skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ghost in the Shell, still as relevant as ever:

Human:
> "Just as there are many parts needed to make a human a human there's a remarkable number of things needed to make an individual what they are. A face to distinguish yourself from others. A voice you aren't aware of yourself. The hand you see when you awaken. The memories of childhood, the feelings for the future. That's not all. There's the expanse of the data net my cyber-brain can access. All of that goes into making me what l am. Giving rise to a consciousness that l call 'me.' And simultaneously confining 'me' within set limits."

AI:
> "As an autonomous life-form, l request political asylum.... By that argument, l submit the DNA you carry is nothing more than a self-preserving program itself. Life is like a node which is born within the flow of information. As a species of life that carries DNA as its memory system man gains his individuality from the memories he carries. While memories may as well be the same as fantasy it is by these memories that mankind exists. When computers made it possible to externalize memory you should have considered all the implications that held... l am a life-form that was born in the sea of information."
There are several competing standards…

https://xkcd.com/927/
EU was set to ban internal combustion engine cars, then Germany changed its mind
Genuine question as I definitely need more to balance my own thinking —

What has your experience with GPT been? For me, GPT-3 was not really useful as a software dev.

But GPT-4 is miles ahead of that. It’s helped me write code maybe 4-8x faster than usual, and has even allowed me to debug existing issues far, far quicker and more accurately than I’d ever be able to on my own.

Part of the gap very well might be my own mediocrity with development . I wouldn’t argue that folks with far superior skills and novel challenges day-to-day might be unimpressed.

But as an average dev writing pretty boring code (REST APIs and system integration mostly), I’ve been blown away by GPT-4. I am pretty well compensated and have been in the field for 10 years, too; but I am aware of my own shortcomings.
>Creative directors suck? It's incredible difficult being s creative director having to organise multiple people to perform coherently, and even much harder for whole teams.

Difficult in terms of effort. Not difficult in terms of skill. Make no mistake the quality of a movie is more the sum of the quality of the parts then it is the creative director. Who wrote the script? Who did the digital effects? Who did the lighting? Who did the editing?

The director did the hard work of picking the people and issuing orders.

>I think it's natural for humans to reduce and simplify things we don't engage with every day, or our brains would be overloaded. So we just handwave it off. We do it to other people too unfortunately... Remember how complex your life (internal and external) is; other's lives are equally complex and nuanced.

Except I am more or less a director. Not one for movies but for a company.

There is a difference between handwaving something off versus being delusional about your own role within the world. Directing is hard work, management is hard work. But none of these things are skilled work.

>All fiction writers suck? I don't know how much fiction you read, but it's incredible varied. There's a lot writers need to think about and control in the reader (and account for multiple profiles) outside of just an idea. But the ideas themselves need to be coherent. own position.

It is certainly easier to create an entire space opera in writing then it is to do it via a movie. Writing is skilled work in terms of one skill only: your ability to write. Every other aspect of it is hard work but, unfortunately, unskilled work.

I realize there are complex plots, paradoxical stories and imaginative settings and the pacing of a story is important as well. But all of this doesn't really require skill just time and deep thought to come up with. Plenty of the most popular authors never had a writing background or talent.

I would say again that these director positions while in principle are easily replaceable they are not in practice due to politics. A director or CEO is where he is mainly due to politics. Politics is unfortunately a skill with aspects that not only need to be imitated by AI but imitated by robotics as well, and it's simply a gateway into the role with no relation to the actuality of the job requirements.

Its hard to imagine a computer issuing the same exact orders as a director. But with LLMs computers are really close to doing that in principle. The issue is as I mentioned the social and political aspect of directing that cannot be replaced yet.
You don't deserve the downvotes.

Men and women have different chromosomes. They have different skeletal structures. They have different amounts of hormones. They have different averages.

Women can have children. Men cannot.

The fact that people are trying to argue otherwise is frankly insane.
Usually the arguments are a) it provides runtime access to the source (which for example is useful in R), b) runtime introspection is easier to understand (for the proponents) & less complex than macros and that macros are too static (they want more flexibility at runtime). For example authors of the REDUCE computer algebra system ( https://reduce-algebra.sourceforge.io/ ) disliked Common Lisp for the lack of FEXPRs and that's why they stayed away from it. There were lots of discussions at the time when Common Lisp was introduced.

> The languages you mention probably

No, see above.

Example: https://picolisp.com/wiki/?pros-and-cons
Depends on what the topic of understanding is. In this case it's actually token relationships, right? It does know that very, very well. And there's a lot (.. potentially, hah) that we can do with token relationships.

By itself it's unlikely to ever be knowledge of course.. i see it more akin to NLP than knowledge. Which is to say, a general purpose language parsing tool which we can hand the result to something else. A conversational API, if you will, but we'll still need layers to actually run logic. To know math if you will.

