skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You need a ton of classes to essentially replicate inline styles.

This works better for optimization because you reuse classes. End developer doesn't care. Designers use Storybook to keep track of the components.

> But arguing this is better than sending an HTML tag with a couple of classes is absurd.

If you compile/SSR your React, the end user will get an HTML tag with classes.
Do you have a coin shop in your town? If you do they tend to have a bit of everything (though most likely a focus on coins from the country you live in) and should have a few moderately priced ancient coins to choose from.
If you're ever stuck wondering why a bunch of smart, motivated people with no clear corrupting motivations are being idiotic, that's a strong heuristic that you should spend a bit more time analyzing the issue, IMO ;). "Ugh, why is everyone else so stupid" is a common take for undergrad engineers, but I'm sure you've grown out of it in other ways. Anyway, more substantively:

The simple answer is that people have thought about it in depth, most famously noted doomer Eliezer Yudkowsky in Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics (2013)[1] and its main citation, Irving John Good's Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1965)[2]. Another common citation that drops a bit of rigour in the name of approachability is Nick Bostrom's 2014 Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies[3].

[ETA: to put it even simpler: a system that improves itself is a (the?) quintessential setup for exponential growth. E.g. compound interest]

For the time-bound, the most rigorous treatment of your concern among those three is in Section 3 of Yudkowsky's paper, "From AI to Machine Superintelligence". To list the headings briefly:

- Increased computational resources

- Communication speed

- Increased serial depth (i.e. working memory capacity)

- Duplicability (i.e. reliability)

- Editability (i.e. we know how computers work)

- Goal coordination (this is really just communication speed, again)

- Improved rationality (i.e. fewer emotions/accidental instincts getting in the way)

Let's drop "human" and "superhuman" for a minute, and just talk about "better computers". I'm assuming you're a software engineer. Don't you see how a real software dev replacement program could be an unimaginable gamechanger for software? Working 24/7, enhancing itself, following TDD perfectly every time, and never ever submitting a PR that isn't rigorously documented and reviewed? All of which only gets better over time, as it develops itself?

[1] https://intelligence.org/files/IEM.pdf

[2] https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/a5e...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence:_Paths,_Dang...

TL;DR May God have mercy on us all.
No, those are not the same, because Chinese is a tonal language. [0] Taking Pinyin [1] and erasing the accent-marks creates ambiguity between several different words.

The English sign-equivalent would be... Well, something so dumb that nobody does it. Like perhaps deleting the ascenders and descenders of letters dbqp so that they look like oooo, which doesn't even help with horizontal space.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_(linguistics)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin
I don’t think the surprise was based on the head of the executive, rather it was based on the DOJ taking a stance in favor of exemptions.

I just get tired of the idea that the president/executive completely colors every single government action. Let’s stop pretending that every election will completely rewrite the MO and agendas for every agency.

The comment I replied to was based on exactly those kinds of assumptions (“couldn’t possibly imagine this happening under Trump”) and was wrong. Now you’re just doing a no-true-Scotsman (“oh, it only happened because he wasn’t paying attention”).

I’ve personally seen no evidence that right-to-repair is a partisan issue in the way you’ve suggested, and I’ve seen plenty of evidence that the cronyism charges you’re levying are also not limited to a single party. You can hate the guy for lots of reasons, but the idea that Trump is uniquely capable of being bought on this issue seems very strange to me.
Isn't this cloud based? (that's not what I was looking for)
Too many functional css frameworks like this around, nothing novel, all kinda the same, including that super popular one everyone is using these days...

Just write css and save your brain space for actually useful abstractions.
It's somewhat a shame there isn't heavily curated Anki decks for doing what I call "disambiguation study" where you focus on cards that help you distinguish similar things from one another. It'd really speed things up.

>But you still have to know what you're distinguishing between, which might only arise after repeated mistakes.

I'm learning Korean at the moment and it's particular brutal for this IMHO. Some words have taken a long time to properly understand due to repeatedly mistaking them for very similar words, and there are a lot of these in Korean.
Wikipedia says [0]:

> After Japanese administration ended, the system soon became obsolete. Now, only a few scholars, such as those who study the aforementioned dictionary, learn Taiwanese kana.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_kana
I think the new expansion helps a lot with the rebuild issue, since you're expected to have have many different bases on different planets instead of just one big base.
native wayland windows maybe you're thinking? still, it has the requirements that it does (see the wiki link)
418 I’m a teapot
Grokking Algorithms: An illustrated guide for programmers and curious people [pdf]
I am playing around with LLMs and Game Theory. Currently, I let them play 5x5 board games in a tournament against Reinforcement Learning Agents and a Random Player. I am capturing the "thoughts" of the agent for behavioral data analysis. My background is Risk Management, I am trying to gather an understanding how such LLMs report their "decision" for applications in human/ai interactions for identifying and reporting governance flaws.

