skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, most humans are not intelligent then? Because I don't think that an average human can create a better version of ChatGPT / StableDiffusion. Or a better version of itself, if that is the baseline. Or do you count evolution here? But evolution does not necessarily lead to higher intelligence.

But also: Once you have some model or algorithm for intelligence, where you just need to scale up the size / training data, is it really such a big intellectual accomplishment to just scale it up?

But what exactly is your definition of AGI or AGI-hard now? That something can improve itself? But what does that mean? Does a std::vector count, as it can resize itself when it needs more memory? Or wide set of intelligence tests?

So, is ChatGPT then already human-level intelligent? You can ask it how to improve itself. I'm sure the answers it will give will actually improve it.
DXO Photolab is a commercial alternative.
Microservices, but with Benefits
It's only one product that does one thing: shows videos. It's huge and great but I still think we should replace it with AirBnb, which also has high salaries, in the acronym.
If this is about racist shit I’ll be the first to admit that’s a shame. It’d be better if the judgment of that was handed down by the community- if it indeed is the case - rather than obscure tos maneuvering, but, well, we don’t exactly live in the most perfect of all worlds. That said I believe in the capacity for people to not be like how they used to be, and, furthermore, my opinion on why this is happening isn’t any more authoritative than anyone else’s speculation, I guess, so… who knows? Some other comments seem to suggest it’s just part of the dsl/grammar for the ui- it’s something I have not explored myself much
I just wanted to mention that the GH repo is just a mirror of the official one.
And none of the triple parentheses contain peoples names or anything that could be considered religious...

I'd guess this was enforced by someone reading a corporate policy that said "if you see triple parentheses, it's hate speech, ban the account".
Or you can just keep the generator fueled (they tend to come with built-in fuel tanks), and have a spare 50-gallon barrel of fuel stashed somewhere.
> Humanity has developed technology to improve humanity.

I would argue that the vast majority of technology has hurt humanity and that a large proportion of technology is simply solving problems caused by other technology.
I have absolutely no problem with generative models, not even for producing 'illegal' images and texts, but the copyright infringement by big players is disgusting. Microsoft (copilot), openai, Adobe, ... etc will wholesale breach copyright and not give a damn, but god forbid if you copy a line of their code they will use all their might to crush you. If they want to use copyrighted stuff for their models, they should license it.
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I think there might be fundamental tradeoffs at play. An information processing system acting in a cold local environment will have the ability to do far more complex computations with more reliability (thus, in a way, be much more likely to exhibit complex internal behavior) but will also be limited in how much work it can perform onto the outside, thus how much it can recognizably output from the computation. While the opposite will be true at higher temperatures.
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Entanglement is in fact much more vulnerable to interference than normal radio transmission - any interaction between the entangled particles and the environment quickly makes them decohere and become disentangled. This is in fact the reason why it's hard to make quantum computers - keeping a large number of particles entangled with each other is very very hard.
Maybe by fact-checking its answer?

Question -> "creative" output -> Google -> Summary of links -> Comparison -> confidence level (or re-write) + links that were used for checking

Not so different than how we work in a high-level. I believe that openAI has published a paper called webGPT that has a workflow like this (although not sure its exactly the same)
This does not match my personal experience; having lived in countries on both sides of the equation, with those in the more non-native country (South Korea) having a much less tolerant for non-American/British accents (e.g. Chinese, Indian, Filipino) than those from native or very high-fluency countries. I.e. Ive found tolerance for non-native accents to be inversely correlated with personal fluency.
Is that angle dependent on breast size?
> Spiders appear to offload cognitive tasks to their webs, making them one of a number of species with a mind that isn’t fully confined within the head.

Is there any species with a mind that is fully confinded within the head?
Fern keeps your docs and SDKs in sync with your API
The quality needs to be very high for it not to be jarring. I stay with podcasts if the host has a "good radio voice". ("Not even all human voices are good enough for me.") It's just a very intimate medium to have someone's voice right in your head. If the voices have annoying quirks, those audiobooks will not be loved.

Yes, it needs to be tens of hours of perfectly good narration.
Loans = 0 dilution, indeed
Some things you need to know about Google Scholar (2016)
same thing we now have an environment that challenges our starvation signals in ways our ancestors never had to deal with. They never had an ever present source of dense calory food.
I don't buy that line of reasoning. I'm personally going between "I don't crave sweets at all" for weeks to "give me everything we have at home and when I go for groceries I will buy more". Maybe there are people who keep certain preferences or bodily functions for years, I am not one of them. My need for sleep is also drastically going up and down in bouts of months (when I need 8h, I need 8h and 9h is better, and when I am fine with 6h I am fine with 6h or if need be 5h, this changes every few months and then stays for a few months, not limited to a certain time of the year).
Do you not think a piece of software can be acceptable independently of whether or not its creator is racist?
et al. The academic superstar everybody wants to be co-author with
AI-Narrated Audiobooks Now Available in Apple Books
github linux repo is a mirror
Your argument doesn't work, nobody knows enough people to staff up a big company with only people they know. At some point they will have to go by surface signals or by word of mouth, talking to a person in an interview isn't enough.

