skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tasks under "physical intelligence" are an indication of how bad off that part of AI is. "Physical robot that can survive for a week in an urban environment" is more than an initial goal. Although, arguably, a Waymo or Cruise Automation self driving car could do it now if provided with an automated charging station.

I'd suggest, as near term goals:

- A robot that can pick and pack at least 90% of what Amazon sells without needing human intervention more than once a day. (Get acquired by Amazon at a 9-figure valuation.)

- A robot that can clean a store or office building's floors or carpets without needing human intervention more than once a week. (That is, a useful industrial-strength Roomba.)

- A robot that can, by feel, do single-pin lock picking. (Currently, getting a key into a lock is an advanced robotics task.)

- A robot that can restock grocery store shelves.

- Small forklift robots which can cooperate to move larger furniture. (Good way to get into multi-robot coordination in unstructured environments.)

- A small robot with the agility of a squirrel.

More advanced:

- Assemble IKEA furniture.

- Cooperating robots which can do basic house construction tasks, such as installing wallboard or running electrical cable or pipe.

The author writes:

"In the early days of artificial intelligence, the field was defined by a single goal: to build a machine that could think and behave like a human. We call that AGI, or artificial general intelligence, and it’s humanity’s final tech frontier." That's too human-limited. There are stages beyond that, such as running a large coordinated multi-robot operation, or a whole society of robots.
They're not carving stone when digging out the fossils. And the average fossil digger is not Michaelangelo or capable of sculpting a negative dinosaur skeleton out of solid rock. Just imagine hundreds of people on a dig trying to get the symmetry and proportions right. The answer is that the material inside the impression left by the decaying bones is softer than the rock it's encased in.

Sure, dinos for kids are big money, but there's just a massive amount of proof they existed. The fact that an industry exists monetizing a natural phenomenon doesn't automatically mean the phenomenon doesn't exist. That's the "anything mainstream must be fake" conspiracy theory. Some mainstream things are real. What proof is there for the world being created in seven days besides a single book of stories invented a couple thousand years ago? And by the way, don't parents buy their kids a lot of religious things... way more than dinosaur dolls?

[edit] if I'm just missing the sarcasm here, sorry, it's been a long day.
That article was awful with just guesses left and right on causes, without even measuring how the number is calculated.
That's fair; I'm too busy to game these days, so I am certainly not in touch with what gamer's expectations are. I was just thinking that e.g. single-screen puzzle platformers were easy to make 30 years ago and wouldn't be too far off from something that would be "cool"
Hey Aman, I just wanted to say thanks, I saw this on twitter a few days back and tested it with the demo paper, and was highly impressed, which ignited in me enough to start building my own AI project.

I've also been seing Astria, AvatarAI, (which apply Dreambooth to avatars) et al being launched recently, which is really wild. I think we'll see alot of builders applying ML to real UX.

Other interesting builder in the twitter maker space @miguelpiedrafita
Which has done several AI related projects from a youtube video whisperer to srt subtitle to now building an AI script making tool, and also an auto-commit tool to make your commit messages for you.

I love to see the experimentation in the space, and now I'm thinking I need a bot to @savepapers which sends them to a readpaperlater which lets me read them/annotate in explainpaper ui
Is it a home cloud server like NextCloud but comes with the hardware?
A reminder that there is no such thing as "the Vikings". Really. There's no specific culture or social group in a particular time and place you can point to and say they are "the" vikings. The idea of the Vikings is basically an invention of middle age scholars, and includes a huge variety of cultures and languages. You might compare the Vikings to the mythical "sea peoples" of the bronze age collapse.
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People are still using twitter…? Steve Inskeep of NPR nailed it on Up First when he started his report “Hard to say what the media mogul [Musk] will do with the site that most people do not use but which has a huge influence over news coverage.” (Fri, Oct 28). My bet is on TikTok, where millions of people already prefer to spend their time.
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Do you have a workflow that you would like to automate but don't know how to or don't have the time to?

