skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Let’s be open to the possibility that proper intelligence won’t be 100% consumed with the affairs of beings who are less smart and capable.

Why? Our current "improper" intelligence isn't getting anywhere in the hands of smart people. They aren't using it to invent antigravity or hack the system like a video game. Turns out, using the Library of Babel to try and hunt down the truth is a waste of your time whether you're a genius or an idiot. If this "proper intelligence" still makes mistakes like current stochastic LLMs, it will continue to be an unreliable tool for scientists and doctors that rely on correct judgement.

Don't get me wrong; I don't disagree with you on-principle. It would be cool if scientists had a hyper-intelligent all-knowing ChatGPT to help them invent new technology. I disagree with it because fundamentally, AI has not demonstrated the possibility it could ever fill this role. There is no feasibility study validating AI intelligence in any relevant field. Every current application of LLMs are imperfect and focused almost entirely on risk-management. This is a sign, to me, that neither of us will interact with "true AI" (or AGI if you're fanciful) in our lifetimes. That's my $0.02 whether the US goes all-in on AI or whether they tear it down with regulation; the tech stays the same.

> And again, this is just very good autocomplete and does nothing to prevent future improvements.

You may be looking at it from the wrong direction. People don't write research papers with autocomplete, they iterate on a thesis by testing their estimation against real-world experiment trials. Not only does it require a finer touch than autocomplete, you need to run real life tests somehow and correlate the data with your findings. AI does not do that - it's text. It won't fill beakers with Bromine or hack into the NSA on your behalf.

So... I'd argue this does prevent future improvement, if you mean "improvement" to be "not lying all the time". The path to superintelligence is not forged by re-training and finetuning the same three foundation models over and over again. I'd even go as far as to say LLMs in the current architecture are fundamentally incapable of relevant thought.

> It takes a stunning lack of imagination to think we’ve found the end.

That's exactly what I've got. Stop playing with my imagination and show me the progress; I've been following this field since Google released BERT and we've gotten just about nowhere in the interceding years.

I don't really care that much about the whole field. But it's surprising (or I guess not surprising at all) to hop on HN and see people ravenously excited for an iteration on a failed technology. Surely ChatGPT 5 will prove one of us right, eh?
This was a interesting story.
I really don't want them to, no.
CTRL-F Gibson, the tech and root parent comment eerily reminded me of Fragments of A Hologram Rose. We're closing the gap between fiction and reality. The short story was written in 1977! Gibson was prescient about so many things.

"He bought an ASP cassette that began with the subject asleep on a quiet beach. It had been recorded by a young blonde yogi with 20-20 vision and an abnormally acute color sense. The boy had been flown to Barbados for the sold purpose of taking a nap and his morning's exercise on a brilliant stretch of private beach. The microfiche laminate in the cassette's transparent case explained that the yogi could will himself through alpha to delta without an inducer. Parker, who hadn't been able to sleep without an inducer for two years, wondered if this was possible."
Suppose one of the things you construct in space is a skyhook. The economical way to operate one of those is to bring down as much mass as you bring up, that way the net change in angular momentum is 0. This would change the economics of bringing space-materials down to earth.

That said, we're a long long way from being able to build a skyhook. I'm only objecting to the "never, ever" part of your post.
Guys, guys. It's not about exercise. Cancer makes lactate independent of exercise. Exercise, in lack of oxygen, also makes lactate.

Here's the thing with cancer
(1) sometimes it actually does lack oxygen, because it grows faster than blood vessels, so may prefer lactate creation, known as "fermentation" (yes, like beer which ferments sugar to alcohol, but humans ferment sugar into lactate). So the whole body may be bedridden, not exercising, but a little part of it is not getting oxygen.
(2) EVEN IF there is oxygen available to the cancer cell, they have been shown to, EVEN THOUGH there is oxygen there, they still proceed through fermentation and produce lactate. And it's not well known WHY cancer cells do this. This paper suggests that it's a chemo resistance mechanism. Other thoughts have been that it simply pushes through more physical carbon atoms which help make more cancer faster.... this concept of "why does the cancer ferment even though oxygen is readily available" is known as "The Warburg Hypothesis"

Because with oxygen 30x more ATP is produced. Why would cancer seek the vastly more inefficient energy production pathway, the insinct is that cancer would be hyperefficient at being canerous.

Dunning-Kruger energy here...
Gotta say though, between the kindergartener ass finger pointing game you manage to force people here into playing, this comment of yours reminded me of a Pink Guy song.

