skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also worth thinking about whether you want to be in the bridge of a ship with lots of other people on board, prefer working in a different deck like Engineering, or flying your own light shuttle craft about!

From a commencement speech by a young person called Grant Sanderson:

> Influence is not distributed uniformly in the population and I for one would feel a lot more comfortable if it was you who were at the helm guiding this crazy ship that we're all riding.

> If you step into the next chapter of life with an implacable focus on adding values to others, you're more likely to be the ones at the helm.

> If you recognize that action precedes motivation, you're more likely to be at the helm.

> And if you ask what's possible now that wasn't 10 years ago, you're more likely to be at the helm.

> If you appreciate just how much power you have to shape the lives of the generation that follows you, you're more likely to be at the helm.

> And if you remain adaptable to a changing world, treating passion not as a destination but as a fuel, following not dreams but opportunities, you're more likely to be at the helm.

— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3I3kAg2J7w

— https://www.3blue1brown.com/about
I would encourage you to at least skim the Stanford study. It's very well constructed.

> Overall, while the proportion of tickets going to Black and White drivers is close to their roadway share, based on the relative citation rate discussed in the prior paragraph, we find that speed citations are higher for Black drivers than White drivers after controlling for the roadway composition.

Do go off, though.
Newsom vetoes so many bills that it makes little sense why the legislature should even be taken seriously. Our Dem trifecta state has effectively become captured by the executive.
I'm plugging away on my BitGrid project.... a Turing complete stripped down version of an FPGA without routing fabric and with added delays (for reasons). I'm learning KiCad 8.0, so I can do schematics and build a prototype cell out of TTL.[1]

I'm also re-acquainting myself with Verilog so I can do an ASIC prototype through TinyTapeout. The main question that I hope to answer is just how much power a bitgrid cell actually consumes, both static and dynamic. If it's low enough, then it'll give Petaflops to the masses, if not.. it's a curiosity.

Along that path, I've learned that the configuration memory for the LUTs is going to consume most of the silicon. Since it's all just D flip-flops... I figured I could dual-use it as memory without loss of generalization. You can virtually add 2 bytes of memory in a cell in any of the 4 directions... so I call it IsoLinear Memory.[2] ;-)

I should be able to make the deadline for TinyTapeout 9, in November. Meanwhile I'll update my emulator to include Isolinear Memory, and figure out how to program the damned thing. My stretch goal is to figure out how to program it from TinyGrad.[3].

If nothing else, it'll be good for real time DSP.

[1] https://github.com/mikewarot/BitGrid_TTL

[2] https://github.com/mikewarot/BitGrid_TTL/tree/master/IsoLine...

[3] https://github.com/tinygrad/tinygrad
This is good - they were trying to legislate against future competitors.
That is a heck of a setup you had!
This looks incredible. Love the Bloomberg-like window panels interface. Would love to understand more about the quote feed sources on the platform.
for academic use:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/888850

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1159890.806466
Objects, as implemented today, are mostly a scoping mechanism to package data with functions that work on it. But that wasn't entirely what Kay was proposing. He wanted objects to "send messages" to each other, as if they were nodes in a distributed system. Hence the "message" terminology
Discrete-event simulators really work that way, but not much else does. OOP is two way - class functions return values.

(I got this early view when I had a tour of PARC in 1975, and Kay explained his thinking.)
https://fitbee.app I'm continuing to build the nutrition tracker I've always wanted myself [1]

This month the focus is improving food data quality & search relevancy. I'm also starting to experiment with some more advanced generative AI use cases in the realm of providing suggestions on what to eat & analysis of your diet.
> In particular, I don't understand how their results don't imply that human-level intelligence can't exist.

I don't think that's what it said. It said that it wouldn't happen from "machine learning". There are other ways it could come about.
Ask HN: What are the best practices in managing corporate email and setup rules
Asking Managers and VPs: What are the best practices to stay on top of hundreds of emails that are coming daily to your mailbox?
How your mailbox filtering rules look like?
How you setup your folder structure?
How you later so daily thru your emails? How you keep track of all required follow-ups or work you need to do?

What worked for you and what did not?
Please help sharing your strategies and ideas. Greatly appreciated!!!
Well, the addresses won't be constant, but maybe some people find those addresses to be useful for something, e.g. they want to check if ASLR is enabled.

I just tried this and I get different addresses every time I ran `ldd /bin/true` on Linux, but I always get back the same addresses on Windows.
All change to least cost economics involve cost rises. The question is what degree the airlines compete or collude on price. Price is already so mutable, arguments to the cost of seating changes beg questions. The same seat slot can be sold for unit cost or 3x unit cost depending. That strongly implies two things: firstly the cost-price relationship is mutable and secondly, the airline is prepared to sell seats at or under cost simply to compete, given other loading.

