skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I repeatedly keep seeing praise for Ilyas achievements as a scientist and engineer, but until ChatGPT OpenAI was in the shadow of DeepMind, and to my knowledge (I might be wrong) he has not been that much involved with ChatGPT?

the whole LLM race seems deaccelerate, and all the hard problems about LLMs seems not do have had that much progress the last couple of years (?)

In my naaive view I think a guy like David Silver the creator/co-lead of Alpha-Zero deserves more praise, atleast as a leader/scientist.
He even have lectures about Deep RL after doing AlphaGo: https://www.davidsilver.uk/teaching/

He has no LinkedIn and came straight from the game-dev industry before learning about RL.

I would put my money on him.
People are choosing headquarters for access to capital rather than talent. That should tell you a lot about the current dynamics of the AI boom.
Can you offer some examples of things you can restrict with SELinux that you wouldn't be able to with AppArmor?
thanks
yes there's a lot of artificial life simulations utilizing the smooth life concept on youtube, it's really cool
"In this house we side with Aristotle."
I don't trust people who don't know the difference between a flywheel and a positive feedback loop.
You Can Learn AI Later
But it's not a bubble right?
Your AI internet connected Coffee Machine, will come with a Microsoft subscription to integrate the Oprah Advice Module: "This cup of coffee is just like you: strong, bold, and full of potential."
I really rarely nick myself. I usually use a towel to grab the head of the razor when tightening/loosening it for cleaning or changing blades. Luckily for me I have not cut myself yet in the process.

I have a scar on my pointer finger from a deep cut from playing with the head of a HDD as a kid. It is similar to a deep razorblade cut. It still aches sometimes 20+ years after the accident. Be careful!
It may not use it if you don't explicitly need it, there could be out-of-band detection that adds a TURN server or some other OOB relay if it's needed. I've also seen comments online that say Chrome in particular can support TCP for WebRTC which would negate the need for a relay (as normally only DTLS over UDP is used). But based on my understanding of how WebRTC and NAT works, using the typical UDP approach for bidirectional communication over symmetric or CGNAT absolutely should not work, barring some other method of NAT traversal such as a browser-based UPnP client or such.
> A case has been made here that Debian is less secure for containers and server usage.

For shared server usage. Most servers are single-use, what makes SELinux mostly useless again.

And on those shared servers, you have to define your actual policies for it to be useful... What a total of 0 people do.

It's hard to completely dismiss the idea that SELinux was a NSA plot to keep userspace capabilities out of reach on consumer OSes.
That's an interesting read, but I didn't find anything relating to

> ascend upwards depending upon the length of the word

Did I just miss it?
> and (especially a few decades ago) can offer cross-platform/backwards syntax compatibility using a shared code base.

This is still very much an issue. For the shutdown and reboot case, the main reason those symlinks is exist is for backwards compatibility for existing programs and scripts (and muscle memory) that assume there is a shutdown or reboot command, and compatibility with systems that don't use systemd.

Another way to do that could be to use a shell script that execs systemctl, but that requires a separate intermediate shell process, which may have its own compatibility issues.

Another use of argv[0] that isn't discussed at all is putting a hyphen at the beginning of argv[0] for login shells. For example if bash is invoked as the login shell argv[0] is "-bash". That probably wasn't a great design decision, but changing it now would probably cause a lot of breakage.
Because it’s just a simple rail.
... Hiroshima
So according to the "deep guide" video review, this uses E Ink's "Gallery 3" e-paper screen. Which, unlike conventional displays, doesn't use additive subpixel color mixing.

Instead it uses subtractive color mixing inside each pixel: It layers transparent cyan, magenta and yellow, and opaque white pigments, over each other. Which creates cyan, magenta, yellow and white as primary colors, and red, green, blue and black as secondary colors. Other shades are then created via dithering those eight base colors. So it works very similar to an inkjet printer.

