skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah he didn't elaborate on this in the interview, which I would have liked.

I should amend my comment to say that "6 or so breakthroughs" sounds a lot more plausible to me than "1 breakthrough" or "just scaling", which you will see some people advocate, including in this thread. That's what I meant.

I believe the latter is fundamentally mistaken and those people simply don't understand what they don't understand (intelligence). The views of Gary Marcus and Steven Pinker are closer to my own -- they have actually studied human cognition and are not just hackers and uninformed philosophers pontificating.

Jeff Hawkins is another AI person from an unconventional background, and I respect him because he puts his money where his mouth is and has been funding his own research since early 2000's. I read his first book in 2006, and the most recent one a couple years ago.

But I feel Jeff Hawkins has had the "one breakthrough" feeling for 10-15 years now. TBH I am not sure if they have even made what qualifies as one breakthrough in the last 10-15 years, and I don't mean that to be insulting, since it's obviously extremely difficult and beyond 99.99% of us, including me.

I am not sure that even deep learning counts as a breakthrough. We will only know in retrospect. Based on Moravec's paradox, my opinion is there's a good chance that deep learning won't play any role in AGI, if and when it arrives. Some other mechanism could obviate the technique.

So to me "6 or so breakthroughs" simply sounds more realistic than the current AI zeitgeist. But nobody really knows.
Thanks, this is fantastic. I see this and raise you "Seattle Mystic Alfred M. Hubbard: Inventor, Bootlegger and Psychedelic Pioneer" by Brad Holden

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/57536256-seattle-myst...

Alfred M. Hubbard had an influence on Silicon Valley that is not well known.

From my copy of the book, page 73: "Meanwhile, as Hubbard crisscrossed the globe, he began hearing murmurs about a group of engineers and scientists in San Francisco who were expressing a strong interest in experiencing one of his guided trips [LSD]. They were located in a stretch of land that would eventually become known as Silicon Valley, and being a fellow inventor himself, the good Captain had every intention of paying them a visit"
This is an Econ 110 answer to an Econ 473 problem.
I think Carmack would get funding whatever he's doing. Guy's got a track record.
> There should be some criteria

Aren't ratings and reviews good enough?
Sure, most everything does.

The question is if it hits that wall before or after human-level (and/or dangerous) capabilities.
Genuinely: you don't see the difference between Sam and Mark Cuban?
Nah, it's just my way of saying this is a fancy way of taking a guess
Because we still have lawmakers who have their secretaries print out their emails and think the internet is a series of tubes.
But with no ads, apple doesn't make money :'(
Named after Commander Keen of course
Yes it was but the thing is that the problem to solve then got harder.

Think about video streaming, 3d acceleration, sound input and output.

Then whereas you previously had only a handful of vendors to coerce into agreement, now you have a multitude of individuals that are going to complain for every change.
Where’s AGI defined? I’ve only seen it used in the context of “can pass the Turing test”
Fuck them! Had to kill and restart my browser.
Squoosh with cropping sounds useful to me.
What do you think those hundreds of millions of dollars changed?
Tell HN: We need an open database that tracks Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, TPMS IDs
... to bring awareness
But will I finally be able to take a picture that is able to capture the dark spots on a full moon? I'm not holding my breath
Giving nation-states control over how Apple runs their business in their countries based on what a tiny sliver of the most technically-adept users wants will somehow engender freedom. Is that the pitch?
hybrid photonic AI chips handling some of the workload> working in photonics, read/reviewed papers about that and personly feel it's unlikely to happen in the next 5 years. The low density of integration, no usable nonlinearity beyond your photodetector and prohibitivly power inefficient conversion between analog(photonics) and digital make them hard to beat your Nvidia card.
They'll build the AGI, and right when they're ready to boot it up, the Earth will be destroyed by a Vogon Construction Fleet to make way for a hyperspace bypass.
Ask HN: Do people treat you differently based on your location?
The prevailing narrative over the past couple of years is that the tech industry is now truly global. It doesn't matter where you live - you can start a company, get funding, or get job offers whether you live in SF, NYC, Taipei, Rio de Janeiro, or wherever.

