skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do tell— how can you prove humans are any different?

There likely is not a way to prove to you that human intelligence and LLMs are different. That is precisely because of the uniquely human ability to maintain strong belief in something despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. It underpins our trust in leaders and institutions.

> ’m forever amazed how a seemingly forward-looking group of people is continually dismissive of a tool that came out LITERALLY 4 MONTHS AGO

I don't see people being dismissive. I see people struggling to understand, struggling to process, and most importantly, struggling to come to grips with the a new reality.
My bet would be the amount of preservatives in food is a contributing factor. Sure, it prevents bacterial contamination of our food, but once introduced to your body how is it impacting your gut biome? It's filled with bacteria that are just as susceptible to those preservatives. And we now know that affecting your gut biome means that your digestive tract is more susceptible to illness.
This is in fact the best thing that can happen to Meta. At the moment no one really knows or cares about VR/AR. If Apple successfully takes it mainstream then they would have done what years of Meta's marketing campaigns couldn't, and suddenly they'll have a real market to compete in. Heck they don't even have to be better at it. Playing the Google/Android role is good enough.
I felt fine with this justification at 15% when there was equilibrium, but clearly that hasn't prevented the creep of undesirable behavior.
Still not sure what you're talking about that's different from what GPT can do. It's very good at transferring from one context to another while retaining the same intent or meaning. Could you give an example of something you think it can't do?
You know they didn't launch a missile on purpose but were shooting down a Moscovian rocket, do you?
The reason I ask is because I feel that a memory model is one of the major bottlenecks toward AGI.
> The science kickstart for all that came from a bunch of scientists (like Von neumann) you got when winning WW2 from europe.

Don't forget that the USians would all be speaking Japanese if it wasn't for the technology they "borrowed" from the British.

American "RADAR" was a laughable non-starter until they got shown how to make magnetrons by Randall and Boot.
A survey by the Morgenmagazin[1] (morning TV show by the public broadcasters ARD/ZDF) showed that 75% are against the ICE ban, though. Even for those 35 and younger, only a third is in support.

IMO, it's too easy to just point the finger at the FDP. Yes, they do it because they are in a panic mode. But it's also really unpopular.

[1] https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2023-03/deutschlandt...
FYI, ketchup does not require refrigeration. (How do you think restaurants keep bottles of ketchup on the tables all day otherwise?)
Laughing and public expressions of happiness are of course criminal offences in england.
> people in our country can‘t afford new cars

This is about _new_ cars, so you don't have to replace your old car with a new car once this goes into effect.

Also, this is 12 years from now. Do you remember how the EV industry was in 2011?
You've probably already seen it, but there's a classic US Navy training film which talks about how they were used to solve differential equations in battleships around the WWII era.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=gwf5mAlI7Ug
It definitely means that it was thinking wrongly if at all. Just talk to GPT about math. You'll quickly change your mind about the possibility of it thinking.
If I had to guess, it’s probably going to be more like YouTube: Watch (click through) these 2 ads to get to your LLM results. If you have to provide updates/corrections, there’s some additional space for ads.
I'm not sure if I agree.

What is there to disrupt?

Really think about that statement for a minute. Maybe telepresence if you market it right, but the money is all in gaming and social use. And if you're gonna buy a headset, would you rather get the $300 one with Beat Saber and VR Chat, or cough up $3,000 for FaceTime in VR?

I think Meta has done all they can here. It's frankly a shock they managed to sell over 10 million Quest units, it would be a miracle if Apple can ship over a million at the price they're considering. Even if they do get the coveted iPhone-level install-base (fat chance), Apple cut ties with industry standards like OpenXR and SteamVR years ago. Their entire ecosystem will have to get built up from scratch, and they'll also have to fend off competitors selling units at literally 10% of the price.

For Apple to become the undisputed market leader in this product segment, they'd need a lot more than just a headset that exists. This project is looking less Apple Watch and more Apple Newton.
Critical thread about NYT opinion piece on AI by Harari/Harris/Raskin
And could holding in farts out of embarasment worsen it too?
You still can change language in single language Windows, but it requires a lot of registry changes and restarts. Also technically it breaks the licence.
That's fair enough if your job is in front end or whatever and you just need to use a table or view that someone else built for you.

I comment I read somewhere was that SQL goes from basic to advanced with nothing in between. It's a slippery slope of course: you start writing your own query and then you figure a more sophisticated query would be helpful and pretty soon you're having to care about optimisation and indexes.
Tumbleweed was the last distro I used for a PC before I switched to macOS back in 2015.

