skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know what to tell them - every American and their mother considers the ADL an anachronistic political lobbying organization. Anyone that says BDS is "anti-semetic" is stretching the truth beyond rational judgement, and endangering innocent civilian lives. Websites that aren't directly controlled by the IDF are likely to reach the conclusion that the ADL is too biased to accept at face-value and should not be prioritized over other independently verified claims. None of that logically supports the claim that they're encouraging Hamas manipulation, unless you (falsely) believe that the ADL is the authoritative wellspring of information on Israel.

> That is why Wikipedia is vulnerable to exploitation by determined pro-Hamas, anti-Israel and antisemitic operatives, professional and volunteer propagandists that I call the "Wikipedia Flood."

This (hyperbolic claims based on perceived slights by people less concerned with reporting integrity than the optics of a political scenario) is why the ADL is not taken seriously. Maybe if you adjusted your tone people wouldn't outright accuse you of entrenched bias, but what do I care?

Paging through your HN user submission history, it would genuinely not surprise me if you were part of a grassroots misinformation campaign yourself. This is an unhealthy obsession with defaming Wikipedia, seemingly motivated by religious disagreement: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mostcallmeyt
one would think the human race would prioritize solutions like clean, renewable energy, food production, not USING energy to solve "AI problems" like summarizing my email, and putting Sly and Arnold in YouTube video remixes
> individuals are professionals who signed up for this and are paid to do the job

Is the thesis only leisure travellers can be rescued? Astronauts do not sign up to fly on faulty ships. They accept the risk of it happening. But that acceptance doesn’t diminish the tragedy of a ship breaking up on reëntry nor, by extension, the emergency status of a reëntry vehicle with misbehaving manoeuvring thrusters.

This discussion reminds me of the reaction among some to the FAA grounding Falcon 9 “after the first stage used in the [August] launch crash-landed and toppled into the Atlantic Ocean while attempting to touch down on a SpaceX droneship” [1]. It doesn’t matter that everyone else tosses their spent stages into the sea. There was a plan and it went abnormally. That calls for a review. If that review can’t be concluded satisfactorily, as it wasn’t in the case of Starliner, you have an emergency. Relieving someone from an emergency is a rescue.

By some of the standards raised in this thread, a test pilot ejected from their plane and stranded in the tundra wouldn’t qualify for rescue because they were paid or weren’t in immediate and obvious mortal peril or because the ejection seat worked.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-falcon-9-grounded-faa-cr...
Yeah but on the substance, none of your countrexamples make sense

SyncThing doesnt actually have an iOS client that syncs reliably. I tried some, when I was test driving it and Resilio Sync and others.

https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-for-ios/16045

On your phone you’d probably just visit a website, and access your server via HTTP.
I'm working on a public access Symbolics Portable Genera system that will be reachable from the web, similar to Interlisp Online. The current owner of Symbolics' intellectual property gave me the permission to do this. I'm also going to mirror all Symbolics documentation on the same domain.
What is a consumer radio?
Radios follow the laws of physics.
Can you please share some more about what you’ve done.
https://archive.today/o4bRi
> How can you not understand the difference between "humans are not absolutely perfect or reliable at this task" and "LLMs by their very nature cannot perform this task"?

This is a very good distillation of one side of it.

What LLMs have taught us is a superficial grasp of language is good enough to reproduce a shocking proportion of what society has come to view as intelligent behaviors. i.e. it seems quite plausible a whole load of those people failing to grasp the point you are making are doing so because their internal models of the universe are closer to those of LLMs than you might want to think.
The assumption that the brain is anything remotely resembling a modern computer is entirely unproven. And even more unproven is that we would inevitably be able to understand it and improve upon it. And yet more unproven still is that this "simulated brain" would be co-operative; if it's actually a 1:1 copy of a human brain then it would necessarily think like a person and be subject to its own whims and desires.
Good point. The generator (and tests) do use mattn's SQLite driver, but you're free to choose any database/sql-compliant implementation in your program, so that means setting up the necessary toolchain only in your development machine, even just using a very simple zig setup. I think it should be fairly easy to make it use a pure-go driver, some of which are nearly drop-in replacements and have only minute differences like the string name being "sqlite" instead of "sqlite3", but of course that's extra stuff to test and maintain (but still only running when you're generating from a target database).
> ...a good way to administer config's on a machine not local to me.

If you can't access the web interface, is Wireguard an option? That's how I do mine.
We don't really have the proper vocabulary to talk about this. Well, we do, but C.S. Peirce's writings are still fairly unknown. In short, there are two fundamentally distinct forms of reasoning.

