skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we disagree about what Y is. My point is that Y is not that different from materially what is possible with a slack bot from circa 2015. Essentially chatgtp is a less efficient way to get to the same outcomes that were already possible. The trick is that it appears to be something it’s not - AGI.

I like your bronze sword analogy. From my point of view chatgtp is not a bronze sword, it’s a Stone Age sword that someone has painted bronze. It has value because people realize the advantage that a true bronze sword would have in a battle. However, when you actually put it through it’s paces you quickly realise it offers no actual value over what came before.
> a glossary of terms in the back

No classic cookbook describes how to listen for medium versus high heat.
Hinton is not an adult? https://twitter.com/JMannhart/status/1641764742137016320?t=I...
Pine64 March Update: Tablet Bonanza
Im using 3 monitors by AOC right now.
To be fair to the commenters here, I don't know you, I use both Rust and C++, and I have followed both languages pretty closely for a while without paying attention to the "characters" (the personalities and drama just don't interest me). This didn't hit as a joke to me - it hit as someone who was running from Rust to C++ for bad reasons, and doing it badly.

The arguments you were trying to make in a satirical way have basically already been accepted by everyone (except the small slice of people who will never be convinced by them), so the satire just doesn't make sense. Part of the humor of satire is that you are laughing at the fact that some people on the other side of the argument might agree with it.
> Complete with prophecies of imminent fire and brimstone caused by an omnipotent entity that doesn't actually exist.

That seems like an absurd comparison given people like LeCun are actively and intentionally working towards creating this super-human entity.

(Some) scientists were rightfully worried when creating a nuclear bomb as well. The fact that we managed to survive 70 years with its existence does not automatically mean it has to work out with every such invention.

Nukes have the fortunate properties that they are very difficult/expensive to produce even for countries, and then you need very difficult to design and expensive systems to deliver them. It's rather doubtful that AIs will have similar constraints.
> "Looks like it's time to go to war again" isn't a lie, it's an opinion.

Eh. The Spanish-American war was started because of a likely false assumption. And posters which literally dehumanize the opponent are a form of lie. There was a time, I've read, when some Europeans literally believed Jews had horns.

https://theisraelbible.com/do-jews-have-horns/ (Due to a mistranslation) "In Christian art of the Middle Ages, Moses is depicted wearing horns, most notably in Michelangelo’s statue created from the 16th century. This led to the persistent anti-Semitic belief that all Jews had horns and were in league with the devil."

> And the case I think you need to make here is that people believing what at the time were intended to be "lies" have caused more damage than people believing things that were spread in the honest belief they were true

I think you're nitpicking. Often enough the second person to spread a purposeful lie does so because they believe it to be true.

A ton of manipulated media that people spread as fact is going to be media made for the fun of it, not as purposeful lies.
This is a complete lack of a take. Instead of saying what it is like, say why it's wrong.

Saying that this view is wrong because of another view that you're also not going to refute is a no-op. The internet didn't change the vast majority of things significantly. It changed the things it changed.
> that substrate for us is the real, and what kids who encounter AI now will understand intuitively is that the artifacts of language and the real are necessarily separate things

That sounds pretty optimistic. Wouldn't kids that grow up with AI consider it part of the real, by virtue of never experiencing a life without it? If I were to use the same logic for social media, I could say:

"kids who grow up with social media will understand intuitively that the artifacts of online popularity and the real are necessarily separate things"

which does not sound true to me.
If you read the downtown plans from SF planning or the mayor's office that the article refers to, it is not just the financial district or union square. Their definition includes areas from Chinatown to Mission Bay, and from Embacadero to Castro along Market. So all of SOMA, but not Dogpatch.

Those parts of SF seem to be doing OK.

SOMA is about 32% vacant. The goal is "Clean, safe and inviting", so I'd say not doing OK right now.
We all saw the charts showing the number of employees if the past few years and that they just laid off the over hiring... No one remember during that time how we were lacking employees too? I know at my job which is not a sexy one, we were struggling to find new hire. We are still hiring... just as much as before.

That's where they are going. To the place that wanted them in the first place. All theses peoples didn't appear out of thin air (though for sure the amazing pay did pushed some to go to "bootcamp" or whatever, but that's been true for the past decade). It's the normal amount of workers that would have been hired otherwise.

In any other field, sure maybe there could be more workers than demands, but in tech, placement has been good and it won't change in a few years (as it takes a few years of school).

The only thing that may change is the pay expectation of theses workers, as the one that did the laid off are the one that were paying a pretty penny for theses jobs.
> A religion is arguably when you refuse to engage with other people's arguments

I've never heard of that definition.
Just another CEO ghoul, captured by real estate interests, doing the board's bidding. It's fascinating that these dogs are willing to chew off their own legs for scraps from the sunken cost table.

