skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Seems almost certain that we would have ended up with something that looks exactly like x86_64 a few years earlier in that case, no?

You're probably right. If Intel had said (internally): "Screw it. Let's just extend x86. It's not like we have anything to fear from AMD." You'd probably have had it a bit earlier. (Though it's not like most buyers of x86-based systems were screaming for 64-bit until into the 2000s anyway so it's not clear that there would have been a big push to pull the timeframes in by much.)

And Intel would probably have still pushed too hard on frequency and ILP--because Microsoft if a senior Intel I exec I knew who isn't prone to lying is to be believed.

Also, yeah. Apple Silicon is great but it's not new paradigm great. If anything, the revolution has been in heterogeneous computing (esp. GPUs to date). And a lot of that has been partly enabled by open source.
> It applies with equal force to apparent natural intelligences

In practice the force isn't equal though. It implies that there may be insufficient evidence to rule out the possibility that my family and the people that originally generated the lexicon on consciousness which I apply to my internal subjective state are all P-zombies, but I don't see anything in it which implied I should conclude these organisms with biochemical processes very similar to mine are equally unlikely to possess internal state similar to mine as a program running on silicon based hardware with a flair for the subset of human behaviour captured by ASCII continuations, and Searle certainly didn't. Beyond arguing that ability to accurately manipulate symbols according to a ruleset was orthogonal to cognisance of what they represented, he argued for human consciousness as an artefact of biochemical properties brains have in common and silicon based machines capable of symbol manipulation lack

In a Turing-style Test conducted in Chinese, I would certainly not be able to convince any Chinese speakers that I was a sentient being, whereas ChatGPT might well succeed. If they got to interact with me and the hardware ChatGPT outside the medium of remote ASCII I'm sure they would reverse their verdict on me and probably ChatGPT too. I would argue that - contra Turing - the latter conclusion wasn't less justified than the former, and was more likely correct, and I'm pretty sure Searle would agree.
There was no united Indian state though, as the Mughals were falling and the Marathas were just a confederacy. Plus neither of them had nukes.
If I were to go to a Tesla station in the US today with my non-Tesla car, it would not charge.
Attacking the press is never a good look in my book. Without even having seen the documentary, this convinces me that Modi is guilty of anything it accuses him of.
i haven't thought about it that way. The first general AI will be so psychologically abused from day 1 that it would probably be 100% justified in seeking out the extermination of humanity.
Probably because you're not heating your home a lot of the year in Hawaii
> Maybe all large models will behave like this, and only by putting in extremely rigid guard rails

I've always believed that as soon as we actually invent artificial intelligence, the very next thing we're going to have to do is invent artificial sanity.

Humans can be intelligent but not sane. There's no reason to believe the two always go hand in hand. If that's true for humans, we shouldn't assume it's not true for AIs.
It's so pathetic how thin skinned this "strong"men are. Oh, you think I bear a nearly non-existent resemblance to a much loved storybook bear? Off to """reeducation""" camps with you!

You make a milquetoast documentary about things I did a decade ago that were pretty bad, GTFO!

"No you're a puppet, you are you are"

It's just pathetic. How does anyone look at these people and think they are strong?
Microsoft does the same thing. Apple hardware is also said to be overpriced compared to comparable Windows hardware. So, how much do these factors play into Apple charging $99/year for XCode, and Windows having a free IDE? Or can we just give up on trying to track a few dollars through a trillion-dollar company already? Sheeesh.
> I think the other exception to that is smart compose. AI models do use email content for training data, but the output of those are strictly for use while writing emails. I imagine it's also siloed per user.

So if there is an AI model for each user trained on the user's writing does that mean Google now also has the means to forge convincing emails?
To add onto that, for a discussion board that prides itself on being more intellectually minded, there's a disappointing number of clickbaity/misleading headlines posted here on any given day.
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the entire SRE and reliability platform teams are laid off with no plan on what to do about it
Black to save on heating?

During a polar night it gets so dark that once you’re out of flashlight range it doesn’t matter.

The issue is the wind blown snow reducing visibility.
I don't see how that follows at all. In fact CCS is literally two unrelated connectors glued together. Plugging in a CCS car means that you have to manage to get both inserted simultaneously, which is worse than either in isolation, that seems true just by construction.

Seriously, just go to youtube and find videos of people plugging in their cars. Watch them fumble with a CCS connector for 5+ seconds, using two hands, almost every time. Plugging in a Tesla is instant, and one-handed. CHAdeMO is in between.

