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pc adventure game was good too (i.e., messed up)
> chopsticks

I’ve been driving for a long time but I’ve never heard this term until today

https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Chopstic...
Like, a strawberry?
there is unlikely significant performance degradation for int vs big int, but it will be huge PITA, if 10 years later and tons of legacy code written that table will grow over 4B rows..
Peter Sewell has talked about "underpinning the foundations" e.g. [1], but that's not a performance like [2], [3].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptSUKbKe4c4

[2] https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6574_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201412301...

[3] https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9647-taming_the_chaos_can_we_bui...
I've always wondered about these sorts of things.

Do they actually make "drinkable water"? If it is distilled water, it is not drinkable, it is dangerous and will leach necessary minerals out of your body.
Gardeners can grow a genetically modified purple tomato made with snapdragon DNA
There is a huge cost associated with moving from a proof of concept to a commercially viable product. People often severely underestimate the effort involved in this.
Something is very weird with that site and adblockers. Here’s an archive link if you’re having issues loading it, like I was: https://archive.is/sZglD
> Infinities don't enter into this. You brought it up, not me.

No, you did when you brought in Turing machines:

> Imagine a clocked-down Turing computer, whose operating speed us is so slow that we can see its operations. Now imagine the programs which cannot, in principle be run on this computer. You can't because there aren't any.

If the Turing machine doesn't have infinite capacity, I 100% can imagine programs that "cannot, in principle be run on this computer".

Furthermore, if the Turing machine has many orders of magnitude less capacity than a computer and can only run for a tiny fraction of the number of cycles before it grinds to a halt, I can imagine many, many, many programs that won't be able to run on it.

> An AI isn't infinite either.

It doesn't have to be. Just being many orders of magnitude "larger" than us is enough that it, for all practical purposes, is incomprehensible to us enough that it might as well be an entirely separate category.
I cook 4-5 days a week every week and have never worn through a quality cutting board. Cheap plastic ones will die but good quality wood has lasted well for me. Epicurean also makes a composite board which has lasted many years for me 26th regular use.
My Nissan was like this. My Tesla seems to match the speed on the signs however.
We're parasitic worms with an overdeveloped brain.
My text written above makes it quite clear that I don't think most people were saying GPT-4 was superintelligence, but the implication, especially from the charlatans, was there.

I'm referring to the OpenAI white paper on GPT4 that shows exam results. https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4.pdf figure 4, and surrounding text.

Clearly not superintelligence, as I would define it (see my other comment about scientific discovery, which I consider the best test), but these are tests actual humans take, and we know how most humans would score on these tests (thru some amount of memorization, along with parsing word problems and doing some amount of calculation). But many people who looked at the testing results concluded that GPT-4 was actually a reasoning agent, or that reasoning agents were just around the corner.

The press picked up on that, and my LinkedIn stream was absolutely filled with second-class influencers who thought that superhuman capabilities were not far away. For a while there, looking at some of the test results specifically on moderately challenging math problems, I suspected that LLMs had some sort of reasoning ability.
> How many countries does that?

It's a spectrum, in avenues and approaches, but too many imho

> Why do people allow it?

- some don't have a choice

- apathy, it's a lot of effort to continually fight against it and many people don't pay enough attention or see it effect their lives directly
Provide examples. It’s chemical, electrical, and thermal reactions all the way down.

The one exception is consciousness.
I disagree. To me, the complexity described in this article is more complex than anything you'll find in Rust.

Actually, strike that: I'm not sure if it's true or not (though I suspect it is), but it doesn't actually matter. What I'm really getting at here is that there is nothing in Rust that behaves so confusingly or ambiguously as what's described in this article. If you're writing Rust, you'll never have to remember these sorts of rules and how they are going to be applied to your code.

I do agree that reading someone else's Rust can be a challenge, if they're using Rust's type system to its fullest, and you're (quite reasonably and understandably) not up to speed on the entirety of it. And that is a problem, agreed; though, at least, fortunately it's not a problem of ambiguity, but more of a learning-curve issue.

