network
> fine print in their Microsoft Windows License agreements

They negotiated like trash and wanted to keep their margin.

IIRC those 'agreements' for larger vendors often included a per-unit discount compared to a mom and pop shop getting OEM licenses from a reseller.

And frankly at the time more were fearful as intel than microsoft...
They'll be used primarily by library authors but most people will end up consuming them a lot. They'll eliminate a lot of unnecessary intermediate slice allocations.
> The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers.

I take that to mean that they're searchers, not researchers. I.e., "Googlers" here means they use Google to search for answers, not that they're Google employees.
I very much feel that both generics and deps were against the “spirit of Go” (trivial simplicity, stability, manageability) and a reaction to the perceived demands of “The Community” taking precedence over the opinionated, orthodox and even antisocial original design of the language. This just looks like another fluffy, friendly concession to “usability” and “what the crowd wants” at the expense of what set Go apart from the crowd.

But hey, maybe I’m just being a curmudgeon and it’ll be great.

As the article mentions, there was nothing stopping you from doing this sort of thing (and worse; channels as “iterators”, anyone?) in older versions of Go. But it would be silly to do, and you’d get (rightly) scolded for doing it.

Now I guess that kind of thing is encouraged. :)
Damn, you mean we can't just swap resistors to under/over volt anymore?

I am getting old.

(tongue in cheek, and yes, I am getting old)

Shit, I remember just using a pencil to lower resistance values.
My reading is that the large context window makes Gemini useful as a tool to Google.
Yes, I believe that's correct. There's some work on vulkan and a discussion about pulling some stuff from openBSD, but either doesn't seem to be a priority for the project at the moment. I'm sure supporting modern graphics cards isn't trivial, not a task of theirs I envy.
Definitely the people working on the model. It ultimately doesn’t matter what the users want because you can’t arbitrarily deliver an experience. You can only deliver what it’s possible to extract from the model, so growing the possible things the model can do well is most important.
Just imagine where we'll be 600k from now.
Yep. I joined Google X Robotics (which became Everyday Robots, which got canceled) just as the org was winding down a big R&D push and moving to product development. Engineers were palpably hurt by their various projects being canceled, and in my opinion they never had a viable product strategy beyond “let’s see if we can find a consumer use for this robot”. This strategy ultimately failed and they canceled the project, let go a bunch of the people, and now the robots are being used for AI research. So the whole shift from R&D to product development was a failure. They could have saved a lot of grief and money if they just continued as an R&D org, and in my opinion they would have left open some important doors which would have really helped with AI research.
>always justified everything by using the "national security"

Is it any different than China wanting data access from U.S companies that attempted to open their business there? I'm not in favor of this ban. I think they should've at least forced DJI to keep the data local before going for an outright ban.
You mean manually pre-baking a DAG from the user query, then “spawning” other LLMs to resolve each node and pass their input up the graph? This is the approach we take too. It seems to be a sufficiently performant approach that is - intuitively - generically useful regardless of ontology / domain, but would love to hear others’ experiences.

It would be nice to know if this is sort of how OpenAI’s native “file_search” retriever works - that’s certainly the suggestion in some of the documentation but it hasn’t, to my knowledge, been confirmed.
An Introduction to Sleep Obfuscation for Malware (2023)
This is really dumb, and I'm not even a fan of sama, I think he's a snake.

Sam Altman was CEO and President. The fact he was not Chairman is not material. There's a thousand different explanations how that misstatement could have occurred. Maybe someone wrote that up, and sama didn't review every single line, and other people just assumed it was right. But it's not material. Being being the CEO and President of YC is much, much more important and more material than Chairman of the board, which is largely a figurehead position.

No one is going to care and this is extreme nitpicking. They should fix the misstatement, but to claim some sort of conspiracy around this is stupid.
Ask HN: Great communties on Mastadon, IRC, Forums other small networks?
I'm a car enthusiast. Some of the best communities for cars are very much based on web forums, despite having a large presence in popular social media.

A lot of open source communities are active on IRC.

What are some communities that you're aware of that have it's primary base on the old internet, and the new open internet?
Do you have a timestamp?

EDIT: https://youtu.be/7vF5647gNbo?t=14340 maybe
I do actually remember following its development, hate NAT, and of course feel constrained by the V4 32-bit address space. But V6 has its designs problems too and while over the years I’ve tried to use it, it has never been worth the hassle and, yes, is slower (probably because most connections are to V4-only sites).
Kinda funny, given that the Haskell iterator solution is "convert your data to be a list, and the optimizer and RTS will do the right thing as if it were an iterator."
Sorry, here’s the correct link https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1471-0...
Oooh, this sounds promising - thank you so much!