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> It's difficult to fully describe, so let's just give up and use a deeply flawed benchmark? Why not try to develop benchmarks that actually work and tell us something useful instead?

Two reasons. First: in this sub-thread I'm focusing on employment issues due to AI, so consider the quote from above:

> At the point that we have an AI that's capable of every task that say a 110 IQ human is, including manipulating objects in the physical world, then basically everyone is unemployed unless they're cheaper than the AI.

IQ doesn't capture what machines do, but it does seem to capture a rough approximation of what humans do, so when the question is "can this thing cause humans to become economically irrelevant?", that's still a close approximation of the target to beat.

You just have to remember that as AI don't match human thinking, so an AI which is wildly superhuman at arithmetic or chess isn't necessarily able to tie its own shoelaces. The AI has to beat humans at everything (at least, everything economically relevant) at that IQ level for this result.

Second: Lots of people are in fact trying to develop new benchmarks.

This is a major research topic all by itself (as in "I could do a PhD in this"), and also a fast-moving topic (as in "…but if I tried to do a PhD, I'd be out of date before I've finished"). I'm not going to go down that rabbit hole in the space of a comment about the exact performance thresholds an AI has to reach to be economically disruptive.

For a concrete example of quite how fast-moving the topic is, here's a graph of how fast AI is now beating new benchmarks: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/test-scores-ai-capabiliti...
I assume the reason is that too many people don’t get audio over HDMI because one or the other volume controls is at 0.
Well, it's not that simple. They don't just go to a bank and borrow money.

They are acting more like a fund which allows other institutions to invest into Bitcoin.
The interactive graphic that tries to show entropy is subjective doesn't sit right for me.

They fail to properly define the macrostate of the system under consideration, then show two different observed entropies for two different macrostates (Colors for Alice and Shapes for Bob).

That doesn't show entropy is subjective, it shows that defining the system is subjective. The same two macrostates would still have the same entropy
That isn’t ridiculous and is in fact how the bulk of modern static site generators work. Hugo, Jeykll, Astro (the one I use), etc.
Multimedia is fairly general, so it includes this but also much more.

Including video in particular tends to highjack the experience (you switch mode), whereas interactive elements that you explore as you keep reading feel more integrated.
Sounds really far fetched. Pun intented.

How would you know the direction if it could hear it in the water? Did the other tiger roar in the water otherwise I think it might be too damped.

Maybe birds that comes from that direction like sing a tiger song or something? I think birds in the jungle can do that but it is probably really local.
“some math software called Maple”. I still use a version of Maple that I bought in 1998. I found subsequent versions of it much harder to use and I've never found an open-source software that could do what it can do. I don't need anything fancy, just occasionally solve an equation or a system of equations, or maybe plot a simple function. That old copy of Maple continues to serve me extremely well.
They all feel kinda monadic'ish to me (and the term monad is used several times in TFA) and I kinda dig them when coupled with "enhanced" threading macros that shall short-circuit on an error but...

How'd that all work with Clojure spec? I use spec and spec on functions (defn-spec) all the time in Clojure. It's my way to keep things sane in a dynamic language (and I know quite some swear by spec too).

I'd now need to spec, say, all my maps so that they're basically a "Maybe" or "Either" with the right side being my actual specc'ed map and the left side being specc'ed as an error dealing thinggy?

Would that be cromulent? Did anyone try mixing such idiomatic error handling in Clojure mixed with specs and does it work fine?
I disagree

I never use this account on the Who wants to be Hired thread

It doesnt matter that I can be cordial in discussing views, having views at all is counterproductive to being hired

there are real frictions you are dismissive of, other groups like women also feel underrepresented in OPSEC concerns they have while guys in tech have a huge blind spot for why anybody would want to remain unlinked from their profiles
Konwinski Prize
I am 100% in favor of stricter regulations on how we use limited space resources.
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Interesting. Does it has, total views, release download count?
Would be better if we can add the result on our README.
> Personally I learned to interact with people in a nice way

Good for you. I think some people can't learn that, at least without some sort of a therapy.

I friend of mine really struggles with filtering what he says to other people. He doesn't want to be like that I think, at least he has regrets of how he's behaved. But it doesn't really improve.
Phi-4 GGUF
> It's a shiny toy that is amusing but not really of much benefit to society

Sorry, maybe you haven't figured out yet how to apply it, but it is a very useful tool already for many people.
Looks good! I'd maybe use fewer smilies though
So your intention would be more professional networking? Mine would be more casual. Doing hobby projects together or just enjoy hn discussions offline .. and well, my strong opinions are part of me and don't want to hide them when I am living a private life. (But I also don't need to present them at every opportunity)
You sound like a perfectly reasonable person, rather than a scammer.
> Um, yes it is, extensively?

