skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an AI researcher myself I can definitely see why people used to have these sentiments, but I also have to point out how the big papers of the last ~12 months or so have changed the landscape. Especially multi-modal models like Gato. To my surprise, a lot of people (even inside the community) still tend to put human intelligence on some sort of pedestal, but I believe once a system (or host of systems) achieves a sufficient level of multi-modality, these same people will no longer be able to tell human and machine intelligence apart - and in the end that is the only thing that counts, since we lack a rigorous definition of "understanding" or consciousness as a whole. Transformers are certainly going to become even more general purpose in the future and I'm sure we haven't even seen close to what's possible with RL. Regarding the AGI timescale, I'm a bit more bullish. Not Elon-type "possible end-all singularity in 5 years" but more Carmack-like "learning disabled toddler running on 10k+ GPUs by the end of the decade." Whether RL+transformers will be able to go all the way there is impossible to tell right now, but if I was starting an AGI company today that's definitely the path I would pursue.
There's absolutely no reason why backing up would need to be manual if you utilized a third-party cloud storage API. Perfect example: you can sync Broken Sword 2 save files between platforms via Dropbox, automatically, even on iOS. If it can happen for a game, why not a bookmarks system? But to be honest, why not just sync via a browser extension? Plenty of browser extensions already use Mozilla/Firefox or Google accounts to sync their storage.

I live in the UK, I've got a lot more to be angry about than an HN comment, and if I'm in pain, it's because I've got Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

FYI, blockchain is a terrible idea for bookmarks because it is immutable. If someone does figure out decrypting it, that's a lot of potentially very compromising information in the public domain, especially on bookmarks that include your username and additional info in their title or description.
Imagine trying to debug this on an iPad. /s
Ask HN: Are you getting recommended YouTube videos with low view counts?
I've started noticing a lot more YouTube videos recommended on the sidebar with very low view counts. Some have only a dozen views. These are being recommended while I watch popular generic videos, nothing niche. Has anyone else noticed this? I'm wondering if YouTube is changing their recommendations algorithm to rival the way TikTok propels new creators/videos.
>after being told it's "the future" in unequivocal terms

Who told you this? :D

SwiftUI is mostly useful for apps that show a bunch of nested lists. Basically websites, but natively. It's Apple's answer to React Native or something, and it looks cool in demos with the live preview and whatnot. But serious apps like Pages, FCP, Finder, Calendar, etc. will never be written with SwiftUI. The paradigm is just too wasteful for these kinds of interactive apps.

Heck, large apps aren't even using Swift! It's just too inefficient at their scale. And before you say it's due to legacy ObjC code - no, Facebook rewrote Messenger from scratch in ObjC(++) a few years ago. Swift is cute, but it lacks the maturity and stability of ObjC.
Nuance and understanding.
The "rise of right wing media" doesn't come up out of thin air, it appears because people don't feel connected to and valued by society.

The divide deepens when people are less and less involved together (in person) because you forget that the face on the screen is actually a human being.

Trump supporters will look at videos of Biden on YouTube or whatever, and wonder why everyone is turning a blind eye to Biden's obvious gaffs* when Trump got picked apart.

As an Australian who looks over with great interest and humour, the only way i can watch American politics is through individual YouTubers who make short highlight videos of headlines and Biden clips. I'm sure many people there are the same. And it does two things:

1. Paints everything in a bad light.

2. Shows news sites (pick your flavour) glossing over or turning a blind eye to it.

If you (as a country) are going to call every criticism, "hate speech" and "domestic terrorism" (my words) that is exactly what you get.

((It's like when you call a child "little monster" their whole life, you'll get a little monster as soon as they are able.))

* Biden and his administration seem to literally have dementia, armchair diagnosis comparing Biden and my late grandfather. I have no idea how he is fit for office
If Americans are racist, then couldn’t we easily have a situation where the actual free market value of a house is lower for a Black owner than a white/Japanese owner?

