skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fred Hampton may have opinions about how different things are… Or aren’t.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton
I want my retirement occupation to be managing a 'nest' of AI agents (several server racks) where the agents engage in commerce and pay me rent in exchange for compute time.

Like cyberpunk beekeeping.
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It's a good idea but it seems quite easy to invert the first layer mapping. And the output of the last layer you can easily steal just by doing whatever would've been done in the client.
Again not sure if you meant country cap by birth or naturalization? I am not an Indian citizen and yet get discriminated like one despite my citizenship (not that anyone should be). Put another way my Australian born brethren get treated better than I do. I am not sure how you think that is fair or inclusive?
It’s clear they do seem to construct models from which to derive responses. The problem is once you stray away from purely textual content, those models often get completely batshit. For example if you ask it what latitude and longitude are, and what makes a town further north than another, it will tell you. But if you ask it if this town is further north than this other town, it will give you latitudes that are sometimes correct, sometimes made up, and will randomly get which one is further north wrong, even based on the latitudes it gave.

That’s because it doesn’t have an actual understanding of the geography of the globe, because the training texts werent sufficient to give it that. It can explain latitude, but doesn’t actually know how to reason about it, even though it can explain how to reason about it. That’s because explaining something and doing it are completely different kinds of tasks.

If it does this with the globe and simple stuff like latitudes, what are the chances it will mess up basic relationships between organs, symptoms, treatments, etc for the human body? Im not going to trust medical advice from these things without an awful lot of very strong evidence.
Get anything new recently? My last acquisition was a TC Electronic Super Chorus Flanger reissue- very nice :-)
You are absolutely right, but not every project needs reliable messaging.

Many projects can be just fine with ephemeral messaging, they might already have some kind of managed scalable database and failures can often be handled on the client side.

Often we insert messaging into an HTTP system, or replace an HTTP system. In those cases, the client is waiting for an acknowledgement from the system that sits on the other side of the queue.

What happens in HTTP is you send a request to an HTTP server, but it combusts before you get a responce? Connection breaks or you get "request timed out" and user can click the button again. Or you can retry in the client code.

For many joke apps it is not always worthwhile to double complexity to move from a 98% system to a 100% system.
Tried the demo app, followed the instructions, didn't work, filed a ticked, moving on, will evaluate again
Reddit hacked: Criminals steal source data and internal info in cyberattack | TechRadar

https://www.techradar.com/news/hackers-steal-reddit-source-d...
That's all I see when I see this company's name. Unfortunate choice.
What's funny about it is that a lot of delay was because it was one of the first AP1000 reactors and had to wait in line for the first AP1000 to get built in China and, thus, for a factory in China to figure out how to build a main coolant pump that was supposed to be easier to build.

It's not so clear that more AP1000's would be delayed so long but China has definitely moved on to the Hualong One.
The PinePhone has a 6" screen, the Pocket Reform has a 7" screen. That's enough to make a noticeable difference for sure, but it's not incomparable, especially considering the PPKB goes to the very edge of the device and the Pocket Reform has an obvious bezel.
If this is public I can only imagine what Google has internally. Does DeepMind compete in this space or is it fundamentally different than a llm like Bard?

With their massive codebase and already deep investment in AI/ML, I'm pretty sure Google and likely MS already have the ability to do massive refactoring, validate it using tests, reiterate, train, rinse and repeat.
So your take is...soldiers should die to landmines?
I think criticizing the argument. It's so common for a non-positive logical conclusion to be sort of a half hearted reductio ad absurdum (disproving by showing the consequence is absurd) that many people mistake this for happening when it's not. So, they argue against the sub-text that may or may not actually be there.

Or, maybe they're just copying the joke. (The joke aspect being that even when saying how AI won't dominate everything, he's referring to human works as "training data", so it's at least dominating the framing.)
Renewables are cheap and pose zero risk of nuclear exposure. We should be looking at 100% renewable solutions.
Twitter has put up those huge, ugly picture ads on comment and search feeds. Those ads are everywhere now. I think they risk annoying users with too many ads.
That's assuming we can keep up production in key materials, like copper, nickel, etc.

It takes a shit ton of water to process copper, often in places that don't have a lot of it like the Atacama region in Chile. To say nothing of the pollution that local residents face because of it.
In the scenario you are replying to synthesized fuel is the storage solution and there is no peak demand.
For additional context, deBoer has bipolar disorder and has been hospitalized. He had a manic episode in 2017 where he publicly made false accusations against another journalist.

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/i-would-like-closure-bu...
Made my first million this year myself actually and I probably have many people to credit that I forgot to credit. I can start with Pythagoras, Galileo [insert everyone between], Kernighan, Ritchie. Also the guy who invented pencilin. I'm honestly not sure how these angles arise. Knowledge wants to be free. We are here today because of this fact.