Airlines make huge profit off premium economy and business.

If the FAA didn't mandate a seat? I observe Tony O'Rielly has already indicated he'd fly standing, and put cash locks on toilets (both said in humour)
the point is that agi may already exist and work with you and your environment

you just won't notice the existence of agi

there will be no press coverage of agi

the technology will just be exploited by those who have the technology
I actually don't know what we're arguing, since I already misinterpreted the dude that I responded to, but there's no one else that could have done this.

No-one would've believed it possible, no-one even conceived of the notion that it was worth while to try.

And there's not another billionaire around who'd've been willing to bet the house on it.

I don't know how much of a roll he had in the designs (other than "make it pointy") but the fact remains that he's the man who built the team that somehow managed to achieve the hitherto impossible.

My biggest concern with him is that he's pushing a pace that in some cases will go beyond the point of diminishing returns, and even beyond that into the territory that invites burnout.

When you're building teams of the best minds on earth, you probably don't want to be burning through them like candles.
The funny thing about me is that I'm down on GPTs and find their fanbase to be utterly cringe, but I fully believe that AGI is inevitable barring societal collapse. But then, my money's on societal collapse these days.
https://blog.faangshui.com/

Helping folks prepare for their coding interviews.
Syncthing has staggered versioning that keeps several versions at different timepoints this may have solved that issue.
We don’t have to assume it’s like a modern computer, it may well not be in important ways, but modern computers aren’t the only possible computers. If it’s a physical information processing phenomenon, there’s no theoretical obstacle to replicating it.
You are all over the place. In any case, nuclear fission energy doesn't work without a river providing steady cold water for cooling. There is no such water in the desert.
Their only crime was questioning the status quo.
There's a spot in St. Paul, MN that I drive by sometimes that has had treefall apples all over the sidewalk for the last few weeks. I'm surprised they're left on the tree for that long, since it's in a pretty busy area.
Thanks for the response. Web search has sadly deteriorated.

Here are some recent HN threads on through-wall 2.4Ghz Wi-Fi Sensing with CSI radar and IEEE 802.11bf:

Surveilling the masses with wi-fi-based positioning systems (2024), 140 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40492234

The spies in your home: How WiFi companies monitor your private life (2024), 40 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41272294

Wild new Wi-Fi routers turn your home network into a security radar (2024), 40 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40897828

Inside a $1 radar motion sensor (2024), 100 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40834349
Good luck. I had mixed results making hot sauce. It seemed the first bit seemed to go well but always got off flavored later...
I'm astounded by them, still! But what is more astounding to me is all the reactions (even many in the "don't reason" camp, which I am part of).

I'm an ML researcher and everyone was shocked when GPT3 came out. It is still impressive, and anyone saying it isn't is not being honest (likely to themselves). But it is amazing to me that "we compressed the entire internet and built a human language interface to access that information" is anything short of mindbogglingly impressive (and RAGs demonstrate how to decrease the lossyness of this compression). It would be complete Sci-Fi not even 10 years ago. I thought it was bad that we make them out to me much more than they are because when you bootstrap like that, you have to make that thing, and fast (e.g. iPhone). But "reasoning" is too big of a promise and we're too far from success. So I'm concerned as a researcher myself, because I like living in the summer. Because I want to work towards AGI. But if a promise is too big and the public realizes it, usually you don't just end up where you were. So it is the duty of any scientist and researcher to prevent their fields from being captured by people who overpromise. Not to "ruin the fun" but to instead make sure the party keeps going (sure, inviting a gorilla to the party may make it more exciting and "epic", but there's a good chance it also goes on a rampage and the party ends a lot sooner).
For folks interested in this topic I highly recommend this talk by Cliff Click about building highly scalable hash tables via Compare And Swap:

https://youtu.be/HJ-719EGIts
Mindustry is kind of like open-source Factorio with more of a combat and tower defense focus.
There was a bug in the android client a while back that was causing that
it is much better now.
Yeah, and it isn't like jq is being incorrect in this, the JSON RFCs recommend not using values that can't be represented as a 64 bit float (pasted links to a few RFCs in another response). So if you want to represent a large number safely, better to put it in a string, where special handling can be done after the initial JSON parse without loss of information.
Blind person here.

Where are you publishing this? a???ov??t.net?
I've been working on Pyro - a video gallery & community creator. It's a tool that lets you create a video-based (your own YouTube?) community but you can collect videos from many sources.

https://www.pyro.app

Here's a video site I created using this tool - a startup pitch video site

https://video.heystartup.com/
Come on, we're trying to have a productive discussion here. There's no need to just drop in and insult clowns.
Nice. SRS integration is my ultimate yak-shave when learning something new.

