skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I look at it like this: we don't understand how dogs think, either. We don't know if they're conscious the same way we are. We know they don't see colors the same way we do. We know they can hear sounds that we can't. We know that smell is their primary sense, and they can smell orders of magnitude more than we can. What does all this mean? We don't know. Humans and dogs experience the world differently, yet we get along. We even enjoy companionship with one another. Dogs are similar, but different from us.

I see AI the same way, even non-existent AGIs. Will they be conscious? Probably, but not in a way we'll ever understand. They'll think the same about us. I think the biggest thing we should be working on is mutual respect, ensuring we have a complementary and non-adversarial relationship. Enjoying one another's companionship like we do with dogs.

I suppose what's most worrisome is we understand a dog's selfishness and how their selfish impulses manifest themselves. We collectively have millennia of experience dealing with it and training dogs to not act on those impulses. We simply don't have that experience with AGI. We have no idea how selfish behaviors would manifest themselves, nor do we know what to do if they did.

Finally, it's interesting to note that one thing AGI lacks is direct experience. Essentially, we're working on building hyper-intelligent four-year-olds. Imagine a four-year-old having all the knowledge of humanity, but none of the experience. I think I'm going to stop there - I just terrified myself!
Yeah, the solution to that is to mandate accepting cancellations via a single click (or preferably even email, since it shouldn't be my problem if I don't remember my account details when I want to cancel).

Disputes should have been the backstop to incentivizing the market to making cancellations easier, but things apparently didn't pan out that way. So arguably, the free market has had its chance, and it's time for regulations.
(In the holiday spirit)

The only language of credit cards is points, cashback, APYs, and hard to read TOS
Have you been paying attention at all these past few weeks? Google is crushing it with releases. Gemini 2.0 is great, Veo2 is crushing Sora, live video conversation from aistudio... 12 days of OpenAI turned out to be 12 days of Google.
The NIIT, for high-income taxpayers (defined as $250,000 and up for a married couple), subjected investment income to a 3.8% rate.

Raise your hand, HN, if you (and your spouse, if applicable) make >$250K/year. Wow, that's a lot of hands. Now, leave your hand up if you've ever heard of this "NIIT". Hmm, just the two of you, huh?

Or have I just not been paying attention?
Also: killer clowns every few years. That one is a cultural icon by now.
Yes - it seems this is routinely done for H-1B positions. You meet the requirement for having advertised the job by running an ad for 1 day in the back of the fisherman's chronicle. You tailor the job description so closely to the H-1B candidate you've already decided to hire, that it'd be easy to defend why you rejected other candidates (should they inconvenience you by seeing the ad and applying).
I believe Jetbrains' built in models work like that but unfortunately they force you to disable any competing AI chat plugins so you lose out on access to Claude etc. if you use them.
That's exactly the reason. I don't remember working with any H-1B visa people in the 90s then the dotcom boom happened and demand soared. A couple years later I started working with H-1B engineers and my salary flatlined for over decade since.
How do you know they are on par for the role if you are part of the program intended (by the detractors) to push down wages for everybody?

Seems that there is no way you could possibly determine that given the circumstances besides speculating about supply and demand.
I dont know, i think metal is slap resistant
I think you can exactly separate them. One is the goal, and the other is the effect.

Im not extracting all your blood for the fun of it, or to kill you. profit is the motivation.

Saying the motivation is to kill you is simply not correct. It is a byproduct.
Humans were nomadic before agriculture so they would have been moving all the time anyway. There would have been no settling down.

It’s more likely competitive pressure forced them to expand out further because to a small group, even a small conflict with a neighboring tribe that costs them a few of their fittest members would be particularly traumatic and risky. It’s just easier and safer to migrate.

Archaic humans made it out to South East Asia over a million years ago back when the sea hadn’t even risen to form the major islands like Indonesia. Migration is in our DNA.
Correct.

Some DMVs like to pretend they are USCIS and they want to see the physical visa in your passport. Annoyed me to no end.
I just tested the German – Standard layout on a Mac, it's the first one you indicate. Apple calls right-⌥ the Compose key, not AltGr, but works the same way, other than being transposed with the Command key from the familiar Windows style of layout.

There's also a keyboard layout just called German, maybe that one works the way you refer to? But surely it's not too much to ask that someone select the keyboard style they're accustomed to using?
I Was a Health Insurance Executive. What I Saw Made Me Quit
If you read Wikipedia, there was the Massacre of the "Latins" in Constantinople in 1182. That almost certainly made it easy to make it a revenge play for the Venetians and associates.