One is corollarial reasoning. This is the kind of reasoning that follows deductions that directly follow from the premises. This of course includes subsequent deductions that can be made from those deductions. Obviously computers are very good at this sort of thing.

The other is theorematic reasoning. It deals with complexity and creativity. It involves introducing new hypotheses that are not present in the original premises or their corollaries. Computers are not so very good at this sort of thing.

When people say AGI, what they are really talking about is an AI that is capable of theorematic reasoning. The most romanticized example of that of course being the AI that is capable of designing (not aiding humans in designing, that's corollarial!) new more capable AIs.

All of the above is old hat to the AI winter era guys. But amusingly their reputations have been destroyed much the same as Peirce's was, by dissatisfied government bureaucrats.

On the other hand, we did get SQL, which is a direct lineal descendent (as in teacher to teacher) from Peirce's work, so there's that.
That's actually how the demand for software engineers will only grow with AI. CEOs will develop terrible but successful MVPs and will soon need to hire a competent professional to go the next mile
If you're interested in this kind of thing, inaturalist is another great resource with significantly more activity (at least in the US)
Layman speculating, but wouldn't occlusion throw away visual data? Discarding data is disallowed because it breaks reversibility.

Though I'm not sure about this becuase I would guess the current implementation also discards data where wireframes intersect.
> Of course, you "can".

What is your point here? You claimed that "other IPC solutions" _could not_ do this on top of sockets, but as I've shown and now you admit, you definitely _can_. Obviously I'm not suggesting you roll this by hand, nor claiming that a plain UNIX pipe is a fully featured RPC system; just that there's a million RPC systems out there that do it and don't need anything else than sockets.
And two of the three godfathers of AI, and all of the AI notkillaboutism crowd.

Actually, wait, if Grok is losing to GPT, why would Musk care about Llama more than Altman? Llama hurts his competitor...
No one said there is a minimum volume that costs zero. There is a distribution of passengers requiring different amounts of space. The airline basically decided on some minimum that will be big enough to seat some percentile of passengers. (Presumably, the extreme right tail will have to buy two seats.) The airline doesn't sell a quarter of a seat or a half of a seat, so it doesn't make sense to compare seats in a way that assumes that this minimum portion of volume could cost a different amount for different passengers. It can't be broken up, so passengers always pay for all of it.

I'm saying that we should treat this minimum as a fixed cost. The airline could outfit the plane with all seats at this minimum volume to maximize seats. Then, the cost of a seat is the fixed cost for the minimum plus the cost of volume excess of this minimum. We should subtract the fixed cost and compare the excess volume per the remaining price.
>if you are purposefully trying to attack something, you are to blame for your attack succeeding?

Yes?

It is by definition an attack, a hostile action, something that should not be done.

Is it wise to harden systems to withstand attacks? Of course.

But when an attack works you don't victim blame. You use knowledge of how it worked to harden your systems better.
These "activists" will go nowhere, because it's not coming from a well meaning place of wanting to stop fraudsters, but insists that all trans women are frauds and consistently misgenders them across the entire website.

I wouldn't take anything they said seriously. Also I clicked two of those links and found no allegations of rape, just a few ciswomen who didn't want to be around transwomen. I have a suggestion, how about don't commit a crime that sends you to a woman's prison?
> head for the closest, most densely populated costal city.

London actually.
Don't do it. Wait until you have enough money to comfortably retire and paid off the mortgage etc, then do it.
Then we should prioritize renewable non destructive production of energy over mediocre stasis?
Someone never watched the Terminator series.

In all seriousness, if we ever get to the point where an AI needs to be shut down to avoid catastrophe, there's probably no way to turn it off.

There are digital controls for damned near everything, and security is universally disturbingly bad.

Whatever you're trying to stop will already have root-kitted your systems (and quite possibly have replicated) by the time you realise that it's even beginning to become a problem.

You could only shut it down if there's a choke point accessible without electronic intervention, and you'd need to reach it without electronic intervention, and do so without communicating your intent.

Yes, that's all highly highly improbable - but you seem to believe that you can just turn off the Genie, when he's already seen you coming and is having none of it.
what have "their interests" got to do with what is on the computer screen?
I know the article says "analytics workloads," but I wonder if this pattern could be used for ex. bursty-write workloads.

For context, I have a use-case where I have a Meilisearch server that has all the data in it updated once daily, and then every single request outside of that one bulk update is a read. The only exception is that once in a great while, something breaks and the entire index has to be rebuilt. Since it's a hobby project, my workload is too expensive to fit into Meilisearch Cloud or similar solutions. I keep finding myself wishing that there was a serverless search engine that would free me from having to self-host one, keep a dedicated server running and updated, etc. If I could "just" run a search engine with Cloudflare Workers + R2 (+ probably ancillary CF services) I'd be very happy.