Is there any real evidence that this is approaching reality, or is it mostly run-of-the-mill Twitter nonsense? Has anyone noticed an objective difference in how potential employees, investors, employers or colleagues treat or react to you / your company based on where you're physically located these days?
While I agree that web apps would be a better platform for the majority of this information… simplicity is not the way to express it.

I’d love to see some memes of classic mac apps and this email stuck to it.
Not sure he was right about the "putting down his own cat because it was annoying" thing.
I had this happen. What they want to see is things that really use the phones features or something that makes it mobile

This frustrated me at first but then i did some thinking and came up with some ideas.

I got mine over the line by having a favorites list that uses core data and the ability to sent notification reminders.

Both are using core aspects of iPhone so more likely to be considered unique enough for App Store.
Knowing Apple it's probably in the works already and that's the reason the app was rejected.
He's not stll there
There is a difference: a webpage is not a program, the program is the browser. The browser is a program to display documents, just like a text editor can display text, a PDF viewer can display a PDF or a video player can play a video.

The problem is that who make websites, instead of making documents, maybe built dynamically by the server and with some interactive elements in it, doesn't sent you a document but instead sends you an application that builds the document into the browser, basically turning an application that simply displays you document into a virtual machine that runs an entire graphical environment.

The fact is that most of the websites to function doesn't need a line of JavaScript, and still are downloading Mb of libraries to do what?
This is a click-bait article. It is Accenture laying off people, not Meta.
That's a bummer.
my first thought also. you might be debt free but you no longer own the things needed for survival (assuming food/work/etc are drive distance).
Exactly. Create the product, prove the value, then license properly.
And then someone gives it 4x the compute...
This is so specific of a situation idk how anyone can take your response seriously
No way, we should expect 14k video out of this! /s

There are some other comments here already explaining that without better optics or a larger sensor, you really won't see much improvement past a few tens of MP.
What really killed it was an awful implementation. It did not simply push things into browser’s cache. Instead, pushed items were held in some kind of temporary purgatory, and would be discarded if browser didn’t immediately have a need to request the pushed resource.
At first I thought, "No, that's gotta be at least 25." Then I remembered what universe I'm in: https://ourcommunitynow.com/film/sinbads-shazaam-the-strange...
200-megapixel camera will be equipped with a phone.
Actually, I mentioned Obama in my first two posts... What is related is that you left out Trump when referencing Obama and Warren. Trump signed the law for this. This is the truth, regardless of anything else Trump may have done or said.
https://bugguide.net/
> 4 iterations later

AppKit (NextStep) has been iterated on for over 30 years now.

Apple's development strategy is like that of old school Microsoft. They make a choice like Win32 and just keep on iterating on it over the long haul. Four years of SwiftUI would still be described as very early days.

Nothing like the development strategy of the week you see Google and the Microsoft of the past decade push as the one true future then abandon almost immediately.
Oh, I understand the intention.
Propaganda put out by a conservative hyper-capitalist publication where they point out an outlier to scare people
The Tornado Cash Crackdown Is an Attack on Speech and Privacy
How do you define AGI? How will we know that we achieved it?
> ? What does 'replication' and 'urge' have to do with anything?

Replication can lead to a positive feedback loop. My point was, that this could accelerate the 'intelligence score' beyond human inventiveness.

Depending on how intelligent the system actually is initially, what it wants to do, may become more important, than what it is told to do.

> And FYI we can already write software that can 'replicate' and has the 'urge' to do so very trivially.
Thanks. Yes we can. But could any such software be called intelligent, so that replicating and improving recursively would lead to an increasing 'intelligence'?
Spanning tree protocol will prevent broadcast/arp storms by preventing loops
Relax. Nobody is talking about sending you to jail.