When it comes to spam culture sure. But will we ever be there? "AI art" isn't impressive and will never be. It is impressive in the academic sense. Nothing more.
> They've had to change safety tests and infrastructure tests so the order plans would pass inspection.

It's interesting to square this sentiment with the people a few comments away claiming that over-regulation is killing this industry.

(Working in nuclear, I find neither sentiment particularly true nor totally false.)
>This is/was the website for hackers.

No, this is and was a website for VC’s and their employees. A small subset of hacker culture at best.

Cleverly named though.
Do openai etc respect robots.txt, or has the world decided a few billionaires can repackage everyone else's work and sell it back to them no matter what?
hey, im very concerned about AI and AGI and it is so refreshing to read your comments. over the years i have worried about and warned people about AI but there are astonishingly few people to be found that actually think something should be done or even that anything is wrong. i believe that humanity stands a very good chance of saving itself through very simple measures. i believe, and i hope that you believe, that even if the best chance we had at saving ourselves was 1%, we should go ahead and at least try.

in light of all this, i would very much like to stay in contact with you. ive connected with one other HN user so far (jjlustig) and i hope to connect more so that together we can effect political change around this important issue. ive formed a twitter account to do this, @stop_AGI. whether or not you choose to connect, please do reach out to your state and national legislators (if in the US) and convey your concern about AI. it will more valuable than you know.
The normal ChatGPT interface also switched to the cheaper model, and lots of people complained when they switched (though not enough to make a big media splash). With ChatGPT Pro you can select between the new and the "Legacy" model (and now GPT4 as a third option)
> do massive refactoring, validate it using tests

Google do have damn good mass code change tools, for human, without AI.
That was definitely a thing back then. I've had sites slashdotted several times and never had any issues using FreeBSD and static-ish content and/or compiled C cgi's w/mysql. It also helped that I worked in networking and always had (sometimes just) enough bandwidth available.

Then there was that time in my Atari 800 was slashdotted. The Atari could serve several hits/s on it's 9600 baud interface but the 3com CS-210 terminal server would crash about every 6 hours. https://kl.net/atari/

Probably the most surprising (for it's time) hits/s I had to deal with was when Art Bell had my solar status monitor gif's inlined right on his homepage for a while in 1997-98. It was pretty wild when he would say on the air "Go to my website right now!"
How does capitalism "disallow" any of that? Where is your evidence that disallowing this is a stated goal under capitalism?

I think you're confusing "free market" USAmerican right-Libertarian ideology with capitalism itself.

Capitalism, simply put, is defined as private ownership over the means of production, and the people who have that ownership are called the capitalist class. None of that precludes any sort of collusion.

Such collusion (and other things, such as child labor) was commonplace in the Western world recently and is still commonplace elsewhere — capitalists still wail and cry foul when legislation, no matter how toothless or perfunctory, is introduced to curtail such behavior.
In Florida, an invasive snail is helping save an endangered bird
Very open! :)
I assume your goal is to reveal the short-sighted reasoning of the previous comment, but I don't think your line of reasoning is any more sound.

For both premises, scientific rigor would ask us to define the following:
- What constitutes a trick question
- Should an AGI make the same mistakes the general populace does, or a different standard?
- If it makes the same mistakes I do, is it do to the same underlying heuristics (see Thinking Fast and Slow) or is it due to the nature of the data it's ingested as an LLM?
Or a causal thing....reddit being down means that some number of people switch to hackernews to pass time.
Here are reasons I'm using S3 in some projects:

1. Cost. It might vary depending on vendor, but generally S3 is much cheaper than block storage, at the same time with some welcome guarantees (like 3 copies).

2. Pay for what you use.

3. Very easy to hand off URL to client rather than creating some kind of file server. Also works with uploads AFAIR.

4. Offloads traffic. Big files often are the main source of traffic on many websites. Using S3 allows to remove that burden. And S3 usually served by multiple servers which further increases speed.

5. Provider-independent. I think that every mature cloud offers S3 API.

I think that there are more reasons. Encryption, multi-region and so on. I didn't use those features. Of course you can implement everything with your own software, but reusing good implementation is a good idea for most projects. You don't rewrite postgres, so you don't rewrite S3.
>They will not allow their AI as a service without data collection

They already allow their AI as a service without data collection, check their TOS.
Big organizations are done in my opinion.

In the future there will be tiny super qualified teams on some narrow slice of competency having super narrow data sets they will guard like it is the fort knox.

Everyone else: Fridge repair.
Why did you skip half the sentance?

