skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He went on a week long cabin-in-the-middle-of-nowhere trip about a year ago to dive in to AI (that's all this guy needs to become pretty damn proficient).

You must be joking, right? I'm as much of a Carmack fan as anyone here, but overstating the skills of one personal hero does no good to anyone.
We don't have the data collection pipelines necessary for machines to compete against humans at the moment. And everyone is focusing on the hype, which doesn't help.
I'm wary of large scale intervention, partly because the powers that be can often get it very wrong - for example some of the EU initiatives are great, others are possibly disastrous ...

But it might be time to consider regulations on social and search, and possibly isolation of such things from other businesses.

In most countries, we separate the 'monopoly bit' (i.e. electricity transmission) from the competitive parts (i.e. actual energy creation) to keep things moving fairly. It's a rational separation.

I suggest that 'search' is starting to become a very real public utility and it may be best to have search separate from other things, legally.

I'm wary to see what an antagonising US Congress would really come up wit that's nuanced and helpful, but I suggest there's a basic formulation that just might work. It may seem bold at first glance, and upset a lot of the 'free market' types, but this did happen 100 years ago in the US.

I'm wary of having Google in my home or giving them any insight into my finances, it's getting harder and harder to 'opt out'.
I disagree with this article that this is all about their ability to "tell stories", as much as management that's really good at identifying which company to acquire next so they can squeeze every last cent from consumers for whichever IP they are pushing at the time.

Most people I've talked to DON'T believe the star wars series has gotten better from a story telling perspective, as this article proposes. I don't think most people believe live-action remakes of their classic cartoons is quality story-telling. I think they are just really good at reading market trends, have enough money in their coffers to acquire whatever is becoming the next big thing, advertise and push it into becoming a cultural phenomenon, then moving onto whatever is next once they've exhausted that IP.

Edit - and to be clear, I most likely have a very jaded view here. I don't like disney as a company, nor am I a fan of superhero movies, star wars, or a lot of what the company has been pushing for the last decade or so. I respect their ability to make a ton of money, but I don't like a majority of what they create anymore, nor how they treat a majority of their employees.
> You're ignorant about what journalism actually entails

How about you enlighten us as to what journalism actually entails? You completely dodged my question.
Docker is more than just a runtime.
It’s not that I don’t think the criticism is valid about the camera, it’s just the idea of saying it should have the same hardware as a phone
I think tesla is going to be fine because it promises massive environmental improvements.
TRUTH!

In other words the Apocalypse, literally meaning TEOTAWKI
(the end of the world as WE know it) by finally removing the
veil from reality.
I mean it depends. There is a lot of fairly reliable discrete data in medicine: medications/labs/imaging studies/procedures/flowsheet/etc. ICD10 diagnoses are discrete and fairly reliable. The progress notes have lots of copy/paste/smart-phrase/macro-generated trash, but at least Epic saves a lot of rtf markup about the source of the text data. I am pretty optimistic about data quality, it is availability to 3rd parties that I think is limiting the AI boom.
There's no such thing as AGI in my opinion. There is no way to create a "conscious" machine. We might be able to come up with some reasonably impressive imitations, but nothing that is conscious or actually thinking like a human.
The terms of Cisco's patent license are tricky. Basically, you must use binaries built by Cisco. Even though the source is available, Cisco's license only extends to binaries they build. If you build the code, you are not covered by Cisco's MPEG/H.264 patent license.

Cisco also only builds a limited number of architectures and platforms.

All of these things make it difficult to depend on for open source projects like Firefox.
A button labelled “Download” that is in actuality a “Donate” button that takes you to PayPal, that’s pretty scummy, probably even illegal some places. Glad I don’t use Fritzing.
I think the problem perhaps is that in house-owning countries, the apartments are usually cheaply built, or cheaply converted, so leak sound like sieves, because everybody who has any money wants to live in a suburb. In apartment-living countries, they put earth between the floors, and the walls are pretty heavy duty. So you don't really have that much noise pollution.
Yes, step three is an abomination of logic.

It is not, however, a problem with AI, software, etc. It's entirely the fault of fools at the agency, and perhaps shysters selling them crap software.

Garbage in, garbage out.
IDK, I don't use docker or a separate VM per application.

I guess I'm old school but I install the stuff on my linux instance or server and work out the dependencies so they don't clash.

I haven't found it that difficult.

Just cos the devs want to throw some ill conceived container over the fence onto my systems, doesn't mean I let them. ( I mean I guess they can, but only if they get the support calls instead of me.)
Isn't anti fascist just normal?
Except I have set up 100 of those X1 ThinkPads, and I can tell you that the display, in addition to being the stupid too-wide PC aspect ratio, isn't close in quality to what you get with a MB Pro. And as previously mentioned, the trackpad isn't close to Apple's all-glass trackpads, either. And the audio is laughable. And the case isn't as sturdy. And it doesn't have 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports, of course (although some prefer the selection of ports that Lenovo provides).
To be fair, a whole uninterrupted week of highly focussed work can get you pretty far (considering that you have the necessary background, which Carmack has, i.e. related to linear algebra, stats, programming, etc.)
Hong Kong identity survey: results by date
> Data is so cheap that it should be actually free, unlike counterfeit nike shoes.

