skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Scale is not the solution.

Agreed, I don't think any modern AI techniques will scale to become generally intelligent. They are very effective at specialized, constrained tasks, but will fail to generalize.

> AI will design AGI.

I don't think that a non-general intelligence can design a general intelligence. Otherwise, the non-general intelligence would be generally intelligent by:

1. Take in input.
2. Generate an AGI.
3. Run the AGI on the input.
4. Take the AGI output and return it.

If by this, the article means that humans will use existing AI techniques to build AGI, then sure, in the same way humans will use a hammer instead of their hands to hit a nail in. Doesn't mean that the "hammer will build a house."

> The ball is already rolling.

In terms of people wanting to make AGI, sure. In terms of progress on AGI? I don't think we're much closer now than we were 30 years ago. We have more tools that mimic intelligence in specific contexts, but are helpless outside of them.

> Once an intelligence is loose on the internet, it will be able to learn from all of humanity’s data, replicate and mutate itself infinitely many times, take over physical manufacturing lines remotely, and hack important infrastructure.

None of this is a given. If AGI requires specific hardware, it can't replicate itself around. If the storage/bandwidth requirements for AGI are massive, it can't freely copy itself. Sure, it could hack into infrastructure, but so can existing GI (people). Manufacturing lines aren't automated in the way this article imagines.

The arguments in this post seem more like optimistic wishes rather than reasoned points.
>>> Our services thought instead that the cost of conquering Ukraine would have been monstrous

They are very probably right. Fascinating how different people see the same issue differently. it ought not to surprise me at this time of life.
Overall, I think this idea is a great one, though the stack still needs some development/improvement. To second hatware's challenge, if you can come up with a (mostly) turn-key solution, one that would be as cheap & time-thrifty as hosting on cloud service starter tiers, you could own this segment and lure the new startup demo away from the cloud providers.

Many people seem to forget that there are no free lunches... anyone who has ever wrestled with the learning curve of a necessarily proprietary no-code solution knows that you don't usually save time or money by outsourcing your platform, and that by outsourcing, you can easily become indentured to a restrictive black-box environment you don't control.

If you're not dealing with critical security updates to your Mattermost install, you will be dealing with something equally time-consuming and fundamental, like managing CloudFormation templates or trying to get divs to nest correctly in a WebFlow one-pager.

If your startup doesn't have the in-house knowledge/intelligence to be able to run a stack like the OP's, you might ask yourself how you plan to create a successful software company without any in-house software competency.
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Are you claiming they have no validity at all? Like if you built 2 teams: one team with candidates that all got 0% on the test and another team with candidates that all got 100%, you'd expect no difference at all in their real-world performance on a difficult problem?

If you're claiming something weaker than that, can you state it more precisely?
This is ridiculous - the most promising engineers are not always the best people managers.
From the second line in the README:

> Warning: This setup doesn't provide high level of security or any high availability. You have to hire some skilled devops engineer (like me)) for close this gap after getting first round or sales.

And this is exactly why managed SaaS is popular. Pulling a repo of a popular open source project and deploying it to your server seems trivial, and you wonder why there are idiots out there paying through their nose for subscriptions. Then you realize your service has to be up 100% of the time, has to scale to more than a handful of users, you have to perform regular backups (and ensure they actually work), all user access has to be audited, you have to offer IT support to all your employees. Very soon your full time job at the company isn't building products for customers but managing an internal chat server. And then the couple hundred bucks a month other companies pay to Slack and Google start to make sense.
Excel has the built in MMULT function, but I’m not aware of any built-in support for eigenvalues or eigenvectors. Many people have written such functions though.

That said, I would be surprised if Excel spreadsheets were implemented as matrices. Since you can update one cell and have it automatically update any computation that uses that cell, I would expect spreadsheets to be implemented with some sort of dependency graph so it’s easy to traverse and update the values that need to be changed. (This could be implemented as an adjacency matrix, but I haven’t seen that representation used before for programming language dataflow analysis.)
Not disagreeing but this assumes Silicon Valley budgets for startups. The story may be different if you're not funded yet and in discovery mode or if you're bootstrapping.
> The "derivative operator" notion that the GP is describing was hugely important for me in intuiting what linalg could do.

Do you have a link someone could read more about this ?
Then you'd really be disturbed by almost every home fireplace that's framed in with flammable wooden studs. Not to mention kitchen stoves that are surrounded by wooden cabinets.

Build a good firebox and it doesn't matter what surrounds the fireplace.
Seems to be a recurring issue
I think we claimed it was an upgrade because it saved wear and tear on her rods and cones.
I have some serious doubts about the conclusions of this paper - if think studies like this are extremely dangerous to the field in general.
Two years on, are we still having this tedious argument?
The trajectory of progress gives evidence that it is in fact possible and likely. Any venture into the unknown could be unsuccessful but if you see progress you can start to make estimates.