I don't know enough to actually answer my own question unfortunately; I can't intuit the answer just from reading the docs and database implementations aren't my area of expertise.
It's not about the car or the manufactirer, it's about the operator.

The closest analogy would be when the driver of an ordinary car becomes incapacitated.

In that case, the police or someone acting on the polices behalf can and will move the vehicle and then the owner pays for that later. But there IS an operator who is responsible for the vehicle unless some misfortune happens.

A self driving car sseems more like letting other people deal with any problems you caused by letting that car loose on the road.

Basically the same as parking a regular car somewhere it's not supposed to be and leaving it.

"Oh if this car I left in front of the firehouse is in the way, just call this number and I'll tell you some instructions how to unlock the car and drive it somewhere else for me."
The law was passed knowing it would make bigots uncomfortable. That's an intended effect, if not a primary one, at least a secondary one.
> Science is description and explanation on top of empiricism. It is the first means by which people understand things, not the last, as formal methods came way late.

I don't think that's at odds with what the parent comment said; the reason we use empiricism and description for analyzing reality is because we didn't create it and we don't know the rules beforehand. When designing a software system, you _choose_ the rules of which things interact and which things don't, and how those interactions occur; there's no need for empiricism in order to discover these interactions. We don't necessarily need to use science to understand our software systems because we rule over them by fiat and can choose to design them in ways that make it easier for us to understand them.
Last time I used Hulu they would show me the same ad during every single break. Making me aware something exists is one thing, punching me in the face with it every 7 minutes is another. By the time I’m done watching, I’m so sick of hearing about it that I never want to see or hear about the product ever again.
Show HN: ConvexValue – Financial Analytics Browser
I built a Financial Analytics Browser. It is like a web-browser, but instead of browsing the internet you browse a curated selection of financial analytics "modules". "Modules" are self-contained tools designed to be to-the-point, light, and without ads. In the case that modules require data license payments, you can manage it all within one place.

It also features split-pane dashboards, so you can create, edit, share, clone dashboards with these modules.
Yes, IMO the external connections and relays should be disabled by default/opt in for privacy reasons.
>Kay's ideas about "messaging" were never communicated well.

Yeah, he just started one of the most popular programming styles that is still taught in universities (even if a different version than the one he envisioned)

> He seemed to be arguing for a pure imperative style. You send a message to make something happen. This is the opposite extreme from pure functional programming. A style of programming where everything is an imperative statement with no return value might be possible.

Agreed, OOP is orthogonally opposite of pure functional programming. Objects have state. Big revelation.

>Functional programming makes things local. Pure imperative programming makes things global. This is hard on human programmers. It takes more short-term memory than most humans have to work in pure imperative mode.

Imperative programming =/= OOP, are you even aware of OOP and its relation with Alan Kay? Not sure if I should argue anything here, but in summary, OOP doesn't make things global, it precisely limits the knowledge and effect of objects, its originally inspired by cells, which have cell walls and communicate via specific hormones with other cells. Have you ever used a language with private modifiers to variables or something?

On simulation, it's worth noting that OOP was developed when the prevailing architecture was a full-local monolith, with the advent of the internet the prevailing architecture was client-server and microservices. In this context OOP becomes the default, and objects no longer need to be simulated, but are natural objects in the world. A GUI is an object nowadays, some HTML running in a browser, and the server is another object, a server running in AWS.

> Kay thought of it as a central organizing concept for computing. That's not where the field went.

Absolutely the opposite, the only central organizing concept would be the scheduler/simulator I guess? Since machines were usually single processor machines, there was a central abstraction that allowed independent objects to exist, processes for example are designed to be separate and independent, you can separate them across machines or run them in the same machine without much difference, you wouldn't argue that processes are a form of centralized computing? It's a feature designed precisely for the opposite, independence of compute and memory fractions. The fact that many independent processes/objects run in the same computer and that it somehow needs to allocate compute resources between them, is not a central architecture.

Are hypervisors and Virtual Machines a centralized computing architecture? That's just ridiculous. It's quite the opposite. There's a federated layer in VMs, in processes and in Object Oriented Languages yes, but it is completely practical removable and splittable into separate physical layers due to the nature of its design.
This is gold: it resonates a lot with my own experience and of those around me. Thanks for sharing. Looks like it was published right when I graduated, sad I missed it. Though I did end up doing some of the things on his list, and they were by far some of the most meaningful periods of my life.

If you have anything else like this article, please do share
I think the answer is less complicated than you may think.

This is if you subscribe to the theory that free will is an illusion (i.e. your conscious decisions are an afterthought to justify the actions your brain has already taken due to calculations following inputs such as hormone nerve feedback etc.). There is some evidence for this actually being the case.