What's at issue is whether you have the right to force Apple to carry any apps you want, in their App Store. And you don't. It's really that simple.
They’re not vague, they’re documented and substantial.
How are they going to justify the great expansion of the TSA otherwise? Just another branch of the police state.

The terrorists won. They got the US Gov. spending Trillions.
I remember being surprised that watching a video on my remote desktop worked as well as it did, over 100Mb LAN, circa 2010.
I think large chunk of it is from dynamic linker, rather than glibc. At least that appear to be the case according to "file a.out". Adding "-static" option seems to prevent that:

$ gcc -Wall -s -nostdlib tiny.o; wc -c a.out
12780 a.out

$ gcc -Wall -s -nostdlib tiny.o -static
$ wc -c a.out
4304 a.out

Bulk of what remains is page-size alignment. Linux works with 4KB pages:

$ getconf PAGESIZE
4096

...so it makes sense that gcc (ld, really) aligns to that. But we can dial it down:

$ gcc -Wall -s -nostdlib tiny.o -static \
-Wl,-zmax-page-size=64; wc -c a.out
400 a.out

...and a bit more could be shaven by dropping Build ID:

$ strip -R .note.gnu.build-id a.out; wc -c a.out
344 a.out

This wonderful piece of software: https://github.com/aunali1/super-strip seem to find more things to remove, although not sure what would be that:

$ sstrip a.out; wc -c a.out
220 a.out

Of course, this is not quite "golfed", and I too, would love to see OP's article updated to x86_64 and current crop of gcc/binutils.
After the worst possible experience with a Google Pixel 3a and then a Mi11, I'm not really sure about staying on Android. Too many bugs, too many errors...

My Mi11 proximity sensor doesn't work and during most of my calls I mute myself with my face...

How on earth can you forget about the most important feature in a phone: calling other people.

Why should be important to have the latest snapdragon CPU if it takes 4 seconds to open the camera app?
Was this with the debugger attached? Did you do any further profiling in instruments on a release scheme to determine the cause of the cpu usage? You should be able to narrow it down to the specific sys calls.
Nvidia to Share New Details on Grace CPU, Hopper GPU, NVLink Switch, Jetson Orin
past breakthrough doesn't guarantee future breakthroughs.
Ultimately, though, even the script-free HTML pages that purists generally like and do not see as a problem do all of these things just as much. The point is that people have a lot of feelings about how simple, small and self-contained different software is, but realistically if you're not on a Commodore 64 they're all nightmarishly complicated. It only feels otherwise because encapsulation can be effective.
High-speed rail board completes environmental clearance in northern California
... who do you work for
It'll probably look pretty unsettling[1]

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/4/10/17218758/l...
I'm sure you think you're being very clever, but actually, you're not.

It's really quite clear here whether there was due process. Which is why a judge already ruled. Probably took about five seconds to figure this case out.
Assuming it does not get stuck at some local maximum.
/System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/Screen\ Sharing.app
It's easier with polynomials than with numbers, though.
Not OP, but I personally had a Samsung tablet before which made me want to never have any Samsung Android device again.

Since then it's been Motorola phones all the way (essentially unmodified Android OS), affordable, no bloatware etc.

edit: grammar
I don’t think many people actually care about the number as much as Samsung likes to think they do.

I am a tech nerd commenting on hacker news. I have an iPhone 12 Pro and I really don’t know how many pixels my camera has. 12?
Maybe they have some custom protocol extensions that only work between mac os and mac os?
I second the "always DNS until proven otherwise" sentiment, but in my case it's often self-inflicted in my obsessive desire to force all devices on my network to route their DNS requests through my PiHole.

It has caused some significant weirdness, and I've had to relax the rules just to get certain things to work at all.
Mechanistically if they made the flow work better and did triage of the BEEEEP people off to one side of the main path we'd be less affected.

Shoes off is security pantomime. Designing processes not to need to do this is not outside human capability. Remember they have now upgraded xrays to do tomography and show 3d so we don't have to unpack bags as much.