My friend and I are software engineers at big tech companies, and we want to help folks, especially non-technical folks, become more productive by automating parts of their job. We are just getting started and interested in learning more so we will build for free.

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If I were Musk or Bezos, the temptation to rig a Contact-style scenario would be well beyond merely overwhelming.

Guessing the orbital mechanics needed to station-keep a signal source at a given apparent sidereal position, far enough from Earth to simulate parallax at infinity, are unworkable.
I think in general because companies find it very difficult to actually be able to tell who is lazy vs. effective. This is especially true if you want to do it at scale and quickly.
I saw that my previous article about how Tokyo Avoided the Affordable Housing Crisis garnered a lot of attention here, so I thought I'd share its follow up article
They can't keep up the supply.
But I don't understand why they need to shutdown -- looks like the upkeep cost is quite low as long as they are not releasing new product...
A wild guess, there's summarization ML models too, you can extract/compact most text info from a paper to it's bullet points, cache it, and send that as part of the prompt.
You are being pedantic here; this stance doesn't survive contact with the real world. The fact that Rust's language reference is not complete/up to date, doesn't mean that Rust is defined _just_ by "whatever the compiler does." There are community-wide accepted documents (the reference, Rustonomicon, RFCs, and more informally, Language/Compiler team meeting notes/comments that reflect their consensus about the semantics) how Rust _ought_ to work.
No such goals possible. See https://mflb.com/ai_alignment_1/index.html
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/breakthrough-...

Enjoy :)
I’ve been starting to wonder, is GPT-3 the beginning of AGI?

I know, I know, it’s just a language model.

But I’ve been thinking. About my thinking. I think in words. I solve problems in words. I communicate results in words. If I had no body, and you could only interact with me via text, would I look that much different than GPT?

Does AGI really need anything more than words? Is it possible that simply adding more parameters to today’s transformer models will yield AGI? It seems increasingly plausible to me.
Just give whoever a few hundred years to go from cult to religion, though, and they'll burn you at the stake for making fun of their silly tablets.
He did Office Space too, pretty cool set of projects to work on
Yes, that's pretty much my point.
https://archive.ph/2022.10.31-234933/https://www.nintendolif...
It's not about preventing people from knowing anything about my life. It's about control and threat surface. You can do these things without thinking after a little practice. I would like to present the version of myself I want the public to know about and have full control over that. Incursions into my privacy violate that idea.

It's not paranoia. That would imply they aren't out to get you. They are. Leave the government out of it for a second. If someone's phone is stolen it's very likely their entire identity, a majority of their secrets, documents like medical ID cards, credit cards, etc have been compromised. This is akin to "getting a warrant to a safe" (which in reality is just court-ordered theft) and it will completely destroy a person. In the context of the discussion if you were able to break into a dead person's phone you could very likely build a complete picture of their life. Perhaps one they weren't interested in you knowing about.

I'd prefer to avoid those situations. First, by not making myself a target, and second by protecting any and all data I have the best I can. I rarely think about it but I know if my phone is stolen, my computers are taken, or I get caught up in a fishing expedition the threat surface is extremely limited (provided the information isn't beaten out of me).
The NFL has rules to try make this ineffective: for one, taking two delay of game penalties in a row is an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. There's also various rules that try to eliminate strategic use of penalties to run down the clock by making the clock stop on penalties at the ends of the halves.

You still see delay of game penalties by teams running down the clock fairly regularly, but it's more to just use every available second of the play clock up, typically in a situation where the distance loss isn't very important (like right before a punt).
That seems incredibly normal for any tech company. Gotta pay commissions to get the best sales folks.
I'd agree. Pedantically, though, this wouldn't be GDP by definition.

I do think you can substitute "sum of numerical value" for GDP in most non-technical contexts and have them make sense.