Since it doesn't use subpixels, the screen seems to have a similar brightness to greyscale E Ink displays, which is reasonably close to printed paper. However, the color saturation is clearly still not quite on the level of actual printed paper.

Here is a comparison shot between Gallery 3 and Kaleido 3 (the latter uses conventional subpixels to create colors):
https://assets.goodereader.com/blog/uploads/images/2023/03/2...

And of course the reaction times are not as fast as LCD/OLED. As is well known, E Ink uses electrophoresis e-paper screens, where solid electrically charged pigments are moved around in a liquid, which is a slow process. It also still requires a "deghosting" refresh once the screen changes, but interestingly those refreshs are now only applied to the parts of the screen which actually have changed pixel values, which looks significantly less distracting in my opinion.
`"Well, now you are pushing your joke too far," said the classmate, "surely the population has nothing to do with the circumference of the circle."`

I've always loved this line and paraphrase it often. It's an eminently reasonable and yet accidentally profound thing to say.
> Are you proposing we seize their land?

And how did they come to own their land? You trace the claims back enough and it'll resolve to "some ancestor took it from someone else at the point of a spear". But we don't need to seize the land. A land value tax achieves the same goals while leaving in place all the nice free-market stuff you're talking about.
There aren't many companies for whom I have love like Remarkable. All I've ever wanted is hardware that isn't needlessly closed or locked down, that is hacker friendly. Remarkable mostly delivered that.

But it feels like they've been increasingly moving away from that, especially where the openness now competes with their cloud subscription.

Given the amount of love the open source community has shown Remarkable, I think they could let the community build some amazing software for them. This would be doubly beneficial because the software is the weak point currently for the Remarkable. If they were to open source the existing software, even with a CLA copyright assignment, I bet there'd be a huge influx of people contributing.

I hope with this new Paper Pro that they are moving in the direction of openness/hackability and not more closed like they did with the Remarkable 2. Would love to hear from people who have tried the Paper Pro about how that is.

Side note: If you haven't gotten the RCU utility application, you definitely should! It's a great tool[1]

[1]: https://www.davisr.me/projects/rcu/
It's the silly joke, "bill gates and I have a combined net worth of 154 billion", this is how journalism is done these days.
This is a surprising article because I kind of see this in light of the old Linux/BSD wars?

“Red Hat owned making this policy apply to most of the popular software they distribute. On Debian the users have to set everything up.” — this sentiment is directly parallel to how BSDs see themselves as providing a whole consistent operating system, Linux meanwhile just wants to ship a kernel.

“Debian doesn't care enough about security.” — says everyone who runs OpenBSD.

“With SELinux policies, containers are isolated from the system.” — you could almost say they are “in jail,” maybe we could package this up as a syscall, hm, but what to call it...

IDK what BSD looks like in 2024, but in ~2004 you would have seen this exact same article about Debian, but comparing to FreeBSD instead of RHEL.
Understandable that there are a lot of thoughts on this and glad you pointed out that YC includes a brief video as part of the application - that's actually where we got the idea!

e.g. from the YC app
"Founder Video
Please record a one minute video introducing the founder(s).*
Make sure the file does not exceed 100 MB. Read more about the video here."

We're looking to confirm that applicants can clearly and concisely communicate by describing something challenging they've done. Our goal is to efficiently find thoughtful applicants.

We're proud of our team, with folks from a variety of backgrounds. Clarity of thought is distributed across populations. :)
"if" is the name of the game in investing.

you say you don't see it. fine. these investors do - thats why they are investing and you are not.
Every time I see this device pop up, I really struggle to find out what exactly this has over something like an iPad with an Apple Pencil?

With this one being $579 including the basic marker. The iPad Air with an 11" screen with the cheaper pencil is $678. iPad with an 11" screen and the cheaper pencil is $428.

If it is the screen feel, how does that compare to the paperlike screen protectors for iPad?

Some say a lack of distractions, but you can turn on do not disturb?