Sorry, that was a mistake on my part. I did not see it explicitly in any of the code. Thank you for pointing out in detail where the stdlib uses this.
It's gotten so bad I normally wait until 0.7 (final release).
I was watching a Youtube vid of yours on Electric no later than yesterday (mindboggling stuff)! When v3 is out of private beta, shall it be free / open-source?
Even the the example at svader.vercel.app/hello-world/webgl/?
Testing on the Safari browsers is currently a TODO, and the library is in general still experimental when it comes to wider browser support, but I would have expected at least the standard WebGL examples to work.
Does it at least display the "WebGL not supported" message?
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> The product market fit is fantastic.

> [...]

> What's not obvious is how to monetise it.

This is an interesting new use of 'product market fit'. I would have thought that in the absence of a path to monetisation, there is no market. Or we could talk about the 'market' for selling $10 bills priced at $5.
Also reached Master level at Codeforces,well before joining his engineering course:
https://codeforces.com/profile/suchir
That's a culture issue, not a language issue. And no, the language doesn't attract these type of people, but rather language is so good that it is prevalent in domains that hire those people.
> The name needs to be ultra-short, there are only so many 2 and 3 letter words which are not already taken on linux/windows.

So? 3 letters isn't some magic cutoff; cutting your command down to 3 letters or less doesn't make it suddenly 10x more effective for its users. 4 or 5 letters would be fine, too.

> That's quite a radical take, reducing a language to it's package manager and linter.

Package manager and linter are the most fundamental tools to a programming language in a broader sense, second only to the reference compiler/implementation. The trend in the last couple decades is to, in fact, make all three part of the core, under purview of the same person or group that designs the language itself, and its standard library.

I.e. if you want to "own" the future of a language, the second best option after owning the most popular runtime, is to own the most popular package manager. And I can see this happening already in discussion threads about Python I've been reading over past few months. It's not just that people are excited about UV itself, they're treating Astral as a "thought leader" now.

Again, I'm not saying it's bad, or that Astral would be a bad steward. I'm just surprised to see a previously diverse/anarchic language community to suddenly feel like it'd welcome such stewardship.

> so is VS Code

VS Code is its own thing; sure, it sucked oxygen out of IDE space on UI front, but it also competes against JetBrains in the same space, plus, thanks to LSP, it revitalized Vim and Emacs as viable competitors and enabled creation of even more editors.

In contrast, UV just put a single company in the core position to influence the direction Python as a language takes, which is a new situation for Python - one of the last few popular languages that didn't have a corporate benefactor to start and push it into popularity.
I don't remember but can try again if you need. Cursor really got the 1 or 2 interface details right.
I don't want to apply it. And of course it is useful to many, but that utility comes at a cost to greater society and the utility itself is questionable: it many help people in their microcosm in the short-run but in the long-term it is only isolating people and making them more machine like.
Hey Nelson, thank you very much! :)
Goodbye tokenization problems, hello encoding problems!
It would just be a bit-for-bit copy, so maybe it would work? I don't know what a trusted signed set is.

I'm mystified about why I'm getting downvoted for that question. If it's inadvertently stupid of insulting to Apple users, wouldn't an explanation be more useful then trying to censor it?
I assume that you're familiar with Maxima? It's perhaps the most commonly used open-source CAS - there are some emerging alternatives like Sympy.

That aside, yes it's interesting that an old program from 1998 can still serve us quite well.
I had to find an application to test, so I downloaded the kitty terminal emulator for macOS which was just an executable.

I tried to execute it from the shell ./kitten-darwin-arm64 and it gave me an option to cancel or move to bin. I went to system settings -> privacy & security -> and told it to allow kitten-darwin-arm64. I then rerun ./kitten-darwin-arm64 and it now had the option to "Open Anyway".

So in 15.2 it is still possible to execute software by unidentified developers.
Americans are furious over health care. Is this an Occupy Wall Street moment?
I think it needs clarification. What I've found is that:

* 2 people is ideal for serious, deep conversation

* 3-4 is ideal for more humorous, relaxing conversation, but precludes the deepest intellectual topics
Obviously. "Outreach" is now bribery or extortion in double speak.
Just a white page.
aah, this is nailing it. It helps to differentiate from game-like experiences and special purpose apps.