In this case it could be that an economy doesn't trade 'rationally', so summing numerical values doesn't make sense. E.g. I'll trade you 1 chicken -> 2 shoes, someone else will trade 1 shoe -> 2 chickens.

I guess there would still be some numerical measure, but it'd be more of a matrix than a single number.
I wonder if part of the recent switch back to statically typed languages is merely a reflection of changing compute requirements. During my career, single core performance has only doubled at best. Scale out has worked… but it hasn’t been cheap.
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Just get a android (as Tim Apple says)

https://www.androidauthority.com/tim-cook-rcs-iphone-3206620...
I think there’s a potential for collaboration between borrow checkers and more aggressively NUMA architectures, but the problem is you still have to run commercial operating systems on any chips you make. That’s less of a problem for embedded systems and controllers, but then you lose a lot of the value as well.
Eighty Metric tons anywhere in the world in about an hour
does this count as a zero day? hardly going to see it being allowed in further races.
If the output seems to strongly favor some races over others, the expert debugs the inputs by temporarily swapping some out and rerunning. This is only a second line of defense beyond checking the inputs manually. Maybe the expert doesn't realize that some factor has a huge correlation with race without saying much about the candidate's merit.

Beyond that, if there's a divergence between races, it is what it is. The expert shares what factors are being considered, and it's politics at that point.
I was stationed on Guam not so long ago, and if I had my preferences I would be permanently settled there. We absolutely loved it and the people, though it is by no means perfect.

The problems listed here are very real, and very depressing. I've dived all over that island, and one of the most popular dives, Seabee Junkyard [0], is a very good reminder of just how the US Government, via the US Military, treats those islands.

Separately I spent some time on Tinian during that tour, on the runway that the Enola Gay launched from, and was stationed in both Iwakuni (near Hiroshima) and Sasebo (near Nagasaki) and got to see the memorials at those two locations. That was heartbreaking as well. Hopefully we don't see those events replayed.

[0] https://www.mdaguam.com/destination/seabee-junkyard/
An FPGA implementation is underway.

The X86 segmentation facility resembles Multics segments in name only.
XML has all the elements. Plus attributes ;)

And schemas and schema validation on top!
Function pointers

I was a self-taught programmer as a teenager so there was a lot of theory and mental models I was missing. I viewed code as something static I wrote into an editor and later interpreted (QBasic) or compiled and ran (C).

Learning about function pointers in C was transformational. I started thinking about code as data that can be called and passed around and even changed at runtime and suddenly things like cooperative multi tasking made sense to me.
Words are just an interface we use.

I believe that thinking and idea generation is much more abstract than words. Animals seem to do a lot of idea generation (improvisation) without knowing about words.

But they cannot pass this knowledge efficiently, except from imitation.
> boil down to the convolution of the signal with the impulse response of the filter

Not to be "that guy" but any linear, translation-invariant operator can be written that way. This is the essence of harmonic analysis.
If you had no body starting this moment, your mind would still have benefited from years of interacting with and receiving stimuli from the physical world. GPT-3 isn’t so fortunate
Will we ever see the day where computers over the Internet talk to each other over something other than UDP/TCP over IPv4/IPv6?
Silence by Endo is amazing.
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>the salary to be offered is reduced to cover the estimated current value of the future employee protections.

This is a fallacy. Companies will pay employees as little as possible. Why would they pay you more just because employee protections were removed?
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Penguin Random House Blocked from Acquiring Rival Publisher Simon and Schuster
I have it boiled into a few shell scripts that generate the cnf files needed. OpenSSL has improved its CLI beyond the old Perl script that had long been used for running a local CA and you get fine grained control over what features you want.
These things would be illegal in the EU, which alone is ~10% of humanity.

Don't frame not wanting to take abuse as being entitled.
As a hobbyist who doesn't _need_ this, the 6-node free plan feels very reasonable for tinkering around and sanity-checking something.

