skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What is good?" or in other words "What are people for?" is a question that cannot be answered by intelligence no matter how great, because the complexity of the question is a function of the intelligence of the asking entity and it's always greater than the intelligence of the asking entity (human or transhuman cyborg or whatever.)

AI is a side-show.

Intelligence is ambient in living tissue, so we already have as much intelligence as is adaptive. We don't need more. As talking apes made out of soggy mud wrapped around calcium twigs living in the greasy layer between hard vacuum and a droplet of lava which in turn is orbiting a puddle of hydrogen in the hem of the skirt of a black hole our problems are just not that complicated.

Heck, we are surrounded by four-billion year-old self-improving nanotechnology that automatically provides almost all our physical needs. It's even solar-powered! The whole life-support system was fully automatic until we fucked it up in our ignorance. But we're no longer ignorant, eh?

The vast majority of our problems today are the result of our incredible resounding success. We have the solutions we need. Most of them were developed in the 1970's when the oil got expensive for a few minutes.

Must we boil the oceans just to have a talking computer tell us to get on with it? Can't we just do like the Wizard of Oz? Have a guy in a box with a voice changer and a fancy light show tell us to "love each other"? Mechanical Turk God? We can use holograms.
My version of this is to use a serial console server for direct access, rather than vga + keyboard. If the kernel is still running fine but network access is down, I have a getty running on the serial port. If the kernel has locked up too, I hit the reset button by sending a 500ms+ serial break (special circuit, highly recommended) and the bios has serial redirect, so I can do stuff like hit del to drop into bios setup or uefi shell at that point.

But I expect you're probably right some or all of the providers we use do have something like that, as I speculated in the previous post. I've just never understood the point of vga-type stuff when bios/uefi serial redirect exists and serial console is more convenient anyway once the kernel has started, so never asked the question.
To be clear, the argument you're making is that it's blatantly antisemitic rather than a dogwhistle?
Assuming the original files are under a commercial-compatible license.

There's actually a ton of similar models out there, including this one with a built-in Apple Watch charger (and no it's not commercial-compatible)

https://makerworld.com/en/models/629588
Like a shill in a casino?
> The point is: if Satan themselves decides to use and make a profit off based on WordPress, he is allowed as long as they follow GPLv2, which is the case with WP Engine.

To use your own logic, if the founder of a FOSS project leader wants to have a conflict of interest (which is a negatively biased framing of them earning a living off their two decades of hard work), they’re allowed to. If they want to criticize someone else making money off that project, they’re allowed to. It is downright bizarre that you think it is acceptable that “Satan” can profit off Wordpress but with the creator of Wordpress you suddenly take issue with a “conflict of interest”.

To further use your own logic: Is Matt violating the GPLv2? No. OK, then why are you whining about him? He has the same freedoms that you ascribe to WP Engine or others. It just looks like you’re carrying water for an evil private equity firm with a long track record of being evil. All to attack someone who actually created a massive positive impact on the world. Yea no thanks - no one is convinced by this weird demand that Matt needs to step down.
I've used Xometry and JLCPCB (in China) to 3d print stuff but it might be expensive for a larger thing like this. I now have a Bambulab P1 at my office.
They JUST released ARM killer and will deliver 18A in next 6-10 months
The US government has enacted tariffs on many goods from China, at upwards of 100% in some cases. This can be done for cross border labor as well, to prevent a race to the bottom with regards to labor regulations through exporting the externality. An economy need not be global; nation states control their markets, and access to them.

https://www.reuters.com/business/us-locks-steep-china-tariff...

> No legislation is stronger than invisible hand of the market. It's time to grow up...

The strength of legislation is a function of its civil and criminal penalties, as well as its economic incentives (positive or negative). Craft policy accordingly.
It's an excellent writeup (as usual from Vermaden), and I plan to share this with several people who're currently learning Unix.

I particularly like the "why learn anything at all?" bit. People will learn all sorts of esoteric oddities and edge cases about Windows, but then will claim no aptitude to learn something like vi, and this is a good article to provide to those people :)

It's also a good refresher to those of us who've use vi{,m} for ages, but are still collecting shortcuts we've forgotten or haven't yet learned.
Do enough young people even watch TV for banning adverting junk food before 9pm will help anything? clearly advertisers will go to these less regulated platforms which are probably substantially more effective and cheaper.
They are safe barring manufacturing defects. The large enterprise I worked for had 6 fire incidents over 4 years, 5 of which were in a single lot of laptops. (~2000 laptops out of ~150k total)

Swelling is much more common (I’d estimate hundreds of incidents over a similar period). IT teams should have procedures for high risk batteries and containment plans for each significant location. In most cases that means 5 gallon buckets with cat litter or vermiculite.
The Firestore vulnerability found in Arc is likely widespread
It's not social media, but Google hid Proton Mail, a prominent 'competitor', from search results for secure/encrypted email for a while: https://proton.me/blog/search-risk-google.
I think there are some philosophical definitions in the way. The Universe is everything we know, it is made of space and time, so of course it cannot expand into any space as it contains all of it.