Getting data is not cheap, and maintaining a dataset is certainly not cheep either.
After maybe 10-15 years of being an AGI enthusiast who never dared to pursue it "seriously", something has prompted me in the last few months to decide to make my next side project into a "real" AGI effort.

I think maybe its just the number of people who are talking publicly about working on it that is making me want to "work on it" "seriously"?

I mean, when I get my current side project "out the door" to some degree, I plan to spend at least a few months where the weekend (or sometimes nights) project that I actually admit to working on is "AGI research". Previously I have occasionally spent a few hours here or there mainly passively trying to learn about some deep learning or AGI thing by skimming papers or watching videos. But the plan now is to actually work on active learning projects/experiments for several hours every weekend. For at least two or three months (or longer if I don't give up before then).

Theoretically at least some of it could be of practical use, although I am thinking that I may avoid trying to become a deep learning expert because it seems like people have that covered and it might take me five years. Lol. So I am trying to think of GPU programming approaches that are new. Which most likely will turn out to be a waste of time but will certainly be interesting for me.
I'm still convinced we'll have "good enough" barebones yet spatially aware AR first. It's just less intensive on the front end side, which is the limiting factor now as I understand it.

VR is a whole other thing, and I think the "uncanny valley" stretches quite far; ie you need quality really close to what we see in movies to pass the acceptable threshold beyond a few hours of novelty.
I don't have the same grandiose notions of CS that OP has, but you could say that about any research field.

Physics gave us airplanes and bombs to drop from them.

Biology and chemistry gave us pharmaceuticals and pollutants.

You can do this for any field of study really.
I don't understand this binding (it is a common one). I don't want a 50/50 shot of having caps lock on (or my light indicator). I'm also a fan of keeping things as vanilla as possible (I do use plenty of plugins and stuff, but almost every problem you have vim solves natively)
Airdrop, for one. I don't think I've ever plugged my iPhone into my Mac.
Where exactly do you think a button labeled "Download" that detours you through a Donation flow is illegal?
It's as if Carmack is simply paid to shill for Zuckerberg, like some pet under glass.

Every time Carmack opens his fucking mouth, and it's the facebook domain in the URL bar, there's no accident in that. Carmack transmits this nerd signal, knowingly.

Kind of disgusting.
28s in the promo video.
Check out https://kloudless.com! (Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder)

Here's our open source file picker: https://github.com/kloudless/file-explorer/ (the server-side is closed source and requires a paid subscription beyond a point)
>However, the left-leaning zeitgeist opinion would seem to be that this outcome is impossible, and current observed differences are only due to systematic oppression.

Almost no one thinks this way and it's definitely not a popular enough opinion to qualify as a common spirit of our times, left-leaning or otherwise.

You are arguing against a very weak straw-man.
Does anyone have a non-facebook version of this story?
A general AI would give you all 3
I'm not saying he's LeCun, I'm just saying he gets up to speed absurdly fast. So it's not unreasonable to suppose that by now, he's learned enough to start seriously contributing to this kind of problem.

edit: to be clear, all I'm saying is he can catch up to the body of research already out there quicker than the average bear, and he's shown a real knack for designing solutions and being crazy productive. I'm not pretending he's gunna be publishing insane novel research anytime soon, just that I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up being a real voice in the field.
Well zero as in one or two clock cycles?
This is just a marketing tactic. Microsoft basically said the same about Apple 30 years ago.

Chromebooks also you to install Ubuntu naively which opens up a world of options.
Great then go ahead and include additional features. The problem is, recidivism rates in real life are not equal so as the model increases in accuracy it will inevitably produce disparities in its results.
Funny, it gives them all a slight American accent!
> I do pay several patreon, have automatic transfer set up for two projects, and a long standing subscription to a website I'm a fan of.

Are these websites the only websites you visit? Otherwise, you're very short on paying for the content you consume.

Without ads, you have to pay the creator of every YouTube video you watch, the journalist behind every news article you read, etc. Unless the content creator is actively choosing to give it to you for free (i.e. never had any ads in the first place), then you need to pay them somehow for every bit of content you consume.

With how we consume content, this will have to be pay-per-view as a day of browsing would otherwise need possibly hundreds of subscriptions.

A mediator in form of Brave's "BAT" or similar is a good way to do fair pay-per-view.

> But people don't need to realize anything for ads to die. All they need to realize is that they should all be using ad blockers and never ever turning it off again.