I am just really curious what this solves vs other tablets that I am missing here, especially at this price point. Or is there something I am really missing here?
This is giving a misleading impression. I can see why you are saying it, however it's giving an impression that the Netherlands has high integrity. Read my comments above.

The word infinite here is probably a little out of place. But it's a statement of your feelings so it can well be an accurate reflection of them.
apparently 'an sfu' is 'is a media server component capable of receiving multiple media streams and then deciding which of these media streams should be sent to which participants [of which the] main use is in supporting group calls and live streaming/broadcast scenarios.' according to https://bloggeek.me/webrtcglossary/sfu/

i suspect webrtc implementations in browsers are the source of many of the problems but i don't know how to debug that
>Something tells me they’ll even invoice the owner for the tow and storage.

That's going to depend on the department, but given my experience it's a distinct possibility.

>not remotely ever an excuse for towing someone’s vehicle.

The average person absolutely is going to agree with you here. United States case law, however, doesn't. The police don't have to choose the easiest or most convenient way to seize evidence once they get a warrant.
> But a few, including AWS, doesn't allow that.

IAM users you are correct only allow a single 2fa key (their way of deprecating IAM users), but their SSO Users can have as many as they want and are honestly much better than IAM users. Even for my personal account I've moved to using an SSO User.
They don't need to do that on their own though. They just need customers who want a supersonic plane who are willing to put their backing to overturning the ban. If a few dozen super rich people say they'd be able to create a million jobs by shaving 20 minutes off a trip 'the people' will often listen.
I've had no issues for personal use. Be it Fedora or Fedora Server. When I ran into issues the logs often come with a solution.
> Recent examples I've seen fall well within the range of innumeracy that people routinely display.

But the company name specifically says "superintelligence"

The company isn't named "as smart as the average redditor, Inc"
I understand that one huge reason for Ed Witten's optimism about strong theory is this very fact. That, in his terms, the process of building out string theory has led to the uncovering of so much "buried treasure" in the form of novel developments of maths.

Of course it's not anything like a proof but something that bolsters an intuition.
another strange but fascinating thing.. burning the nubbel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnPbquIyfjg
Interaction with viewers is the primary one.

There is also the "event" nature of streaming, where the audience is excited to react to things together in real-time, like when people Tweet when watching the Superbowl or a show's season finale. Even for mundane streams, the "chat" will happily talk amongst themselves reacting to whatever the streamer is doing, which can feel like hanging out with friends.

There's also times where the streamer is discussing something that is happening now or just happening (world events, the Superbowl, a game update, etc), where viewers are excited about the content right now and don't want to wait for the traditional record->edit->release cycle.
The best solvers are really impressive. Unfortunately, they also cost a very large sum of money.

We should be happy that many of the best tools in other areas are free.
I think this is really tough especially since the US is a big market and usually airlines don’t like to buy planes that only fly in specific countries.
latency is totally tolerable, so i'm pretty sure the audio and video are flowing directly between our machines and not via .de
>Is there someone who need to shave fully for non cosmetic reasons?

Firefighters.
Deploying Rust in Existing Firmware Codebases
Yes, up until recently. The Vera Rubin observatory will change that quite a bit, and soon. Most observatories and telescopes are currently aimed at deep field (very long exposures of tiny portions of the sky). There are a few surveys meant for transients (supernovae, variables etc) and those are also well suited for near earth objects: look at the Catalina sky survey and the zwicky transient facility. When I was (very mildly) involved, the Vera Rubin observatory expected its first 25% of the mission to be overtaken by observing new near earth objects, even as its mission was to catalog variable stars and spot supernovae and other transients.

Some interesting stories about how these surveys work today and how they will work in ~10 years. Right now, it’s so rare to spot a weird thing in the sky that the alarms are all verified by grad students in graveyard shifts. When the new observatories come online, there won’t be enough grad students in the world :) so it’ll all be ML.
I think he makes a good point in the video that when your only tool is a hammer every problem starts to look like a nail. The police get vehicles towed so often that doing it in this situation didn't seem strange to them at all.
Higher quality, fountain pen-friendly paper tends to be smoother than regular paper (e.g, clairefontaine, tomoe river, japanese paper in general) yet still much less slippery than a glass surface.