Since I am working on autonomous agents that are given the agency to take an action on their own, I believe having a good understanding of the "psyche" is important (at least to me).

[1]https://jdsemrau.substack.com/
For the work that I do, ChatGPT accuracy is still garbage. Like it makes obvious factual errors on very simple technical issues which are clearly documented in public specifications. I still use it occasionally as it does sometimes suggest things that I missed, or catch errors that I made. But it's far from "good enough" to send the output to co-workers or customers without careful review and correction.

I do think that ChatGPT is close to good enough for replacing Google search. This is, ironically, because Google search results have deteriorated so badly due to falling behind the SEO spammers and much of the good content moving off the public Internet.
I agree with the sentiment, but ideally people should not have to do X to empathize with/respect people who do X. It's sad that they have to, but I wish people just learned empathy/respect better.
I've been just screwing around and building little apps, mostly seeing how quickly I can get something going using ChatGPT or Claude. Seems like Claude in particular is great with code. The most recent thing I did was a little app [0] to help one of my parents log their blood pressure readings easily, since they had to do it a few times a day in different positions and such. I've used that as an excuse to learn how to make something really basic, single task, easy to use for folks that aren't so great with technology. I'm also trying to learn a bit more about accessibility in web development, which this is helping me do.

[0]: https://www.logmybp.com/
Amtrak can be decently comfortable by coach, and the ability to stand, walk around, change cars, and (on Western routes) vary seating position by visiting the lounge car outclasses Greyhound in every way.
That part is a ruin. Olivetti had a lot of buildings in what was a company town. To reach the Olivetti operator from my apartment, IIRC I dialed 6. But the old factory building ("Mattoni Rossi") that I worked in on via Jervis is in excellent condition and appears to be a museum. I'll visit.
Don't forget community notes. While not perfect, it presents valuable context or counter-points. Musk's posts have been community noted a few times.

Grok is a nice feature, although for paid accounts only. It also seems slightly out of place on X. Most people are there to express themselves, not necessarily seek help or information from AI-gen. I tried it for some coding help, and it did fine.. but doing that task on X felt odd.
Vernor Vinge introduces many fantastic ideas in his really excellent scifi book A Fire Upon the Deep. He has many fascinating concepts like what if somehow there are parts of the universe where you can go faster than the speed of light, and you would be smarter there, that's where the super intelligent beings go. Guess what, we humans live in the slow zone, you morons. Also there it's a ftl communication method that is like good old Usenet. There is (what looked credible to me) a fascinating set of multiple brain beings, thing like dogs where together 5 of them form one "intelligence" where the different personalities combine in interesting ways.

And I was sad to notice he died this year, aged 79. A real cs prof who wrote sci fi.
Chopin was special because he wasn't bounded by the orthodoxy - Chopin was so prodigious as a child and had mostly surpassed his teacher in virtuosity as a mere child. His teacher made the excellent decision that he shouldn't prejudice Chopin with preconceived notions of piano technique so Chopin was free to develop his own way of playing from young through his formative preteen and adolescent years.

Wiki entry on his teacher:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojciech_%C5%BBywny#:~:text=....
Didn't OpenAI just cut its AGI department?
I’m building a way for developers to easily deploy open source applications (Postgres, redis, sentry, elastic search, etc), plus have a full heroku like workflow for their own applications, all within their kubernetes cluster, with what I hope is a super intuitive and friendly UI.

I’ve ran a start up and saw how SaaS-ified and expensive web tooling is (heroku, datadog, redshift, fivetran, etc), but how difficult it was to move off of them. We had a few years of over 1 million in infrastructure spend.

I’m hoping just making Kubernetes easier to use gives us a way out.

It’s fully open source and a hosted version is free to use! https://canine.sh.

Would love feedback on it, including how the overall pitch could be better, or if it actually solves people’s problems.
Nested Loops Revisited Again (2023)
https://web.archive.org/web/20060201064815/https://www.wired...
I understand that the topic of writing systems is touchy because it involves people's national identity and national pride.

That's why all the comments that mention efficiency of different writing systems are heavily downvoted.

But if we think about writing systems' evolution as an optimization problem that optimizes for "efficiency" (whatever that means. It is pretty hard to define so I'm not even going to try) we could easily imagine some systems being stuck at a local minimum. Or maybe even all of them being stuck at different local minimums some of which are smaller than the others.
are you sure you dont want to use a versioning system?
You can also discern some flickering lights in your periphery that are otherwise 'solid' when focused on. Quite annoying.
Improving RAG system and trying to create an agent to access to DB via apis,
Fair, we at least have the subjunctive, we just don't use it very often. If I were to start a sentence like this, I would be using the subjunctive.