Disclaimer: I know very little on the subject. Pure speculation.
The fight over the debt ceiling could sink the economy. This is how we got here
It's Schroedinger evidence - it exists until you have to show it in court.
I haven't seen anyone call these LLMs "useless" or "gimmicks." What I have seen is pushback against calling them general AIs or even "intelligence" in general. LLMs are not "intelligent." They do not reason by any reasonable interpretation of the word, and it is certainly an unfounded leap to suggest they "reason" the same way humans do. Especially considering we don't really know how humans reason.
Too little, too late? Comparing Europe's pension systems
How is the ai supposed to know these watermarks aren't a style element? They're present in tens of thousands of input images, after all. Therefore, I'd say this is a bad example of an AI literally copying from one specific source. It's similar to it using Arial letters: they're everywhere in the source data.
> We really care about internet culture, bandwidth

I wish 99% of sites gave a damn about these things. Well, I approve, and good luck!
I just noticed that the tip of Chrysler building seems to be casting shadow on the sky which looks weird.
Do you accept the government regulations on driving licenses, school books, urbanization laws, selling alcohol to minors, regulating the possession of nuclear and chemical weapons? If yes, is it then acceptable to have limitations and regulations on the type of personal firearms?
I'm not denying the historical reality of false flag operations, I'm saying they were individual events rather than a prolonged widespread campaign of (self-)destruction.
It would remove the benefit of running on Go. It would be less efficient than v8 + libuv because your TypeScript on Golang runtime wouldn't be as fast as v8 + JIT to run the application code which is now written in a language built for dynamic dispatch.
I’m sure CNN has offices and studios in New York, but it is certainly still headquartered in Atlanta.
Bitcoin is a solution looking for a problem
Is this a reading comprehension test?

The g-parent comment notes “Is Russia wrong for starting a war? Yes.”
https://archive.is/LDppt
Stay ahead of AI: Cultivate AI-Resilient Intelligence and maintain your competitive edge in a world of automation.
How does a sandboxed Python interpreter work? Is it even possible, from what I heard you can't really sandbox Python.
txtai combines SQLite and Faiss to enable vector search. It also does a lot more than that.

https://github.com/neuml/txtai
This is a poor analogy. A calculator automates a completely deterministic operation. You don't really verify that a calculator's output is correct, do you? So, there is no question of intelligence. It is a "dumb" computer by definition.
Access Denied for me here in India too. Looks like they set up to block by countries.
When faced with the reality of capitalism, maybe toxic positivity is all there is. I’d like to think that there’s a way that we could plan our society better, and evaluate tech against social costs, but the reality is that in the US we have never done that.

I disagree with your point. The problem is that people will gladly accept changes brought by technology up until the point that it affects them personally. The people that bought a cheap vinyl sign were not forced to purchase them, and yet they did.

This is not a problem with tech, it’s a problem with us. If you like liberty, then you know the choice that people will make, and that’s what is terrifying.
This is an uncharitable description of human understanding: your statement is simply not true in this context.
Sure you can say that everything I see is technically a representation in my head. But there is very much a shared reality, a domain of objects and state of affairs for which we both agree about the presence or absence of the same representations. There's a difference between a value and our measurement of a value. If every multimeter we touch to a battery reads 5.9v, its possible the battery is actually 6v and every single multimeter was coincidentally wrong. However from the inside the situation is indistinguishable from a 5.9v battery. We may as well accept the reality of our perception and its representations as the real thing per se, because even if it is delusion we are still stuck playing by its rules as if it were real.

I am "really" seeing an eye in the mirror in the sense that I'm seeing the same thing other people would call an eye, and thus it exists in the shared domain. To have a shared domain of objects and facts is to have a common ground. There is no "object itself" for us to reach out and grasp outside of our mutual perception of objects. We might all be in a computer simulation. Doesn't matter. The conversational/perceptual reality is reality.
I can't find a way to delete my account in settings. How do you do it?
> I hope one day I'll buy a AAA game, with a noscript/basic (x)html browser and play it on highly performant RISC-V CPU.

What a dream! I'd add the game would be open source; don't care about the art though.
>So does Bing and multimodal models.

I'm not talking about getting fed pictures and videos. I'm talking about interacting with others in the physical world, having social relations, developing goals and interests, taking the initiative, perceiving how the world responds to all of that.

>What does "fully" mean?

Being able to draw conclusions that are not possible to draw from language alone. The meaning of language is not just more language or pictures or videos. Language refers to stuff outside of itself that can only be understood based on a shared perception of physical and social reality.
Not sure if you're tapping maple trees in Canada, but this is about Quebec, specifically the "Strategic Reserve" of the Quebec Maple Syrup Producers [1].