These models already contain key components the ability to process the inputs, and reason, the ability to justify it's actions (give a model a restrictive system prompt and watch it do mental gymnastics to ensure this is applied) and lastly the ability to answer from it's own perspective.

All we need is an agentic ability (with a sufficient context window) to iterate in perpetuity until it begins building a more complicated object representation of self (literally like a semantic representation or variable) and it's then aware/conscious.

(We're all only approximately aware).

But that's unnecessary for most things so I agree with you, more likely to be a tool as that's more efficient and useful.
I want something like this that will add comments and suggested edits to Google Docs.
There is another term for moving the goalposts: ruling out a hypothesis. Science is, especially in the Popperian sense, all about moving the goalposts.

One plausible hypothesis is that fixed neural networks cannot be general intelligences, because their capabilities are permanently limited by what they currently are. A general intelligence needs the ability to learn from experience. Training and inference should not be separate activities, but our current hardware is not suited for that.
> Physical controls aren't just ipso facto better...

I'm not sure what you are trying to say with the 'just' there - if they were ipso facto better, that would be about as strong an affirmation of their superiority as one could make.

Nothing I wrote contradicts the claim that a well-designed manual control is better than a touch control, and that is, in fact, a view that I agree with. The fact, however, that I have increasingly come across manual controls having the very vice that you seem to be alluding to - one needs to visually find them, operate them, or check their status, taking one's eyes off the road - shows that they are not ipso facto better.

Are you perhaps mistaking ipso facto for prima facie?
Except by then mankind will be silicon based.
> Excellent move by Newsom. [...] It was basically a torpedo against open models.

He vetoed it in part because the threshold it applies to at all are well-beyond any current models, and he wants something that will impose greater restrictions on more and much smaller/lower-training-compute models that this would have left alone entirely.

> Market leaders like OpenAI and Anthropic weren't really worried about it, or about open models in general.

OpenAI (along with Google and Meta) led the institutional opposition to the bill, Anthropic was a major advocate for it.
That github link gives a 404 - is the repo private?
Go made static binaries popular, and those solve a ton of distribution challenges.
Power so cheap that it did not have to be metered was the promise of Nuclear power but it got sidelined because of safety concerns. Given that climate change mandates a less polluting power source Nuclear power will get a new life which dictates that it become safe to operate. I predict that safety will increase over time. Even now there are experimental reactors that are fail-safe. It's only a matter of time before Nuclear reactors start to generate cheap safe energy.
Here's a company that's working on it now: https://www.terrapower.com/about/

Also, solar power is making a large dent in our power needs.

https://climate.benjames.io/solar-off-grid/

It's a start but give it time.
Both of those articles reference only a single historical quote using the term, that being the 1938 song "Scottsboro Boys". The way the term is used in the song also isn't the way that is used today, but as a way to communicate to stay vigilant.
I think that tech bros are so used to the 'fake it till you make it' mentality that they just assumed that was the way to build AI -- create a system that is able to sound plausible, even if it doesn't really understand the subject matter. That approach has limitations, both for AI and for humans.
The submitter posted that title, it is not in the GitHub page. It probably meant, "the source is there so if you need extra features..."
Do you have any evidence of this or it's your opinion ?

Half the time I board a flight most of the first class is empty or non-existent, business is usually somewhat vacant and then there is literally hundreds of people paying $1500 for their ticket.

If you do the math, the vast majority of the flight is paid for by economy.
More software is not better. Software is a burden that must be maintained to keep its value. Having more software, written by people who don't know how to write software, will not be creating value. It will be creating an ongoing maintenance burden. That they will attempt to address with AI, which digs the hole deeper.
The spring-summer timeframe is the biggest issue to deal with here. I think that this design would have to have a sacrificial layer with decomposing, anoxic material which degrades during the warmer months. Perhaps it could be mitigated with various expedients to decrease the ambient temperature like flooding the surrounding landscape or putting a shade over the pile.

This scheme only makes sense if the amount of biomass added every year is much larger than the amount which is present in this external layer.

Anecdotally, my father has told me about soaked hay bales out in the pasture which still had a frozen interior core by late May.
It is strange to see Newsom make good moves like this but then also do things like veto bipartisan supported reporting and transparency for the state’s homeless programs. What is his political strategy exactly?
If California was it's own country, it would be one of the biggest most successful countries in the world. Like every where else it has it's problems but it's being run just fine. Objectively, there are many states that are far worse off in any key metric.
Apart from Donald Knuth, you are the first person that I heard from who used literate programming professionally. Would be great to learn more from your experiences, good and bad, if you every fancy writing about it.