On the other hand for a small team, lets say 10 people, you could go back and pick the 10 best people you have worked with in your life. That will be a good team if you actually tries to get good people instead of people you like. That doesn't scale, other people will take people they like and quality suffers, it always happens at scale, but an individual kan make better choices.
for me I'm surprised that craigslist is just randomly in the middle of the list, a business that makes 1bn in ARR with 50 employees is insane and should be in it's own separate category.

all other companies are listed in 10s of Mil in Annual rev (sometimes one spike) or acquired for billions (which implies rev in 100s of mel).

craigslist is the gold standard of this category.
Entanglement is a correlation. A common example is putting clothing into boxes and moving them a light-year apart: if our box contains a left-hand glove, then we know the other box has a right-hand glove (and vice-versa).

However, there's no way to create a radio using this correlation, since we can't effect whether we got the left/right glove:

- If we chose it before travelling, that would (a) require measuring which is which (i.e. opening the boxes), and (b) require choosing our message ahead of time, when the boxes are together (which isn't faster-than-light communication; e.g. we could just as well write our message inside the other box; no radio needed)

- If we re-arrange the fabric of our glove after measuring it, that would have no effect on the other glove (our actions would de-correlate them).

The reason this glove analogy breaks down is that gloves can be explained by "local hidden variables": i.e. if we see a left-handed glove, that could have been in the box all along; nothing weird.

The weirdness occurs in the correlations between different measurements. For example, if we put the clothing on our hand, we're measuring which glove it is (left or right hand); if we instead put it on our foot, we would measure which sock it is (left or right foot). Handed-ness is completely (anti)correlated: if both are measured as gloves, we always get one left-hand and one right-hand; likewise if they're both measured as socks.

Handed-ness and footed-ness are uncorrelated: if one piece of clothing is measured as a glove, and the other as a sock, there's no correlation between left-hand/right-hand and left-foot/right-foot.

Where it gets weird is when measuring somewhere in-between, e.g. if we measure 2/3 glove and 1/3 sock; and the other is measured 1/3 glove and 2/3 sock: their handedness/footedness is more correlated than classical physics can explain (in practice we measure the polarisation of light, which can be measured horizontally, vertically, or some angle in-between!). Experiments have ruled out "local hidden variables", like "it was always an X" (e.g. something like "the box always contained an 80/20 mixture of glove/foot, with respective left/right mixtures of 50/50 and 20/40"). Quantum physics correctly predicts those experiments (e.g. using "superpositions of left/right handedness/footedness")

See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHSH_inequality
I checked one at random and he's not black

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Hell yeah. There's so much cargo culting around """readable""" code. If you have clean functions and sufficient type info, there's rarely a reason why your var names shouldn't just be anything other than x, y, and z. Having to rely on descriptive variables is a red flag that your function is too big.
Yes. But individual acceptance or use is very different from the ethical and legal obligations of major corporations.

And in this case, we aren't just talking about the creator, the allegations are about the actual content being hosted.
Good point, I agree it's not comparable to what has been alleged in this case.

I used Linus just as an example of a very high-profile and widely beloved open source leader, to contrast this relatively unknown developer.

Though, now I think on it, some of the words he used in the past on the mailing list are considered "-ism" level offensive by some people today: "dumb", "retarded", etc.

Hopefully no cancellations incoming for these historical word-mishaps.
Because it's leasing an asset, not owning one.
> There are cases where hybrids remove complexity because they can be designed to operate either without transmissions, or with substantially more simple transmissions.

This is how the LEVC taxis work in London; a 30kWh battery, charged by a 1.5L 3cyl petrol engine. Although in this case the kerb weight is about 200-300kg more than the previous (diesel) black cabs.
I think it is frowned upon a little bit because notes about wanting to check back later do not contribute to the conversation. But I think occasionally making those kinds of comments is ok, as long as the vast majority of comments that a user makes is contributing.
> A doctor might help, but I'm not going. The medical state of the art of dealing with obesity seems to be "just don't". A consult seems pointless and humiliating.

The point of this article seems to be that that is changing. Doctors actually have something to offer you now.
Especially in a non-native, where everyone has at least a tiny accent
I've heard people say "I'm only being sated by the extras/side dishes, give me 1kg of meat and I will eat 1kg of meat as the main course" and to a degree I understand, at least for "normal" dishes with meat and carbs. Maybe it actually works if you crank the fat contents up.
How would it be a coincidence?