But I have never been writing Rust and have been confused about what the code I'm writing might do, never had to consult and puzzle out some obscure documentation in order to ensure that the code I was writing was going to do what I expected it to do. C++ falls so incredibly flat in this department, and that's why I avoid using it like the plague.
How about if you say "settecento"? Maybe it is a new confusion that they drop a thousand years, and maybe it would imply Italian art specifically.
You can't properly do it, because basics of definitions is logic, and not everything in the universe has to fit into human-made logic.

This is why western science falls short in topics of consciousness, spirituality, mysticism compared to eastern wisdom where people always talked about these things in dialectical, poetic ways.
I will have to get him over to the Apple store with the Best Buy receipt then, thank you for that info.
Okay, fair point.

But then, why prescribe the most expensive placebos where you co-finance societal harmful behavior, rather than just prescribing the "harmless" placebos that are not homeopathy, which are usually even cheaper and don't have any ideological overhead?
Weird, because in another comment, you said:

> it's literally the same thing. anyone who claims otherwise is uninformed.

That they are chemically different is a fact, but their physical effects have also been proven to be different as well. I've never tried meth, but I know people who have, and who have also used Adderall, and the descriptions of their experiences would suggest the two drugs have different effects, regardless of dosage.

But I can't prove those differences, so won't argue further.
There is a lot of over-the-counter and even some prescription medicine that don't do much at all for what people take them for, and homeopathy is cheaper and less harmful for the same placebo effect. Cold medicine in particular is known for its dubious efficiency.

No medication is even cheaper, but the placebo effect works, so if people were to take something, might as well have them take something cheap and harmless. In my opinion, it doesn't justify supporting homeopathy, but health insurances may see it differently.

Placebos are an interesting ethical issue. Doctors are not supposed to deceive you, they are people you trust with your life and very personal issues and they are therefore held to very high standards. But even if it is for your own good, the placebo effect is based on deception, so is it ethical for a doctor to give you a placebo? And is fake science that still help people ethical? The consensus seems to be "no" for both and I tend to agree, but I still think it is worth debating.
If everything is conscious then it occurs at such a fundamental level that it is literally meaningless. Irrelevant. The only value in this would be knowing that we can stop wasting time trying to understand how the brain may generate consciousness.

Panpsychism is not a scientific view. We are far, far too early for it even if it’s true.
The readers cost money and people lose them. I still have one for one bank but otherwise it's SMS everywhere.

They clearly just don't see it as a realistic threat, on top of all the other security measures in place (for me it's a password, and also a memorable word that isn't typed on the keyboard, then SMS OTP). It's not a great defence of SMS but perfect is the enemy of good, and SMS is just about ok.

Most hacking stories I hear about seem to happen through social engineering, where people go to great lengths to authenticate themselves for someone over the phone.

One thing that is starting to take hold is banking apps, which once installed can be used to authenticate payment. Again not perfect but better than SMS, and users are increasingly likely to have them installed because of ease of use.
I might be downvoted for this, but I tend to have a kind of libertarian take on this. I absolutely do not believe in homeopathy beyond placebo effects, and I understand the harm they do by opportunity costs in pursuing other treatments.

But at the end of the day I feel like all medications should basically be handled like homeopathy products. They should be available to anyone, barring some kind of competency ruling or disagreement by the pharmacy over what they want to sell to whom, and the FDA should basically ensure that they are what they say they are on the label.

I'm glad there's skeptics out there calling BS on homeopathy but where I diverge from them is in somehow preventing it from being available. It's water, it's labeled accurately, so let people do what they're going to do. If they weren't doing this I doubt they'd be doing something more "mainstream" anyway, or complying with it. They might even be doing something even more actively harmful.

I guess I see it as a slippery slope from banning homeopathy to something much murkier where reasonable experts disagree. Real medical science can get very grey really fast and I'm not sure I trust regulatory authority figures to always make the best decisions about what to do. Better to leave it to the consumer and whichever provider they trust most.