I lost respect for our CEO entirely when he decreed the new RTO policy (justifying it with, and I paraphrase, "because I said so"). The company "promotes innovation", and their idea of moving forward is to "go back to how things were". It's pathetic.

They didn't even dare to do layoffs when everyone else was slashing staff, because they have such a hard time hiring anyone. It's good to see that the rank and file understand this, and (at least in satellite offices) mostly ignore the RTO decree, calling the C-suite's bluff.
That video isn’t the refutation I think he thinks it is. I’m sure there’s more nuance than “Norway invented salmon sushi” but his argument is a little flakey imho.

His premise is based on American documents of sushi, but salmon was already a popular fish in the west by then. So it stands to reason that they’d use local fish for this dish that depends on good quality protein.

I’m not saying he’s necessarily wrong but his process of arriving at the result is weird, so I don’t think he’s necessarily right either.
I'll tell you what - tell me what metric is in question, and what percent decrease of it over what period of time would constitute 'collapse', following which I will read the article and provide my response.

Bonus to incentivize: I'll even be providing the weird mix of native-San-Franciscan-cum-tech-person take, being born & raised in the Sunset. Therefore I promise to infuse it with a sense of entitlement & disaffection, as if it was possible to have any scope on in-migration/emigration policy across city limits.
From a purely moral point of view, I don't think the morality of the decision to drop bombs on cities is in any way influenced by what actually happened after. It is only influenced by what happen up to this point and knowledge allies had at that time.

Hindsight is 20/20. We do know that it was expected that Japanese will be fighting to the bitter end and it will be difficult to get them to capitulate. But it is not possible to predict the future exactly -- who is to say that the same course of action could not happen after a powerful demonstration without actually dropping bombs on large cities?

If you start taking future as excuse for the past you could come to some extreme conclusions.
There's an app for this trail with more information. But I would have expected some info about lodging on the site, just to set expectations, do people walk with tents, or doable without?
This is so much of the answer. Of the problem in fact.
You’re contradicting yourself. You say there are fully autonomous vehicles but they aren’t capable of autonomously driving themselves fully. Ie they aren’t fully autonomous. So that aren’t any fully autonomous vehicles.

Ok so now you’re saying that AGI is impossible. That’s a completely different argument. And it’s wrong to reject regulation based on that argument because it can’t be proven. So you can’t reject regulation that way and you can’t reject it with your idea about humans having intrinsic value. So you are forced to support regulation of AI.
It's been a while since I've eaten there, so I can't remember if it's that, or something along the lines of their own signature recipe.
this one i feel like they are just making fun of april 1 stories on the internet
https://www.theawl.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/0yu1y3zKUe...

I think "fake news" has been going on a bit longer than maybe you might realize.

The USA started a war with Spain and conquered the Philippine islands over headlines like this in 1898.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Maine_(1889)
How cool is that! There's also exciting news about early access for GPT5 13T model [1] features from Noosphere AI

[1] https://noosphere.chat
Looks good.

What stack did you use to create this?
I find that I fall somewhere in between. I tend to turn on (or leave on, or configure) every security feature available that doesn’t create an immovable obstacle to my needs. Lockdown mode does that, so I partially counteract that by running SAP Privileges and also creating a separate, dedicated admin account that I almost never end up signing into directly.

Turning SIP off just doesn’t make sense to me without a compelling reason. Those reasons aren’t as common as they used to be. I seem to remember early in the life of SIP, the Steam client didn’t work well so you’d end up disabling SIP on some personal devices. I don’t think that’s been the case for a long while.
That’s not quite what I’m getting at here. I’m not claiming that something specific exists without evidence, or making any claims about some particular phenomena that I believe exists and must do <x>.

Rather I’m pointing out that the existence of this phenomena is a form of evidence that opens the door to interrelated phenomena. And based on our understanding of the laws of nature, we can be certain that there is at minimum, some interrelation. Whether that interrelation is interesting or worth labeling as some unique phenomena to humans is what cannot be determined without further discovery/evidence.

I’d agree with your comment if the described phenomena itself was just speculation, but that’s not the case here.
They discussed the why earlier in the article, specifically a fear of AI being primarily developed in private labs outside of public view -- the partners feeling they could help bring an alternative approach.

I feel they left it on that point not as part of some grand conspiracy theory, but because the potential for this to be good or bad is a question taking place around the world right now.

Overall this piece feels positive towards Sam, despite what you feel is a negatively loaded headline. He's walking a delicate balance between profit and nonprofit, between something that could be harmful or helpful to society -- these things are in contradiction and he's making those choices deliberately. This is an interesting subject for an article.