We don't know what's outside the Universe, so we can't say there is nothing, and we can't say there's anything, we don't know what it is expanding into, or if "expansion" even makes sense outside the Universe. If we somehow find out what's outside the known Universe, that will inevitably become part of the known Universe, so we will never know what's outside the Universe.
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I would like to make the observation that as Hy matured over the years, instead of accumulating syntactic sugar and special cases to grow more Lispy, less Pythony, it seems to have generally gone the opposite way. That is, becoming a thinner syntactic abstraction of Python's feature set, focusing on the essentials that cannot be emulated in any other way (macros)

A few examples from recent releases:

- "match" is just native Python "match" -- it doesn't even polyfill for pre-3.10 Python versions (in the TypeScript world this would be unthinkable)

- "foo?" used to mangle to "is_foo" as a special case, but this has been removed

- "hy.eval" has been overhauled to be more like Python's "eval"

- nice-to-have but non-essential utilities ("unless") get often pushed out into the Hyrule package

For me this direction was counter-intuitive at first, but it has some very nice outcomes; for one, it simplifies the learning curve when coming over to Hy from Python, and it makes it easier to consistently interact with Python packages (arguably the main reason to use Python in the first place!)

Or maybe it's just a matter of simplyfing maintenance of the language; IIRC, "let" took like 4 attempts to get right :)

In any case, congratulations on this great milestone!
> why not? Esp. if that receptionist is an automaton, and isn't bothered by you

I chose "thousands" to keep it within the realm of possibility while making it clear that it would bother a human receptionist precisely because humans aren't automatons, making the use of resources very obvious.

If you need an analogy to understand how an automated system could suffer from resources being consumed, perhaps picture a web server and billions of requests using a certain amount of bandwidth and CPU time each. Wait, now we're back to the original scenario!
I love MAD magazine. I remember my mom half-jokingly telling me to stay away from my older cousins' copies as a kid. Funny now, considering how tame it is compared to Tiktok/twitter humor. But as a kid it felt otherwordly.

Anyways here's the example MAD folding picture from the exhibit when its folded -- https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbtwberkshi...
So … it’s okay if they build their own system but you find it upsetting when they pay Cloudflare for a service?
Huh, I admit I'm charmed by this meta comment.
Mit dem nächste Kapitalrunde wird das alles in Ordnung kommen.
Why? Wouldn't existing tools be about as good as they could be?
Traditionally advertising time slots on kids television shows were dramatically cheaper, because as you notice, kids don't have any money.
> The cost of developing and maintaining Proton, Linux driver improvements, and their own Arch-based OS has probably exceeded the amount they saved by not shipping Windows on Steam Deck.

So far. Depending on Microsoft's continued benevolence is probably not a great business strategy when you're as big as Valve. You don't want to be caught with your pants down when MS wants their pound of flesh from your $8 billion company.
I never said he violated GPLv2. I'm just saying that his behavior is damaging the project. As a leader, he's bonded to a responsibility to guide and nurture the community. Attacking a participant of said community for no reason (or a pathetic one, like the revisions stuff) is not what most expect from a good leader.
Apple rejects update for Halide camera app for "unclear" permissions message
I believe so you can see, if you wish, how established someone is. And to provide a moderate degree of confidence that other people, at least, generally find their claims accurate (if there is a strange, hard-to-Google, claim they make).
+1 to all of the recommendations for anything by Bambu Lab. It's as close to plug and play as you'll get. (Personally I feel the P1S with the AMS combo is the best value to price, but you really can't go wrong with any of them)
Not sure if you noticed the irony in what you said…
Especially when you separate the ethereal "hard problems" from every day queries local LLMs can answer equally as well as SOTA models, the value proposition for these expensive models plummets. If it can't solve real hard, long horizon problems the 10% lift on a given benchmark is not a material value prop to the end user to choose a local free version over the API costs or the monthly subscription.
Appreciate the Mr. Beast type hyperbole.

The fundamental issue is unmanaged exposure to devices and content does harm to children, and both platforms and content is complicit in it.

Too calm?
I don’t think it’s a skill issue. It’s that they’re really only useful with profile guided optimization—so you can have hints that reflect actual branch probabilities. But most developers don’t seem to bother to do that.
you need some amount of irrational definite optimism + knowing things others dont to be a good founder. that kind of reality distortion field is why sam is sam and we are here debating phrases on an orange website.
If you have 8 billion million sided dice and throw them high enough again and again, one is going to come down to break the game table and put an end to dice throwing.
Isn’t that basically the last paragraph of the comment you replied to?
For the absolute worst case, see: Bodies: The Exhibition

"Concerns have been raised by human rights advocates that the bodies are those of executed Chinese prisoners, and that the families of the victims have not consented."

