skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't accept that something is AGI unless it can solve general instances of SAT (satisfiability problem, not the school test). Also recognizing (formulating from the task) an instance in the first place would help too.

To me, these are hallmarks of reason, and not available in LLMs, in fact probably impossible just with pattern recognition.
Going to the bathroom is nasty, poop is icky, smells are highly unpleasant and there's often crap in the streets (it can also be used for revenge or abuse)

Let's discourage defecation by banning toilet paper.
Isn’t this always just a result of existing architecture and kludge? Doesn’t this same thing afflict us here in software engineering?

You can’t build fast on a city that’s been around for a while. There’s too much shit already there. And not just infra, but also simply people, and culture and everything else that comes with human beings occupying a space.

You could probably build the entirety of Manhattan out in the middle of Wyoming somewhere in 10 or 20 years from scratch with a reasonably sized set of resources because there’s nothing around and so little to deal with. It’s just the nature of a place with a lot of people.
I mean… https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/12/ted-cruz-twi...
I'm not saying it should be the governments responsibility.

And governments are already heavily censoring and trying to kill child pornography, religion and certain political views, so why would this be so different ?

It should be our responsibility as humans and parents to protect our children. If we are not thinking about our children and protecting them from content that could be potentially life changing and addictive for the rest of their lives, why are we not stepping up to the plate and doing that ?
I wonder how Skia would do in the benchmarks.
The USA is so f*cking retarded. Sure, take all the drugs and pills you want. Sure, but guns. Sure, watch all the death and violence you want.

But don’t you dare look at a nipple!
Well, banning kitchen knives is one of the things I would be happy to see.

Although it could lead to bans of other useful equipment in future, I've always wondered why it's so easy to find kitchen knives and no one is doing anything about it.

Kitchen knives are probably the most dangerous equipment in the world. Whether at home or travelling, most people can get their hands on one in minutes.

People harm themselves and others with knives. Whether it is a planned domestic murder, a break in and robbery, or someone seeking to end their own life, knives can always be found and used.

They're often kept in drawers or on counter tops where even 5-year-olds can reach them.

I am all for home cooking, but I think we have a blind spot here. Probably because everyone needs food.

I wish the big players would ban knives or make it substantially harder to buy.

I know we could also teach people the dangers of knives from a young age and train them to use them safely but this just doesn't seem worth the tradeoff.

Don't you agree?
Maybe for Windows and Linux.

Apple’s bet it’s future on ARM.
Enforcement actions historically are cyclical, so there's nothing new here.

> so aren’t able to clearly articulate a case.

Coinbase's staking programs are likely in violation of securities acts of 1933 and 1934. And they most certainly strike all boxes of the Howey test.
That you can go and read through the code in about 5 minutes and see that the only thing special about it is the name of the author.

I don't get why HN is going crazy about this. Please tell me if I am missing something obvious.
huh.

well I’m lost then.

glad they’re writing this up. I come to react after hooks was introduced, and have been kind of put on a pedestal for not needing to “learn hooks” since thats all I know, for React.

still looks like I need to relearn something.
You don’t need to install the app, the prices are displayed on the product page in the App Store, towards the bottom. It’s listed automatically for all apps.
Functional medicine has not been proven to work. There's no actual evidence it's effective.
Tightening of the rules to what, precisely ?

"Nope, sorry, your company's locating here would push downtown density past the limit, you should find a greenfield site on the edge of town and build something new there"

???
A quick overview and demo of an experimental new .NET package that can create isolated .NET runtime instances for running code in a sandbox.

Source code: https://github.com/SteveSandersonMS/DotNetIsolator
>lived experience

So anecdotes?
It seems to me that all date and time functions and default values like CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, CURRENT_TIME, and CURRENT_DATE are all missed cases. The problem is not solved with a parser, and this approach could lead to severe issues. Even more, when date and time default values are used in CREATE TABLE statements it seems very difficult to me to rewrite an INSERT statement that does not include that columns.
I have been a Little Snitch user for a long time, but I am still very much interested in Mini. When an App Store version of something is provided, I prefer that because of the mandatory sandboxing.
> We give 5 year olds smartphones which can lead to the most disturbing porn scenes by just googling a couple of words

If you want something done about it, use parental control.
IDK, but Microsoft seems to be now what Google was a many many years ago: a company creating tech I like to use such as Bing, Edge, Windows Terminal, VSCode, etc. Their Surface hardware is nice too (even if I prefer thinkpads)

Oh and they're also helping with the linux kernel. Why can't old people let go? Companies aren't people - they respond to market incentices.