If the demand is lower (due to racism), but supply is similar, doesn’t that produce lower free market values?
So you haven't read it either? Let's argue about a book neither of us have read.

Hippies didn't "shape" the Internet, either. Rather, there was a general idea of openness which almost everyone shared, to some degree -- even the faculty and grad students and researchers who actually did build it. The telephone company people and the IBM'ers did not share it, and that's why their vision did not win out.
Apple is actually pretty good about PMTUD as a sender, at least iPhones (but I assume Macs too) will quickly fallback to sending shorter packets if they don't get an ack with a large packet at the beginning of a TCP connection. I'd guess they do it throughout the connection, but I only saw it because network was broken, pcaps from iPhone show working connection, pcaps from Android show broken connection.

It doesn't help that FreeBSD used to do MSS sensibly (thanks to a patch from Microsoft), and switched to doing it the way everyone else does. There's not a good reason to send your naive MSS on SYN+ACK if it's bigger than the received MSS, it's highly likely that the other end can't successfully send a packet larger than they can receive, but it's not unlikely that something in the middle mangles SYN to reflect the true MSS, but doesn't mangle SYN+ACK. I could rant all day.

You can also get very good results by reflecting the received RSS minus 8 (assumed PPPoE), 20 (assumed IPIP tunnel), or 28 (assumed PPPoE over IPIP tunnel).
Because they didn’t exist at the time that book was written. I took a Unix/c class as a comp sci elective (yes, you read that right). However this was 1988 so no Linux. We worked mostly on pc’s which was pretty progressive for the time and mainframes. We had a small mini computer (can’t remember from who.. dec? That doesn’t sound right..). Anyway, forked processes, no threads. In fact, I didn’t know what a thread was until the windows nt announcement in the early 90s. The irony is evident.
...and even if Mark's bot is dogshit, Musk will cheerfully sell embodied versions by the millions to replace workers, systematically handing over our industrial infrastructure first to an unrestrained capital class and then to the robots. I'm not even sure which will be worse.
I'd like to better understand the concept of "unimproved land value" vs. "improvements".

For example, let's say there's a neighborhood of people who are quite poor but charitable toward one another. So they build nice gardens accessible for free, little galleries, drinking fountains and so on. As a result, other people want to move in, land value in the community increases, and eventually the original inhabitants can't pay the Georgist tax anymore and lose the land. And of course none of them can take the improvements they've made and transplant them somewhere else, it's just a total loss. Their own charity and neighborliness spelled their doom, even though they made the area attractive in the first place. What gives?
Or Uber, Lyft, Spotify, Netflix, food delivery sites, basically any website (according to the GP)
I think it's fair to say that no one knows if AGI is even possible at this point, but RL+transformer is definitely the most promising approach imo.

10 years ago no one was talking about AGI, researchers didn't even call it "AI" due to its association with the previous AI winter. There were certainly advances in ML but I think if you asked anyone whether those approaches would lead to real AI it would be an unequivocal no.
Realistically speaking that's already the case today because there's already a recurring expense that you have to pay: property taxes.
> there have been several mission critical issues

First thought is that you and the senior engineers are not in agreement as to said criticality. Escalating things to the C suite should resolve that.
> Now I'm not going to spend a couple of hours watching a film that has a mediocre IMDB rating.

your loss

> For the AGI to actually accomplish something of real-world relevance, us humans have to agree.

Donald Trump managed to get control of the US nuclear arsenal
Yeah, but the latest edition of the K&R C book was 1988, predating C11 by a lot.
You are also looking for an 8hr/week gig? Hmmmmm... something is wrong. You should spend less. There is ZERO reason for a C++ developer to need a second job.
I appreciate that you feel you are solving a problem, but you are in fact solving a different problem than DTrace was designed to solve -- and what you perceive to be "terrible" aspects of D are in fact deliberate design decisions to abide by DTrace's safety constraint.[0]

[0] http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2005/07/19/dtrace-safety/
You say it sarcastically, but yes, I do hold that view. Our current norms are absurd.
This is exactly why I didn't get the Joule sous vide immersion circulator despite it being recommended by some big name sites when it first came out. Why would I get something for cooking that can't be used without an app on a phone?
Didn't a bunch of criminals buy a FBI trojan "secure" phone?