In that, Pink Guy laments about how much he hates black people for hogging all the girls. But then the narrative slowly transitions towards this borderline homoerotic hymn about how effortlessly muscular they are, and how massive their dongs tend to be. Just a thought.
Got it. No pointing at the emperor's new clothes even if the emperor does so themselves in the linked article; context doesn't matter. I will refrain from doing so in the future.
I accidentally put mine through the washing machine. The aftermarket case I had them in died but the Airpods themselves survived just fine. That was 2 years ago and I still use them every day.
HN username for an extremely talented software engineer and software-engineering communicator, justine.lol. Probably most known around here for her cross-platform C code (cosmopolitan) and relatedly redbean, a zip file and tool that is also an executable file-server-file that hosts itself and can produce other such self-hosting cross platform executable zip file servers.
If those pieces of data are strings or more complicated that might be manipulated/freed later you might need to do something more like copying.
Thanks for that. However, I would agree with those against that labelling. "beef producers to market their meat as low-carbon. Producers who can prove that their cattle are raised in a way that emits 10 percent less greenhouse gases than an industry baseline"

10% is nothing.
Pilot who took mushrooms and tried to cut engines says behavior 'unfathomable'
Consider similarities to the Tet Offensive.
> My problem with this is that no-one else other than Google and Apple can build an "open" network - you'd have to find a way to push your code to everyone's devices.

If you want a non-Apple, non-Google solution, you go to the OG tracker tag -- Tile. You have to install their app, so the reach won't be nearly as extensive, but that is fine by me -- the last thing I want is a third party developer able to push code to my device without me explicitly installing it.
There are criminal antitrust cases[1], but they are hard to win. From "Why Does the Antitrust Division Keep Losing Criminal Trials?"[2]:

> Even in the best of circumstances, prosecuting criminal antitrust cases can be challenging. They require a deep understanding of a particular market and proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendants entered into an illegal agreement. His- torically, the Division relied on multiple witnesses to testify that an agreement, or “meeting of the minds,” existed. There is often a thin line between lawful information-gathering and unlawful price-fixing, making it difficult for jurors to understand what, exactly, constitutes criminal conduct. One former Antitrust Division attorney went so far as to say that juries “don’t like to convict in antitrust cases” because they view violations as “technical.” Another recalled seeing jurors appear shocked when they learned during trial testimony that an antitrust conviction carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison. An attorney who interviewed jurors after one trial said that some jurors expressed anger that the Division was expending resources to prosecute these cases at all.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/atr/criminal-enforcement-fine-and-ja...

[2] https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/ant...
Kennan's prediction was wrong obviously, as there's plenty of dispositive evidence for Putin's imperialist ambitions.

You're wildly shifting topics here, otherwise.
Millennium Falcon is $849 USD. LEGO is even more about the cash grab now than in the 1980's. No sale.
Also consider that this article is from 7 Aug, with Canon in particular showing good post-crisis recovery.
This is the writer doing the bare minimum to justify the purchase cost as a business expense
>"For there are so many people in the world, and it makes me so very angry"

Where did you get that translation from? That has an entirely different meaning from the more commonly accepted ones. Here's a couple:

From Robert Grave's The Greek Myths:

>In the course of my life I have antagonized many princes, and I shall therefore name this grandson Odysseus, meaning The Angry One, because he will be the victim of my enmities. Yet if he ever comes to Mount Parnassus to reproach me, I shall give him a share of my possessions, and assuage his anger.

From Fagles's translation:

>give the boy the name I tell you now. Just as I have come from afar, creating pain for many - men and women, across the good green earth - so let his name be Odysseus

Sounds like he's saying "name him Odysseus because I pissed a bunch of people off" rather than "name him Odysseus because I'm pissed there's too many people on this earth".
Didn't the asteroid that destroyed the dinosaurs hit the ocean?
Starsector is written in java and recently had an update.

It uses a modified Version of Java 7 IIRC.
I play French. I played cello as a kid, and when I started bass lessons in college, my teacher played German but told me there was no reason for me to switch. Most teachers have a preference but can teach either one. I've seen great bassists play both. There's a slight preference towards German for adult beginners because the learning curve isn't as steep.
I use this all the time, though not called a Taskfile. I recommend changing the shebang to:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
[ "${DEBUG:-0}" = "1" ] && set -x
if [ "${FORCE:-0}" = "1" ]; then set +eu ; else set -eu ; fi
export PATH="$(cd -P "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")")/node_modules/.bin:$PATH"

This will do the following:

1. Use whatever Bash executable is in your path, which is necessary for portability (fixes many bugs)
2. If env var DEBUG is "1", turn on bash tracing
3. If env var FORCE is not "1", die on non-zero return status or unset variables
4. Prepend to the PATH the "node_modules/.bin" path, but find that directory from where this script lives, not the current working directory of wherever you executed this script from
Czechoslovakia in 1938 is not the only relevant historical analog. Another analog might be Austria in 1945, which took great pains to placate the Soviets, a strategy that continued all throughout the Cold War, so for example Austria never joined NATO. And I think they banned political parties that made anti-Communism part of their platform. Placating turned out very well for Austrians because the Soviets removed its troops from Austrian territory in 1945 or 1946 (in exchange for the Western allies's removing its troops) and never attacked Austria. Finland also placated the Soviets during the same four decades, not joining NATO till last year, and again, it turned out well for the average Finn. So on the international level, it is not true that the smart move is always to resist or confront an aggressor.

