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>Serious mode off. When will we get Yao in the Linux kernel?

Yaol can get involved and help with that, yaol know?

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I think it’s better if we don’t mix your preference for people to be nice to you with our hard-won guaranteed right from government oppression.

Maybe pick a different term?

“This content moderation is a violation of my personal content preferences!” has a nice ring to it, and won’t delude people into misunderstanding how our society works.
Buy placements on another content website is as old as the web itself. Not sure what the shock here is.
I think the lack of quality is not being driven at the individual teacher level and isn’t related to covid at all. Covid made the issues that already existed visible. Removing AP classes and charter schools, graduating kids missing credits, downplaying test results, and failing to properly address poor student behavior are all usually made at the district level. I don’t think increased funding would change any of that and I think a lot of good teachers would still quit.
Replication is over-emphasised. Attempts to organise mass replications have struggled with basic problems like papers making numerous claims (which one do you replicate?), the question of whether you try to replicate the original methodology exactly or whether you try to answer the same question as the original paper (matters in cases where the methodology was bad), many papers making obvious low value findings (e.g. poor children do worse at school) and so on.

But the biggest problem is actually that large swathes of 'scientists' don't do experiments at all. You can't even replicate such papers because they exist purely in the realm of the theoretical. The theory often isn't even properly written down! They will tell you that the paper is just a summary of the real model, which is (at best) found in a giant pile of C or R on some github repo that contains a single commit. Try to replicate their model from the paper, there isn't enough detail to do so. Try to replicate from the code, all you're doing is pointlessly rewriting code that already exists (proves nothing). Try to re-derive their methodology from the original question and if you can't, they'll just reject your paper as illegitimate criticism and say it wasn't a real replication.

Having reviewed quite a lot of scientific papers in the past six years or so, the ones that were really problematic couldn't have been fixed with incentivized replication.
I'm not familiar with samltest.id and what it provided, but https://mocksaml.com/ is a useful IDP testing tool.
The way I see it, is that one day we'll be buying small LLM cartridges.
Nothing says, “I’m out of touch with the world today” more than statements like “just try talking to them”

Talking to people doesn’t get one anywhere in today’s individualistic society.

If they’re annoying neighbors, they’ll become even more annoying.
If they’re your kids they’ll just ignore you more.
If they’re annoying neighbor kids they’ll get away with murder while you can’t do anything and their terrible parents encourage them.

Awful people are awful. Reasonable people aren’t likely doing things that need correction to begin with, or will quickly realize they’re doing it and self-correct.
I'm not as up-to-speed on the literature as I used to be (it's gotten a lot harder to keep up), but I certainly haven't heard of any breakthroughs. They tend to be pretty hard to predict and plan for.

I don't think we can continue simply tweaking the transformer architecture to achieve meaningful gains. We will need new architectures, hopefully ones that more closely align with biological intelligence.

In theory, the simplest way to real superhuman AGI would be to start by modeling a real human brain as a physical system at the neural level; a real neural network. What the AI community calls "neural networks" are only very loose approximations of biological neural networks. Real neurons are subject to complex interactions between many different neurotransmitters and neuromodulators and they grow and shift in ways that look nothing like backpropagation. There already exist decently accurate physical models for single neurons, but accurately modeling even C. elegans (as part of the OpenWorm project) is still a way's off. Modeling a full human brain may not be possible within our lifetime, but I also wouldn't rule that out.

And once we can accurately model a real human brain, we can speed it up and make it bigger and apply evolutionary processes to it much faster than natural evolution. To me, that's still the only plausible path to real AGI, and we're really not even close.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/potato-butter-diet/

Could keep you alive long enough but eventually you'd want some other nutrients.
You need lots of doctors, especially with an aging prison population. Doctors aren't cheap. Not to mention the cost of medicine, which can get very expensive when you consider things like end stage cancer drugs for elderly prisoners who can't be released because they're serving LWOP, and it all must be paid for by the state.

Or consider institution GED classes. You might say, those can easily go on the chopping block to save some money. But then you end up with inmates who are released without a high school diploma and, lacking educational opportunities, are more likely to return to crime. Then they go back into the prison system where they use more state resources than if they had just been given education in the first place. It's easy to imagine scenarios in which programs like that are worthwhile in the long term purely for fiscal reasons even if you care 0% about the welfare of criminals themselves.
"To open our meeting, good news: This year we managed to direct a ton of public tax dollars towards our favorite private entities and churches, and the budget shortfall gives us an excuse to strangle other safety-net programs we already didn't like!" /s

As a note for non-US folks, individual states cannot print currency the same way the federal government can, so budget shortfalls on that level are a lot more immediate and impactful.
Let me see if I understand this correctly:

CRDTs take an editor event such as "insert at position X" and turns it into something a concrete operation like "insert to the right of node Y created by client C" which is then sent. This makes it super easy to apply concurrent operations since they have a direct reference to where they're located. However, it also means that you know have to keep track of these nodes. All of the nodes that has ever existed is present at all times, and deletion is handled as a state flag which marks it as hidden.