Well this dude's the opposite of that, but if opposite meant Russian FBI.
What about his bet on MegaTextures?
It's ~$636 per month with nothing down on a 7-year loan.

At the end of 7 years, you can expect the car to be worth more than $20k (obviously depends on usage).

That's $17k in present value.

That reduces you're real payment to ~$410/m.

This is way worse for cash-flow. Way worse short-term, and obviously worse long-term, too.

I'm not sure how companies like this can find customers.
Yes it is, even if you can't see it. How is that person to defend themselves now? Talk about lack of empathy.

I highly doubt folks will do this "incentive" if we were to throw out the charges given there is punishment for the tampering. And if so (slippery slope case happens!) we can reconsider. But otherwise it's all rampant slippery slope thinking and baseless paranoia. It's absolutely ridiculous.
Not knowing Apple’s approval process, is it possible to pull a “Ship of Theseus” on the App Store, like release a full-blown social network app and then gradually replace features until it functions as a simple camera app instead?
That sounds like you didn’t properly clip the shelves on (it takes a bit of force). In any case, that’s not how Ivars usually behave.
This is what some people call "the singularity" - once an intelligence can upgrade itself it can design better machines than we can, which can design better machines than they can... technology will leap ahead at a rate we won't be able to comprehend.
Depends on what you're doing. Last I checked a 1U cubesat cost around $50k to launch, but there also also says to get free or cheaper launches depending on the payload.

Speaking of the payload, that will greatly impact the build cost. I imagine you could put together the Cubesat equivalent of Sputnik for like $100, then another $200 or so for the FCC paperwork. If you want to send up interesting sensors, build something more durable/long lasting, have any sort of propulsion or decorating capabilities, etc the cost will start to approach or exceed what you're paying for the launch.
...The too technical part being self-inflicted by the requirement for yearly hundred bux and a working mastery of cryptography utils.
> it's pronounced the same as "psych"

It’s actually spelled “psych.” It’s a derivative of “to psych out.”
My favourite example of macro usage:

https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum
My Pinephone Pro is 0mp.

Yeah, the damned cameras don't even work.
And how many concurrent users did you have?
He doesn't seem to have purchased keen.ai yet, though it seems like it's still for sale. I just naturally went there to see the company info and saw the landing page saying it was available. If they want it, they better move quick. I see an arbitrage opportunity...

Also, several Keen Technologies domains already exists in various forms. They're probably going to get a lot of traffic today.
Threads can also be a language feature which make them something of a leaky abstraction. For example, you can totally implement cooperative threading (aka virtual threads) through continuations and continuations can be implemented using only functions.

You're also sort of wrong even with regards to C. While threading isn't really cross platform, threads also can't be implemented purely as a library, see the paper "Threads Cannot Be Implemented as Libraries". You need at least some support from the language in terms of controlling operation reordering.

K&R certainly could have at least shown how to simulate concurrency in C. I wish I would have known about continuation passing/event loops when I implemented a dumbed down TCP on Arduinos.
Love it, and not wrong. Isn't bytecode typically more performant than this approach?
Why is everyone so mad about this feature? Maybe I do not understand Server Push in http2, but isn't it useful to e.g. send a rendered picture to the client instead of the client polling the server every 5 ms until the image is ready? What about chat applications?
Isn't this just Berkson's paradox? Nobody would ever do anything that's harmful and not fun.
> probably due to neglect

Kinda yes kinda no? Mostly from X drawing commands being a shit way to represent modern UI's and toolkits. So everyone draws stuff on their own, since it's far more flexible and faster.

Same is true on windows. RDP is streaming video far more often than it steams drawing commands.