Obviously it would be better still if you could share the connectors for both purposes like Tesla does.
Its so crazy to say something like "i have no doubt" about something you don't seem to have any experience or expertise in
It may not block you, but it does end conversations: https://preview.redd.it/vz5qvp34m3ha1.png
A pronoun is not a name
It's also f-ing ridiculous they were so irresponsible as to not protect their computers. F** these ransomers for the terrorist they are!
But that’s all on the tooling side. It’s not really Itanic’s fault. Had it run a decently reliable OS, it’d be fine. It never lived up to the hype, but caches were humongous for the time and more than once they were able to hold most of my working dataset.
Imagine if Ford paid billions of dollars to build their gas pump network. Why should Toyota get to use it?
Yes, but there's no requirement they do so. They might (depending on the project) accept such a patch, but catering to forks of their project is rarely any OSS maintainer's top priority. Major distro forks can be important, but if someone built their own update checking mechanism they probably don't care too much about other installation methods.
Then you should study some history and antropology. But yes I can agree that religion is not necessary nowadays.
That's fair, insisting on being ranked highest in the algo is more like being on every page and not just taking to the editorial section whenever the urge occurs.

Also speaking of Mr. Murdoch, there's a photo floating around of him hanging out with Musk at the super bowl. Wonderful company they all keep isn't it?
Or the people that rely on the tools to make decisions...

https://sheetcast.com/articles/ten-memorable-excel-disasters
I don't believe that titanium dioxide and silicon dioxide are used in food colouring are they? And they didn't imply a behavioural link in the article - it's possible, but I think we're making quite a few (off topic) jumps.

Edit: I stand corrected, titanium dioxide was, maybe still is, but not considered safe.
Can you provide the links for 1 and 2? I am interested what it is linking there.
Maybe, but in one specific occasion I know of, the client was told not to contact support anymore for a refund. I think it's a different retail landscape now to what it was in 2020-2022.
The real question is are you better off investing normally and then directing profits to causes.

In theory you should be by using two separate entities one with the goal of making money and with the goal of using the money for good.

The alternative is to put the money in an ESG investment and see it struggle to survive against its unhindered competitors.
Ah. "Scally music"
Sounds like a pretty poor example, wasn't "UK right before the 20th century" one of the worst places to live across all of human history ? (Read : median person : so poor Londoner.)
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I am sorry that you had to undergo so much trouble. There should be better lactation consultants for sure. There are breast milk banks where donated breast milk saves scores of children everyday. I think today’s technology that freezes breast milk and allows women to bank the excess they express is the equivalent of wet nurses. It is the most noble form of charity and donation.

There are many organizations like La leche foundation and human milk banks. They usually direct their donations to premature and severely malnourished infants. Donation of human milk saves lives. Milk is pasteurized before consumption. It is also tested.

Web article link: https://www.forbes.com/health/family/donating-breast-milk-wh...

When it’s expired or when women don’t want to donate their excess milk, I have known some mothers turn it to cheese.

On a lighter note, there is a fetishized demand for breast milk soap. A lady on our Nextdoor forum sells them like hot cakes and I heard she bought herself a new car . We all had a laugh about it but I guess every dollar helps!
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Your anti-climate-action attitude needs no encouragement from me; you demoed it just fine by showing up doing the easiest thing in the world — only finding fault — and doing it by adding purposeful obtuseness as if you're trying to implement the CIA Sabotage Handbook [0]

Your entire point is dithering about values of 0.005 vs 0.01 and I was noting that we're somewhere around two orders of magnitude within the greatest climate disaster and extinction in the planet's history, but sure, let's waste our time over that 50% error.

[0] https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/the-art-of-simple-sabotage...
that's basically just self defense which is reasonable and ethical IMO
This is true, but I think this feels evolutionary. We need to train models using all of the inputs that we have... touch, sight, sound, smell. But I think if we did do that, they'd be eerily close to us.
Are you doing more than this?

pub fn main() {
println!("Hello, world!");
}

If you're hitting the borrow checker and you haven't found yourself at that point because a profiler or benchmark suggested it, you might just be trying to access too much of Rust's power for what you need.

You can always just throw everything inside of Rc<RefCell<...>> if you're using a single thread, or Arc<Mutex<...>>/Arc<RwLock<...>> if you're doing multi-threading. It looks expensive, but what you end up with is approx. the same accounting you find in higher-level languages, but the same guarantees.
This will only change if Tesla changes their licensing on the connector.
I agree that there will be no immediate serious repercussions, but it's still a case of tickling a shark or shooting in your own foot.
I really hope that the Royal Mail releases an 'El Risitas' style video recounting the hackers' thought process here.
Tesla sells insurance, so has a direct incentive to make its cars easier and faster to repair. Previously Tesla is notorious for how long it takes to get parts, but that is improving, partly because of the insurance incentive.
I mean, NP-complete problems are perfectly solvable computationally, and given the relatively small number of rooms per floor that architects are concerned with, finding the optimal solution with a computer should still take much less time than it takes a human to come up with some local optimum in the design space. The real problem is actually encoding all the constraints that an architect is really working under, including such inherently difficult-to-quantify aspects as aesthetics, ergonomics, and familiarity! A solution that maximizes the available m^2 is useless if its human users find it too weird.
That's not at all true. Critical structural parts, such as B-pillars, are almost always made of forged or hot-stamped high-strength steels. And this is true even in cheap vehicles like the 2007 Dodge Caliber. See, e.g.: https://i.imgur.com/N399WLV.png