Back then, it was already better than any other distro in terms of balance of stability, usability, and being up-to-date. Most similar was Debian Testing, but OpenSUSE's Tumbleweed was way ahead in providing a stable environment.
I inquired and their price for any economic usage is $2400 per year. They left that out. This is not a suitable tool for ordinary developers.
> the iPhone, which combined the abilities of a music player and a phone

I dare to say the iPhone was a bit more than that.
Corporations make more money by selling trash.
This is similar to the situation with software engineers interacting with other parts of the business or customers. It's IME the biggest skill of software engineers, not to write code, but to understand and translate business requirement in to code, while accounting for _existing_ (prior) requirements that were often forgotten. The code as such is usually straight forward, but the requirements on either end is where the work is.

This is also what programmers typically complain about when they say their PM isn't "technical" enough. What they usually mean is they don't understand the details of the business / domain well enough to meaningfully contribute to the organization / break up of the work.

To that end, I'd expect these language models to eventually improve at that task too, perhaps responding with choices or diagrams to help users learn how to ask what they actually want. That's in a sense what a prompt engineer is doing in this context. In that sense I think I agree w/ your assessment although I also think there's a lot of room for these AI's to handle that task, at least partially, as they improve.
I agree with the sentiment, but if anything is made clear by how ChatGPT plugins work, it's that standardization of a protocol here is unnecessary when you are talking about tooling designed to be used by LLMs. They can just figure it out!

Even if you have 10 different ways of describing plugins all by different teams, you're not writing declarative code for each one, you're throwing them to the LLM all the same and saying "you figure it out," and it does.

Finetuning a model for certain schemas (as the author at one point suggests) should be entirely unnecessary, given my experience. You just need access to a model more at par with gpt-3.5-turbo, which we'll surely see in open source in no time!
"Oh for a muse of fire..."
q: in a video i watched a human captured a mole and placed it in a small box with lots of dirt (a mole's natural environment) and the box had a glass window so the human could observe the mole dig. Can you write a short story about something more intelligent than a human capturing it and placing the human in a box with a glass window and what would the more intelligent creature observe?

a: Once upon a time, in a far-off galaxy, there was a highly intelligent alien race called the Xalaxians. They had been studying Earth for centuries and were fascinated by its diverse life forms. One day, a group of Xalaxian scientists decided to conduct an experiment to observe human behavior.

They captured a human and placed him in a small glass box, similar to the one the human had used to capture the mole. The box was filled with air and had plenty of food, water, and a comfortable bed, but it was otherwise barren.

The Xalaxians observed the human for days, studying his behavior, habits, and reactions to various stimuli. They watched as the human paced back and forth, read books, played games, and even slept. The Xalaxians were fascinated by the complexity of human emotions and intellect.

As they continued to observe the human, they noticed something interesting. Despite having everything he needed to survive, the human grew increasingly restless and unhappy. He longed for the freedom and stimulation of the world outside the glass box.

The Xalaxians were puzzled by this behavior. They had assumed that humans, like most organisms, would be content as long as their basic needs were met. But the human seemed to need more than that.

Eventually, the Xalaxians released the human from the glass box and returned him to Earth. They had learned a valuable lesson about the complexity of the human psyche and the importance of freedom and self-determination.

From that day on, the Xalaxians observed humans with newfound respect and curiosity, marveling at the intricacies of the human mind and spirit. And the human, having experienced life from a new perspective, lived the rest of his life with a deeper appreciation for the beauty and wonder of the world around him.
This implies financial feasibility. It still takes a super collider on one end and a detection tank on the other. But one day it might be feasible. I would think a military warning system would be implemented before a financial aid.
> Some 80% of adults carry one strain of HPV or another, so vaccinating after you have become sexually active is mostly ineffective.

I wonder if that is a wise policy on part of health authorities. I bet is likely the vaccine would reduce the severity of infection in people that are carriers already, just like the COVID vaccine helps you avoiding a severe case when infected.
Change, resistance to it in the software industry and overcoming it [pdf]
Ok, and what happens to the next generation? Also if you can live on a half or a third of your salary you are in a far more privileged position than most.
Thanks for the summary. I don't see anything there of concern (to me).

- I'm not leaning into Gnome (or Ubuntu/Canonical)
- Don't need my desktop to be fun, it should get out of the way for the real fun
- Can't say I've ever used more than 4 desktops

The last two seem particular to individual desktops or opinion.
Okay so? Back in the day people trained up for 2D art, and then suddenly not long after 3D graphics came around. Imagine working on Final Fantasy 6, and then being told you now have to do 3D art for Final Fantasy 7.

Amazingly, despite 3D graphics, in the year 2023 there are now more employed 2D pixel artists than there were in the 90s. They are still making new games for the NES!

So while I’m sad for this person’s loss of love for their current job, I’m sure they will be able to find work.
> All theory aside, the feeling that you’d be left behind your peers is very real. A millionaire lawyer in front of her boss still feels that she has a lot to catch up on.

It's not always a feeling though. Criteria for promotion can be all over the place. We've all worked with some idiot with a fancy title.