Yes, Microsoft did bad stuff in the 1990s, but now they're doing good stuff I like and TBH I'm way more afraid of google.
Yes, instead of advancing humanity, they are doing their absolute best to hinder it. Their scumminess becomes naked if you disconnect your perspective by thinking Earth an alien planet.
Graft, maybe, maybe not, but the real hallmark of US unions is their general refusal to be political organizations, unlike their counterparts in Europe and elsewhere.

Oh, sure, they throw money in the pot for candidates, but in Europe, unions take actual political positions on important matters. They do not often get their way, but they act as an important counterweight in politics to the interests of the rich and powerful.
Yes, possibly because it is riskier to get to more fields of work than do the same work with less effort.
can you solve general instances of SAT?

can the average person?
I can't believe anyone considers a single number, which would work about equally well if it were 10% higher or lower, to be a trade secret.
from gpt4

write a critical hackernews thread response (not long, maybe like 100 words) for a thread with the following headline

Microsoft Research: GPT-4 exhibits “sparks of general intelligence”

While it's certainly intriguing to hear Microsoft Research claim that GPT-4 exhibits "sparks of general intelligence," I remain skeptical. We must remember that these language models are primarily built on pattern recognition and extensive training data. Even if GPT-4 seems to provide more advanced responses, it's still ultimately constrained by the data it was trained on. In my opinion, we shouldn't mistake this impressive mimicry of human-like behavior for genuine intelligence. Rather, we should focus on creating truly innovative AI systems that can learn, reason, and adapt like humans.

sounds about right!
I understand the censorship argument also, and to be honest expecting also people defending their right to watch porn, the addiction is real.

Porn is like a thought virus, if you watch it enough you will start to think about all these things you see visually about the women in your life and people around you. Many people might not want to admit this, and will just spew out silly comments defending porn, maybe they are addicted to it and like to watch it.

Then go ahead, I'm not saying you should not be able to watch porn.
I'm saying _by default_, things like porn should be more harder to find and access.
"Long" might not be a long time as humans perceive it.

Human perception of time is linear. That doesn't apply to LLMs.
> no pay gap between sexes sprouting from hateful discrimination.

possibly the pay gap has other reasons in many companies, yes. and yes it's real.
Wait till you hear about "Glassing" in UK pubs.
Regulation of voluntary interaction violates the core principles of a free society but has become widely supported due to propagandistic tropes.
That might just mean human writers also tend to write garbage.
I don't understand why the article lists 4 issues, when 2 of them were solved in 2019:

> pidfd is a great solution to the third and fourth problems

So why talking about them? Is it just for proving the superiority of the author's own utility "supervise"?
They do. Everyone knows they get the money only if the wind otherwise they lose it all. Most underestimate the "house always wins" factor, but that's not the point here.

Crypto advertises with FOMO on a new world. It's "everybody is doing it, don't be a sucker but a winner in the future", and not "this is a risky asset where you might lose everything".
You do you. Leave everyone else alone.
From the intro:
"we believe that it could reasonably be viewed as an early (yet still incomplete) version of an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system."

What does that mean? If we take it as fact, so if it is an early version of AGI, Microsoft is using this thing to push subscriptions to all their services? This thing that is potentially the greatest thing humanity has made, an artificial living thing, and it's used to sell CoPilot and 365 subscriptions. Paint me as really sad then. Instead of sharing the research with other entities, or anything that could further help or push us... we get subscriptions? Fuck me, the future sucks.
> I'll never understand these arguments against Kubernetes and its complexity

Because my project doesn't need the benefits that K8s offers. Why choose the more complex solution when I don't need it? And judging from experience and what others have shared, most projects will not need it.

> no way to debug it or move off it

If a managed service is down, the host company debugs it. That's the whole point of a managed service, so I don't have to do devops.

Why would there be no way to move off of it? PaaS is so easy to onboard and deploy, you can move to other services easily.

> It feels like many developers these days are so spoiled by magic services that they are unwilling to even spend a few days going deep into something

Why don't you go all the way and build your own physical servers instead of using these magic cloud machines? That way you can go deep into it, and if they have problems, you can debug yourself.