Another interesting term from the wiki link is "active essays":

> The related term "active essays" was used by Alan Kay to refer to text-based explorable explanations

But I don't know if by text-based he meant strictly no visuals. Like just ASCII art? :-)
Social science isn’t some beacon of hope for humanity; the current state of it is a mess. It’ll be refreshing to see a shift away from the convention.
No it does not and that is your erroneous understanding. The proof is self-evident because none of the myriads of other languages in the Indian Subcontinent have been supplanted by Sanskrit. In fact there is a theory that Sanskrit was never a spoken language for common folk but merely a written one due to its precision. Also there exists multiple scripts to express Sanskrit in other Indian languages eg. "Grantha" script for Sanskrit->Tamil. All South Indian Classical Languages use their own scripts to write Sanskrit.

The linguistic complexity amongst the various states in India is very unique and hence simplistic notions of language dominance do not apply to India as a whole but varies from state to state.
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> Patients typically have to trust a doctor; the definition of consent in those circumstances is very strict, side effects have to be declared etc etc. Any abuse of that consent, like in this case, must be treated like a crime.

> Whereas when it comes to individuals deciding on their own to experience something, it's all about personal responsibility.

The problem with this framing (and some of the other comments have used this framing as well) is acting as if other drugs would not have the same issues as opioids. But if anything, the opioid epidemic has shown the opposite to be the case - people irresponsibly push drugs onto people even when access is limited to a group like doctors who are supposed to be well educated and discerning.
For a lot of people the modulo approach isn't a "trick", it's just the intuitive way to split items into residue classes. And it's likely a little more cache-efficient.
I think you're missing something really obvious here. Piracy is not expressive content. You call it a game, and therefore it must be - but it's not. It's simply an illegal good. It doesn't have to serve any purpose. It cannot be bound by copyright, due to the illegal nature. The Morris Worm wasn't copyrightable content.

Something is not required to be expressive content, to be bound under law. That's not a requirement.

The law goes out of its way to not define what "a work" is. The US copyright system instead says "the material deposited constitutes copyrightable subject matter". A copyrightable thing is defined by being copyrightable. There's a logical loop there, allowing the law to define itself, as best makes sense. It leans on Common Law, not some definition that is written down.

"an AI-created work is likely either (1) a public domain work immediately upon creation and without a copyright owner capable of asserting rights or (2) a derivative work of the materials the AI tool was exposed to during training."

AI outputs aren't considered copyrighted, as there's no person responsible. The person has the right to copyright for the creations. A machine, does not. If the most substantial efforts involved are human, such as directly wielding a tool, then the person may incur copyright on the production. But an automated process, will not. As AI stands, the most substantial direction is not supplied by the person.
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"uv pip" is a ground up implementation of python pip and doesn't use the python pip command in any way. So still only two package managers.

And the point is that you always have to use two package managers when developing python. One that installs python and various non-python libraries and dev tools, and one that installs python libraries. Conda in this scenario is replacing apt as much as anything else.
This reminds me a little of the <shader-doodle> web component, which also works in any framework or plain HTML:

https://github.com/halvves/shader-doodle
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Yeah but what does simple mean? I struggle with that a lot. In my experience, keeping it simple means not being flexible when requirements change. Adding new features becomes tedious or even a mess. Keeping things simple is an art, certainly not an easy one.
Interesting, thanks for sharing.

One question: what load is the matching network designed for? Did the designer find the equivalent small signal impedance of the diode network via simulation? Is the SPICE model even valid at 2.4 GHz? Is small signal even applicable?
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I'm currently working on getting it deployed online. I'll consider providing more optional data later.
Maybe they will get exponentially better, I can't predict the future. Code generating software with a UI isn't exactly a new idea though, we said the same about Frontpage.
The cost to Google per search is way lower, though.
Right. You can just search for /\b(\w+) \1\b/ and see what comes up. There are usually false positives of one kind or another.
Strange. I'll have to look into this.

Thanks for letting me know!
90 years ago in Serve it Forth, the glorious M. F. K. Fisher stated definitively that the maximum number of people at an ideal dinner party is six, and probably three or four. Glad to see she's being upheld! Of course, the individuals probably matter more:

>It is, though, very dull to be at a table with dull people, no matter what their sex. Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat—and drink!—with the right mixture of abandon and restraint. They should enjoy food, and look upon its preparation and its degustation as one of the human arts.
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Being 'upgraded' to macOS 15 is the worst part of buying a new macbook pro.

I counted 12 bugs during the first hour of use.

Makes we want to start a computer company.
Leading comma seems more intuitive because it immediately signals the end of an entry next to the entry.
12/14/2024 Update :

Thanks everyone for the direct feedbacks!
Following your recommandations, I added a new section at the start of the guide, called "Execsum" with a short synthesis of the main personality traits, so anyone looking at the guide can grasp the essential in a quick read.