What I find most interesting is the Romans were unbeatable in battle, even the Byzantines. However, maintaining a large military presence was expensive and politically difficult to manage. So they used annual mercenaries from the north for the usual frontier squabbles, and the main army did the heavy lifting. It fell apart when there was a major conflict, and didn't help that the army held the city hostage demanding more money. So everyone was corrupt it would seem. Also there were the persistence of rumors of knights that may have kept most of the treasure for themselves and headed off to Cyprus. The Knights Templar were insanely wealthy given the times and cost of resources to mount expeditions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_the_Latins

https://thetemplarknight.com/2021/12/13/cyprus-knights-templ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_the_Latins
Not sure what you are talking about. This is about H-1B, aka dual-intent visas. You can have immigrant intent.

Also, if you leave for six months, how are you even working in the US? Which is the point of the visa.
Hey thanks! It's come a long way, but there is still a ton of additional functionality I'm excited to build.

Re: moving/retiring to a different country, would it potentially help to create a milestone to model this and add Tax Consequences to that milestone? That can be used to switch your tax config to a different international preset starting in a certain year, or apply new custom brackets/config, etc.
Unless you live on the border of Oregon or Montana. Or in a city.
The end times are nigh because the human fertility rate is plummeting and there won't be a rebound. Small children grow up in a society that favors low fertility, they internalize it as normal, and when mature they do not buck that trend. Human extinction looms.
> But to get a new physical stamp, I have to re-enter the country every 3 years. How does that make sense?

Why do you need a new physical stamp at all if you are not re-entering? I think your argument is backwards here. What I think you’re asking is “why can I stay in the country without taking this step, but I have to take this step to re-enter.”

Well, because when you leave the country you are subject to certain laws. Even a permanent resident cannot just leave and expect to come back whenever without consequence. Even a person eligible to apply for citizenship must meet a minimum threshold of presence.

Now, your question becomes “why are the laws the way they are” and/or “why doesn’t the law make sense”. I conjecture that these situations are particularly fringe for our legislators so they don’t get a ton of attention, and they make just enough sense to remain as is.
> Running single stack hosts is absolutely a reasonable goal.

Sure. I expect that it's not one that we will see most Internet-facing machines achieve in our lifetimes.

> If i have choice between running ipv6 and nat6to4, and ipv4, ipv6, and nat4, surely the former is both a simpler setup...

No. You already have an IPv4 stack in your OS, and I guaran-damn-tee you that your NAT64 setup is far more complicated than a NAT44 setup. [0]

> ...and a further step towards a real full v6 internet?

Sure. But there's no inherent value in dropping IPv4. The only thing wrong with IPv4 that's not also wrong with IPv6 is that it doesn't have enough address space. Moving more and more globally-reachable servers and hosts to IPv6 reduces the number of IPv4 addresses required, which solves the "not enough addresses" problem of IPv4.

[0] AFAIK, if you use NAT64, you either let both direct-IP connections [1] and inbound IPv4 port forwarding not work, OR you must use additional (substantially complex) software to make that work. So, either you break some software that happens to use IPv4, or you massively increase your system software complexity. Seems bad either way.

[1] That is, connections to IPv4 hosts without a pre-connection DNS lookup.
Verifiable compute doesn't do much good if the people doing the verifying and securing are making wild profits at the expense of the rest of us. This technology is more about making sure nothing horrible happens in enterprises rather than protecting people from AI, even if "safety" is claimed.
Yea, that’s the issue discussed here. They removed this feature. You can’t use them for the occasional landline calls anymore.
do you honestly expect Americans to do well in a world where we aren't the preeminent military and economic power? we wouldn't. it's therefore the moral responsibility of the US federal government to ensure that world doesn't come to pass by any means necessary.

the point of overseas interventions isn't usually to win, it's to make the other guy lose or spend more. our military is finally moving in the direction of attritability - it took those last 12 interventions to learn, i guess - but we should be able to more effectively bleed china dry. she can have as large a population as she wants, she can be the world's factor for cheap garbage, the concern is ensuring she can't have an advanced economy.

i'm not saying this will come without some level of pain for America. the nineties clinton "end of history" types were buffoons to think china was anything but a malignancy on the international order and should have cut her out from the start. but it's too late for that now, the cancer has spread and this means global economic chemo. it will hurt, but it's massively less bad than what our people would experience in the alternative situation.
Is there some way to check what I currently use? I rarely use chat, so 50 per month probably wouldn't be an issue, but completion has become my main completion tool, not sure if I'd stay under 2000..
No teleprompters!

We had a video monitor in front of us showing the live feed, that kept distracting me personally.
Aren’t phone calls very expensive from jail?
sure, but that has nothing to do with CU, which is my point.
What do you guys recommend for a case for this? rank mountable would be useful but a base I can sit on a shelf in a rack would work too.
From the linked article in footnote [2] where that question is asked, the question above says that 2% of Christians answered "I don't believe in Jesus". Makes me wonder what they think a Christian is!

But that specific question was restated wrongly. Again in footnote [2] and in the link itself, it says it was 14% of Christians who answered "definitely" or "probably" with another 37% saying "not sure".