But more importantly: while deciding to confront Moscow rather than placate it might be a rational move for Kiev, that does not automatically mean that it is in the US's interests to help Kiev confront Moscow. The idea that the US should act as some sort of world police or even police among the European nations is foolish IMHO, which is what a simplistic analogy with how a government treats rapists invites us to think.
> If the pendulum can swing so broadly ever 4 years I'd better watch it, right?

Honest question: If, other than voting every 4 years, you have no ability to impact change, why spend the time watching it? Why not spend the time doing something more constructive that you have the ability to impact? (aside from prior to the election to inform voting, of course)
Reading it reminded me of a book "Writing without bullshit" which adds a few more concepts to what op shared.

Frontloading information is my favorite, where instead of building to the core conclusion you start with it and then expand.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28448362-writing-without...
Mike Magee is fresh in his grave and already rolling in it.
This isn't a "supercomputer". It's not even a computer. It's a locked-down device, with very few tailored apps and content (for now anyway).
The US is also somewhat unique (not the only country, but one of a few) in that we can port numbers between landline and mobile. Most places keep them separate.

I used this feature recently, after my mom passed. She had the same home number we grew up with, for fifty years. I ported it over as a second line on my mobile. Partly nostalgia (okay, mostly), partly because it was a pretty great number for memorization; it has an excellent number pattern.
Death Cafe
IMO, the way it is that hard distinction between child and adult is simply not understood. East Asians in general age in way more linear and continuous manner than Europeans for whatever reasons, and that makes it just harder to agree that some people aren't like others.
Proverbs 26:4, according to Kagi
That headline made me think Lego made a Concorde model capable of supersonic flight. As if Lego Technic had really upped their game. Needless to say, I am disappointed.
Eh, we've got time. When NATO allies stopped selling China engines for their fighter jets, it took China more than 15 years to bootstrap an aerospace industry that could design engines on-par with Russia. There are a lot of things that China has every incentive to invest in, but literally cannot as a result of sanctions.

On top of that - an underappreciated aspect of lithography is yield. It's likely China can already beat ASML in a lab setting with <5% yield rates, but that's not a competitive process. What makes TSMC so valuable is their relatively high yield on cutting-edge node technology, alongside their fairly large capacity to supply multiple businesses at once. China has to design a scalable EUV alternative, bring it up to acceptable/profitable yield and quality control, and then scale it to replace the demand for most of the domestic chip clients. It's a lot of work, and it would not surprise me if we saw a lot of China's chip efforts echo their confident-but-slowed progress in engine design.
The 4-chan Go programmer – DoltHub Blog
What Nix can bring to the Python ecosystem is the ability to actually manage all of the non-Python dependencies that drive most useful Python code, and to install them in a portable way.

On my team we use Nix for actually distributing our Python programs, both directly onto machines for local development, and to build containers for deployment in the cloud. We use Poetry for development and generate the Nix package from our pyproject.toml.

Actually plugging Python into a general-purpose package manager for native dependencies is admittedly a pretty clunky experience today because Python packages lack sufficient metadata and packaging formats within the ecosystem are so fragmented. But with a sane implementation of something like PEP-725, that could actually make that pretty smooth, including for system package managers other than Nix if that's not your cup of tea.

https://peps.python.org/pep-0725/
This social signal predates cell phones. There was a bit about it in an episode of Seinfeld, “The Maid” (1998)

> The episode also featured the New York area code 646. When the 212 area code ran out of numbers, 646 was created. Elaine gets a new number with the 646 area code. She is not happy with the new number because she believes the area code makes it too long to dial. She is proved correct when attempting to give her number to a man in the park. Initially eager, he reads the number, asks if it is in New Jersey. Her response is, "No, it's just like 212 except they multiplied every number by 3…and added 1 to the middle number." He says he is already in a relationship and walks off.
A bit late, Cuba developed one in 2011, available for $1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CimaVax-EGF
[Instant Team] We are big fans of Datalog, and Clojure's syntax for Datalog specifically.

Datalog has a simple syntax, and implementing a basic triple store is relatively straight forward. This let us build out a) a client-side store, b) an invalidation engine, and c) a multi-tenant triple store, with a team of 5.

Clojure's syntax for datalog is especially amenable too, because the language is expressed as a datastructure. We often 'build' up queries, and having the language expressed as a data structure helps us do that.