And yes most of the “robots will kill us” comes from people who aren’t building the algorithms. This could be biased in people not thinking their work is harmful but is most likely that once you see how the sausage is made you are less worried about it.
>...and just killing people even easier. What's your point?

That a hedge needs to be robust against the threat you're using it to hedge. Land ownership becomes the most precarious during exactly the times you're using it as a hedge for, which is a bad idea. Times of crisis are exactly when land seizure is the most likely and ease of protecting and securing it is the highest.

>But, most importantly, I can enjoy land independent of its hedging value.

Not in a crisis, when (in addition to the above) governments have the least resources available for protecting your land from randos.

I'm imagining you with a grain silo during a famine, thinking "no biggie, of course the government will protect me against theft of this super valuable food".

>This is like asking why I would rule out a humanoid robot for vacuuming my floors. Because I already have an existing solution that is easier, safer, and simpler.

I'm sorry, do people generally have a hard time understanding the concept of "a better alternative exists" that you need an analogy to explain it? I don't know what the purpose of that analogy was other than to intimidate others from asking honest questions about your argument.

>Social connections and hard skills are an indisputably better asset to have in "fuck this I'm leaving the country" situations. And, again, having friends & family all over the place is its own reward. As is cultivating useful skills.

Right, I got that part. Do you remember the rest of your post, where you said:

>But that's a very difficult set of things to cultivate for most people.

So what is it? You said it's difficult. Why is it hard to understand, then, why I would suggest crypto satisfies the desiderata here? I guess it must have something to do with me thinking that you should use a humanoid robot to vacuum your floors.

So yes, you may have already accomplished the difficult thing. But before you moved the goalposts, you seemed to be concerned with the average person. And now that you've moved the goalposts, you can't help but brag about what a jet setter you are.

>...also, all of this is independent of the fact that crypto really isn't even a good hedge for these sorts of long-tail risks in the context of the USA.

I agree you should have started with this, as a better argument than "holding physical banknotes in another country is easier than holding stablecoins".
Wonder how much the lack of pirating or using a friends out of date version prevents ubiquity.
Trade of this century: Short US ("Bottled Freedom-Lite"), Short China ("We Peg Our Markets To Bottled Freedom-Lite's")

The trick is to structure it to not be long the USD or CNH/CNY for any of the gains.
StarSpace: General neural model for efficient learning of entity embeddings
isnt it obvious that the person believes that they ought to be able to trade that information? rational or irrational, this looks like a fight more than a theft
Access lacks, IMO, better internal programming and more exposure to the fact that you can use pretty much any database you can access (pun intended) with ODBC or ADO.

Make it easily deliverable over network, and you have killer product.
These folks are absolutely killing it. Can't wait to try this out.
I very much like the idea of automagic edge compute but would like to see the analytics. I am skeptical of the edgey claims, even for cloudflare. Where are the nodes? How do they each tend to respond? I want a map with every node being lit up in real time. I want to be able to test nodes by location etc.
But it doesn't, it reflects your training in solving DS and Algo problems from undergrad CS curriculum.

I think its almost universally agreed at this point that Algo interviews don't have anything to do with day to day work and don't demonstrate development ability.
"just don't get phished"
I had some serious respiration issues when I was an infant and the masks give me a constant state of panic due to the association in particular with the humid air (I can't tolerate saunas too). At the time I was basically choking to death several times and needed a steam machine to keep my airways open. This association is too deep to ignore.

For this reason I really hate the masks and in particular the "broad brush" nature of the regulations here. There is just absolutely no way to get an exception. I've lost a lot of trust in society over the past years. I know it's an edge case but my work, public health agencies etc, none of them really give a damn.

For example at the office I've proposed to do a self-test every day I go in, that's a small deal for me. Protection is not perfect (they can give false negatives) but neither are masks. But they just don't care (even though I had to do a mandatory training praising their "commitment to mental health"). They told me straight out they don't care whether I wear a mask or not but they don't want to set a bad example. It's all politics and virtue signalling. This is what I mean by 'health theatre'.
IMO, just price economics remains the default intuition for most humans. “The price is what you can sell it for” is too nihilistic for most people to accept.
The data and charts in the article look pretty nice!

One of the things I learned from my years in research/academia is that Design Of Experiments in itself is a pretty complicated task. Most experiments/studies are invalidated due to a huge amount of confounding factors and correlations that are not factored in for the experiments.