No, everyone should not use ad blockers, there should be no ads. Ad blockers are a defective symptom of the decease that is ads, not a solution to the problem.

> Being able to make people look in your direction long enough to show them something else they might spend money on is not valuable. It doesn't need to exist.

It's important to remember that we're only fighting random ads plastered everywhere as brute-force marketing.

Other forms of marketing will always exist. Having a big logo on your physical store is marketing, done to attract attention of possible customers. Showcasing their products within the store is marketing to try to make you buy them. Nothing wrong with that.
I was going to say that pinning hashes seems to be painful, but since I last looked it now has a --generate-hashes flag.

Also if you want to link directly to a git repo, you can only install it in editable mode, you can't just install it with the rest of your packages (means you get a `src` directory where you ran pip, which makes Dockerizing slightly annoying, and probably impacts performance slightly).

Maybe this has also been fixed since I last upgraded.
If you're interested in this model, we're looking for early beta users: https://www.intertimes.org
Sure – I'm just taking issue with the "in retrospect obvious". PTSD might still be real, or it might turn out to be in fact several different phenonema, with possible some more real than others. But there is a lot that's counter-intuitive.
The only really usable "GitHub for Mobile" is FastHub-Libre[0]

[0] https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.fastaccess.gith...
As long as it also supports regular credit card payment. Being locked into a single companies proprietary payment service doesn't sound like a good thing to me.
It would be easier to take the AI doomsayers' seriously if we were remotely close to AGI. For now it's treated the same way as some guy in a cape in Central Park trying to summon Satan. No one cares because everyone knows it's basically impossible.
Is there a non-Facebook source for this information?
> Most likely, custom installed libraries and tools (./configure; make; make install), that were never packaged. And a package manager, that can't even tell you if any of the installed files were changed, after they were installed.

Software has to be read or at least installed in a safe place (before installing on a live server) so then one can be sure it does nothing silly.

Packaging is not hard, but there are some rules, including placing binaries in /usr/bin, configuration files in /etc and /etc/default (deb) or /etc/sysconfig (rpm), general package files in /usr/share. If you place files in the standard locations probably the package manager will detect changes in config files.
Congratulations, you have now created a class of people who can forge audio and video streams at will, relatively cheaply - and an underclass of people who cannot and may not even be able to record genuine footage they wish to record. This is not a road you want to go down.
But then you have to have built and positioned the Lunar Gateway first, which adds to the cost. That can be amortised over multiple missions, but if you're not running multiple missions, its non-existence is a problem.

So if you change the problem parameters there are other solutions, but if there doesn't happen to be a useful thing in the right place, you have to do something else (IYSWIM).
> AGI needs a type system.

My brain bit on that remark; would you care to elaborate?
To be fair, those reasons aren't as pertinent as they once were. I have a linux-only household and rarely tinker (besides my server, but that's a different category of system). Sure the occasional config file and maybe a compilation if I need the very latest of something, but otherwise, linux is pretty damned solid without digging in too deep these days - which includes a triple-monitor custom desktop.
Sorry, but your original comment said “you have no doubt” that you (or anyone) could get a bunch of software engineers and within a day create a functioning news org. But now it sounds like you have no core concept about what journalism is?

edit: just to expand on this, I'm declining to respond to your overly broad request, in the same way that I would decline to respond to someone who, after taking 10 minutes to roll out a beautiful SquareSpace template, mocks the tens of thousands of computer science grads who fail to be even 0.001% the success that dropout Mark Zuckerberg is.

Your original comment, without further clarification on your part, carries an amount of arrogance and likely ignorance that doesn't feel worthwhile to engage with in good faith. But for starters, you make a major categorical error by conflating "functioning news organization" – an entity that requires social and political power, entrepreneurship, and business acumen – as something that only requires a bunch of people (journalists, or not) getting together and doing whatever you think "journalism" is. No non-foolish journalist would ever argue that a roomful of journalists could produce a "functioning news organization" in a day or even in a month.

And recent counter-examples to your belief are plentiful. If it were possible to throw a bunch of software devs into a room to create a "functional news organization", then Facebook would not be throwing millions [0] at existing news orgs for the rights to display article headlines and previews, when it could be using the hundreds/thousands of not-fully-utilized software engineers it already has in-house to produce news, if your hypothesis were based in reality.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/technology/facebook-news-...
Sure, and there is also the assumption that good decisions are made on perfect/good data, which is also just an assumption. We can't even define good decisions well enough to be sure.

Just because bad data may tend (in hindsight) to yield inaccurate decisions, or decisions based on faulty data, doesn't promote data as the main driver behind sound decisions. That would just be another belief system, and we don't have all possible data or omniscience to prove it!
A very endearing trait of OpenBSD developers is that when they make a system facility, it has a great C API.