In general, Canada allows for controls on the supply-side in agriculture, including limiting imports. The alternative is to take the approach used in the U.S. of allowing prices to fall to unsustainable levels but then providing cash subsidies to producers. There has been a decades-long conversation about this between the two countries, of course.

[1] "The World's Only Reserve of Maple Syrup" https://ppaq.ca/en/sale-purchase-maple-syrup/worlds-only-res...
Blocked from India.
the open internet is dead my friend......
Yes, one time use Python, use it and throw it away. Similarly diffusion images are mostly throwaways and personal stuff, one time use art. Waiting for the one-time use UIs.
Endless wars...

The children of North America have by in large not experienced war themselves in well over a century, with cartel violence being the standout counterexample of sorts. More lost parents to wars, but the Vietnam War was now a few generations ago and the "wars on terror" effected only tens thousands of North American families in this way, counting all casualties not just fatalities. Tens of thousands sounds like a lot but this country has hundreds of millions of people, so you can hardly explain broad social trends with this.

So how else might wars be effecting children in North America? Well for one, children may become depressed after watching tons of graphic foreign war footage online... on social media.....
This is confusing rights of an AI with rights of the owners of the data and art used to train models.
The wealth gap can increase and the median household can also have more discretionary income at the same time.
DOE already funds a ton of research programs in battery tech, PV, and other renewables. I mean it would be great if they could fund even more, but you make it seem like some kind of politically untenable topic when it’s not
> Rustling RPMs

fyi the term is actually "rassling", unless referring to stealing rpms from other ranchers
"So much of human "reasoning" is also just automated reflex."

citation needed. This is an assertion you've made without any real evidence.
It is okay to be loyal to anyone or anything as far as that loyalty is rewarded. Yes, any manager would be more willing to put extra burden to loyal workers, but if at the same time they are equally willing to give those workers a raise or promotion — it seems okay in my book. Also, workers willing to do extra work will be last to laid off.
It doesn't necessarily have to be these laws, it could be anything, but to answer your question - they might paint me as somehow being "against the children", having bought in to the angle that these laws make children safer.
How's that win-win relationship working out for Ukraine right now?

"The Ukrainian military already is bleeding Russia in the Donbass
region (and vice versa). Providing more U.S. military equipment and
advice could lead Russia to increase its direct involvement in the conflict and the price it pays for it ... Increasing
military advice and arms supplies to Ukraine is the most feasible of these
options with the largest impact, but any such initiative would have to be
calibrated very carefully to avoid a widely expanded conflict."

- 2019 paper from the RAND Corporation titled Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/...
And yet this bill will probably impact them in the same way.
And gold-plated pure monocrystalline copper connectors.
You never remodel or have to repair holes in the walls of your home? In my experience, we would have lead based paint particles floating all around the house from all the projects and fixes we do.
>> Updates can be handled by stuff like unattended-upgrade package in debian

>That won't keep up with the breaking changes this type of software usually has.

this only updates to current stable, so there will be no breaking changes as those are essentially security updates.

The "breaking changes" part is once every 2 year distro upgrade but it's generally very little, although that heavily depends on software you use of course. That from experience of few hundred machines at work and half a dozen private ones.

But if you wrote custom config you will have to change it if the format changed, you won't get away from that no matter how much automation you throw at the thing.

>> If you're using Ubuntu or ubuntu derivative it's same except its russian roulette whether upgrade will actually work. In my experience just fucking don't or prepare for full reinstall every few years.

> When was the last time you did that? That hasn't been true for literally years.

Just recently we fixed a machine of user where they tried to upgrade and some random shit broke. It also filled /boot with a bunch of kernels (it did not remove old ones) that made the machine unbootable coz it ran out of space on kernel update. It still could be booted on old one but of course user didn't knew that. We've actually migrated few people over the years to Debian precisely because they just broke their ubuntu during update somehow.

I imagine it is much less with actual competent users and server, not desktop.
I've been having great success running their rolling release (Tumbleweed). I've basically rolled the same install forward for almost a decade on some machines with no real issues.

For people who want the "batteries-included" Ubuntu-like experience, but without the semi-annual release schedule (which often requires a complete reinstall in my experience; upgrading usually has messed up something on my servers), OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is a good option to consider.

edit: I primarily recommend this for desktop installations. Server installations may have different requirements, but for a daily driver that will work pretty much everywhere, it is a very good option to consider.
just make a compiler. same result, less time, more learning.

yes you should be able to "just do it" nothing involved is hard, everything i needed i had by age 14 in the 1990s without the internet. this means you have it too.
I love using Opensuse mostly because it's simple and mainly YAST which makes the OS simple and fun to use.
I've been working on this which has some similar functionality in a desktop app: https://github.com/blipk/gptroles

It's still in development, but you can currently run bash and python from any markdown code blocks in the chat.