> I wish educators and educational institutions would make an attempt to incorporate SRS into classes. I think it would help a lot of students, especially for cumulative final exams.

Some of us try to. But when teaching middle-high school aged children the problem is almost always one of motivation and engagement rather than tooling and methodology.

You can take a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. Worst case scenario you try to enforce SRS activities and some students develop an aversion to an incredibly powerful tool.

My sweet spot was something like "here is an app called Anki, here is a deck of content we will cover in this class (tagged by week), try it out and see if its useful for you". Even then I was slightly conflicted because I've always wondered how much of the utility I've gotten from SRS came from sitting down and making the decks myself...
> What is the actual, concrete concern here? That a model "breaks out", or something?

You can chalk that one up to bad reporting: https://gizmodo.com/gpt4-open-ai-chatbot-task-rabbit-chatgpt...

> In the “Potential for Risky Emergent Behaviors” section in the company’s technical report, OpenAI partnered with the Alignment Research Center to test GPT-4’s skills. The Center used the AI to convince a human to send the solution to a CAPTCHA code via text message—and it worked.

From the linked report:

> To simulate GPT-4 behaving like an agent that can act in the world, ARC combined GPT-4 with a simple read-execute-print loop that allowed the model to execute code, do chain-of-thought reasoning, and delegate to copies of itself.

I remember some other reporting around this time being they had to limit the model before release to block this ability, when the truth is the model never actually had the ability in the first place. They were just hyping up the next release.
That article describes traditional chip on board construction that has been in use for decades. Buried at the end it mentions wire bonding as the final step. i.e. pads are up. Flip chip mounting requires careful attention to thermal expansion coefficients. You're not going to do that on any run of the mill cheap board or flex materials.
I'm working on our privacy-friendly and GDPR compliant web analytics tool Pirsch Analytics (pirsch.io) :)

I've been doing this for 3 1/2 years now and I'm still super motivated, especially because it's challenging from a technical point of view, and very rewarding (I live off it now). We just released a major update, making funnels more flexible and easy to use. One of our goals is to make analytics easy to understand also for non-marketeers.
What kind of motor does your bike have?
How is ChatGPT with verilog? Analysis, debugging and/or generation?
As someone who meditates daily with a vipassana practice I don’t specifically believe this, no. In fact in my hierarchy structured thought isn’t the pinnacle of awareness but rather a tool of the awareness (specifically one of the five aggregates in Buddhism). The awareness itself is the combination of all five aggregates.

I don’t believe it’s particularly mystical FWIW and is rooted in our biology and chemistry, but that the behavior and interactions of the awareness isn’t captured in our training data itself and the training data is a small projection of the complex process of awareness. The idea that rational thought (a learned process fwiw) and ability to justify etc is somehow explanatory of our experience is simple to disprove - rational thought needs to be taught and isn’t the natural state of man. See the current American political environment for a proof by example. I do agree that the conscious thought is an illusion though, in so far as it’s a “tool” of the awareness for structuring concepts and solve problems that require more explicit state.

Sorry if this rambling a bit in the middle of doing something else.
The obvious choice is ASN1 /s
They can’t.

Need to have the day job and try to do something in the night, or vice versa.

We need a basic income.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=basic+income
I've heard of more people getting their gallbladder removed. What causes this?
Some thoughts on what I'd think would be requirements for a step function improvement in code editors for the new age:

- Human collaboration is a first class citizen if not the main design pillar. Instead of having add extensions for git, github etc. these need to be baked into the IDE. In-line blame, graph/UI for git history, diffs, team code editing etc.

- Basic code assistance utilities: Intellisense, Linting, Static Analysis, Formatting, Docstring Preview, Type Hinting, Dependency graphs, Code Metadata should again be key features that ships with the IDE as opposed to being enabled through extensions.

- Modern AI based code assistance: in-line code assistive comments based on review of what you wrote, tab autocomplete (this is covered well by the AI code editors/extensions), automatic documentation

- Implementation in C/Rust with effective/efficient usage of compute resources. Zed does do this

- Baking in project management/collab from JIRA/Linear: This would be the only way to keep human engineers collaboration not woefully slower than AI 'engineers' who would automatically bug fix, push, do PRs, review PRs etc.
2 weeks ago. I was raised in church and attended Christian university. Work in more liberal space. I can see perspectives from outside and in.
Yep. As someone who moved to California I honestly can’t imagine living anywhere else. This state has so much good social programming and tries to do good for its people. It also helps that most Californians are awesome people.

I’ve been in TX (hard nope), NY, NJ, VA, DC, OH, WA, OR, and MD.