As someone with a project at work that involves setting up an ffmpeg project in the future, I'm now expecting to talk to my boss about expensing this and I think it's at the perfect price point where it won't take too much effort to get them to budge.
https://archive.ph/iEjgz
I'm sure that's true, while at the same time it could help answer some of what the parent was asking "Why am I hearing this term more and more?"
Without paywall: https://www.wsj.com/articles/penguin-random-house-blocked-fr...
It’s perfectly scalable and it’s a solved problem. Maps aren’t the bottleneck in scaling. The cars don’t even require an always up-to-date map to work safely (but they are self mapping anyway). I’m not sure how long Karpathy will push this narrative because Tesla isn’t able to afford mapping like the others.

Tesla also uses maps, it’s just less detailed. If humans are able to drive without maps, why does Tesla require a map of lane geometry, stop signs and intersections?
Proto3 gained "required" back relatively recently. It's even in use in Opentelemetry proto files.
Yeah there are very few smartphone users in 2006
> In the early days of artificial intelligence, the field was defined by a single goal: to build a machine that could think and behave like a human. (…) We can now build machines that can beat humans at specific tasks like playing chess or go, and we are starting to see machines that can learn to perform multiple tasks.

I'd say, "machine beats human in chess" doesn't mean what it was supposed to mean in Turing's days. Meaning, rather than being a proof of deep consideration, it has moved towards generalizing pattern recognition and library lookups. Rather than proving a point in (ad-hoc) decision making (Turing's "ban"), it's an application of data.
Grammatically, that's like saying "there's no such thing as tourists."
Government/industry consortiums on both the US and Europe sides ended up joining efforts. EUV LLC on the US side, EUCLIDES (Extreme UV Concept Lithography Development System) on the EU side (in which ASML and Philips was involved). The EUV LLC part is why the US can still prevent export to China of ASML's EUV technology.

ASML didn't come out of the US, but rather parts of their EUV technology did and the US still holds some rights to export controls through that history.
None. The power of Twitter is the people there. The huge network effects.

If people leave Twitter, they’re not all going to go to the same place. They’ll go to different places or give up on the concept all together.

It’s irreplaceable. It’s an artifact of a very different time. I don’t think it can ever be recreated.
Those years of training are surely helpful, but are they strictly necessary? I don’t see why AGI couldn’t infer much of the experiences by reading text.
That’s not too far off from how Darlington and a few other tracks work. If you “ride the cushion” of air between the car and the wall you can drive faster than being a few inches away from the wall or rubbing the wall.
this related article addresses some of the cost issues https://semiengineering.com/designing-ics-in-an-increasingly...
And yet here we are!
Do you believe they aren't for some reason? It's not like they release whose buying ads if you ask.
> No, the shit is free. People are just paying each other to eat it.

Still the same answer. Services are counted as production.

> It’s not literal, it’s just an illustration of how easily the gdp can be faked.

Of course it's not literal, but that's just not faking GDP. What do you actually think GDP is a measurement of?
Are you saying the assassins were tools of the true conspirators who ordered their assassinations? John Hinckley was unsuccessful, was he another (failed) tool of a nefarious group that sets out to off public figures "they don't like"?
Yes, pointing out the delay representative democracy induces as proof that democracy doesn’t represent the will of the people is quibbling.
Or perhaps words are the byproduct of the real thing. Consider the moments where your mind just click and solves something. You find it hard to map words to what happened. Or when you judge a situation to be dangerous, you just kind of know it, and then you map your gut feeling into words so you can explain to someone.

Perhaps "intelligence" is the process that enables these leaps between islands of words.
>> Sending one's people in to annihilate the peoples of the land (some would say genocide) regardless of gender, age, active participation in combat, etc would qualify as murder.

By modern standards, yes it would be murder / genocide.

>> Thou shalt not commit murder.*

>> *Unless I explicitly tell you to, then it's okay.