How slippery/grippy you want things to be depends on the type of pen you use (gel, ink, pencil, brush,etc.) and to some extent also preference, but people generally agree that there are cases which work just badly: very slippery (e.g. glass) and much too rough (e.g. sand paper).
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> Chances are, the computer will break or be replaced in five years or less.

I think this is less and less true as time goes on. I have a laptop from 5 ish years ago I still use and it's actually pretty fast.

And, even so, it's not like the ONLY wear on your SSD is the hibernation. So this 5 year figure, I'm not sure it's right. I think, maybe if you're someone who stresses your hard drives a lot (maybe you work with photography or videography?) hibernation might make an impactful difference.
Doesn't seem like it would be important for a supersonic missile to be silent since you wouldn't hear it before it hits you regardless.
Every single update has made my reMarkable tablet worse. I’ve stopped using it as a result.

I have absolutely no idea why they went all in on keyboard input, when the whole freaking point of the tablet was that you could write on it like paper.
Lots of comments either defending this ("it's taking a chance on being the first to build AGI with a proven team") or saying "it's a crazy valuation for a 3 month old startup". But both of these "sides" feel like they miss the mark to me.

On one hand, I think it's great that investors are willing to throw big chunks of money at hard (or at least expensive) problems. I'm pretty sure all the investors putting money in will do just fine even if their investment goes to zero, so this feels exactly what VC funding should be doing, rather than some other common "how can we get people more digitally addicted to sell ads?" play.

On the other hand, I'm kind of baffled that we're still talking about "AGI" in the context of LLMs. While I find LLMs to be amazing, and an incredibly useful tool (if used with a good understanding of their flaws), the more I use them, the more that it becomes clear to me that they're not going to get us anywhere close to "general intelligence". That is, the more I have to work around hallucinations, the more that it becomes clear that LLMs really are just "fancy autocomplete", even if it's really really fancy autocomplete. I see lots of errors that make sense if you understand an LLM is just a statistical model of word/token frequency, but you would expect to never see these kinds of errors in a system that had a true understanding of underlying concepts. And while I'm not in the field so I may have no right to comment, there are leaders in the field, like LeCun, who have expressed basically the same idea.

So my question is, has Sutskever et al provided any acknowledgement of how they intend to "cross the chasm" from where we are now with LLMs to a model of understanding, or has it been mainly "look what we did before, you should take a chance on us to make discontinuous breakthroughs in the future"?
With the sheer volume of local exploits found in the Linux kernel, I don't really consider these SELinux/AppArmor mitigations to be that useful. Sure, they reduce the attack surface a bit, but if I actually need isolation between workloads, it's best to do it below the kernel (with a VM).

If an attacker gets execution in userspace, it's best to assume they can also get into the kernel via some 0-day local privilege escalation...
That's less true now than it was in the 1980s.
Concorde got a pass because it was British and even then it was controversial.

Boom will still have to meet all noise pollution rules now and in the future. Noise rules are designed for normal passenger aircraft, they will not get any exceptions.

I don't doubt that they can make something much quieter than Concorde but can they make it as quiet as subsonic aircraft?
> Russia hasn't ratified it either

Fair enough. Operating difference is Ukraine is coöperating with the ICC. Afghanistan didn’t in 2017, a reason the ICC cited for rejecting prosecution.

The Taliban could have petitioned to have the case reöpened. But for obvious reasons, they, too, weren’t interested.

(Context: Ukraine ratified. Iraq never did. Afghanistan did under U.S. occupation in 2003.)
I was envisioning an image or PDF (which lets you embed the font, effectively) but "click here to install my font" is somehow even funnier
Right. They don't think that state-of-the-art models are already superintelligent, they're aiming to build one that is.
* ... your target ...
> The only way to defend free speech is to nuke the idea of benevolent censorship from orbit. Nobody has a monopoly on the truth, nobody can discern "misinformation" from truth consistently or without bias, and nobody can define "hate speech" in universally acceptable terms that don't recall blasphemy laws of centuries past.