If you are not getting a fair shake, the solution is sometimes to run away. But you will usually be stuck for emotional or professional reasons (you don't want another short stint in your CV, you don't have the energy to go through a big tech hiring process, etc.)

This kind of contradiction inevitably leads to alienation, then burnout. Many workers will quiet quit instead of quitting for real, because even if they can afford not to work for a while, they still rely on income to progress towards some goal such as buying some property, paying off their student loan, etc.

I have been a quiet quitter before it was a term, but what worked for me was actually the opposite. Every time I have doubled down on some side project with the goal of getting a better gig, it has worked out. I make it clear to my manager I hate some aspects of my work so I would rather focus on others, and it's up to them to make it work. I would rather focus on the right productivity than being anti-productive.
What? How does async (and io_uring specifically) give up concurrency? They’re orthogonal things.
One of the biggest problems with the metaverse is content. It's pretty clear that AI can do a great job generating the artwork needed for great 3d content. It is very expensive and time consuming to do so with human artists... which makes me sad.
The digital watch market is like the meme where we see a guy spraying champagne all over himself, kissing his girlfriend, but when we zoom out it's at the bottom tier of tech experience.

Apple won it not because their watch is 'great' - but because they have such brand cache that they could sell 100m of anything once the market learns about them. Airport could absolutely come back and sell that amount, taken into consideration 6 watches == one household == ~1-3 airports - with the marketing budget they used on Watch.

Long story short, they are in a precarious position. They must make something to stay relevant with financial markets, their manufacturing pipeline, keep operationally excellent with sourcing, etc... so it's not meant to be a full 'knock' on them. The 'knock' comes in taking that chance twice with a shrug from your top execs 'well the watch worked out, let's see if this does' - that's just not it.
Frankly, from the outside Germany looks like a strategic policy disaster since at least Merkel became Chancellor (energy, immigration, etc) but with hindsight, and without following closely, I'd say since Schroeder.

This ban on new ICEs in 2035 is not very realistic and is harmful to European industry, at least without a massive investment plan that does not seem to materialise anywhere. That's why there's pushback.

But there is worse: the UK has set the date for the ban at 2030 (because of course we can do better than the EU now that we are free..) and is doing even less to prevent that ticking timebomb from blowing up in everybody's face.
> and there is no way we can reverse what we have already done

What about carbon capture?
The true limit is item 2 on your list. Eventually AI can take care of the food production portion of 1 and most of item 3. The fact is that energy and secure storage are much less of a problem for AI and robots than people.

For population replacement, you can get by with a couple thousand people. That's really only about a dozen large tribes. If the tribes are kept suitably insular and antagonistic (with either ritualized external marriage or slave-taking to ensure proper genetic circulation) that society might even be stable. The trick would be keeping the population stable.
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This entire subthread seems to be an argument over the definition of "intelligent". In no dictionary definition that I can find does it exclude people who join cults. Yet that seems to be the argument being made here.

From the Wikipedia:

> No True Scotsman, or appeal to purity, is an informal fallacy in which one attempts to protect their generalized statement from a falsifying counterexample by excluding the counterexample improperly.

So I think it's a No True Scotsman argument to make to say "well, if they joined a cult, they must not have been intelligent in the first place."

But now I suppose we're arguing over the definition of the No True Scotsman fallacy and that's just a bit too meta for me on a rainy Sunday afternoon, so I'm going to go walk my dog. :-)
Didn't we just establish with Roald Dahl's books that people don't think this is a good idea? Why are we doing this again?
If it is as described I think it is insane for Apple to launch this product.

Comparing it to the state of the Apple Watch is pretty strange because if nothing else the Apple Watch was functional, self contained, worked, and was under $1,000. Even if it didn’t work you could put it on and ignore it. A VR/AR headset is nothing like that and at $3,000 is a significant investment for most everyone.

But who knows. I haven’t seen it. Maybe it will be amazing and exactly what the VR space needs. I suspect it is a really fancy Meta Quest with significantly more processing power. Certainly Apple is in a unique position with their Apple Silicon. But will Apple open it up enough for gaming if that is what it is? Because that has been the problem in the past. Gamers aren’t going to want to buy this thing unless you can plug it into a PC and have it function as a regular VR headset and the Meta Quest crowd isn’t going to shell out 3 grand.
I think that's actually a more hopeful take than the reality.

Instead, I think it's just a stuffed shirt bureaucratic box checkers who knows that no one ever got fired for sending a book to a sensitivity reader engaging in some busy work to pad out their annual review accomplishments. The extremely low quality and incoherence of the bowdlerization shows their total indifference to both the book and any conceivable external agenda of the sensitivity edits.