In one case, it's suspected the government killed the pregnant mistress of a cheating government official and her and the fetus are now a display item.
I am asking for those "some extensions". Do you use any paid extension?
Correct, It's trivial to both maintain that humans deserve some rights and the prisoners do not, if you conclude then that prisoners are not human. They must be subhuman, beings of lesser worth.

This is particularly evident in American systems of modern slavery. In states like Georgia, prisoners are forced to work 40+ hours a week in places such as fast food establishments (McDonald's etc). They make well under minimum wage, and they're not allowed to miss work. Simple missteps result in punishment, loss of "good time". This means no phone calls, no visits, no venturing outside.

Such a system, if employed on everyday people, would be unthinkable. But for prisoners it's not only prevalent, we view it as a privilege. The right to work and earn money is so gracious to give to these dogs, and they should be thankful. Parole, too, is a reward, and they should be so lucky to endure 20+ years of slavery for the mere chance of getting out.
“This may turn out to be the most consequential fact about all of history so far. It is possible that we will have superintelligence in a few thousand days (!); it may take longer, but I’m confident we’ll get there.”

I am a believer that people like sam are not lying. Anyone using these models daily probably believes the same. The o1 model, if prompted correctly, can architect a code base in a way that my decade+ of premium software experience cannot. Prompted incorrectly, it looks incompetent. The abilities of the future are already here, you just need to know how to use the models.
You need a new frame, a new back, a new camera, and a new battery, and you're confused why it would be outrageously priced to replace it? Basically the only things you aren't replacing are the mainboard, the speakers, and the display.

To continue stretching the car analogy, that's like saying you bring in a car to the dealership that only needs a new gas tank, new infotainment system, new bodywork and frame, and then you're outraged that they want to charge you $25k! Most of the car is damaged, you scrap it and some third party can salvage what's valuable and repair some other car.
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Someone has already made one based on the original design

https://makerworld.com/en/models/637572
Yeah, that's my number one question, too. Sure, he happened to be appointed the manager of the team who cracked intuitive algorithms through deep learning, but what does he know about superintelligence? IMO that's a completely separate question, and "foundation models continue to improve" is absolutely not related to whether or not an intelligence explosion is guaranteed or not. I'd trust someone like Yudkowsky way more on this, or really anyone who has engaged with academic literature on the subjects of intentionality, receptive vs. spontaneous reasoning, or really any academic literature of any kind...

Does anyone know if he's published thoughts on any serious lit? So far I've just seen him play the "I know stuff you don't because I get to see behind the scenes" card over and over, which seems a little dubious at this point. I was convinced they would announce AGI in December 2023, so I'm far from a hater! It just seems clear that they're/he's guessing at this point, rather than reporting or reasoning.

Really he assumes two huge breakthroughs, both of which I find plausible but far from guaranteed:

With nearly-limitless intelligence and abundant energy
Alright then, I’ve got a great idea: age verification for the internet.

Don’t like it? That’s the future people like the author would endorse, and what every legislator is going to try to spin this story to do.

I don’t like MrBeast, I even mispronounced his channel name in my original comment. The authors implicit proposal to fix it though is a trap.

I believe the emotional language is a design choice to lead readers to be more favorable to such a proposal. It has nothing to do with MrBeast specifically.
Only if the place is called "Mystery Science Theater 3000"
it helps, because if there are /any/, then it affects them.
Social media is poisoning kids? No. You don't say. It's poisoning society.
I'm sure there are many physicists that share your opinions, but that's not really relevant - there are also many physicists that share the opposite opinion, and there's a lot of physicists that aren't knowledgeable on budgetary issues. Without actual studies, anecdotal support isn't a good way to form consensus - otherwise we'd have to accept that the world is flat, hollow, and 6000 years old.

Your approval as a citizen sadly doesn't mean much - the EU is not a direct democracy, and I haven't come across data showing that this issue would influence elections in a meaningful way (please share any you should find!). The representative nature of our shared democracy can often be frustrating, but as a fellow citizen you'll have to convince me that it should turn into such an issue when I vote the next time, however the way you're assigning negative intentions without providing examples of better investments doesn't convince me that you're treating the subject in an objective way.

> And there are many other at least as good theories of what dark matter could be that are also well outside this range. So, ruling out some models, ones that we anyway don't have any particular reason to believe are the best models, is in fact almost useless.

Have you read studies that analyze existing theories regarding "discoverability" (for lack of a better term)? Or how did you arrive at "almost useless"? It's hard for me to know if the likelihood is closer to 0.0000000001% or 1%, and at least some analysis on this should be doable, even if just by counting the raw amount of possibly achievable/non-achievable theories.