A cursory visit to r/science comments would show a lot of people who do science for a living providing valid criticism to published peer reviewed scientific studies due to wrong Design of Experiments procedures.

Having lived all this first hand makes me EXTREMELY resistant to take seriously the data, analysis and conclusions of the linked article.

Other than that, the effort is appreciated and I like the ideas behind interviewing.io.
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No, very much an up round.
Honey bees are the easiest to manage really. Some other bees are raised for pollination, but honey bees have a long history of management and semi-domestication. We already know how to raise and manage big colonies for migratory pollination.
C is still C without libc and python is still python even if you can't "import os, sys" so why does lack of the STL matter to C++ ? Symbian used a standard C++ compiler and mandated a certain style of programming because C++ with STL and exceptions wasn't actually safe on small machines with limited memory. No exceptions were allowed in the kernel IIRC and new had to return an error code rather than throw an exception because handling an out of memory exception required....spare memory.
It’s a pig for large spreadsheets on MacOS on either CPU arch.
Well humans can explain critical aspect of what they doing while teaching other humans, furthermore they can improve explaining while teaching to be more effective in real time in current context, such as using analogies, stories, etc.
I look at that the other way round: the average basic computer skill levels are insufferably low.
http://www.technoblogy.com/show?TV4
Is it possible that this is a PR puff piece?

I think you could argue that this guy gives us this long (and somewhat implausible) story in order to:

a/ support the line of business he is in and

b/ to justify all the privacy intrusions and obstructions that banks are undertaking
Paywalls, donations, selling a service, kickstarters, have something physical to sell, etc..
> the ever expanding number of apps/games build for MacOS over the last decade

I was under impression that the number was shrinking after Mojave cut support for 32-bit apps/libraries, since many developers never bothered to update their apps and games to 64-bit, much less native ARM.
Carrying only a pre selection of books can be extremely tricky, unless you find a particular niche that’s in demand. That could be easier to do in big cities, but the problem there is that the costs are higher, which pressures the amount of monthly sales to pay rent, etc.

For experience running a comic book shop, I was selling a lot of stuff that I wasn’t particularly interested, but my customers liked. Now, it’s true that I had to close it after two years, but the interesting part is that it was really difficult to foresee what would be the best selling articles beforehand…

Of course, alongside, I was selling a lot of stuff that quite interested me. But I had to work on with the business hat on, more than with the fan hat on, if that makes sense
Like, “a license to trip” kind of thing? Love it.
I've only read this one, but did in a spirit of "happy to be there." I did get a bit of a whiff of "drank deeply of the cool-aid" vibe, however. For a blog meant primarily to be read by your team/pr-vehicle it might make sense.
Continuing that example -- in Go you end up with v1.0.1 of X by default even if v1.0.2 is the latest version of X.

That is a difference with many other package managers that can default to using the latest v1.0.2 of X (even if v1.0.2 was just published) when doing something like installing a command line tool. That default behavior is part of how people installing the 'aws-sdk' tool on a Saturday started immediately experiencing bad behavior due to the deliberate 'colors' npm package sabotage that happened that same Saturday.

In any event, it's certainly reasonable to debate pros and cons of different approaches. I'm mainly trying to clarify the actual behavior & differences.
This is the first I've heard of the "Deep Diver" role. How common is this at companies of varying sizes?
Egypt gets most of its food aid from Saudi. Saudi is entirely reliant on wheat imports and tried to grow wheat in the desert to no avail.

In the past decade, Egypt has been reliant from Saudi, UAE and Kuwait. This has always been so.
I did maybe 5-10 hours of preparation for my current job's interview and most of my colleagues didn't grind either. I'm skeptical of this idea that the only people who work at FAANG are Leetcode machines that have sacrificed their lives to grind questions.
Other alternatives:

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So what could go wrong is lack of permission. Can you try doing "chmod 666 /dev/hidraw*" on root on trying again?
It's a few transparent screens placed near each other. There is no effective Z axis
because the pixels aren't anywhere near each other compared to X and Y. The "demos" reflect that, showing 2D images. The video is almost entirely fluff.
By using cached NTFS metadata instead of actually querying the allocation tables I presume?
Hi! Author here. I think you raise some great points! I'll address them each:

-- I am a professional AI practitioner. I work in the field of medical deep learning and love the field. I am strongly considering starting a few experimental forays into some of the concepts I mentioned in my post as side projects, especially self-modifying model architectures.

-- Yes, you're totally right! I am making the fundamental assumption that it is possible. My reasoning is based on my belief that human behavior is simply a function of the many sensory and environmental inputs we experience. Since neural networks can approximate any function, I believe they can approximate general human behavior.