OTs take an editor event such as "insert at position X" and keeps it like that. Whenever a concurrent event is received it then tries to "rebase" it (i.e. patch that event) so that it makes sense on top of the current events. However, this (1) can be quite finicky to get right and (2) it is based on there being One True Order of Events (i.e. a server).

This approach takes an editor event such as "insert at position X" and keeps it like that. When applied, it can be inserted into an "ever-growing list of atoms with state flag". However, in this algorithm the data structure is actually capable of representing two different versions at the same time: A current version and a final version. This is handled by there being two state flags instead of one: Every node has a "current state = exists/deleted" and "final state = exists/deleted".

This gives us the power of doing a "soft undo" (which is called "retreat" in the paper): We can take our own latest event which we've applied, revert the effect on the current version, while still keeping the final version the same. We're handling this very similar to CRDTs: We keep all the nodes at all time, we're just using state flags to keep track of whether it exists or not.

This is useful when we observe a concurrent event. This event have references to positions which are valid in the context of its parent. If we "retreat" of all of our events until we reach the parent, we then have a data structure which represents the text at that point. We can now apply the "insert at position Y"-events which we received by interpreting "Y" in terms of the current version. After we've applied all of those events we can then look at the final version and this now actually contains the combined result of both changes!

And here comes the nice part: Since the events themselves are always on the form "insert at position X" it means that we can choose another representation of applying them. For instance, if we know that there are no concurrent events that are happening, we might as well apply them directly on a string without bothering with the whole "current/final dual data structure".
Just earlier this month I was going through https://github.com/jepsen-io/maelstrom and following the demo implementing (a cut-corners version of) Raft, and I found it quite elucidating. The sample (ruby) code contains some bugs, and I had to use some understanding to fix them. (The bugs were of the kind where a dummy implementation from an earlier step isn't correctly changed)
There are alternatives to GPS but they are expensive. While the arms race is normal the issue is the penny hasn't dropped yet and no one wants to admit their weapons are now obsolete.
Hey thanks! https://github.com/bitcomplete/labs-delta-viewport-tester-vi...

Use case: add which few of these to DevTools. IDK if there's a YAML parser in DevTools already, otherwise JSON + jq should work somehow

awesome-chrome-devtools: https://github.com/paulirish/awesome-chrome-devtools
In HFT there are loads of arbitrage opportunities that don't go away by using it if you're the fastest.

EMH disproven guys.
I guess people did not like my joke, but growing up "chá de fita" (tea made out of vhs tapes) were a common drug heavy drug users would drink. Legend has that the effects of this type of drug never wears off. Metal poisoning, i guess.
I just want to echo this!

They built a gosh darned city... oh wait, I was wrong, they built three. It was run like an extremely high-value military project, which is exactly what it was. Sure it was more theoretical than other military projects(at the time), but that is the game sometimes.

I get the sense that some folks just think "faster then we would do it now" is the same as startup. Which, to put it politely, I strongly disagree with. Startups are great and I am grateful for the daily value adds to my life, but pretending everything "fast" has startup mentality is just missing the mark.
Impact here actually means citations. They clumsily say citations twice. Underlining the field of bibliometrics is the idea that citations correlates with the impact the a paper has on scientific discourse. It's intentionally vague because its hard to say what even highly cited papers objectively achieve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation_impact
I think we could see a lot of these AI code tools start to pivot towards product folks for just this reason. They aren't meant for the people who find craft in what they do.
Even your description sounds like a startup, to me.

There was a hook to get the funding (easy to get weapons funding in wartime).
Recruiting the top talent.
Urgency (beat everybody else to the punch).
Outsourcing the building of infrastructure while you focus on the unique/hard part.

I'm not seeing how you can't see the parallels with startups.
> and walking away is probably causing a lot of anxious moments, possible security breaches, and downtime.

Security breaches and downtime are the responsibility of people using the SW - not of the developers.

I rely on a lot of open source libraries for my job. It's 100% my responsibility to pick libraries that I think are well maintained, and find alternatives when there are important bugs that aren't being fixed (that I myself cannot fix).
They don't. You cannot compare reality (Cadence, Synopsys) with hype (Google).
Mega65 is a nostalgia project aimed at targeting a specific kind of older computer system.

If practical and simple were the goals, it wouldn't be using an 8-bit chip nor would it be focused on things like BASIC as these kinds of things make things harder rather than easier.