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/12/08/about-fou...
Truthfully I am trying! I know how hard it is to get a product off the ground especially something like this which is a hybrid of a hardware platform interacting with the physical world and software to operate it.

The intruder demo is cool - but I have security cameras which can achieve an identical response (if not better, since they are at elevation, concealed, cannot be manipulated or disarmed or tossed into a closet with a closed door etc).

If the company were to give me this device for free, and pay for me to take a month off of work to dedicate myself to engineering a program for it to run (I have been writing python ~20 years) I STILL could not come up with a compelling argument for it. At this point the best thing I can come up with would be covering it in a giant stuffed teddy bear and letting it run wild in my yard so my dog could chase it. But is that worth $2,000 and the opportunity cost of sitting down to program it? Absolutely not.

I can see it being valuable to a middle/high school as a learning tool ... but to the layman absolutely not. It is a niche, low-volume business at best.
As a non-immigrant to the United States, I don't really buy into the idea that companies prefer H1B candidates purely for financial reasons. The H1B process is frankly a rigid, unreliable and time-consuming process.

It's hard for even Canadians and Mexicans to find jobs in the US and we have access to the supposedly easy to obtain TN visa. Australians too with E3.

I'm more inclined to believe that H1B workers have other benefits to employers such as longer tenure due to the restrictions of moving jobs.

Which in itself should be an argument for further liberalization say by giving I140 approved petitioners access to EADs.
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Why is Material UI still so comically awful?

M3 is an upgrade but even the "header carousel" component there had me straight up pause and study all the ways it's terrible

From the ripple effect that overflows depending on how wide the text underneath is.

The "back button" which is actually for going from one section to the next

And the way it behaves as I click from section to section using those buttons is "top tier jank" for the lack of a better term

The way it also randomly seems to align or not align the currently selected heading resulting in weird clipping of text that just looks confusing and broken.

The shadow indicating the elevation chance as it goes sticky also looks and feels straight out of Windows 95

Why can't Google just make an aesthetically pleasing UI? It almost feels like Apple and the "modern SaaS template ala WorkOS" guys stole the only two good looking directions for modern UI aesthetics and now Google is stuck pushing along their hideous (but identifiable!) aesthetic along side them.
The visa is not renewable, is what I meant.
But Copilot does exactly the same? You don't need to prompt anything.
NASA still specify the best analog watch they tested (twice because when congress found out it wasn’t American they made them do it again only to get the same result).

If you are in a critical situation and surrounded by electronics an analog watch can survive conditions like power failure and temp electronics cannot.

Irrelevant to business people but as a safety feature and emergency backup something fully mechanical and accurate could save your life.
The program exists to brain drain other countries of talent. It's very successful at that.
I would laugh if I didn’t interpret this as a disturbing dearth of evidence-based critical thinking. Homo Sapiens has immense power over the world and other species and very little rationality to temper and guide that power.
Just a note that you can buy that "Visions of Daniel and John" apocalyptic timeline chart online from a bunch of places and, of course you should. What better way to greet guests?
I don't want a local LLM, it is slower, less capable, and slows the computer down generally

What I would like is a deep integration with VS Code using my preferred foundational model

I see Cursor has their own model and support for 2 foundational models, but not my preferred model and they charge a monthly fee.

Supposedly: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/g...

but do I still have to pay microsoft $20+ per month? what I really want is pay-per-usage, not pay-for-access+usage
How does that work, without a transcript of what the voices are supposed to be saying?
In every post about LLMs there is someone to blindly say something like this.

When in reality if you ask ChatGPT for 10 good movies from this year you will get this.

Anora - Directed by Sean Baker, a compelling drama about the life of a sex worker in Coney Island.

Challengers - A provocative tennis drama directed by Luca Guadagnino, starring Zendaya.

Dune: Part Two - Denis Villeneuve's continuation of the epic science fiction saga.

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga - An action-packed prequel exploring the origins of Furiosa, directed by George Miller.

Inside Out 2 - Pixar's sequel that dives deeper into the complexities of human emotions.

Wicked - A musical fantasy adaptation directed by Jon M. Chu
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The Zone of Interest - A thought-provoking film about Auschwitz, directed by Jonathan Glazer.

The Idea of You - A steamy romance starring Anne Hathaway.

Hit Man - A comedy thriller starring Glen Powell.

The Outrun - A powerful drama about a recovering alcoholic, starring Saoirse Ronan.

Let me know if you'd like more details about any of these!

Which is a great list.
Impact Trace has just launched its latest tool to help users find corporate climate impact data with ease. Use the search function to look up a company and review their data. If the search does't show any results, by submitting a form you kick off their automated workflows to start building a page
That's for stuff that requires 24/7 support, not some harebrained project management technique that will make all your teams hate you
The Matrix is a shared simulation in 1999, the ideal circumstances allegedly.