Looking through that file, I can't think of a single charitable interpretation for that categorization.
Adobe Bridge + Adobe Camera Raw works great.
Thanks! I may give it another go.
Because no one should care. Just fully ignore them, do not engage with trolls or people whose politics you don't care about.

Maybe we should instead ban those who call out this stuff or describe it in malicious ways...
Is this someone at Reddit who found that prompt, or was he banned from GitHub for something he wrote on Reddit?
Like I said before [0][1], a reminder that private repositories are not private on GitHub.

A great time to self-host.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34232347

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23102942
Software pirate groups you are talking about have very little overlap with people who were doing TV releases.

> They have, but it’s just not interesting. Similar to how the p2p scene doesn’t give a damn about software DRM.

But doing HDTV caps was interesting?
Thank you! This is very useful.
I just wanted to stress the point that "general" is misleading (no intelligence will ever be truly general), and the term "AGI" is somewhat unclear. Some people mean human-level intelligence, some people just mean some reasonable intelligent agent in a number of tasks, some people really mean a truly-general intelligence, being able to handle any problem (unlike a human).

In the post, when arguing about "AGI-hard", this is very relevant. For a truly-general intelligence, it makes sense. But I think most people would not understand "AGI" this way. For some more narrow general intelligence, I don't think "AGI-hard" makes sense.

Driving needs some intelligence which is a bit generic but still different to other general intelligences, so it is not AGI-hard.
I reached out to him on Twitter [0] asking exactly this.

According to a Reddit comment [1] it is, but they haven’t posted their source.

[0] https://twitter.com/pwnies/status/1610857711008370688?s=46&t...

[1] https://reddit.com/r/apple/comments/103iogu/_/j305eby/?conte...
What do you need citation for? Why can't my observation about the discussion from adherents of post modern philosophy today be basis for discussion on hacker news? Or do your thought need citation for your thoughts?

Sure my thoughts are derived from someone else. For example Donald Hoffmans - The case against reality ... Do I need to cite it to make my disbelief that it is only power structures and there is no evolutionary basis for our power structures.
>What people who aren't fat do is intellectually recognize that "I could eat forever" feeling, and don't fall for it. That's where the willpower comes into play.

This isn't how it is for me. Of course I've had the "I could eat forever, so let's not" thoughts before, but only in certain contexts like if I'm at a buffet dinner. Ordinarily I just get full and then stop. No mental pep-talk needed.

I've noticed in these discussions, people think how it is for them is how it is for everyone else. They use the same words to mean different things. Look carefully through all the comments here and you'll see that "full" seems to have very different meanings to different people. "Willpower" is another one.

Nobody can give an objective meaning to these terms, or it doesn't even enter their minds that they might need to, because "obviously" everyone else experiences the world in the same way. It's like the blind men of Indostan.

See also: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/17/what-universal-human-e...
Given the continued sarcasm, I'll take that as a no. I'll also point you over to these: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. Edit out swipes.
This would make sense right? You probably can't run all cores at max turbo frequency before hitting power and thermal limits. So dividing chiplets based on binning would result in good performance for 1-8 -threaded tasks while reducing chip lottery.

(But it's possible there are other reasons for the discrepancy)
We are trying to invent things that mimic humans for the purpose of increasing what?
While the world falls into pre climatic disaster.

It’s all very interesting but what utility does it have for humanity?
Slack aka salesforce
If only. My experience is that most mediocre programmers don't know how to think for themselves.
You, sir, are a bastard.
Ah yes. The bad horrible no good government abuse of vacation, sick pay, overtime pay...
There’s a Reddit thread that goes into some detail: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/103upr6/au...
I have no frigging idea even triple parentheses are unspeakable now.

Just ran

rg '\(\(\(.*\)\)\)'

in my projects directory and found many instances authored by me. Guess I should prioritize fixing these, or next time I'm the target of some controversy, someone will use these as evidence of my antisemitism.
This comment is a bit hard to unpick. It's not clear that training violates copyright. However plagarism (created by any means AI or not) is already covered by existing IP law.

(The difficult part is telling whether AI generated stuff infringes on the copyright of stuff in the training data. And the fact the onus is on the end-user of AI tools sucks...)

However - if you're arguing that copyright law should be extended to prevent use in training - that's a much tougher sell and one where I'm not 100% sure of my position.
Whatever side you are on in this debate of "should GitHub decide what is good and bad" I think most people would agree that they really should quote a specific violation of specific TOS when they close your account. This should be the norm, as opposed to the current situation in which you are left wondering what the hell was problematic that some GitHub employee disagrees with.

The corporation may benefit from having unclear moderation policies, but this is not in the best interests of the users. If you don't agree, consider the possibility that the corporation's political views may change and your own beliefs could then be subject to moderation instead of those of "the other side."
I think this comes down to a difference is perspective of trains. Coming from a European perspective when I first read the analogy I was imagining the incredible fast passenger trains over here (~320km/h).