Mega65 is about working within constraints, but (to me), the bend of the complexity curve where things are simple enough to understand, but powerful enough to do necessary tasks requires much larger software and hardware resources than what a system like Mega65 offers.

At a bare minimum, I believe you'd want a much more powerful single-core machine with the ability to do floating point and vector calculations while having access to at least a couple hundred megabytes of RAM and a few gigabytes of storage. Something more along the lines of a Pi Zero, but based on open hardware and open chip designs seems to be around the point where it is powerful enough to do all the common, non-connected tasks a user might need to do while still being simple enough that you could understand most of the moving parts if you wanted to take the time.
To be fair, with certain types of wonderful music even WIRED earbudes may eggsplode in your ear or eye. I specifically am referring to the famous metal band -- DISASTER AREA --
Even back when all the kids had C64s, most only knew enough about it to load up games from the tape drive. Personally I was intrigued by the built-in basic, and that got me started programming (and I absolutely loathed the mindless consoles like the Nintendo Entertainment System), but I was very much in the minority.
Which chart are you referencing exactly? How does it define technological development? It's nearly impossible for me to discuss a chart without knowing what axis refer.

Without specifics all I can say is that I don't acknowledge any measurable benefits of AI (in its' current state) in real world applications. So I'd say I am leaning towards latter.
The article mentions that there are two drugs that resulted from this research. One of them failed a trial recently. Nobody knows if this fraud means that the drug never could have worked, or if this was just bad luck. So yes: people do measure real-world impact. It's just that it takes a very long time and there are plenty of confounding factors, since even non-fraudulent drug research can fail.
Hi HN. I was browsing the Effective Altruism Opportunity Board[0] when I found a link to this page full of AI safety research related volunteer opportunities.[1] I thought some people here might be interested!

Apparently this area isn't getting much attention yet, especially when you consider the potential impact.

[0] https://ea-internships.pory.app/board

[1] https://www.aisafety.com/projects
I love this, do tell the direction to be nudged in.

I wish to experience this new level of understanding.
Looks like one of the shows she recorded was the Oprah Winfrey Show. Wonder if she has a taped copy of the Trump interview from 1988 that seems to have been erased from the internet. https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/j7l8y5/bounty_....
That's a neat idea. How did you lock down security?
what company have you ever worked for that was happy with the current rate of progress in software development?
There were not many such apps. Probably I used the same app about 10+ years ago.
And also I was leaving my phone somewhere in the room where I must walk to, so I can actually get out of the bed. On many occasions if someone ring me I can answer and talk to them, assure them that I'm on my way and continue to sleep without even remembering. I listened to recordings, it is funny because I try to change my voice to sound like I am fully awake without even remembering.
Btw, it turns out it was because of my unmanaged t2 diabetes.
Now as it is under control, things are kind of normal.
Really there is just a housing shortage. Every road of struggling lower/middle class finances leads back to housing being outrageously expensive. All these other costs/wages are in mostly functional and liquid markets. They are being priced/valued more or less correctly.

Except housing. It's artificially choked to bolster home values by home owners.
>> It is objectively not suspicious.

It literally couldn't be any more suspicious. Carrying a jar of bees into a public space isn't illegal either but I'd be very suspicious of anyone doing it, and it doesn't even need any special protection in the constitution.

Just because something is legal doesn't mean you have to be completely and unquestionably accepting of it in public spaces.
It’s nothing special. The fridge is just leveled so the hinge is slightly higher on both sides. The door then naturally swings closed. Do French refrigerators have some kind of mechanism that would prevent this? Like a latch of some kind?
Business has a $3M valuation with $1k TTM, but can't sell for $25k. Wild.

Who even are the investors that would OK that deal?
He was trying the arabs. It didn't seem to work though.
Look up my profile and send me an email and we can talk.
A small centrifuge won't work; you get a strong coriolis effect. A large centrifuge could, but the ISS doesn't have one of those. It would need to be huge to be absolutely sure your data is accurate.
All skills require practice, but they simply won't let us get good.
Convince (lobby) a politician that your research will save the trees/whales/global warming/end starvation/any other fear inducing thing and get funding to bribe (lobby) more politicians to further your “research” until anyone would be a fool to question the science.

I feel like this same story happens every year and people are surprised. I often wonder how many “academic” or “scientific” quotes to not conflate valid research and study) need to happen before it becomes as distrusted as politicians.
How is a browser rendering local files on a machine without an internet connection not "a desktop app" though?
You are comparing 2024 versions.