Exactly. If God told you to do it, it must be okay.

After all, if God commands you to do something and you don't do it, bad things could happen to you.

https://youtu.be/c9Z4933yBaU
Just curious, is it absolutely necessary that a single model can solve all these problems to satisfy you? As long as it’s a finite and relatively small list, why not allow for N models boxed together wrapped in a switch statement? Or if you’re picky, a top-level language model which tries to decide which of its subsystems to employ for the problem at hand. After all, the human brain is at least somewhat partitioned (although not at the granularity of chess vs hotdog identification).
> This graph shows transistors basically maintaining pace...

I'm no expert in silicon scaling but from reading technical papers, my (naive) understanding is that transistor density has almost kept up but now that scaling comes with increasingly stringent design constraints which architects must make trade-offs over. Broadly speaking, things like "You can have 2x last gen's density but they can't all be fully powered on for very long." That's a greatly simplified example but much of what I've seen has been far "thornier" in terms of interacting constraints along multiple dimensions.

My sense is that in the 90s we usually got "denser, faster AND cheaper" with every generation. Now we're lucky to get one and even that comes with implementation requirements which can be increasingly arcane. My understanding is that different fabs are having to roll more of their own design libraries which embody their chosen sets of trade-offs per node. In addition to limiting overall performance and being harder to design, this apparently makes reusing or migrating designs more challenging. While certain headline metrics like node density may appear to be scaling as usual. The reality under the hood is more complex and far less rosy.
I think I heard it from the Sky F1 commentators first. It’s making its way through the rest of Motorsport from there I’d guess. Netflix’s Drive to Survive series has had a really profound effect on Formula 1 in the US.
R&D covers all development that would qualify as more than “maintenance mode” for Twitter. It’s not necessarily a bunch of skunkworks teams making moonshot bets. It’s a very loosely defined tax category.

The dirty not so secret of “we could be profitable if we just dropped our R&D budget” is that maintaining your existing revenue depends on that new development work.
For me the biggest value of Twitter is that some celebrities are using it. So, media they choose will be a new big thing. But I would like them to use some kind of Blockchain-powered source because what celebrities publish is history sometimes.
Research has found some human brains can pick up on rotations of geomagnetic-strength fields as evidenced by drops in alpha wave power following stimulus: https://ve42.co/magneto

https://youtu.be/dg3pza4y2ws
Ask HN: What kind of web apps would Martians accessing Earth internet need?
The day humans living on another planet try to check the latest from Hacker News is not far away :P

I'm exploring all the different digital avenues which may get affected in their lives on the new planet.

For e.g. timezones, instant messaging, etc.

What are some digital technologies we would need to make this transition happen for them seamlessly?
AlphaZero is not using "library lookups" to play chess.
This is the right answer. There have been running backs, kick returners and pass receivers who thought they had outrun the opponents and slowed down towards the end zone to gawk and show off, and wound up getting tackled short of what should have been an easy touchdown by people that caught up to them. I wouldn’t be surprised if, in at least one of those cases, the defense then showed up and forced a turnover after a three-and-out on a first and goal.
That’s good to hear. I also like Traefik but I used some Traefik ingress controller on K8s. I really just want an orchestration tool for my containers and nothing else since NGINX and Traefik have nice enough abstractions. Thanks y’all.
I am aware of the limitations, but covering some predefined area with no human intervention is the definition of L4.

Clearly there is non-zero development risk here, but I don't think it's going so badly that it's definitely going to take 10+ years to launch in a metro area with millions of people.

It may take a decade to get to a coast-to-coast system, but there's not a whole lot of incentive to build that vs serving a few large metros in the near future.
Oh man remember when Meta / Facebook was a monopoly and we had to do everything in our power to stop them? And now their stock is down 75% in the last 12 months and they are getting beaten up by competitors? And without any government intervention! It's almost like the world is always dynamic and who is on top today isn't on top tomorrow...