I find it deeply unlikely he will be viewed like Musk in 6 months. Musk is a fairly special case as he's unhinged and unstable more than evil. If someone wanted to paint Sam with an evil stick, Zuckerberg would be a more apt comparison -- playing with something dangerous that affects all of us.
That's great but we can predict that more attention, more foot traffic and more people will bring the need for more rules around this.
I see it speculated, downthread, that this is a response to modern web-dev and node (?) creating millions of files, etc.

I can’t comment on that but I do know that modern, encrypted, archive tools such as duplicity and borg and restic “chunk” your source files into thousands (potentially millions) of little files.

We see tens of billions of files on our zpools and have “normal” customers breaking 1B … and the cause is typically duplicity or borg.
And soon, AI minds.
That’s so weird, I wonder how that works. If I’m the first to make a map or a street or any geographic object in France, it can’t be featured on any other map, unless so license it?
It's almost all catering to local taste and what's expected. Nepali food is good but it's not as rich as what you'd get in a restaurant. Daal baht (rice with a thin lentil soup) is not what people expect if they pay $10-20. Hell, most northern indian restaurants feature foods that are way richer than you'd see in real home cooked cuisine. The restaurant versions invariably have way more heavy cream and butter than would ever be used in a typical home.
All technology is built on some sort of "manifest destiny." We are all delusional about how great our new thing is going to be and how much it is going to change the world. Sometimes, like the computer and the web, it turns out to be right. Sometimes, like cryptocurrency and the dirigible, not so much.
Small Project Build Systems (2021)
I will simply leave you with this image by way of explanation: https://thiic.cc/heavy/huggingface_bar.jpg
https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide is pretty amazing for running Python client side in the browser.

You could run notebooks entirely client side https://jupyterlite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

The startup is slow but otherwise it is pretty functional.
I'm a hard core computer nerd and I'm from SF, grew up here. This is not the nerd city (although we have many fine nerds here!) It's the hippie city.

Anyway, we nerds help the normals despite their bullying and lack of respect because we are human beings and humane. It's not their fault they're stupid and ignorant, after all? And do we not enjoy pleasures and rewards beyond their understanding? It's not so bad, being a nerd.

- - - -

Did you watch "Avenue 5"? That scene where the folks are trying to leave the ship and the captain and chief engineer are trying to stop them... Wooo boy that was a horrifying scene, eh? But you can't just let them leave. You still have to help them as best you can, if only so you can live with yourself, eh?
I was sitting in a room all alone, talking to the voices that sometimes come out of the warm inanimate box that I compulsively stare at while pushing complex, ever changing sequences of buttons on it in a futile attempt to find meaning. Why do you ask?
i feel like someone is doing a little april 1 trolling
JVM standard does not support isolates so it won't work. Java's father Gosling wanted to get isolation into the Java spec but he failed.

The modern GraalVM does have isolates but its a VM specific feature and not a java standard feature.
Maybe, but most storage providers don’t expose a seek/range API for their consumer stuff, so you’re doomed to fetch & upload the whole block every time.

For about a decade, Dropbox was the only one to offer delta sync, OneDrive added that a few years ago, and they’re the only two IIRC that do delta syncing. The rest basically redownload & reupload.
You're sort of saying this but Salesforce has an absolutely enormous ecosystem of partners. Dreamforce is one of the largest conferences in tech. (CES is probably bigger but there aren't many.)
The 3000km is just one path to cross France. France’s GR trail system total 60,000km: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GR_footpath
https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/living-without-atomic-clo...

> perfectly synchronized clocks are a holy grail of sorts for distributed systems research. They provide, in essence, a means to absolutely order events, regardless of which node an event originated at

two events that occur on two physically discrete nodes at exactly the same time have no well-defined order, even if their clocks are synchronized

> before a node is allowed to report that a transaction has committed, it must wait 7ms. Because all clocks in the system are within 7ms of each other, waiting 7ms means that no subsequent transaction may commit at an earlier timestamp, even if the earlier transaction was committed on a node with a clock which was fast by the maximum 7ms. Pretty clever.

so sending information between two antipodes on earth takes 66ms in one direction, 132ms round-trip, minimum. the speed of light dictates this lower limit

if two transactions are made on those two nodes at exactly the same time, there is no objective order between the two. you can choose an order, but only with knowledge of both transactions, and that information physically cannot traverse space-time in 7ms

so it's really not clear to me how this works. as an optimization, sure -- maybe there is some optimistic concurrency control that will fail transactions that conflict in the way i've described?
I would guess OpenStreetMap could record the location of each marker without linking them in trails or using the official logo of the markers (“one of our contributors saw a marker labeled ‘13’ here” should be public info, shouldn’t it?), but even if that’s the case, I can see they don’t have the resources to go and try that in court.
Are you older than 15?
I've seen multiple top people in AGI space say that total annihilation threat from AGI exists.

I think I've heard Karpathy say something along the lines of worst case scenario of AGI is worse than a nuclear armageddon on Lex Friedman podcast.