You could maybe build something that streams GPU commands, though. Use something like VirtIO-GPU + GFXSTREAM ( https://www.phoronix.com/news/VirtIO-Context-Type ) to stream to an entirely different computer instead of just to the VM host?
I think you wrote with more malign intent and used language to dismiss my comment. You're right: it IS an asinine comparison and said better by you, I might have acknowledged it. I've been assured by others I write ad hommy and I will take it on the chin, but I suggest you take that lesson too.

You made a put down. You didn't reflect on any other part of what I said, you used "trope" as a dismissive, contextually put-down phrase.

Historians in historiography debate the approach to the past. Framing the past in terms of present day issues is normal. Dreyfus echoed in French politics beyond the early 1900s and the path through Vichy, the pre Vichy antisemitic popular press, the popular front, postwar politics, right down to Le Pen is an example of there being no time contemporary politics in Europe is not heavily informed by the past.

What has happened in America in the press and in the polity is going to echo in domestic and international politics for just as long. The one thing you cannot accuse Trump consistently of is Antisemitism. That aside parallels are everywhere.
"Highly Reviewed" and it comes with a "leave a 5 star review for a kickback" offer. A card like that is grounds for returning the thing and leaving a 1 star review IMHO.
I'm sure you can sell the cooked birds also
I question his expertise

https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Omega3FattyAcids-HealthPro...
> something that interested him that he could do for fun and solo

Really?

I don't think anybody who works on AGI (not AI) without being dead serious about it will be qualified to work on it. A bad AGI implementation is one of humanity's gravest risks, and this is well-known in the AGI field, has been for years. Elon was far from the first to say this.

Carmack isn't the type to get those kinds of details wrong.
Couldn't better search and discovery by achieved today by building a curated website that links to the Apple app store?
I'm not sure Gato actually demonstrates intelligence. It definitely does demonstrate the ability to perform a wide variety of tasks, but I don't think that is actually intelligence. Gato has yet to demonstrate that it understands things. I do think it is easy to fall prone to the gullibility gap (and also take too strong of an opposing view, which I may be victim to).
You technically don't need any acknowledgements for polling. Just make it so you can provide a time range when polling and have each event have a GUID.
Gato is definitely cool, but it's worth remembering it was based on supervised learning with data from a bunch of tasks, so data availability is a strong bottleneck with that approach. Still, I'd agree the past year or two have made me more optimistic about HLAI (if not scary AGI).
The first time meta does something good!

Never thought i would say that but:

Thank you, Meta!
I don’t see why you’d reject ‘mostly content’ apps as long as they have the content to justify keeping on your phone? If I want an app instead of a website that is my business.

I’m all for rejecting ‘low effort’ apps, but this app clearly isn’t low effort.
I agree with you. However there’s a camp that thinks bigger models will lead to ~AGI (whatever that is). Another believes reinforcement learning will get there somehow. LeCun published an alternative vague idea because he thinks neither will get to AGI.
At what point are the weight savings not worth the extra delta-V offset?
All AI is just an fixed point algorithm.
Upwork would be a good place to look.
Thanks for taking the time to reply.

I've also soured on UniFi a lot over the last few years. It's crazy. The SMB / MSP market is massively underserved and instead of staying focused and capturing it Unifi is trying to compete in the enterprise market where, IMHO, they aren't going to succeed.

If we try out Omada and feel like it gives us everything Unifi does without all the feature creep then we'll do the same thing as you; EoL sites will move from Unifi to Omada. I'll always take fewer features and stability over continuous new features.

> I would suggest if you plan to stay on the managing-your-own-networks route to very strongly consider having the router/gateway stuff be separate and fully open source as I ended up.

We've used pfSense forever and have been happy with it. However, 2.6.0 has some gateway/dpinger issues where the bug fixes are slotted for 2.7.0 on the CE side, so it feels like the inevitable neglect of the CE version might be starting to kick in there. I tried to explain to them the realities of the market we're in (small businesses) along with real numbers in terms of what kind of money they could extract from businesses like ours and all it got me was an offer to talk to someone in sales and we're not buying into subscriptions (ever).