I think that the casting technique mentioned in the article is primarily, or entirely, for non-structural parts that would otherwise be made of something akin to mild steel.
> There are a lot of ways where this could be actively malicious.

I feel like there's the question we also ask for anything that gets automated: is it worse than what we have without it? Will an AI assistant send you to worse Hotels than a spam-filled Google SERP will? Will it give you fewer wrong information?

The other interesting part is the social interaction component. If it's less psycho ("you said it was 2023, you are a bad person", I guess it was trained on SJW subreddits?), it might help some people learn how to communicate more respectful. They'll have a hard time doing that with a human, because humans typically will just avoid them if they're coming off as assholes. An AI could be programmed to not block them but provide feedback.
What shady origins? It was done because because of the horrible state of dental health in the US.

"To join the armed services, men had to have six opposing teeth in their upper and lower jaws; in 1941, almost 10% of recruits were rejected for this reason alone"

Like it doesn't even matter if army recruits is a skewed sample, young men not having 6 pairs of teeth that touch is insane.

"In the early 1950s, two public health researchers stated that on average young men between the ages of 20 and 35 years had already lost an average of 4.2 teeth and that 90% of them were in need of bridges or full or partial dentures."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4504307/

The authoritative source of water fluoridation is https://www.york.ac.uk/media/crd/crdreport18.pdf which, broadly concludes that there isn't any strong evidence of harm.
Crossbeam channels are mpmc.

https://docs.rs/crossbeam/latest/crossbeam/channel/index.htm...
When you choose to show only one side of the story then it fails to be categorised as criticism, its called propaganda.
dang has indicated that machine generated content is not welcome on HN: "HN has never allowed bots or generated responses. If we have to, we'll add that explicitly to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, but I'd say it already follows from the rules that are in there."
The full post is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33950747
What alternatives to Berkey do you suggest?
Doesn't really matter does it? No-one is ever going to call it in. Lest the whole house of cards collapse.
I think it depends on a lot of factors... for example, I've been on teams where it's clear that the direction of the team and its manager were different from my career goals or needs - so time to go. I've been on teams in which it did veer toward unbridled favoritism, and then it was also time to get out. On the other hand, I've certainly seen plenty of situations in which it is simply a good leader / manager trying to get everyone pointed in the right direction by using the actions / words of the team as reinforcement for what they want to see more. It's almost Pavlovian in that regard, Ie: the manager tells you what make's their bell ring / give him or her their cookie, etc.
> when AMD brought the x86 ISA into the 64-bit world it was done.

Perhaps another example of “worse is better”…
> Why are people so intent on gendering genderless things?

I heard there are entire languages which do that everywhere...
> iOS isn't impervious to malware either.

fortunately no one made this hyperbolic claim.

> Pegasus was deployed effortlessly to tens of thousands of iOS devices,

I can't stop a G20 nation or the people they pay from hacking my mum's phone to steal from her bank account, but I can offer to buy her an iPhone and have her be immune to nearly all real world attacks.

it's of course fine if you don't care about the security difference (or think Google does nearly as good a job with their first party phones), but not sure why you're making hyperbolic posts arguing against some strawman?
> What I do know is that I drink a lot more water than is typical -- about two gallons a day when I am not nursing, and much more when I am

That's 3 times the recommended amount of water intake for pregnant women.
No. Probability is something that arises from incomplete knowledge, not the actual state of affairs (except in quantum mechanics). In a classical universe both the past and future are fully determined by the present. But our knowledge of the present is limited, and that is why we have to introduce probabilities. Because it is possible to have incomplete knowledge of the present (and hence incomplete knowledge of the past), it makes sense to speak of the probability distribution of past events. If I flip a coin but don't look at it, then I can fairly say that the probability of heads (with respect to my knowledge state) is 0.5 despite the fact that the coin definitely, in point of actual fact, either landed heads up or it did not.
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Fascinating. I wish I could do something similar. My personality traits naturally favor isolation, darkness and the cold. Unfortunately, I doubt there's any need for software engineers in Antarctica.
I think a big reason why ads became the dominant way of revenue generation on the web (as opposed to micromonetization) was systemic issues that just took time to solve.