Honestly the fear of AGI worst-case scenario is worse than any other fear I've experienced. I've accepted the fact that I can die a long time ago, I was afraid but mortality is something everyone has to deal with. But every member of humanity being wiped out at the same time is an existential dread I'm not willing to face.

When you consider the shitshow that has been AI commercialization from big players pressured by market forces and corporate timelines, the boom in capabilities, I have no faith that AI safety issues will be handled in time.

When my best bet for humanity is a global nuclear war resetting civilization to give us a chance to deal with AGI issue down the line - I'm fine with religious doomism.

We've had inquisitions historically, I would very much support a global AI inquisition.
Maybe they will not not because of virtue, but because it is not desirable.
Telugu Kari doesn’t mean curry in the sense that British people understand it. Please actually look up the history of what kari is.

The use of curry in Indian restaurants in Hyderabad are an artifact of colonialism. Hyderabad in particular caters a lot to foreign nationals due to the proliferation of the tech sector there.

Anyway What curry dishes are they serving there? “Hyderabadi chicken curry”? What is it called natively?
If you're going to do this, you have to explain what characteristics of fentanyl are new, and why that makes the history of opium (and heroin) addiction not the most relevant experiences to apply to the fentanyl scandal. That will be a very difficult thing to do. You can't just handwave at the new thing and say it completely changes the game. That's not argument, that's a car commercial.
When I first watched his proposal I thought why not just take a NES on chip, bundle more RAM and maybe a good mapper and a ROM with BASIC on there + add support for a keyboard? Those are AFAIK still readily produced with the mountains Famiclones available on AliExpress and other places and must be dirt cheap.
It's kind of difficult to take these people seriously given they have a strong financial stake in it.
Which is hilarious, because 1st edition was basically a giant pastiche of the pulps and Tolkien, when it wasn’t outright copying Moorcock.

And it was awesome. Reminds me of the old days of MUDs where you could murderhobo your way from Sesame Street on to Xanth and then from Camelot to the literal Zodiac. I miss that spirit of building a common cultural mythology that corporate “monetization” has strangled.
Why would cropping alter the file in-place? That would presumably leave the image corrupted if (say) your phone died during the cropping process; it would seem much better to save the cropped image separately and then overwrite the original file atomically. After all, it's the same amount of data to write either way.
It's a pretty scary idea that AI could take a religious stance since its training sets contained religious texts, too. Especially in the context you provide.
People can watch the short clip and decide for themselves. He kind of says "anything's possible" in response to interviewer prompting.
RIP Synths: Hello SynthGPT [video]
With all due respect, you failed at making that point, but now at least your intentions are understood.
I don't agree that it's one or the other. He obviously clever and driven with stamina and a desire to make his mark. He can do great things with an education also.
The real question is, is a RDB better at being a graph DB than a graph DB is at being a RDB?
They are capable, but society wont allow it because of the legal implications. You are arguing a strawman.
Same. They certainly took a big hit in quality after the Gawker lawsuit but even by then I’d stopped reading them on any regular basis.

Then there was Kotaku, their video game blog. It was the only site I ever got a comment ban on. I’d been a commenter for a few years, since the day they added them to the site. Then one day they posted a headline like “Pikmin comes to the DS” (or maybe 3ds I forget.) I click through and it’s basically a write up about someone who made a Pikmin picture/drawing using the handheld (something like that, my memory is vague on the details)

Which was annoying because Kotaku quality was generally not too click bait-ish and I said this in a comment. I got banned. I remember the editor who did it, Brian Crecente.

On the one hand their comments sections were generally non-toxic. On the other hand they had absolutely no tolerance, albeit sporadically applied, to critical opinions. Of course that’s their right, but it also made me wonder what other legitimate conversation they might be banning, and soured me on the site.

Despite this I’ll say Brian Crecente was a pretty good games journalist, and I kno many sites especially at that time were struggling with how to introduce comments without it turning into a waste dump.
Another "it's like."

> So what if you drove the cost down significantly?

I feel like you're saying this like it's a rhetorical question that you don't have to expand upon. "What were the implications of lowering the cost of print" is a question that takes thought to answer, you can't just breathlessly announce that it's changed everything.

I feel like everyone needs a refresher on distinctions and differences. If lightning struck everyone who spoke English and suddenly they spoke French, everything in the English speaking world would change but very little would be different.
That's surprising, when I get Coco Ichibanya I think level 4-6 is already fairly spicy
Russian Morphology for Java
“There are two kinds of programming languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”

I feel like that applies here.
I don't have any hands-on experience with Salesforce, but to me this is reminiscent of Jira. Nobody has anything nice to say about it, yet it's still the dominant player and people's go-to for project management, and no other tooling has managed to supplant it.