It would cost us $15k+ / year to switch to pfSense+. The software only subscription is nearly 2x the cost of buying their entry level appliance (assuming a 5 year lifecycle). IMHO, that's an indicator they don't want to support 3rd party hardware and there's a risk they'll eventually drop it.

I wish VyOS had less crazy pricing because their stuff looks nice. They used to have a $600 / year professional subscription which they don't appear to offer anymore. I think the corporate subscription used to be <$4k / year and now it's $6k. I wonder why no one wants to commit to subscriptions. How can I sell anything to a customer when I can't give a predictable price for ongoing maintenance a year into the future?

Our customers will literally go back to using their ISP supplied modems instead of proper firewalls before they'll pay the prices everyone is asking for. I don't blame them either. They only need a fraction of the functionality being sold and all of the fancy, expensive features everyone is using to justify sky high pricing are simply bad value in that context because they'll basically unneeded bloat.
Reddit isn’t a very attractive target, because there’s a continuous stream of new posts/threads, so much more ephemeral than the average web page, and because Reddit users are only a small minority compared to everyone who uses Google. Also, Reddit has moderators. It wouldn’t be practical for Google to moderate votes on search results, and the moderators would be much less motivated than for the subreddit they’re engaged with.

A better comparison is Amazon search results and reviews, which are known to suffer from being gamed.
Funny as hell… Apple keeps featuring out fintech app, which is image lock up for image lockup the exact same as our website.
Great point, really well said. I don't want to go too far into the weeds on this, but mental illness in general is socially-defined and situation-dependent. Not to say it's not real, but it's affected by observation/treatment in a way that physical stuff isn't.
Part of the 2008 crisis was maturity mismatch of assets and liabilities. That's a fancy way of saying 'I get paid in 3 weeks but I have to pay the gas bill tomorrow'.

If you lend money that's paid back over a long period of time (like a mortgage) and you're funding it by borrowing money that needs to be paid back much sooner, you're going to have difficulties when the market moves to make that short-term funding less available. It's a fundamentally risky position to be in.

Banking regulation introduced since the 08 crisis (Basel III) forces banks to rein in these mismatches, but per the article many of these lenders are not banks..
CD's had no distortion.
That's actually not out of line with what Ancient Architects proposed; the operator of that channel tries to shy away from pure speculation, and proposed sea level rise as a cause for Atlantis sinking; and from there, they narrowed in on Rockall, which has interesting now-sunk but previously above-water features.
It's 30 seconds to sideload an app on Android.

Many good apps are available by sideload only. They seem to do well enough.
That feature is much too hidden to consider it a viable option for the mainsteam.
The people who designed the first submarines had relatively specific engineering problems and applications in mind. They could bypass any philosophical interrogation of the word "swim" because they didn't define the problem as swimming and didn't need to.

"AGI" isn't like that. Nobody really knows what it means, and it's impossible to get down to brass tacks until you choose a problem definition. When philosophers point out the conspicuous lack of clarity here, they're doing us a service.

When the industry settled on marketing any application of deep learning as "AI," "AGI" became the terminological heir to the same set of ill-defined grandiose expectations that used to be "AI."

Choose a better-specified problem and you can ignore philosophical problems about words like "intelligence." The same choice will also excuse you from the competition to convince people that you have produced "AGI."
You get a spectrogram by applying Fourier transform. Also, getting more information out of something than it contains is literally impossible.
Yes, this exact QT bug also affected macOS - https://lostdomain.org/2017/06/17/qt-qnetworkaccessmanager-c...

At least it finally got fixed after 6 years...
The U.S. Army’s “Camel Corps” Experiment (2021)
> This does not compute.

Of course it doesn't.

https://nautil.us/scary-ai-is-more-fantasia-than-terminator-...
I mean, that's a bad example, the Reddit app is absolute garbage.
Apple has repeatedly featured my fintech’s app. Almost every corner is designed to be nearly the same as our website… to boot the web has a few more functionalities.