Demand product purity, prevent health claims on the label, whatever, but I think my question is "why aren't more medications sold in American pharmacies?"
I don't think you really know what a real-life C++ code base looks like. Deleting the default constructor often happens implicitly with no syntax needed. This often happens when you define a custom constructor or when its member doesn't have a default constructor.
And we'll thank them for their service.
iTunes does not need to logged in to correct account to erase the iPad, for example. The iPad needs to be in Recovery Mode (showing a USB cable on its screen).

After you get into Recovery Mode and erase the iPad, it will reboot and be in Activation Lock with his account. Apple Support should be able to guide you on how to send the Best Buy receipt if you are unable to get thru Activation Lock.

But go to https://appleid.apple.com/ and check if his account can accessed with the info he provided so far.
The choice is

over the counter cold medicine

vs

homeopathic "remedies".

Neither of these cure diseases. Neither of these prevent the seeking of medical care. Both of them may make people feel better (the placebo effect can be powerful). Only one of these is frequently abused by teenagers as a recreational drug.
Personally, I've found that adding 3 lines of javascript to make a style switcher leads to great results. (You know you can simply load a CSS file in javascript and apply it, in a single command?)
It's not just Japan, it's largely Asia in general (e.g, Taiwanese 7-11's and Korean 7-11's are also so far above their US counterparts in terms of offerings/feel).

(A fun trivia fact is that like 7-11, Lawson also originally started in the USA. They only recently-ish returned stateside with locations in Hawaii (IIRC).)
“ This has nothing to do with quantum theory. It's from classical physics already, from chaotic systems”

Not exactly. What’s important here is that every past is real. In the sense that different paths a particle can take can interfere with each other. It’s not indeterminate in a some fuzzy intuitive sense of “something we don’t know.” every past that matches the current known state of a system is real. That’s something that is included in the package of “quantum weirdness.”

And, if you make the assumption that every future is real in the same way, that’s the many worlds/decoherence interpretation.
Pretty sure I read that Goldman itself is currently creating its own internal models using its proprietary data to help its analysts, IT and investors.
The point is that it is a frequent, well-tested procedure, because governments decide they want to be in a different time zone (or have different DST rules) all the time.
Activation Lock is never dealt at Store level. There is a website specifically for this and the customer should start the procedure online.
Tao Te Ching translated by Ursula Le Guin (1997)
I really wish the content id system was open to all.

Simply default to the first person to upload a piece of video to the site 'owns' it. If you're a film studio or something you can upload a video and set it to private to 'own' content before you release it.

I get that technically scaling content id is hard, but it seems like a solvable technical challenge considering the market position it would give YouTube as the de facto copyright reference index. Everyone has to upload there first unless they want to risk getting their content 'owned' by someone else and a battle to get it reassigned.
Is it really within Apple’s purview to police the styling of an app distributed on an alternative digital marketplace?

Surely protecting developers from these kind of arbitrary restrictions by Apple reviewers is the one of the reasons the EU created the DMA regulations in the first place….
That's fascinating! I mostly don't use "sign in with X" anymore since my password manager flow is pretty fluid at this point (so making a password is easy and secure). I guess for the many people who are less comfortable with password managers, a 1-click sign up/in is very useful.

Thanks for sharing!
Samadhi, shoonya
With that in mind, I've never noticed a difference between the various brands of Japanese convenience stores. Lawson / Family Mart / 7/11 all seem the same to me. The only thing that ever stood out about 7/11 was that I could use their ATMs to take money out of my American bank account circa 2002 when I lived there. (The post office also worked.)
CHERI is very different from that in multiple ways, and then SPARC/Solaris is doubly moribund.
Well, I don't think many people would disagree about the crisis.