Go find the original tarball versions from 1990 (maybe you have to go to Usenet sources!). Tcl was small.
Genuine question: How is this different from Google sheets? I don't see much here that I've not already been doing for years in Google sheets (except native python I guess - JS, SQL, fetch() etc has otherwise been there for ages and it's all free)

Also the logo looks a lot like Microsoft? I am not colourblind but it might look even more similar if you are?
Minix was the foundations upon which Linus built his early versions of Linux.
You can always mash the power button 5 times
Probably something that can be learned from this information, but I doubt the conclusion the author arrived at is correct.
When my company makes deal with such vendors, it comes with a contract for support when things go wrong. If they don't honor the contract, they lose our business.

If we rely on them so heavily that it'll affect our finances significantly, I'm sure the contract has plenty of penalties if we don't get that support.

But yes, for small one off deals, you could be screwed. And guess what - it's still your job to fix it, just as with open source. Your employer cares for the end results. They expect you to say "OK, vendor X screwed us. Here is plan B."
> For example, Search could be expressed as a separate permission and API operation.

Then maybe after years Google eventually deigns to add a search API, which is great, except you actually also want to do search and replace and they didn't implement that. Or maybe you want to do search and/or replace with regex support, and the new API doesn't support that either.
Cover your garden with a few dozen meters of rock. In fact, build your base in a cave.
The US has the Office for Research Integrity which can prosecute scientific fraud cases, but it only does a handful of cases per year.

To put the scale of this problem in perspective, the ORI was set up in the 1970s after Congress became concerned at widespread reports of scientific fraud. It clearly didn't work, but hangs around regardless.

It's ultimately a culture problem. Until academics have the same level of respect as ordinary corporate employees, you're going to get judges and juries who let them off scott free.
Would be great if we could actually export a book as pdf or in a format that could be printed or worked on in book publishing software. I could not find that option, is it available?
Ohhh! Ok that’s cool. I can see having a yoke and pedals then using VR control for the rest. How fiddly are the VR controls? Can you reasonably set a radio frequency or control the autopilot?
are sonos still zero auth when on network and discoverable? god we had so much fun biking around manhattan looking for open wifi, discovering speakers, and play fart sounds. i think the repo is still up: Sonoying.
> Is it fair to say that's part of American culture then?

I think so.

> How much profit would have been lost if a company was public about supporting blacks and upsetting the white supremacist culture of the time?

In the 1970s? No idea. I didn't have a well formed brain until the 2000s.

> That's why I say you can't really disentangle culture and regulation.

Definitely. One depends on the other, and our commercial maximalist culture is reflected in our laws.
Even more interesting than the article itself are the hundreds and hundreds of comments that more or less say the same thing. Are all of these people "out-of-touch boomers" or is there some truth to the story?
Yes, older phones would turn on to ring the alarm. At least the 3 I owned did, and they were all different brands.
If that AI is worth more than a dime, it will recognise how incredibly efficient humans are in physical labor, and employ them instead of ”doing away“ with it (whatever that’s even supposed to mean.)

No matter how much you ”solve“ robotics, you’re not going to compete with the result of millions of years of brutal natural selection, the incredible layering of synergies in organisms, the efficiency of the biomass to energy conversion, and the billions of other sophisticated biological systems. It’s all just science fiction and propaganda.
Those you'd want to lead recognize leadership is a responsibility often times marked by personal sacrifice.

Those you'd never want to lead mostly regard leadership as a privilege used for personal gain.
You don't absolutely need to put your base somewhere it'll have a night. There's a large mountain chain on Moon's south pole that's in constant sunlight.
> There is a clear, measurable, and verifiable lose on ticket revenue for the museum

No. It's the National Gallery:

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/visiting/plan-your-visit

> And the museum is not even responsible for the fact that people use cars!.

That same page I cited has driving/parking directions to the museum.
Or they could just not provide an API that allows applications to take super-user control over your device in a way that you, the owner of the device, are not authorized to stop.

Just putting some possible solutions out there. :)
If I can't make copies I don't own it, is it my book or not?
How can you claim that we've been advancing steadily when we don't even know how far the destination is, or if we're moving in the correct direction? There's no basis to claim that it will look anything like a step function; if we do achieve true AGI someday the first one might be equivalent to a really stupid person and then subsequent iterations will gradually improve from there. It seems like a lot of assumptions are being made.
It would probably not stop all theoretically possible attacks, but it would stop many of them.

Say you find a bug in the GPU driver that let's you execute arbitrary code as root. That still all happens within the VM. To attack the host, you'd still need to break out of the VM, and if the VM is unprivileged (which I assume it is), you'd next need gain privileges on the host.

There are other channels -- perhaps you can get the GPU to do something funky on PCI level, perhaps you can get the GPU to crash the host -- but VM isolation does add a solid layer of protection.
Wow this is so cool - HackerNews post of the day IMO!!!