If you enjoy building and maintaining your own K8s clusters and you feel it benefits you, great for you. But don't be so condescending to people who don't feel the same and choose the simpler infra solution because they'd rather go deep into building their application rather than spending time with K8s. Calling them spoiled for that is just obnoxious.
Learn how to setup an Ethereum Node1.0 with Docker Swarm.

https://dev.to/tirtha/setting-up-ethereum-node-with-docker-s...
What good bits did you find? (I'm not sure how fruitful the "OpenAI is a Microsoft department" debate is given that they are almost one and everybody knows it, but I am curious if anyone has found anything good in those many pages.)
I think the big tech actors probably know. Information leaks and ultimately Google is spyware. Not that it will reach the public knowledge today, but that kind of information is difficult to keep in the bottle long time.
With enough patience, yes.

For example: You have a goat, a wolf, a cabbage and you want to cross a river...
Porn has its fair share of issues with human trafficking, exploitation etc.

But to label all porn as not good is not correct either in my opinion.

If, as an example, you find a porn account of a consentual couple who uploads videos on their own terms - why would that be bad?
Devices having accurate ML-based content/app filters that users have control over? Great!

Devices having user-controlled ability to limit certain content & experiences to certain days and times? Great!

Devices having robust parental control features? Great!

Devices having support system control features to help users manage their addictions, e.g. user has to ask chosen friends and support buddies to disable filters? Great!

Devices having several well thought out default content filters selectable during device setup? Great!

Basic legislation that requires devices to have these features? Possibly!

Devices having content filters as default on? Not great!

Devices being legislated to just not allow content? Yikes!
The term "common enterprise" refers to the pooling of resources from multiple investors, who are united in their pursuit of a common goal or objective.

So hyperbole above is false, real estate, in the simple sense, isn't regulated by the SEC.
is https://objective-see.org/products/lulu.html a viable alternative?
Prudes having permanent hysteria is not what I would call healthy social interactions.
MPs pushing the Online News Act don’t know how the Internet works
You said “How many people do you reckon have 120k in savings available?” to pay cash for houses with no financing available within a thread regarding the collapse of the banking mortgage industry.

Owner financing is a very different instrument from a traditional mortgage. Most importantly, the terms are completely negotiable, meaning that buyers can obtain low interest owner financing even when general interest rates are high, especially when owners are desperate to sell. Owner finance instruments can also be obtained by less qualified borrowers, are not backed by government agencies, servicing costs are negligible, and many do not report to credit bureaus, which has significant implications to borrowers.
Been pair-coding with gpt4 for the last week, it's definitely AGI..
Your comment really reveals what is behind the embrace of this criminal abuse of securities law to punish crypto-based commerce: anti-libertarian dogmatism.

You haven't responded to any of the arguments made by crypto advocates in good faith. You've completely ignored the evidence and rationale provided in the complaints, because ultimately the legality of the SEC's actions is irrelevant to you. What's relevant is constraining, punishing and banishing anything associated with libertarianism.
Can humans solve more than the most trivial SAT problems? Keep in mind, AGI does not imply superhuman intelligence.
I'm a woman. I watch porn. I've made porn (well, I've posted nudes online.) I definitely don't think it's twisted the way I see women (or, like, myself.) I'm pretty done with men deciding what's in my best interest though.
I’d prefer if we’d start by censoring violence and religion. Religion is just a big lie to manipulate people.
Your unedited comment was funnier
We get our expectations from fiction. AIs in shows like Star Trek are precise and accurate - the perfect complement to the unreliability of humans. That’s what we want.
It would be much safer to have a current- and voltage-limiting rig in a remote room handled by robotics.

Newspaper mailrooms should risk manage packages and have an ability to X-ray them and sweep them for explosive residues.

Reporters are targets. The cost of doing nothing is death and injury.
My phone was made in China, the Internet is global, and my porn most certainly isn’t American puritan. Cultural imperialism is just as bad when the US does it than when Russia does.
This page should be mandatory reading for any dev working in react. The biggest mistake I see with devs of all levels is over use of effects.