(Which I believe has been confirmed by Gemini):

> Yes, the sentence "If I were to start a sentence like this, I would be using the subjunctive" uses the subjunctive mood correctly.
> The subjunctive mood is used to express hypothetical or unreal situations, wishes, suggestions, or demands. In this sentence, "If I were to start a sentence like this" presents a hypothetical situation, and "were" is the correct form of the verb "to be" in the subjunctive mood."

But yeah, it doesn't get at the uncertainty expressed in other languages. Is there another mood for that or how do other languages handle it?
I'm reasonably confident that it is upstream: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/androi... looks like the most obvious bit, though there are other pieces. (And now I'm curious why waydroid is maintaining their own dkms code separate from that; perhaps it's to better target a range of kernel versions?) I will agree that it's not generally actually built/used by distros.
A realistic rendition is the film Catacombs (2007) As Above, So Below (2014) is also interesting but more fantastical.

For a real tour showcasing a few of the organized rooms:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q8Hw3XCwhs

A interesting aspect of the Catacombs is that some Parisians have dug their own tunnels and added various objects in the rooms.
Yes, that's why I was carefully formulating this as a fall-back insurance for the worst case, not something most customers would do lightly.
What, in your opinion, is any for profit business ultimately trying to (legally) maximize? I'd say it is NPV. That can mean taking risks, optimizing short term revenue in favor of long term (and vice versa).
Care to expand? Is it alternative to magic link / OAuth?
> With these JavaScript type-checking tools, you’ll write more precise code, prevent bugs, and increase productivity.

It'd be better to use a strongly typed language and compile to WebAssembly. That way you get your type checking up front for more precise code, bug prevention, and increased productivity.
The only reason a modern 8th grader wouldn't pass is that most of these questions are about regurgitating memorized snippets of data, which has been out of style for quite a while. The math portion is a few grades less advanced than what I was learning in 8th grade a few decades ago.
I don't think so - hoards like this tend to get found often enough and as far as I know the market for these sorts of coins hasn't cratered in recent times.
if a computer system were able to design a better computer system, how much would it cost to then manufacture said system?

I think the implication is that the primary advancements would come in the form of software. IMO it's trivially true that we're not taking full advantage of the hardware we have from a software PoV -- if we were, we wouldn't need SWEs, right? From that it should follow that self-improving software is dangerously effective.

once this new computer is running, how much power does it require? What are the on-going costs to keep it running?

I mean, lots, sure. But we allocate immense resources to relatively trivial luxuries in this world; I don't think there's any reason to think we can't spare some giant computers to rapidly advance our technology. In a capitalist society, it's happily/sadly pretty much guaranteed that people will figure out how to get the resources there if scientists tell them the RoI is infinity+1.

I'd be satisfied with a Large-Language-Model which

Those are great asks and I agree, but just to be super clear in case its not: Vinge isn't talking about chatbots, he's talking about systems with many smaller specialized subsystems. In today's parlance, gaggle of "LLMs" equipped with "tool use", or in yesterday's parlance, a "Society of Mind".
Most countries have similar rules, and that's also the standard (rarely prosecuted) view in international law. The general rule of thumb is that antiquities belong to the state, anything else (like treasure hoards in the UK) is an atypical exception.
Practically all American adults are "literate" in the sense that they can recognise and write some words, but about 14% can't really read in any useful sense - they can usually understand a warning sign or recognise a brand name, but they couldn't reliably understand a one-paragraph newspaper article or find a program in a TV listing.

https://nces.ed.gov/naal/kf_demographics.asp

https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2009/2009481.pdf
Understanding biology or that nouns decline is not "simple memorization."
Would an app like this work with TV? Would be super cool if it would.
You can also do any segment. Having done Chicago to Emeryville, I'd suggest folks focus on the Denver to Salt Lake portion.

Chicago to Denver is mostly flat, and at least when I did it, mostly in the dark. Salt Lake to Reno is also boring, but surprisingly the section of rail around Tahoe doesn't have good views either. If you've driven on 80, or 50 or 89, you've seen better terrain.

As other comments have said though, the timeline is unpredictable, since freight takes priority. So you could easily end up in the dark around Grand Junction, CO and miss out on the views.
Yes, exactly. Relative to roman coins there are much rarer limited run coins or accidents that have a lot of value now. But there are also rare-ish coins that no one cares about, like things minted specifically for collectability, say some hypothetical, commemorative Princess Diana coin that got made and marketed to rip people off who bought into the idea it would gain value.
I created a Weird Clock that shows the local sunrise and sunset within a conventional 12-hour clock face. This normally would only work on a 24-hour clock face, which is kind of unfamiliar to most people, so I developed a way to show a 24-hour day within a 12-hour clock face; essentially it shows a 2-turn spiral so both night and day will fit. This needs to know your location in order to compute your local sunrise and sunset, so don't freak out when the browser asks for location permission! Includes option to enter lat/long and other goodies. Works on phones but better on a large screen. https:\\www.coolweird.net
They were in sorta different places then . . .