Personally, I'm anxious to see your proposal on "how".
Alternative title: Vox editor takes an intro to Philosophy course
I'm pretty good at estimating the future; I started working in ML around 1993 and my last work in ML was on TPU hardware at Google (helping researchers solve deep problems when hardware goes wonky), and a number of my ideas (like AlphaFold's capabilities) were predicted by me at CASP in ~2003.

I just continue to think that Vinge was a bit optimistic both on the timeline and acceleration rate. Everybody who cares about this should read https://edoras.sdsu.edu/~vinge/misc/singularity.html and consider whether we will reach the point where ML is actively improving its own hardware (after all, we do use ML to design next gen ML hardware, but with humans in the loop).
My god, those slides are incredible!

For those who don't know Marcin was in charge of Google Doodles for a very long time.

I wouldn't be surprised if he built his own CRT emulation for this talk. Maybe even did some of those pixel-moving transitions in code. I wonder if the rest was in After Effects? I _think_ a lot of that was beyond what Figma Slides can do (though I haven't tried yet).

edit: oh, indeed the web app is live still even! https://config.aresluna.org/
PDF[0], but this industry presentation said that for a consumer drive kept at 25C, one should expect 58 weeks of unpowered data storage (page 27). Significantly worse for higher temps. I appreciate those are probably bare minimum threshold numbers which have probably changed, but that makes me uncomfortable vs a HDD where I have not heard such a qualifier. Just given the cost per TB, I will continue to use HDDs for offline backups.

[0] https://www.jedec.org/sites/default/files/Alvin_Cox%20%5bCom...
Youtube's eraser tool removes any music that any moron or bullshit artist has chosen to claim...
I wrote a cross platform outliner 20 years ago that I have been using almost everyday since. I have more than 60'000 headers in there, with my notes about everything.

Right now I'm building a flutter/kotlin meditation timer for myself.
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Why not just prescribe a crystal and some essential oils instead? Maybe have them sacrifice a chicken tomorrow evening at dusk? Actually, if they send me $400 in Bitcoin I will simply cure them with the power of prayer. Nobody is making meth off of my well wishes either.
I am trying to build an alternative hackernews frontend aswell. My main focus is to offer a personalized ranking based on the topics you are most interested in.

Currently I am exploring the data and try to identify named entities from the titles. You can have a look here: http://news.facts.dev/
I thought this article was interesting
https://www.sheldrake.org/files/pdfs/papers/Is_the_Sun_Consc...

If consciousness is just some form of self-reference and autopoiesis via cellular automaton, there's little reason to believe it couldn't extend to the extremes of the macro or micro scale.
Start a request at the end of this page, https://support.apple.com/en-us/108934, if it gets that far, but I would exhaust all options first.

Should look into account password first. If he has started account recovery, Activation Lock removal will fail.
Out of curiosity, have you tested what happens if you buy a new iPhone and upgrade from old to new one? (Preferably no backup, just the new/standard upgrade procedure where you bring the new device close to the old one, and Apple does its magic.)

The only reason why I use (and recommend) Authy is that when I get a new phone it just works, while other apps require to somehow open them and do some operation between old and new phone.

If it works, happy to switch to an open alternative! (Asking about iPhone, but I assume Android folks would also be interested.)
Huge. They already are. It turns out that a lot of people don't smoke simply because they don't like cigarettes.
7-11 in Japan is a way of life.

I've been to an American 7-11 once or twice in my life. (I didn't want to go back.)

In Japan, I went at least once daily - sometimes twice per day. They almost function the role of a NYC bodega, but with more and fresher food options. In addition, they often have a stack of microwaves run by the staff, allowing for inexpensive, fresh, and warm meals.
Ray Kurzweil on "I've Got a Secret" (1965) [video]
Pinatubo affected the ozone layer as well
> It's bad enough there are people selling ... bibles

I'd like to suggest that starting a thread based on "${specific_religion} is false" won't go well on HN.

Or was your point more about the selling of them? Sorry if I misunderstood.
> How is crushing up Adderall and snorting it even worth doing?