-- This is fair. The topic of the singularity is often used for traffic/fame (I mean, I'm guilty of this myself with this very post, though I hope I still managed to spark some productive discourse) and so there are always conflicts of interest to take into account. I can't name any examples off the top of my head that perfectly fit your criteria, but depending on how much you trust him, Elon Musk seems to be genuinely concerned about the potential for a malevolent singularity.

Thank you so much for your comment! I really appreciate your feedback. Have a wonderful day.
Second this, having the peace of mind that my task manager, among other things, are backed up and someone else's problem is priceless. I think having a list of saas's that are startup friendly would be nice. For example, free for up to 3 members. That way when the start up wins the saas wins as well. Anyone know if a list like that exists?
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Yes I did... Revell's Visible V8 Engine model kit is very well known among a special group of nerds: Those who build their own replicas of props from the original Star Wars movies. (I am one of those nerds ...)

Parts in the kit had been used as "greeblies", glued onto lots of different props in The Empire Strikes Back and The Return of the Jedi.
This includes droids, helmets, rank badges and other applications on clothing, and "blasters" (guns): most popularly, the pistols used by the popular characters Han Solo, Luke Skywalker and Boba Fett.

Here's a list of parts and what they were used for, but I think it is far from complete: <http://partsofsw.com/v8parts.htm>

Not only are original model kit parts used, but prop replica enthusiasts also trade casts of them.
The Big Data Game – Firebolt
you've got caller and callee flipped
If you're up for an (at least to me) fascinating rabbit hole of technological history in audio form, you might enjoy this narrated audio tour of analog phone switches:

https://www.evan-doorbell.com/production/group1.htm
Appreciated. FYI Browsing articles this backs you up stongly, from https://erowid.org/library/books_online/pihkal/pihkal003.sht...

"EXTENSIONS AND COMMENTARY: This specific compound is probably the first sulfur-containing phenethylamine to have been evaluated as a potentially active CNS stimulant or psychedelic. It was a complete, total, absolute unknown. The first trials were made at the sub-microgram level, specifically at 0.25 micrograms, at 11:30 AM on September 3, 1975. Part of this extreme precaution was due to the uniqueness of a new heteroatom in a phenethylamine system. But part was due to the strange manic excitement that occurred at the time of the isolation and characterizing of the final product in the laboratory. Although it was certainly all placebo response, I was jumpy and unable to stay in the lab for more than a few minutes at a time. Maybe dust in the air? Maybe some skin contact with the free base? Now, I know there was nothing, but the possibility of extraordinary potency was real, and I did indeed wash everything down anyway. In fact, it took a total of 18 trials to work the experimental dosage up to as much as a single milligram. In retrospect, overly cautious. But retrospection, as they say, is cheap."

starting at 1/4 microgram (that's 250 nanograms!), took 18 steps up to a milligram. I approve. And thanks BTW.
It's not Star Wars; you don't have to work so hard to cram all the different characters together into one single plotline like this.
I mean, if you think secondhand tobacco smoke is bad, what basis is there to think that secondhand cannabis smoke is OK?

For that matter, what basis is there to think that firsthand cannabis smoking does not have similar long-term health consequences as tobacco smoking? The only obvious reason I can think of is that most people don't smoke cannabis all day, every day as many cigarette smokers do.
Add a "summary" section at the top summarizing 3-5 key accomplishments in your career quantifying them as much as possible. If you don't capture the readers attention with that, doesn't matter how many pages you have. That's your superbowl ad.
It’s a bit difficult to monetize all the data you get from Instagram if you don’t have an Instagram account. And Instagram will happily mess you up by requiring phone number confirmation, and by banning IP addresses or phone numbers.
AGI is a concept that people throw around without defining. Human intelligence is not general, it's highly specialized. So if AGI is not human-level intelligence, what is it? https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1204013978210320384?s=20&t...
That is not the case as this is messages sent TO protonmail. It may be related anti-whatever measures, but is not typical anti-spam.
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Okay yeah totally, that makes sense. We also have stopped seeing huge gains in scaling beyond GPT3 sized models which would indicate we have hit some maximum there. Although we thought we had hit a maximum with deep learning before the transformer came around so it could be misleading.

Distributing the computation to many models like what Google did with GLaM could very well be the future of AGI. Economies of models rather than one big model.
How does that compare to, for instance, the amount of silica-based sand and grit eaten every week?

More or less in quantity? More or less in effects? I haven't really seen any clear description of what microplastics _do_ to people. I could certainly believe it's harmful, but I could also believe it's a bit of a panic.
absolutely shocking and mindblowing that inhaling smoke is bad
Or better yet, just don't answer incoming calls that you're not expecting