China actually does some of this better: at Beijing airport I was co tested by the explosives wipedown in a cohort of around 30. Since the test is almost never positive, the vast majority of passengers get out in semi constant time, and other parts of the processing cycle can work in pulsed units of 20-30 people. You don't wind up feeling objectified when everyone is swiped with the magic wand.

Deliberately designing a 2+ class system for a government imposed process is pretty weird when you think about it. It's a giant anti-democratic signal who really counts.

Schiphol went with much more robotic tray processes as did Heathrow 4. I think both do better than LAX. Even just a basic production flow process around tray return and presentation to the queue can improve things.

Staffing is the main problem. They have zero to no motive to become part of an efficient cycle. Passive aggressive wins over the sheep and goats like me, is more valuable.

As a frequent flyer over the last 20 years I can say the xray scene in "up in the air" was perfect.
cannot agree more. "Hell will freeze over before I click that link, but I'm interested in the discussion" was my first thought.
Chrome Web Store has the opposite view: your extension can get rejected if it has more than one purpose.

Our extension got taken down that replaced all in-page ads with ads from our network while paying the user in a certain Ethereum token for every ad impression they see. The ostensible rejection reason being that it both replaced ads & served as a crypto wallet.
What do you use as a camera?
Curious to hear more about this was the background a 3D scene or just a flat plane? If you have the project laying around curious to try it
Are you suggesting that all reality sensory input is equally relevant?
Keep in mind that the HTTP/2 standardization process really started from SPDY [1]. Before HTTP/2 the standard hadn't changed significantly in _decades_ due to lack of industry consensus and actual data.

Google then used its unique position as a) massive web server and b) massive web browser to perform real-world protocol experiments that _nobody_ else could possibly do. SPDY came out of that (really cool!) work, and had some great benefits, and the working group started with the spec and worked to evolve it.

The server-push originally comes from SPDY, and as I recall it seemed an obviously useful optimization at the time. It's a bit ironic that the same company that introduced it is now saying "we never really found a use for it".

Disclaimer: I was employed by Google and on the HTTP/2 working group at the time.

1: https://www.chromium.org/spdy/
At least in the business world, I think the value of getting ideas out is vastly overrated. Someone else has to choose among a flood of ideas, which one is worth pursuing. And they may have had the same idea themselves but kept it to themselves.

I'm a bit adamant about this (and willing to eat the downvotes -- fair is fair). Every individual contributor (IC) has experienced credit for something they've worked on being given to a colleague or manager who comes in at the last minute and claims to have blurted out an idea at a meeting.

I've gotten plenty of credit for ideas -- 20+ patents. What I'm proud of is the part of a patent called "reduction to practice," where you figure out the details that prove an idea to be workable, and typically result in additional claims. I've informally adopted a standard that an "idea" has the same requirements as a patent, specifically a study of background information and an explanation of how something can be reduced to practice. I'm super generous with credit, especially towards my junior colleagues.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. And as a musician, I got over the difference between "doing" something, and making money, long ago.
Especially when they decided to deliberately break the web app to get you on the app.
Does making AGI work for you count as slavery? Obviously no pay, just hosting hardware and providing electricity 24/7.
Also relies on quirks and tricks of human sight and cognition to make sense!
> do you use a lot of windows?

I do, yeah. Though I stopped using windows for work and just use it daily for gaming or just general reading/browsing/minor task machine. Occasionally I would write a bit of code on it, maybe a small python script or some in-browser debugging, but that's about it. For work, audio/music recording related stuff, coding side projects, and all other sort of personal usage, it is macOS. I also use linux for work quite a lot, but usually from an ssh terminal on a mac machine.

If I had to put numbers on it, it would be around 60/40 mac/windows split on weekdays, and around 30/70 mac/windows on the weekend. Heavily averaged out, because there are definitely days and even streaks of days when i exclusively use only one OS or the other.

Also, do you mind elaborating a bit on what you meant by the swiping story?