In some aspects I would argue so as well - partially on the basis of our societies having a lower complexity amount back then.

The last two decades we enabled high throughput information flows via real-time video streams, social media, news feeds, etc.. At what cost? Did we actually gain anything over the 1999s in exchange for all that complexity?

The article talks about “good cup bad cup” and how negative news is much more impactful - again, at what cost did we enable all these information flows with potentially negative information?

Will personalized AI agents allow us to reduce the complexity coming from these information flows?
You probably want to wait a few months to a year for this: https://futureproofhomes.net/

They will have a local llm module within a year too I think.
Other countries are free to compete, nobody is arguing otherwise, but it is explicitly the right of any country to determine who is allowed to compete within their nation.

What people want or deserve is irrelevant. If you live elsewhere and feel you deserve more, then that's not America's problem.
Put them higher up and you need less to achieve the same coverage.
That makes sense. I'm sort of operating under the assumption that it's straightforward to get X returns at Y AUM but much harder to do that as Y grows.
I understand, and trust me it bums me too, but it's just that the compute required to do everything onboard is not there.

Once it is, we'll be able to get rid of it and do everything on edge. In theory it's already possible, but the time it takes to run large models would make the robot look inactive most of the time, and not even remotely reactive enough to handle the real world.

But really, that's our goal
> When these 2D GUIs say "GPU-accelerated", does that mean they are doing the same thing you would do for 3D

Yes. Nowadays all modern desktop interfaces—Aero/Metro/WinUI2/3 on Windows, Aqua/Cocoa on macOS, KDE, GNOME, XFCE, LXDE, and even some window managers on Linux—are 'GPU-accelerated'.

Every window is a quad of two triangles. There's no real vertex shading since it's all orthographic as you mentioned. The framebuffer for each window is exactly the x:y resolution for that window (macOS does some interesting 1:2 resizing here sometimes). The 'fragment shaders' is where the GUI toolkit comes in, writes to these buffers, and does any decorating where needed.

The final framebuffer is exactly the resolution of the entire monitor (again, macOS may do some weird 1:2 resizing).

The framebuffers of all windows on-screen are composed into this one. This is where things like transparency effects, the window and scroll controls, drop shadows, any 'rounding off' masks (used to great extent in macOS), and funky 'frosted glass'/'reflection' effects come in. This gives the effect of windows behind/in front of other windows. This is also when partially/fully off-screen windows are clipped/culled against the viewport frustum (not really a frustum but more a cuboid since it's not a perspective).

Once all this is done, you have a frame that's ready to be piped down the display cable into the display.

There are some other facets muddying the water like HDCP DRM protection for the entire framebuffer or some window framebuffers, variable-rate refresh, and so on. The former is how PrintScreen on Windows returns a black screen for some windows—that's HDCP in action.
Confirms my initial impression that the the author, you, were likely on the receiving end of these requests and would rather teach people to fish than being the cook. Which is a great thing and certainly has a place, especially on smaller teams/orgs. So I think the bias is strong (desire for others to self serve) and ignores a lot of the realities of trying to 'manage up' in this way (the risks and inefficiencies and skills gaps of having managers exercising technical chops). For that reason, I feel like promoting usage of Retool or something more GUI based would be more successful than promoting that managers should start using DuckDB and Python, et al.
Ceci n'est pas une pipe.

We don't know enough about minds to ask the right questions — there are 40 definitions of the word "consciousness".

So while we're definitely looking at a mimic, an actor pretending, a Clever Hans that reacts to subtle clues we didn't realise we were giving off that isn't as smart as it seems, we also have no idea if LLMs are mere Cargo Cult golems pretending to be people, nor what to even look for to find out.
Seems like they're adding Claude in January? https://www.jetbrains.com/legal/docs/terms/jetbrains-ai/serv...
I think that people, on the whole, vastly underestimate the degree to which humans are animals.
ToucanLoucan's message has some great discussion points but the half of the thread doing something useful with them only got there by managing to ignore the "fuck no shit horseshit fuck shit" portions. Even if one labels that as an aesthetic choice over one core to what promotes quality online conversation, fulmination isn't a requirement of conveying passion.
Or just an incorrect system prompt.
Good post. It's important to understand that there's really not that much new under the sun and we've never been that great at understanding large social phenomena.
wait ... what's wrong with a galaxy watch 5 pro?
> If you have a vague feeling that your Bad Cup didn’t used to be so full, and then you conclude we’re slip-sliding toward catastrophe, you haven’t discovered anything. You’ve just taken your biases for a walk.

Or maybe we are seeing unprecedented levels of CO2, cleared land, and population? I guess that's just bias too, then, right?

An alternative explanation is that every time someone thought society was getting worse, it WAS, and here we are, at the worst point.