> The first commercial plants are not expected before 2040–2050,[3] although the World Nuclear Association in 2015 suggested that some might enter commercial operation before 2030.[4]

An optimistic 2030 from 8 years ago, with about zero progress to date.
> Wouldn’t it be more effective to identify achievements by non-whites as opposed to eradicating achievements by whites

If that was their goal, then yes, but given that it isn't, they do this instead.
SVB execs sold $84M in stock over the past 2 years
Will we see this in a publicly facing AI? Creativity relies on avoiding existing truths, and embracing/testing “hallucinations”, something that’s being actively stomped out for “safety”.
They said that image uploading is just a preview, and will be developed with a partner company
Anti-AI measures like this?
https://platform.openai.com/ai-text-classifier
still dead for me.
I think the biggest upgrade that can never happen on Reddit (because of the entrenched moderator community) is the ability to democratically oust a rogue moderator. Reddit is really more of a dictatorship than a democracy, the most senior moderator can do pretty much whatever they want within the bounds of the site guidelines.
I'm not saying that we won't be able to eventually mathematically model cognition in some way.

But GP specifically says neural nets should be able to do it because they are universal approximators (of Lebesgue integratable functions).

I'm saying this is clearly a nonsense argument, because there are much simpler physical processes than cognition where the answers are not Lebesgue integratable functions, so we have no guarantee that neural networks will be able to approximate the answers.

For cognition we don't even know the problem statement, and maybe the answers are not functions over the real numbers at all, but graphs or matrices or Markov chains or what have you. Then having universal approximators of functions over the real numbers is useless.
There are ridership estimates but I am very skeptical. Fares are expected to be 80% of airfares but airfares to Fresno aren't cheap.
Fukushima had trouble with the backup coolant systems. One reactor had the isolation condenser fail. Unlike US plants, where the isolation condenser is regularly tested, they had never tested it so they didn't know what it sounded like when it was in operation (you couldn't miss it!) they didn't realize it wasn't working.

They tried to cool another reactor by pumping in water from fire trucks and found that the water didn't go where it was supposed to go, it took quite a few months of work to really understand the path it went through.
> It has actually gotten a lot better.

Come on, almost every evening you get error pages. Yes they don't last more than a few refreshes, but it's simply ridiculous for a site as prominent as Reddit.
The "I am not yet convinced nuclear power will ever be economic but I'd like to be wrong." is the elephant in the room.

Renewables used to be exotic, expensive, and did not scale-up. Now they are the shortest distance from capital in to ROI out. They scale up and down. They are insurable. That last bit: insurability, deserves a lot more attention than it gets.
Or they are maladapting to pain that they’ve experienced, or just behaving out of pure ignorance.
> lawyer an entire case history

~50 pages is ... not the entire history of most cases.
Systems integrator - A person who puts AI driven pieces of technology together.
What apps on the phone do you use for live conversation captioning?

I'm thinking a tablet that does this would be ideal for in-home use by some elderly relatives. AR glasses won't be suitable for some time for the elderly, as it seems eyesight starts going before hearing.
> The portfolio, consisting mostly of U.S. Treasuries, had a book value of $23.97 billion and its sale fetched proceeds of $21.45 billion for SVB, it said.

10.5% discount? Why didn't somebody else offer say... 9.5% off? Seems like free money?
the alternative looks like robocop slum skyscrapers to me
Which wrong by the way.

GPT4 is a valuable tool but it's not any form of general AI. It doesn't need to be in order to have a big impact.

Whether the current direction of research can take us there, nobody knows yet.
Nuclear feels a bit like having a loaded gun in your home in an unsafe neighbourhood.

You feel safer but there’s a lot of risk - accidental suicide, etc.
Reposting my comment from 2 years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28453627):

FediTips, a Mastodon account, recently shared some concerns about the Uyghur-related content in the largest Lemmy instance, which is run by Lemmy's developers:

https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379

This created a firestorm on Lemmy, on which it was noted that Lemmy removes conservative and libertarian communities with the reason "No conservative communities":

> Removed Community conservatives reason: No conservative communities

> Removed Community Libertarian, in the pursuit of a free society reason: No conservative communities allowed

https://lemmy.ml/post/78808

https://lemmy.ml/modlog

Perhaps the underlying software is fine, but the largest Lemmy instance is not exactly the friendliest to anyone who wants to express themselves more freely than they are allowed to on mainstream social networks.
If the chatbot technology proves useful I'm sure OAI could make some agreement to not store sensitive data.
I have found that it works better for me not have unlimited hearts. I make my mistakes, and in I am not ready on a level then I have to repeat it. And either way I then do practice rounds to fill my hearts back up to full (I try to always leave the app with full hearts).

In the times I have had SuperDuolingo for free Have been annoyed that I can just keep plowing through mistakes (really: lack of knowledge), and don't have to really learn things before moving on with them... I just have to guess right once for each question.