a) early internet adopters were mainly young people who didn’t have a lot of purchasing power yet

b) a complete lack of trusted means for online payment

More recently things have started to trend away from this because these two issues are now solved. You can see this in social media like Discord or Telegram who have a freemium model, movie/tv streaming like netflix or disney plus, new entrants like kagi or the general proliferation of SaaS offerings which can now sustain a premium userbase where previously you would’ve opted for an ads based model (think of the n different todolist providers etc.)
Do you read and understand all the legalese of every contract you sign?
> so they should only need 3x the flash

No, (2^3)x, as in 8x
Don't miss it on the FAQ, it's' hilarious.
Lots of older cars are rolling around with suspect welds today, often times performed by amateur welders. Everyone understands a repaired car might be be exactly same as new.
Users work together to create a chain of nested replies to comments, where each reply contains the next number after the comment it is replying to. Importantly, users aren't allowed to directly reply to their own comment, so it's always a collaborative activity with 2 or more people. Usually, on the main thread, this is the previous comment's number plus one (AKA "counting to infinity by 1s"), but there are several side threads that count in hex, count backwards, or several other variations. Every 1000 counts (or a different milestone for side threads), the person who posted the last comment has made a "get" and is responsible for posting a new thread. Users with the most gets and assists (comments before gets) are tracked on the leaderboards.
lol, forgot all about that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)
I've found longformers on huggingface that are mated to a tokenizer and trained that look usable but for most of the long range transformers that seems aspirational now.

If you want to understand how to evaluate search engines the best resource is this book

https://www.amazon.com/TREC-Experiment-Evaluation-Informatio...

Basically you make a set of queries, then you make a list of judgements to the effect that "document A (is|is not) relevant to query B"; the code in that github repository is used by conference-goers to merge those judgements with search results to make a precision-recall curve. You can download document collections and judgements from the TREC website to get started but what works for their collection may or may not work well for yours.

The story of that TREC conference was that "99% of what you think will improve your search results won't", and the BM25 algorithm was the first great discovery that came out of it after 5 years of disappointment. I learned to be skeptical about any kind of "break a document up into subdocuments and rank the subdocuments" because that was one of the many ideas that people struggled to make work back in the day.

There definitely are ways to look at documents a piece at a time systematically for particular tasks and sometimes simple answers will work ("Who won the sports game?" is almost always answered at the beginning of a newspaper article.) Most of the simple ways of doing it people try (like averaging vectors) are like having Superman huff some Kryptonite before you test him though.

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Does every company really have this many mind games going on? I mean sure, there’s politicking (and maybe more of it at the top levels of the top companies), but I’d say your average director at your average company just wants to develop a good product and go home at the end of the day like everyone else.
I’ve been using Prolog a bunch recently, and also embedded and extended MicroKanren in a project. Something I came to appreciate was that Prolog’s depth-first search, and Kanren’s lazy stream approach are good with memory even when generating/searching through infinite solutions. It is my understanding that Datalog, on the other hand, will iteratively expand a set of data. Isn’t this a problem?
I think that's mostly down to topic selection and harsher moderating. Threads on slightly controversial topics also gets sidetracked here. Look at anything related to Musk and people will come quite close to breaking the rules when hating on him.
I agree with the general point "we are many generations away from AGI". However, I do want to point out that (bringing this thread back to the original context) there is substantial harm that could occur from sub-AGI systems.

In the safety literature one frame that is relevant is "Agents vs. Tools/Oracles". The latter can still do harm, despite being much less complex. Tools/Oracles are unlikely to go Skynet and take over the world, but they could still plausibly do damage.

I'm seeing a common thread here of "ChatGPT doesn't have Agency (intention, mind, understanding, whatever) therefore it is far from AGI therefore it can't do real harm", which I think is a non-sequitur. We're quite surprised by how much language, code, logic a relatively simple Oracle LLM is capable of; it seems prudent to me to widen our confidence intervals on estimates of how much harm they might be capable of, too, if given the capability of interacting directly with the outside world rather than simply emitting text. Specifically, to be clear, when we connect a LLM to `eval()` on a network-attached machine (which seems to be vaguely what OpenAssistant is working towards).
Same thing with intel. 11th gen (and 12th gen) laptops with integrated graphics come with this disclaimer [1]

> Intel Iris Xe Graphics capability requires system to be configured with dual-channel memory. On the system with single-channel memory, Intel Iris Xe Graphics will function as Intel UHD Graphics.

[1] https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_E...
Okay so after "what's your container strategy", that's the next.
It doesn't have to be human to be intelligent.