If it was being done to generate controversy at least it would stop when it stopped making them money.
Although the argument holds that the computer "cannot" have a mind, I think the experiment only shows that it "needs not" have a mind.
>It's really inevitable - even if climate wasn't a concern, eventually fossil fuel reserves will be depleted and even before then, the costs for new tech will be lower than for old tech (witness the end of the steam engine).

If it is inevitable, it doesn't need to be forced by legislation. Forcing a change before the replacement tech is cost competitive will set us back and price people out.
> The German car companies have roadmaps that phase out the combustion engine well before 2035.

Is VW CEO Oliver Blume aware of these roadmaps[1]?

> The FDP runs the ministry of transport, and used that influence to stall legislation for the entire EU. The other parties cannot really object, or our government would fall apart.

The german chancellor has the right to overrule every decision by a cabinet secretary and has done this recently to extend the lifespan of the last remaining nuclear power plants[2].

[1]: https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/volkswagen-oliver-blume-be...

[2]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richtlinienkompetenz#Bundeskan...
> I mean, you're just a continuous chain of chemical reactions.

Actually, I’m not. You have a ridiculous premise I will not entertain. It’s so misanthropic and dehumanizing and contributes 0 to the book on what being a human even is.
I can't decide if this possibility is worse, but I'm leaning towards yes.
I agree, openSUSE is a great choice for a WSL distro (and a great choice for a Linux desktop if you’re a fan of those).
Quite possibly, but I've also had some issues with the various kernel versions (e.g. "unbreakable") in Oracle Linux v7. I've had the occasional issue with broken dependencies with dpkg, but they've always seemed much easier to resolve and generally involved just uninstalling the broken package.
I hope they will still ship with NixOS. All my other systems are running it, except phone.

I've ordered one with wood. :)
There are attempts via langchains [0] depending on how much context is required I could see a summary step where the history to compressed and used to carry forward progress.

An alternative could be a vector store, injecting small snippets of relative text as a step.

0 - https://python.langchain.com/en/latest/modules/memory/key_co...
Agreed, but I think that just removing the all caps would make this a good little sarcastic comment.
I’d think they’re hoping to do way better than smartwatches with this investment.
I interpreted this statement completely differently. The author isn't fatalistic at all, he's merely advocating for a more thoughtful approach to spending your time.

If the only reason you work on something is out of a fear of falling behind, then you ought to reevaluate your priorities and, if you deem it necessary, choose a path that seems more fruitful. "Getting ahead" implies judging your life relative to others, based on metrics that are societally accepted, but may be completely misaligned with your actual desires. Spending some time to introspect and to get a grasp on your own idea of a meaningful life can be very beneficial.

I think the treadmill analogy is a reference to the hedonic treadmill, where you may assume that spending oodles of your time pursuing greater wealth or reputation will surely be worth it in the end, but are faced with the reality of feeling the exact same way as before.
I don’t see the problem with LLM having a world model and superhuman intelligence without sentience. It seems very unlikely sentience comes from computation and that it’s not a physical property: why would only certain Boolean or mathematical operations in a certain order make your pen, piece of paper or CPU see colors or hear sounds? That the operations you do follow a complex plan is irrelevant. Conversely if you do enough mindfulness you can attain a state of complete empty mind / "no computation" while still being physically there, and it would not be surprising some animals with a very limited intelligence and world model have sentience. The burden of proof is on sentience not being some kind of fundamental property of matter or EM fields for me.
Exactly. The barrier is a lot higher, but it's advertised as exactly the opposite, which I can't help but find amusing.
Show HN: DuckGPT – Ask questions, let GPT do the SQL through DuckDB
Hey, author here!

I’ve been playing with ChatGPT and DuckDB recently, for completely unrelated reasons, but this made me come up with an idea: writing natural language queries and having them be actually executed as SQL underneath, in a fully-streamlined fashion.

It’s a weekend toy project / tech demo, so don’t expect too much, but I’m actually surprised how well it works! Even with complicated queries, it succeeds. It sometimes gets the queries wrong (esp. dialect specific stuff), but it reads the error message and is able to successfully adjust its queries without any human help.

From the technical side, ChatGPT here is offered commands to read the schemas of specific files, and to execute queries. This seems to be enough to make it work well. Adding more commands (like one to preview the beginnings of the files) seemed to get it a bit confused, so I wonder if GPT4 would do better here and allow for a bit more power.

There are a couple demo videos in the README, make sure to check them out!
I meant the base images. If you're pushing your own images, then you can use any service you want (and pay for it). Since the traffic doesn't need to go through the internet at all, the bandwidth cost to Dockerhub would be irrelevant.
Good luck having any form of modern agriculture if you can't get the produce to the destination before it rots.
The US and china are the major producers of electric cars.
I used it to help me wire up some solar panels in series / parallel, and while mostly helpful, it messed up on some math, which with electricity could have resulted in a fire. Luckily I am skeptical and noticed, but I just as easily could have not.