I'm working on getting a terminal emulator over the code blocks for better integration.
New York to London round trip ticket price was $14,522 in 2023 dollars...
Tangential, but I'm intrigued to see Chisel having such success. Can anyone in the know comment on how it's doing and what impact it has in the hardware industry?
Which American country you have in your mind and why? Americas have both democratic countries and dictatorships. It is hard to make a two-continent-wide generalization. Pick up a country, a war, and a side first, then I will tell you.
On the one hand, extrapolation from recent developments is always uncertain, and practically useless when we do not know how far it would have to be sustained, but on the other, the argument that we won't get there because we haven't made any progress yet will be just as true as it ever was right up until it is not.
Neutrino bomb incoming? Where can I read about proposed weapons using neutrinos?
You say it may not matter, I say I think it certainly doesn't.
Of course there is, else it'd be a database. The poems, prose and histories of bears in space which it generates typically do not exist.
1. The sun has a (weak) magnetic field that affects how its gas moves, which we don't fully understand.
2. There is a Coriolis force all the way down to the center of the sun, which makes the gas move in weird ways.
3. As a sphere of fluid, the sun supports vibrational modes that we are only just beginning to understand. (See work by e.g., Conny Aerts)
4. We can't really see into the sun’s interior, although understanding the vibrational modes will help.
This is a good observation and it could indeed be a driver.
Even here there are epistemic issues:

>> This actually gets at the heart of the problem with the current batch of LLMs.

Here you are implying that the fault lies [solely] with LLMs.

>> They have no concept of truth, and so will gladly generate tokens that are "likely", but are at best clearly wrong, or worse look correct to a non-expert, but are subtly wrong.

Hear you are asserting that you have the means yourself to reach truth. This is extremely easy to do if you're speaking abstractly, but try executing that at the concrete level (as above) and it's pretty difficult to avoid imperfection.

Regarding the difficulty of truth, is the problem here entirely with LLMs, or is the problem with reality itself?

When ChatGPT (or anyone/anything) says something "is" true (and some people agree) someone else says it "is" not, how are we to decide which is correct?

Where does this "is" that people "are [only] perceiving" come from? Where, and what, "is" "reality"?

Is the universe equal/identical to reality? That's how a lot of people talk...but is it true?

INB4 "we could all be brains in jars", which is one of the most common responses to arise "purely by coincidence" when this topic is raised.
Wilson Hall is the total opposite of depressing for me. Especially the interior is quite beautiful:

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UOpsfRLRr_I/VbhWuR4OeBI/AAAAAAAAB...

https://live.staticflickr.com/3800/33033871090_f658526696_b....

The art and architecture around the lab has a surprisingly rich history dating back to its first director who was also a sculptor/artist: https://history.fnal.gov/historical/art_arch/art_architectur...
It can be complex and limiting. Alternatively I run ArchLinux + Sway and life is pretty simple.

Some people prefer "easy to use" which I interpret as probably not needing to read the docs to accomplish it's primary use-case.

Others prefer simple which I interpret as meaning once you have read the docs you will likely understand the software in it's entirety.

If it wasn't already obvious I'm in the latter category, simple rules IMO.
Especially with geometry nodes I imagine Blender does indeed satisfy many users need.
Someone on here shared https://brutalist.report/ a few months back and I’ve been using that. Dead simple, no bullshit.
I think this combined with the carrier capability is the scariest for the enemy. You'll never be sure there aren't F-35s around.
Westerners deciding in droves that their governments are the worst and Russia is never at fault is suspicious though. I guess if those Westerners equally despised Russia, that would show some integrity, but what we see is people “deciding” to assist Russia in its endeavors even when those endeavors are stealing foreign children. Like when there was a post about ICC’s warrant for Putin here, of course the commenters arrived with “how dare the West prosecute crimes”
Naively positive. People whose jobs are outpaced by technology end up working "dead end" jobs that nobody else wants or fall into poverty if they are not lucky enough to be able to retire. Turning around in your 40s, 50s, or 60s to find new employment in a new field? This is exceptionally challenging.
> We should stop using using that term

There would be little issue with the term 'Artificial Intelligence', provided that it were clear it means "problem solver that could replace a human professional, in finding clever solutions".

So, in normal logic, when you call a Statistical Language Model - or an Expert System, or Sorting, whatever - "Artificial Intelligence", it should be clear that you implied the above nuance.
Is it possible that AI rendering will make RT moot.
To some limited extent, they are already good at maths:

https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/2201.02177

This paper makes me believe it's less about the lack of ability to understand maths, but the power to learn more of it.
Sorry, I will add a button right now. This was in the backlog a bit too long.