I suspect if you are coming from the perspective of a US rail user then yes, they aren't exactly known for high speed train travel.
Careful now, too much discussion on this point, and you'll invent a new compression algo.
I have never had an engineering (or really any!) job where learning on company time was absent. A lot of people like to grow and a lot of people don't. And a lot of the latter realize their waning usefulness and how they're one algorithm update away from being obsolete so they put time and effort in to masking that.

I enjoy being the dumbest person in the room. Others find it threatening.

And for those who are so busy outside of work that they can't grow inside of work, I feel for them because that sounds like an exhausting life.
There is no such thing as accent-free spoken English. Americans and English have American and English accents.
Ask HN: Relatively less known but good blogs?
I am setting up my RSS reader again after many many years! Want to follow blogs and new posts like in the good old days!

I have got all the popular tech blogs like paulgraham, danluu, benkuhn and the likes in my feed reader. Anything that is very popular on HN and has RSS or Atom feed is already in my reader.

Now I want to discover relatively less known but interesting blogs that I can add to my feeds. Suggestions? Recommendations?
It’s interesting how the tone and culture of corporate email hasn’t changed in (almost) 30 years. Change Java for some other technology and I feel like I could have gotten that email in my inbox today.
At some point, someone will (re)discover the Linux Kernel development model again and announce that chatting over a mailing list, reporting bugs over (self-hosted) Bugzilla and sending patches via mail is the best thing since sliced bread ;)
A potato is far more energy dense than popcorn. 2 cups of popcorn looks like a good amount of food, but it's only ~150cal. A good way to trick your brain into thinking it's doing a lot of eating.

Source: worked for me. And is a basically daily staple
This is as valid a criticism as complaining the phonograph will put musicians out if work. Time marches on, adapt.
True nothing fully built in. With jumpapp installed though and adding Custom Shortcuts, I have the following:

Alt B --> Browser (eg Firefox)

Alt K --> Konsole

Alt T --> Thunderbird

Alt Z --> zim

Alt D --> doom

jumpapp will open the app if it is not open and switch to it if it is open. It's way to handy to forgo IMHO. But jumpapp is a dependency, true.
Woah, the Madison voice is quite clearly Julia Whelan.
That's cool. I like Libredirect because I browse Reddit a lot and there are often links to TikTok, Instagram, etc.
Maybe Fossil SCM by the sqlite authors would be a starting point?
Good sir! I have setup a nice collection for you, please visit my NFT page blah blah, heh.

Can you imagine, scribbling on a cave wall, now your art is a NFT. Seem surreal, yet I bet someone is working on an NFT of that now.
yeah, this was e&y and also kpmg harassing the poor guy. we wrote a simple letter of please fuck off and i am certain they backed off.

the guy was traumatized to a point he was asking if post HDD format, records of "pirated windows" would remain... oh boy

scummy way of making money.

the problem is, all these proprietary software companies, from tally in accounting to Microsoft with excel/word and adobe for example, they pay the colleges/schools to have their product be used in education. i am talking about india here specifically so the students "learn" that piece of software. that is precisely the idea behind "student discount" or "free for students".

That is what "most" companies do while the really scummy of them, adobe et al then go after these poor souls
Thus you wasted 1 week, you can build a prototype for a new product in that time.
> Classical guitar is all about picking tone, speed, and fine variations of touch. (And intonation for the very best players.)

Not when I'm playing Green Day covers on it, it's not.

Also, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMoHRidtQcw

(You're confusing the instrument with the music it's most commonly used to play)
For browser side,

Report-uri is the tool. Warning you are going to get a lot of reports because your stuff is broken a lot. You just don't see it.
Somehow, I'm guessing the altitude makes a bit of a difference. A drone over your house might be visible and even hearable, while a satellite barely is.
In my experience, nonnative speakers seem to be more tolerant— probably due to empathy gained from shared experience. Anyway, I love the Spanish accent.
That's called source hut (https://sourcehut.org), which I use with great delight.
Not a native speaker but when working in an international environment, everybody has an accent, and it's rude to comment/complain about it, in the same way it would be rude to complain about somebody's physical traits. Also English has such a variety of accents (native / non-native) that everybody is quite used to it.

Also, most of the time, I understand better non-native speakers than native speakers. The hardest people to understand for me are native speaker with any accent that is not North American.

When I was younger, I was very self-conscious about my foreign accent. and I noticed that people who mentioned my accent in a negative way were systematically people from my own country whose accent was just as thick as mine (and probably were as insecure about it as I was). But mostly, I found native speakers to be very patient and polite with foreign accents, I'm grateful to them.
Good old POD https://perldoc.perl.org/perlpod

Perl is a particular example for a 90s language with a brilliant documentation. That's worth so much.