Same reason people do cocaine, it's an upper that allows you to keep partying.

> I've accidentally taken my "normal" Adderall twice and it's an extremely uncomfortable experience. The last place I'd want to be in that state would be at a party, getting drunk. Sitting in a quiet place and rocking/sweating/puking until it's done is more what comes to mind.

That's not the experience most have when doing it, afaik, most of these people are not prescribed adderall to begin with. They also weren't railing a whole pill, they were often shared among several people, smaller doses
Just a heads up about UUID 7.. be careful when using.

par the RFC

If UUIDs are required for use with any security operation within an application context in any shape or form then [RFC4122] UUIDv4 SHOULD be utilized.
You can see a somewhat similar concept explored the the Ender's Game series (IIRC from Xenocide on). "Philotes."

It's an idea comes from Card's Mormon background.
So consciouness.
Note that the article's link to the UUID v7 standard is meanwhile outdated. You should instead head directly to RFC 9562:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9562

(which wasn't yet finished at the time of the article)
React-curse? How fitting.
The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
It’s comforting to think of medical professionals as competent and trustworthy, but it’s simply not universally true. Medical mistakes are the third leading cause of death in the U.S.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK499956/

Homeopathy is basically mistake proof compared to real medicine, including a doctor visit. For a sufficiently minor ailment, avoiding risk of a potentially lethal mistake is just safer.
Personally, I'd be ticked off if I found out people were taking resumes I had sent in for jobs, and using them for content on a service like this. You probably should have some information on there about how you went about getting permission to post all their contact info, etc.
No one said it was super intelligence. I've never seen anyone say that about GPT4 in the media or on Hacker News/Reddit/X.

Yes, I'm sure if you google "GPT4 super intelligence", you'll find a stupid source that says it is. But I've never seen anyone reputable say it is.
Very cool. The shellfs extension (https://github.com/rustyconover/duckdb-shellfs-extension) that allows shell commands to be used for input and output will make DuckDB even more useful as a command line analysis tool. I'm not sure how I'll use it yet, but I'm betting I can streamline some multi-step data processes.
I think Sutskever is a charlatan outside of his area of expertise, Hinton (with whom I worked loosely at Google) is a bit of a charlatan (again, outside his area of expertise; clearly he and LeCun both did absolutely phenomenal work) and I don't know who Sutter is.

If I wanted to predict the next ten years, I'd bring in Demis Hassabis, Noam Shazeer, and Vincent Vanhoucke, from what I've read of Demis's work, and my interactions with the latter, they seem to have very realistic understanding and are not prone to hype (Demis being the most ambitious of the three, Vincent being the one who actually cracked voice recognition, and Noam because ... his brain is unmatched).
Probably because most Americans live in lower density cities. Fresh food distribution is a lot harder in low density areas, and that is probably why 7-11 focuses on microwavable wings and hotdogs in the US.

A good NYC bodega is as stacked as a 7-11 in Tokyo. Really good fresh baked goods and they'll cook up anything you want for you too.
As I said, it's not the disclaimer. It's all of the other text that contradicts it.
> walk around outside, making a video of what they're doing, and post it, without having to worry that some copyrighted music is playing in the background for some portion of it.

You can, this is called "incidental use" and is an exception to copyright in the USA. If you're filming yourself going down the street and someone starts playing a song, and you're not going out of your easy to capture the copyrighted content, it is legal.

YouTube's copyright strike system is more strict than the law, probably to kowtow to the music companies serving the YouTube Music product in exchange for not having to defend against a lawsuit.

If we weren't subject to their monopoly on online video, someone could just start telling copyright trolls to pound sand when a frivolous complaint comes up.
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Yes, but as stated-- 15 minute offset changes is a very infrequent procedure, and not every device consumes new tz data.

> > > but a 15 minute adjustment within a zone suddenly is going to screw a lot of devices"

There's a whole lot of devices where all you get is a manual hour offset and a daylight flag for outdated tz data.