Remember that big hot war in the 90s?

And there was that thing in the 40s, too . . .
Currently working on:

- A database design copilot: https://nabubit.com

- A database management for Sqlite databases: https://litequeen.com
Wow, that's really unfortunate. As I just wrote in a top-level comment, Denver to Salt Lake is definitely the highlight. You get to be up high above some of those creeks and passes where the road doesn't go. I hope you're able to try again in the future and sit in the panorama car.
From what I've heard people say (and what I've seen), the most common way to handle it is to simply write another character that sounds the same. In other words, the characters can be used as phonetic elements when it's needed. It looks weird (in the same way that spelling words phonetically in English can look word), but it's doable.

That's for situations where they had to write something by hand but didn't have their phone with them to check (otherwise they can just spend a second to look at the character), which isn't a common occurrence.
I agree. PPP is such a hollow measure. It is a self-aggrandizing veneer solely to flatter one's vanity.

We live in a global world where no country is self sufficient. We depend on oil from a few countries, clothes from some other, electronics from some more, so on and so forth. In such an interdependent and connected world, all payments are made in global currencies and PPP in isolation doesn't really cut it.

India pays the same in $ for oil, as does let's say the UK. Similarly, when an Indian travels abroad, they pay the same in $/£/€ as let's say another globe-trotter from Europe.

PPP in such cases becomes a facade, to stoke their egos and to justify to the nationalists that their nation is doing well.
I would also prefer your children were uneducated.
I’m building a social network[1]. I recently finished the MySpace-esque music player[2]. It’ll launch in 2025 as a paid service…only way to guarantee real humans sign up.

[1]: https://socii.network

[2]: https://social.coop/@netopwibby/113329030542527807
You could ask FDR and Churchill that after the fall of France and it wouldnt be too useful what they said cuz it took them almost 3 years before they openly said victory = end of the nazis and nothing else.

So dont just sweep the fact that things take Time under the carpet. Its not healthy cause its like looking at tree shoots in the ground and saying but why does that not look like a tree yet.

Finding gold in an unexplored jungle takes much longer than extracting gold from an existing mine. This is the Explore Exploit tradeoff. Exploit is easy. More ppl do it. Explore is hard. And takes more time. If AI shifts the balance on explore the story changes.

If you want to talk about Explore in Media/attention (mis)allocation you can already see the appearance of green shoots in the ground. There are multiple things going on parallely.

First there is a realization that Attention is finite and doesnt grow while Content keeps exploding. Totally unsustainable to the point the UN has published a report about the Attention Economy. This doesnt happen without people reacting and going into explore mode for solutions.

They are already talking about how to shift these algos/architectures based on Units of Time spent consuming(Exploit) to Value derived from time spent.

Giving people feedback on how their time is being divided between consumption(entertaimment) and value. Then allowing then to create schedules. What you now start seeing as digital wellbeing tech.

There are now time based economic models where platform doesnt just assume time spent is free but something the platform needs to pay for. People are experimenting with rewards micropayments. All these are examples of explore mode being activated.

There is also realization that content discovery on centralized platforms like youtube tiktok insta cause homogenity in what eveeyone upvotes. So you see people reacting and decentralizing to protect and preseeve niches. AI(curator of curators) will play a big role in finding such niche that fit your needs.

Will just end with people are also realizing there is huge misallocation of Ambition/Drive problem. Anthony Bourdain says Life is Good in every show od his and then kills himself. Shaq says he has 40 cars but doesnt know why. Since media(society's attention allocator) has tied success to wealth/status accumulation, conspicuous consumption/luxury/leisure etc. People end up in these kind of traps. So now we are seeing reactions, esp with climate change/sustainability that ambition and energy have to be shown other paths. Lot of changes in advertiaing and media companies around it. All are explore mode functions.
If it were a generated image there would be giveaway malformed/deformed letters, but these letterforms are immaculate.

But yes in general it's a reasonable concern to have.
I’m on parental leave - first time not working for money for twenty years. Obviously it’s still time consuming, but not even firing up a computer for the last three weeks has been great. I’m fortunate to have this paid leave and a job guarantee, but it’s been a revelation stepping away from out all for so long. For the better, even though I’m exhausted.
For my college math and physics exams, the profs would pick exercises at random and wouldnt know how hard the test was until after the grades came in. And having a super high ceiling where a 25% is passing allowed them to see if there were any super geniuses in the class
No TV support.

iOS and Android.
I'm given to understand that it supports window-per-app? And I don't use it like that for reasons related to it requiring wayland, but even so it works fine for me with mouse+keyboard