Thanks again, and looking for the next feedbacks ;-)
JB
I very much treat this site as a testing ground for my learning and therefore generally start using new features as soon as they are newly available in Baseline. Hence, your browser, which hasn't been updated in over a year, is having issues rendering all the modern features. You might want to consider updating your browser, as it has some known security vulnerabilities.

Appreciate the photo and report though.
Sure, Dr, sure.
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> Don't all of Wirth's languages let you use any ordinal as the array index?

In Oberon, Wirth kicked out everything to the bare minimum, including subrange types. Array indices in Oberon start with 0.
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> How would you know the direction if it could hear it in the water?

Cetaceans have echolocation systems, for they to locate the source of sound echoes is child's play. They keep also detailed maps of its habitat in their brains and remember it for years. This probably helps to tag some directions as most probable to find another whale

Tigers detecting tigers by watching other animals behavior is not impossible, but they should be a lot of false positives. Tigers probably just wander a lot and watch carefully their territories for scents and marks of other tiger presence.

Lynx territories overlap when came from different sexes, and don't in the same sex.
It's also important to know which rules are "hard", i.e. implemented or enforced by the first three (or implemented by the program, but would be a complete nonstarter to break) and which rules are just "conventions", like the "short options/long options" rules in POSIX.

In particular, those can change between OSes: On all linuxes, programs already get a pre-parsed array of command line args on start, so parsing and quoting behavior depend on the shell, not individual programs.

On Windows, programs get passed the entire command line invocation as a string and have to do the parsing themselves. While all "well-behaved" programs let the libc do this, it's perfectly possible for a program to break the rules here.
Yeah, therapy might help. I never had a professional therapy, but I did used to have something similar - a strong urge to present my opinions at every opportunity and a strong urge to win every debate. So all in all potentially annoying ...
Facebook, Amazon, OpenAI (or Altman) each $1million.

This number, on a technology and presidential scale, seems low. Is it a mutual protection risk strategy, a political equivalent of patent-sharing?
I don’t have any intention of using a hn meetup service

Just dropped in to this thread you were having with someone else because there are concerns that had an additional perspective to elaborate on

30 people in NYC signed up while many more were aware? Most use existing public account to crosslink it?

Obvious
Really cool idea with doing it as a web component.

There's also Pocket Shader which is pure JS:
https://github.com/braebo/pocket-shader
These "dark streaks" would be way less of an issue. The reason you get light streaks is that exposure is really long and the satellites move quickly. The fraction of time a satellite is covering any given portion of the picture is really small. If you use, say, a 30 minute exposure, these "dark streaks" will be parts of the picture which only got, say, 29 minutes and 55 seconds. That's not a big deal.

The problem with painted satellites is instead that they're not black enough; they still produce light streaks since they're still somewhat reflective. I don't know if it's possible to make them non-reflective enough to make this a non-issue.
Tuned spark gaps? Or just an antenna hooked up to a pair of back to back LEDs? Just recently I saw something about light-up fake fingernails that would blink when you got a 2G phone call.
Prevent taskbar from collapsing apps into a single icon.
I don't think we'll really see a superconductor that ticks all the boxes.

Reality is too noisy for such effects to take hold. If there was I think evolution would have already used it by now.
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Indeed, but as with all unchecked developments, they eventually improve and sometimes they can improve too much. Like survellance tech -- too much improvement in my opinion. So when it comes to something really important like the future of jobs, perhaps we should be more cautious.
It just came up with generic ideas. Can I instruct it to suggest gifts that are a little more... out-there?
The format was saddled by complicated usage restrictions designed to prevent music piracy - some audio recorders wouldn't store data, or read music as data, and so on. All formats that came up in that timeframe to compete with floppies, Iomega's ZIP, Syquest's HD-like cartridges, and 3M's Superdisk ended up superseded by cheap CD recorders.
Just fyi, Dark Reader (Firefox extension) completely broke the more interesting experiments and I had to disable it to see them. Only the 'square color gradient' experiments survived, for some reason.
Hey a fellow mise user in the wild! I use it everywhere now for both personal and work projects. Cheers!
> UV just put a single company in the core position to influence the direction Python as a language takes

I would argue VS Code where the most popular extension is for the Python language has more influence than Astral.
I was promised local friends.
I.. know which parts I need, thats a very abstract thought pattern, what do you mean ?
Interesting, this is one of the worst NotebookLM examples I've seen so far. They are interjecting way too often and breaking the rhythm. Is generation quality going down due to the popularity of the service?
> In 2023, the group put out what came to be known as “the pause letter,” which called on AI labs to pause development of advanced models for six months, and to use that time to develop safety standards.

It's not that these guys would not have had bad takes before. Their job is to get as much as possible money allocated to AI safety companies, ie themselves, and the best way to do that is to sell fear. Humans have a natural fear of new things.