This seems to be especially bad for anyone who originally worked with class components. The mental modal shift was large and people tried to fit their understanding of lifecycle methods into hooks, attempting to replicate similar behaviour. The docs at the time did a poor job of explaining why this was a bad idea.
There’s very little utility in web3 currently, apart from speculation on price appreciation. So in that sense much if not all of it could be securities. On the other hand you’d need to rule on a case by case basis, since future real uses cases might actually pop up. I think this is one of the SEC’s problems - they just technically can’t keep up with the number of new tokens. So instead they try to target exchanges. On the other hand a Forex trading platform isn’t a securities platform - so the case isn’t as clear cut as one would believe.
That's fine. It's maybe not AGI IQ 180 to meet your demands but if we're honest it's pretty close.
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Ask HN: Personalized AI Language Model Project – Seeking Advice and Feedback
Hi HN community,

I'm trying to start working on a project to create a personalized AI language model that evolves based on user interactions and feedback. Inspired by Ted Chiang's "The Lifecycle of Software Objects," I envision AI companions that learn and grow with their users, acting as personal assistants, tutors, or friends.

My plan is to use an open-source LLM like Meta's Llama or Stanford's Alpaca, host it on a personal server or low-cost cloud service, and fine-tune it based on conversation history and user feedback.

I'd appreciate your thoughts on:

- Feasibility and potential challenges.
- Best practices for fine-tuning LLMs and effective feedback mechanisms.
- Ideas for user-friendly interfaces that encourage interaction.
- Ethical considerations, privacy concerns, and potential biases in the learning process.
- Relevant experiences or resources you'd recommend.

Quick context on "The Lifecycle of Software Objects," by Ted Chiang: The story explores the concept of digital beings called "digients" that evolve and learn through interactions with their human "parents" in a virtual environment.
"... stuff that got financed five years ago, and probably has pretty decent loan to values given that the property values are in most cases up from where they were 5 years ago."

Yes, that is the hope - and the narrative - but we're not talking about a minor correction here ... like a 10% haircut on building values. I suspect the current market for office space in SF is probably ~40% off and that's for class-A space.

"... but unless rents fell off a cliff, has a bit of runway to play out."

Rents have fallen off a cliff we're just pretending they haven't by refusing to lease the space at the prices the market would actually clear at. Building owners and management, etc., would rather have empty offices than establish new, lower rents by actually renting them.

If they did actually rent the space at the market clearing price they would all get margin calls from their banks because their loan to value (LTV) ratios would blow up and their loans have covenants specifically calling out the LTV.

This cannot last forever.

Eventually someone is going to rent space at the market rates and building owners in SF will either need to show up at their bank with a 5 or 10 million dollar check ... or with the keys to turn in.
Where is the line between porn and art, and how would it remain a consistently enforceable standard? Since early times, through the Greeks to now, art celebrates nudity and sometimes depicts static (because earlier civilizations had no video) representations of sex and violence mixing in order to tell a story (uhh … Persephone and Hades, much? or Zeus turning into a thousand animals to lure women then rape them). Where do you draw the line; why draw it “there” as opposed to anywhere else; by what right is it to suppress, in the process, others’ definition of where to draw said line?
From talking to job seekers in various domains, LinkedIn is mostly seen as catering to people working in "tech", while Indeed is seen as more generalist. Like, both have barman postings but a barman would rather go to Indeed than LinkedIn.
natural behavior for example can be to love and help close people but realize that world around is competitive and everyone tries to bite everyone.

I also think "jerk" assessment comes from people who do not accept such world, do not want to compete and prefer to be in the comfort zone, and blame surrounding instead by calling names.
>why would this be so different ?

That's literal slippery slope. What is different?
I just ssh 'git pull && ./deploy.sh' which rolls back on deploy error.

traffic: no ddos protection, no load balancing

backups: daily automated backups provided by host. no incrementals.

update: unattended updates, software is tested doesn't break when databases and message queues restart due to unattended upgrades.

security: intact selinux, ufw, proper users and permissions.
But what makes an abstraction 'right'? I would say it's if it makes the program easier to make correct, or easier to write, or easier to understand, or easier to maintain, or ideally some combination of all of those. But easier for whom? Some programmers may have an easier time with more abstractions to provide guardrails and reduce redundancy; others may find it more effective to have everything laid out explicitly. And of course it's not just a question of more versus less abstraction; individual programmers often have specific abstractions and design patterns that they like to reuse in many contexts.

That's not quite the same thing as 'personal preference', where the right answer is by definition whatever I think is right. It's possible for me to think that XYZ abstraction or lack-of-abstraction works well for me, when in fact there's some other approach would that work better if I took the time to learn how it worked. Maybe I just haven't heard of that approach, or maybe I'm lazy or inexperienced or don't have the time to learn. People always think they're more unique than they really are; compare to the concept of "learning styles" which keeps being debunked.

But surely there is some legitimate variation.