> I know less about the others to understand whether they are as much bullshit or not. And even if they all are, this doesn't mean there is 0 RoI. But I also don't thing the RoI is as high as in other, less well studied areas of physics.

Okay, and what are those areas? What would the required investments be for what kind of RoI?

> As for the engineering advances, the problem with that line of argument is always the same: if buidling the FCC has minor value, but will have positive side-effects of improving our ability to build X, then investing directly in X would be even better.

Only if the expected RoI of the FCC is lower than the additional RoI of investing in X. I'm open to this being the case, but since both of us aren't physicists (and probably not knowledgeable in these kinds of budgetary questions), I need more than your word.
What aggravates me about YouTube is there's some great content that would be amazing for kids, but it's mixed with lots of garbage. Since YouTube doesn't provide any reasonable way for people to curate and share these allow lists with others, I end up completely blocking it on various devices, resulting in less hours of viewership for YouTube.
I find the relationship between mutlithreading and panics' default behavior confusing.

In a single-threaded program, a panic is not supposed to be "caught" and aborts everything. If the main thread panics, the program stops.

But in a multi-threaded program, a panic terminates only the thread it happened in, and the program is allowed to handle that case without termination.

I'm guessing that setting `panic=abort` changes this behavior, but I'm not sure.

Docs: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/macro.panic.html#current-imple..., the third sentence of https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/thread/fn.spawn.html
Even "we will solve the remaining problems" is... perhaps unduly optimistic.

At a minimum, we could ask for the evidence.
Huh, that’s a funny and true perspective. I always took the “branches backwards tend to be loops” assumption as true, but of course there’s no reason a compiler or linker couldn’t use that assumption as well.
Easy for him to say: AI is almost guaranteed to hand a massive W to capital and L to labor. He is holding a title to rule over hell in one hand and promising to lead us to heaven with the other.
Depends:

https://github.com/codr7/sharpl
Toyota and VW fall further behind in the software race
A lot more reasons, in a timeline, to Matt step down: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1--Erh8gHfFs0M-Ty1G7LODwx...
This take shows up a lot and it's a bad one.

"I can surround your child with dangerous unhealthy things and do my best to corrupt and poison them, there should be no limit to this behavior whatsoever because if I succeed it's your fault for being bad parents! All you have to do is say no, it's not like it's my full time job to make end-runs around you with the aid of behavioral science and psychology and a budget, no no no guiding your children morally is as simple as saying no once, are you too stupid and lazy to do that?".
We need to be teaching young people the skills for critical thinking when it comes to advertisements. These companies pay teams to work full time to outsmart our monkey-brains, and it's not fair to expect the average person to have the time to educate themselves about this. By making it part of the curriculum in social studies, we can empower the next generations to make informed decisions instead of being hoodwinked by the endless psychological strategies employed by advertising firms and influencers.
Actually not sure about this, with the leverage of AI, its easier than ever to start a company
The founder of an open source project he founded should step down because you don't like his opinions?

He's allowed to be pissed off that some other company is profiting without contributing back. Developing the single most popular website framework is not without cost. Don't like his paid service? Don't use it!
> If someone is holding two jobs remotely, it mostly means they are in "bulls!!t" job where they are not utilized to adequate levels and the symptoms of low output is not correctly noticed.

You are putting too much faith in human nature. Lot of times, people are simply greedy and abuse the cultural norms put in place to allow slacks when truly warranted. Seen those stories first hand, and then there is https://www.reddit.com/r/overemployed/
Yeah you could definitely do smaller royalty rates or a step up fee schedule but I know SPDX isn't too keen on people dumping a thousand licenses at their feet to include and until you can easily plug in custom license parameters, I'm not sure if there is a better approach without absolutely blowing up the SBOM with custom licensure.
Love this! I just got back from Tokyo and was thinking something similar about what determined the density of which brands. Nice work!
> small, temporary flat surfaces out of thin air

Hmmm, short of force-field technology, I think there's a slightly different solution which we might be getting close to: A robot assistant that can recognize when it is offered objects, and then returns them. This role may be familiar to anyone who has ever helped a parent do car/home repairs.

Human: "Take this."

Bot: "This looks new, please name the object."

Human: "It's a sprongle wrench."

Bot: "Taking sprongle wrench."

Human: "Give me the sprongle wrench."

Bot: "Here's the sprongle wrench."

____

Back to your flat-surface scenario, perhaps similar system could create virtual shelves or cubbyholes? When you present the robot an item, it remembers the handoff location in space, and moving your hand there again causes it to offer the corresponding object. You'd probably need some sort of augmented-reality display in order to quickly see what's available though.