On a personal tangentially related note though, I also like a lot how the swipe gestures are shared between macOS and their touch-based devices' gestures. That's how i accidentally ended up discovering a few nice and useful macOS ones. Once i realized that three-finger gestures on a mac trackpad act as an equivalent of single-finger gestures on iPhones, the first thing i tried was a three-finger swipe left and right. And yup, it was virtual desktop switching. Then i tried a three-finger swipe from the bottom, and it zoomed out and brought up all open windows on screen at the same time, and then returned back to what it was before when swiped back down. Not gonna lie, it felt a bit mindblowing how nicely designed and thought through it felt.
This is what keeps me on Windows. If there would be Linux RDP client with these capabilities I would switch to Fedora or something. But remote desktop performance on Windows with RDP vs. anything on Linux is not even comparable.
> Apple mounts a folded camera on the iPhone 15

Not sure where these guys are getting their "facts" from but I'd take this article with a wheelbarrow of salt
Biology is not necessarily the only path to intelligence. Modern ML has diverged very far from biomimetic approaches at this point.

The brain does have more "parameters" than ML models but this applies just as much to humans as it does to animals that we don't consider particularly intelligent.
I guess if you run out things to innovate on, you start some arbitrary numbers race
This sucks as a developer and I sympathize.

But, I absolutely hate when I have to download an app for something that could have been a website.
Maybe this is a controversial opinion but I think I agree with Apple here.

The Google and Microsoft stores are absolutely full of completely useless featureless apps, many of which exist only to trick you into thinking that it is something else.

My general mental rule is "could this app be a website"? And in this case it absolutely could be.
They do (and I said so) - but I couldn't think of an easy way to write that in a post here.
The PowerPoint was essentially in a tunnel so the background was a tunnel wall which was kinda space ship themed. There was a visible floor though. It gave the slides a sort of sense of presence. I also moved a character through the tunnel to move the camera.
I got excited initially when I thought this was something that would work for day-trips. I recently moved to NYC and sold my Tesla, so the idea of being able to borrow a Tesla for two or three days to get out of the city is definitely something I'd pay $400-500 dollars for if it meant not having to worry about insurance and where to park it when I'm done.
At the same time?
I'm not sure VNC is the really the default on Linux, or that there even is a "default" solution.

On local networks I've had good luck tunneling X, and it's even worked well running lightweight programs remote over a VPN in a pinch.

For "real" remote connections through the internet, x2go has been pretty good. At a previous job I used Remmina (an RDP client) to connect to Windows machines, and X2Go for Linux machines, and they felt about the same to me.

It really depends far more on network speed than anything else.
I think there is a lot of potential for transformers in RL. And I do think that AGI is mostly a matter of scale. But I do not agree at all that AGI is just transformers + RL.
I don’t think we have a concrete idea at all, and I don’t agree at all that 10 years ago people thought we had no path forward. 10 years ago is exactly AlexNet, aka the birth of deep learning.
Ask your manager for advice and/or assistance.

This is a) what they're there for, and b) someone who will have more insight than random people on HN into the specific circumstances/company culture/politics/etc.
If AGI can be created that has less scope that what is considered "human" then you might be right. But AGI is a fuzzy term, and it really depends on what they make. Some people may not agree that it's an AGI if it doesn't have creativity or a will or emotions or whatever.
Numbers - s means plural. No we don't - it's all about function and facility.

Please describe your iPhone (12 Pro) camera's vital statistics, so we can make a useful comparison.
That seems like an extremely far fetched scenario to be honest. The comment I replied to sounds like the threat is immediate and real - your scenario does not sound like it.

>>How would you "switch off" an AGI running on Ethereum?

And where would the AGI get the funds to keep running itself on Ethereum?

>> Especially when some subset of people will cry murder because the AGI seems like it might be sentient?

Why is this a problem? People will and do cry murder over anything and everything. Unless there is going to be a lot of them(and there won't) - it's not an issue.
How do we know for sure, though? You can't firewall off this application and through the magic of service workers the app can even upload your pictures if you disconnect from the internet first and go back online later.