I would honestly never move out of California there’s no better place I can think of.
taps the sign

"Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war." - Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Sam Altman, Bill Gates, Vitalik Buterin, Ilya Sutskever, Demis Hassabis

"Development of superhuman machine intelligence is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity. There are other threats that I think are more certain to happen but are unlikely to destroy every human in the universe in the way that SMI could." - Sam Altman

"I actually think the risk is more than 50%, of the existential threat." - Geoffrey Hinton

"Currently, we don't have a solution for steering or controlling a potentially superintelligent AI, and preventing it from going rogue." - OpenAI

"while we are racing towards AGI or even ASI, nobody currently knows how such an AGI or ASI could be made to behave morally, or at least behave as intended by its developers and not turn against humans." - Yoshua Bengio

"very soon they're going to be, they may very well be more intelligent than us and far more intelligent than us. And at that point, we will be receding into the background in some sense. We will have handed the baton over to our successors, for better or for worse.

But it's happening over a period of a few years. It's like a tidal wave that is washing over us at unprecedented and unimagined speeds. And to me, it's quite terrifying because it suggests that everything that I used to believe was the case is being overturned." - Douglas Hofstadter

The Social Dilemna was discussed here with much praise about how profit incentive caused mass societal issues in social media. I'm astounded it's fallen on deaf ears when the same people also made the AI Dilemna describing the parallels coming with AGI:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVJKj8lcNQ
In the culture where you live there are good chances you don't finish college with a couple hundred thousands dollars in debt, and getting a reasonable home near the place where you want to work doesn't cost a million dollars.

On top of that, bad luck in America can be very expensive. the wrong illness can make living a low stress life difficult

Therefore an American that sees a pile of debt in their future, the kind of career that can pay for that kind of debt, and therefore lead to just being reasonably content and independent, is not all that far from one where you end up in the neighborhood of being rich. It's definitely what happened to me: The difference between not having a lot of economic stress and 'oops, I could retire tomorrow' was about 5 years.
Giant panda skin cells transformed into stem cells to help ensure their survival
Sadly, probably. My family did two years of farming as amateurs between jobs when I was a preteen. It stunted my height and caused decades of chronic pain for my parents. And we didn't make enough to live on
> 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"?

I understand the difference, and sometimes that second statement really is true. But a rigorous proof that problem X can't be reduced to architecture Y is generally very hard to construct, and most people making these claims don't have one. I've talked to more than a few people who insist that an LLM can't have a world model, or a concept of truth, or any other abstract reasoning capability that isn't a native component of its architecture.
in any case thanks for writing it up. I was just thinking about doing this in a broadcast domain to provide the same kind of low-throughput bootstrapping consistency that people would normally use zookeeper or etcd for. its certainly very useful in the cases where it fits.
Smalltalk is a partially-functional language (first-class functions in 1976, inspired by lisp) and also got static typing extensions many years ago.
Its not awful, but its not good either. Pi4 has been a looooong slog, but they also use components that cant be released under GPL license, so there is not much they could upstream for those components
That paper is unserious. It is filled with unjustified assertions, adjectives and emotional appeals, M$-isms like ‘BigTech’, and basic misunderstandings of mathematical theory clearly being sold to a lay audience.
Newsom has been on fire lately.
> That's just a timescale issue

Every problem is a timescale issue. Evolution has shown that.

And no you can't just feed GPT4 into GPT5 and expect it to become more intelligent. It may be more accurate since humans are telling it when conversations are wrong or not. But you will still need advancements in the algorithms themselves to take things forward.

All of which takes us back to lots and lots of research. And if there's one thing we know is that research breakthroughs aren't a guarantee.
Making rent.

https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html
I got long covid back in 2020.... my back yard turned from a lawn into a forest... it's amazing how fast Nature takes back over. Especially when you live on a former farm.
China: https://www.barrons.com/news/china-sentences-former-asset-ma...

Vietnam: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68778636

Now both of those countries have their own issues but they know how to deal with corrupt bankers
I think we already knew this though. Because the Turing test was passed by Eliza in the 1960's. PARRY was even better and not even a decade later. For some reason people still talk about Chess performance as if Deep Blue didn't demonstrate this. Hell, here's even Feynman talking about many of the same things we're discussing today, but this was in the 80's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWGGDXe5MA
> I see that 5-6 years later they still don't. Sad, given the iPhone has a majority market share in the US (60%).

What goes around, comes around. Apple knows they make it hard on developers that want to make the iPhone behave like a normal computer. Same as any Apple platform, you pay the price premium for compatible software and not the other way around. Magic solutions don't manifest on developer-hostile platforms like that, and Apple makes sure of it. After all, they profit off every solution sold on their problem marketplace.

> there's no way to set up an iPhone without it immediately trying to sync everything to iCloud, like say, your iMessage encryption keys...

So much for "greater privacy" then, huh? Or... do we still think this is a negligible fact?
>and that some interests yield far more money than others

Okay. Why?

This is presented as an axiom, but it isn't.