We talk about the design journey here: https://www.instantdb.com/essays/next_firebase#exploring-sql

If you're interesting in implementing one yourself, I particularly like this chapter in SICP:

https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/html/4_002e4.xhtml#g_t4_00...
Prerequisites are so important, and math is one of the things where it makes more of a difference.

>You Are Not Dumb, You Just Lack the Prerequisites

I know what you mean, after years of study I now feel confident that I don't lack the prerequisites to be as dumb as I could possibly want to be ;)
They don't have to. If this market pans out for them:

1. Almost every VR device is not yet sold. It doesn't matter what you can do with existing devices because they are a tiny fraction of the market.

2. Devices are going to improve drastically. No one is going to be using a VR device from today except as a retro computing device anyways.
> why don't more people bank _intentionally_ with credit unions, or at least local banks

Simply put, national access to those banks. Traveling business owners who deal with cash will have access to physical banking locations all over the country. You cannot deposit cash in San Francisco for a bank that is local to only NYC.
MAANG - N need to make compact AR goggles to assist with visualizing and interacting with the world containing additional context and interaction rather than a simulation of one in VR.
Ditch the Crowded Hubs for These Small Airports
Thanks for posting it! Obviously it's better to launch early and often but I'm much more of a programmer than a marketer and I was afraid it wouldn't get much traction. I've never been so happy to be wrong heh
That makes the file immutable - when your network manager tries to rewrite the file because you reconnected to your wifi, it can't.
I recently did an interview with them and found their perspective to be a little... flippant? A bunch of screw NASA, we sleep in the office, etc etc. I admit that I only spoke with one person in the company but it was enough that I realized it wasn't the work environment I wanted for myself. Regardless, I wish them all the best.
> Carbon nanotubes are not even close to strong enough to build a space elevator, that's the whole problem.

Do you have any sources for that? Because from a quick search online I’m seeing that SE requires a tensile strength of 60-80 GPa and the theoretical max strength of carbon nanotubes can reach 150-200 GPa (with a 63 GPa being demonstrated back in 2000)
That's an interesting idea. I was trying to post a GitHub repo, which is frequent in posts. Yet I was denied.
Silver is antimicrobial.
Gold is highly conductive.

If we had these materials in absurd excess, we could literally build hospitals from silver and the electric grid from gold, and it would be great for our civilization.
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It’s not the individuals fault on their own, but the market absolutely reflects societies tolerance of bugs and crashes. Microsoft started boiling that frog decades ago.
ok I was a bit harsh, I have been watching too much Not Just Bikes/Urban channels and I see too many cars everywhere lol

30k is a good daily ride. Keep it up!
Surely reentering is very much not the problem?
I’m thinking about how that boilerplate isn’t going to move the business forward because it lacks domain insights, isn’t structured quite right, ignores the needs of the end users, and looks too much like the code conventions we’ve been trying to move away from (for example). Yes you can prompt your way out of that, but by the time you have you could have written the code yourself.

I have never been able to use a large output directly from an LLM. They’re useful for starting from nothing or tickling your brain when you’re blocked on something, but they’re nowhere near making me wonder what I’m doing with my life.

There’s so much more to software than code. I get that the final implementation is code, but the path to that delivery is incredibly complex. Especially with existing code belonging to relatively non technical teams. They need a real human to connect to them, their history, current and future needs, nuances of the teams’s capabilities, etc. AI is nowhere near serving teams like this, and I have a hard time imagining when that would change.
I'm curious if any of these hosts slow down during black Friday. That is, if they just act as wrappers to using AWS themselves.
I think this would be equitemporal rather than equidistant? Maybe isochronic? Isochronal? One of those…
systemctl Reboot –Firmware-Setup
People who complain about America secretly love it? Then I guess the American patriots have nothing to complain about. Just closeted and repressed patriotism.
No, of course not. I should have been more accurate by saying that they were able to do this because there wasn't a monopoly at the time.
Oh, you know. Shooting down a civilian airliner full of Dutch citizens. Poisoning people on British soil. Multiple times. Funding neo-NAZI or various far-right political parties. Blatant sabotage and espionage.

Just little things. Not warlike at all.
Clay (short for C Layout) is a high performance 2D UI layout library
Wow, this comment just made the last 7 months of long hours totally worth it. You have understood and distilled the essence of this project so accurately. This is my first time launching something like this, so it's just a great feeling to know there are people on the other side of the screen who are getting it.
Gold and silver is less common in space than here on Earth.
After 8 years of cashing in on the hype. Better late than never. Especially when there are no penalties, and umpteen FSD subscribers sending Tesla money.
I lost two sets in the snow at my mom's house. Where she lives the snow sticks around for 4 or 5 months. They would have been near the top of a few feet of snow where we were making snow angels and generally frolicking, and then covered up by additional snowfall. We found them once it melted. They both work fine.
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I agree with you, I actually use Android since I prefer to be able to install what I want.