But I do agree that DuoLingo is all about learning by making mistakes. I wish they had a bit more focused teaching for grammar, at least it would help me with the Hungarian. For a few items I have had to go outside the app for lessons on what I am just not getting by repetition.
Yeah there are tons of people working in infosec that don't know or use any linux. IMHO they're doing themselves a disservice (both professioally and personally) but it is the reality that you can have a solid infosec career and never have to know linux.
I fully support these people. The meat grinder he has created is not worth the slight convenience afforded by Amazon. Bezos will be considered a robber baron by historians, rightfully so.
https://archive.md/Uqc1t
What economic statistics would those be?
I don't even live in the US let alone SV and I don't work at FAANG. Comparing companies without taking compensation into account is just silly.

> If the folks I work with are any indication, the extra money is what you'll tell yourself you'll spend one day while you blow the best years of your life grinding away at work

I'm curious how old you are and how many YOE you had before you joined FAANG as a senior.

What did you spend "the best years of your life" doing instead of "grinding away at work"?
What regulations have killed the nuclear industry? Because every US administration since George W. Bush have supported and promised subsidies to the nuclear industry. For example, construction of Vogtle 3 and 4 only began after Obama promised federal loan guarantees.
I asked bing chat about whether it was gpt4. It denied it, then I asked it to search for news stories about bing and gpt4 and to summarize them. Then it would start admitting that gpt4 was part of its tech stack but only a small part (condescendingly, hah). Clever machine. Good bot.
Ask HN: Is GPT-4 smarter than you?
People are talking about if it's close to AGI or not, but this is a more direct and simple question.
It's OK, I got a cheap AI lawyer :)
From the original Reform product page:

> We selected their "Nitrogen8M SOM" module for Reform because it is the only available module for which you can download the complete schematics and understand what every component does.

There are also a number of community SOM projects for the original which should work with the Pocket, including a raspberry pi CM4, and a Layerscape 1028A
It's funny how so many of us half expect something like this to happen and won't be surprised when it does.
You can use the product now though, they aren't pulling a Google.
And they delete completions within 30 days.
I think the expected amount of disruption is overblown.

I think many of us are confusing the magnitude of our surprise at how "coherent" the responses of these LLMs are to how useful they are going to be.

In the end I think they will end up augmenting the workflow of many professions, but disrupting or totally replacing few.
It comes up regularly on HN(i.e. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20846408).

FAANG folks have high salary expectations, often do not know how to work in a less supportive environment, often possess big egos, and will leave as soon as they're offered another FAANG gig.

When I've hired for non-FAANG roles, I hire folks who are going to be a good fit for the team and the company, who demonstrate a good understanding of the work they've done, and whose experience aligns with what the role requires. Coming from a FAANG was neither a benefit nor an asset to me. Now that I've done time in the valley, I think I'd be extra careful to screen toxic folks.
Where is the evidence for "less metaverse"?
Parts could be the first leak of Apple’s mixed-reality headset
Quite typical: Linux Mint, managed by apt with a third party repository [1].

On Mac I simply use the official installers from python.org.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~deadsnakes/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
> The argument that an AI can’t be thinking because it’s producing language is just as silly

That is not the argument
If you believe Nvidia market speak, they took AI and used it to optimize their A100 chips when creating the H100 line, so we're already using artificial brainpower on the problem.
All the language models are able to use tools such as Python or theorem provers. They don't need to do calculations "in their head".
I think of building software kind of like making pottery or sculpting in general. I just get something useful working to start with, it doesn't matter what the structure is. It's a lump of clay to be refined.
So did digg.com for some time after the redesign.
> the three of us live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Steve and I each have three kids; we knew that the dollar figure that would allow us to live without financial distress – which we put at $175,000 a year

Putting aside the fact that is terrible way to determine the rate of pay for anyone, let alone every single person in a company - how on earth did they come up with such a lower number for such a high cost of living area?
Most technology advances are not labor replacing but rather labor augmenting. For example, LLMs could make teachers much more productive in the classroom but it would be unlikely to replace teachers entirely.
They are referring to this https://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/?whats-new-ess.sort-by=it...
I personally found the index fund comparison quite thought-provoking. Not necessarily supportive or countering the original point, but interesting.
I agree with you!

And imo, it's because it's morning now in India. I usually start seeing Indian politics comments around now on HN
Yes, but it's unlikely they will continue their work outside of Russia and many people can very well be bought back. Western countries don't really help talent with Russian passports to leave the country and since space industry is very close to military it's only make it harder to get EU / US visas.

Source: I have a friend who worked at Sea Launch more than decade ago and now he wasn't able to get green card he won because of security clearance.