Then stop supporting it. Really - if you dislike benevolent censorship, stop taking part in moderated and privately-held society. Stop using X, stop using Facebook, just log the fuck off. It's really that easy, if you want to stop these people from controlling your worldview.

The problem with legislation demanding unconditional free speech is what happens to site owners. The current status-quo is frankly great, and allows for moderators to reconcile serious problems (eg. sexual harassment, leaking classified documents, eg.) with impunity and certainty. If you consider Elon Musk a vanguard of whatever stupid point you're making, you've more or less sabotaged your own logic better than I ever could.
The parent didn't say the scraping was "illegal", but that it violated ToS.

These are entirely different things. The upshot of the proceedings is that while the courts ruled there wasn't sufficient for an injunction to stop the scraping, it was nonetheless still injurious to the plaintiff and had breached their User Agreement -- thus allowing LinkedIn to compel hiQ towards a settlement.

From Wikipedia:

The 9th Circuit ruled that hiQ had the right to do web scraping.[1][2][3] However, the Supreme Court, based on its Van Buren v. United States decision,[4] vacated the decision and remanded the case for further review in June 2021. In a second ruling in April 2022 the Ninth Circuit affirmed its decision.[5][6] In November 2022 the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that hiQ had breached LinkedIn's User Agreement and a settlement agreement was reached between the two parties.[7]
Try to make some innovative software product without talking to any user. You'll see why physics is good at crating new math.
Relevant infographic on asteroid threat (from the article): https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2018/06/Asteroid_d...
> Looking at the video there is a significant lag in the rendering. Is it noticeable when you're writing?

Speaking from my experience with a remarkable, not on that device.

I think two factors contribute to this. One is that there are different rendering modes, and it uses a very fast one for updating pen strokes so there is less delay than you would guess by looking at larger updates. The other is that the stylus obscures the very end of the line anyways.
Reminds me of my old livescribe pen i had as an undergrad. It was a ballpoint-pen with a little computer inside and a camera pointing down the tip of the pen. You'd use it with special notebooks that had very small dot-patterns printed on the paper, and the computer could decode that to get its position on the page. Then you'd plug it into your PC's USB port to upload a digital copy of your notes. There was surprisingly-good OCR to make it searchable and also the pen had a microphone that recorded what your professor was saying during any given penstroke. And that's in addition to having the physical notebook the ballpoint pen wrote on.

Looks like they still exist but they haven't done much in the last 15 years. They used to make these high-quality leather-bound notebooks but now it seems they only have cheap spiral-bound ones. Worse, the pen still costs about $200 so it's not in anyway competitive with remarkable.

I'm contemplating going to grad school and I might try to dig up my old livescribe pen if I can find it (I think I saw it a year or two ago in some box of assorted odds and ends) but the lack of high-quality journals is a disappointment and if I can't find my old livescribe pen I'd rather try out remarkable than spend 10x as much on a nearly-dead product that had far more potential but seems to be on life-support.

Wish livescribe would at least open-source their software if they no longer care about it.
thank you! i didn't realize that it lacked the features of the microcomputer basics; i have the impression that they were copying the same dartmouth timesharing system that hp was copying, but of course i've never used dtss myself

what kind of obsolete and arcane tools do you use? vim seems to be pretty popular among the youngsters these days. a friend of mine a bit younger than you prefers ex
Strangely enough, the Saturn V Flight Control Computer is analog and has no software. You're probably thinking of the LVDC.
For someone with ADHD, “do not disturb” is not a reliable solution to the distraction problem.
“Physicists are much less concerned than mathematicians about rigorous proofs.
...
That allows physicists to explore mathematical terrain more quickly than mathematicians.”

The end.

There's no magic here.