Can you beat "uint32_t arc4random(void); void arc4random_buf(void *buf, size_t nbytes); uint32_t arc4random_uniform(uint32_t upper_bound);" as a RNG API? (No. Add it, glibc.)
> and probably wipe out humanity.

Probably? I do not think that word means what you think it means... or else I don't think the balance of probability lies where you think it does.
I remain unconvinced, but let's hope you're right.
This looks really interesting!

That being said, because mod support is such a huge part of the design of this specific game, I have a policy that I won't use any tools or libraries that aren't either owned by me, that are Open Source, or that are exporting to common, open formats that can be freely read, manipulated and written by Open Source programs.

If I used a licensed product to generate my voices, I would be in the same position as if I hired a voice actor -- I wouldn't have a tool that I was free to ship with the game that any modder could use to edit or add dialog, or to even create new characters with new voices.

The few exceptions for proprietary tools I'm willing to tolerate for this specific game are things that generate MIDI output, sounds, fonts, and PNG files. Everything else is either Open Source or completely owned by me. Even for the final assets like mp3 files and fonts, nothing can be licensed, because I want to have full control over when players have the ability to remix and distribute game assets in their mods. I need to know that 20 years from now players will still have access to everything in the game.

I don't want to derail, so to bring that back around to the current discussion on AI-generated fakes, I believe these kinds of AI techniques should be freely available. A world where AI-fakes are considered so dangerous that only a few select guardians can control them is a world where, to me, this technology stops being useful. I'm not saying Replica is in that position -- I'm just speaking to a broad trend in the conversation around AI.

I think we'll start to see more calls to have single companies controlling AI under the guise of being able to ban bad actors or prevent abuse. I think that would be a mistake -- if anything, ubiquitous technology makes it easier for society to adapt to that technology. A purely SaaS, licensed model for AI generated faces, voices, and text would be all of the negatives of this technology with none of the positives that come from Open access and creative usage.

Gatekeeping won't work, we just have to adapt.
SpaceX completes key Crew Dragon launch system static fire test
Amazon's starts marketplace for teachers to sell lesson plans to other teachers
I know there was a whole arc on Trailer Park Boys with Sebastian Bach being a model train champion and his rival was Patrick Swayze, but I'm not sure if there was any truth to it in reality (but I hope there was!). Lead to a great and clever end of the season.

Here's a clip I found, have to skip through a bit to see the Sebastian Bach stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAbZi14-i6s
Despite having the ability to directly access memory via neural interface, thus rendering the concept of output obsolete, I still don't want to give up the Python2 print syntax.
Propensity to enjoy a job != capability to do the job
Really really great summary. Many many thanks.
Honest question: Have you lived in Austin?

Because there's no way it's going to survive the influx of people it's seeing, in part because it faces the exact same urban development crisis that other cities are facing and making the exact same mistakes. For every person that points to Houston or Austin as being exemplary examples, I wonder if they have actually tried living there. This is before we even start talking about the dire nature of trying to walk anywhere in these cities.
Your opinion is very likely incorrect.
What's wrong with trying to bring people in? Why be elitist with tooling?
> What is the open source alternative of this?

There are many public-domain datasets:

* https://aws.amazon.com/opendata/public-datasets/

* https://cloud.google.com/public-datasets/

* https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets

> Data is so cheap that it should be actually free

I feel like you haven't had the opportunity to work with data that has value.
Who are you referring to?
SOAR?

Contrary to popular belief, both openai and deepmind have zero roadmap and specification of a cognitive architecture, not even a semantic parser.
Leatherworkers still use certain tools, today, that are precisely identical to those used 50,000 years ago. They were perfect for the job then, and still are.

Not working animal skins? You could if you wanted to.
There's very little about trade journalism that involves true scoops.There used to be more but the economics mostly don't support a lot of trawling for unannounced information.

Context is still useful. But if you already have the context, the pub may not be that useful.
You would still have a Linux distribution (or five) for nerds and techies. I don't see why it distributions would cease to be if Linux became more popular.
I was taught that the quantum theory of memory and cognition generally falls under Eric Schwartz's "neuro-bagging" fallacy [0]. That is:

>You assert that an area of physics or mathematics familiar to few neuroscientists solves a fundamental problem in their field. Example: "The cerebellum is a tensor of rank 10^12; sensory and motor activity is contravariant and covariant vectors".

So yeah, I feel that it's pretty fringe (as you suggested).

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20170828092031/http://cns-web.bu...
I think this article is trying to convey something worth considering, but I’m not sure because it is so confusingly written.
Ah yes. Every girl and woman I know would cherish a Bitcoin. It really sparkles in the light.

This is literally what my sister responded with when I asked her why she liked diamonds so much:

https://pics.me.me/hello-everybody-sparkle-sparkle-15208126....

Bitcoins aren’t pretty. Sparkling, finely cut specific rocks are. Sometimes it’s as simple as that.