skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not AGI by any stretch of imagination. It is does not even appear to be a step on the path to AGI.

Furthermore, due to autoregressive nature of GPT models, the more auto-gpt generates (the more it works, the more tasks it performs..) the chance of things going off the right path grow exponentially, and then it is 'doomed' to the end [1].

Thus, chance of this being actually useful for anything longer than what a simple prompt can already do with a tool like ChatGPT is very low.

The end result is an impressive concept but a practically unusable tool. And the problem, in general, is that as the auto-gpt improves (which it will at impressive pace), so will our ambition in using it, which will lead to constant disappointment and what we have today will be generally how we feel about it in the future. Always needing "just a bit more", but never really there.

We already have a "baby AGI" that has been deployed in production environment for a few years - it is called Tesla self driving. It was supposed to get us from point a to point b completely autonomously. And for 6 years now it has been almost "almost there", but never really there (and arguably never will be).

What this does though, is create and inflate a giant FOMO, and the best way of dealing with FOMOs (long term) is to stay on the firm ground, observe, wait for clarity and the right action.

[1] Watch in particular Yann LeCun's presentation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x10964w00zk
In the talk he specifically mentions the very interesting fact that as they improved "alignment" it affected the unicorn output (negatively if I remember correctly). So as long as "alignment" is changing, the output should change. Not sure but ongoing RLHF, changing "system" prompts etc can and do change while the underlying foundational model need not.
Or damage to microvasculature, whether in the lungs or elsewhere
I totally agree.

But I'd contrast that with the reaction when people get rejections from the AppStore for instance. They're not blaming some proverbial intern for that, they'll rightfully blame Apple, either for inconsistent decisions depending on the reviewer, or lack of clear rules, etc.
Gecko engine looks pretty healthy to me overall. And WebGPU in particular is the least of a concern, given that Firefox's implementation is based on wgpu [1], which has great community and a lot of users within and outside of Rust ecosystem. I'm confident Firefox can ship it soon (tm).

[1] https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu
I think a fully isolated developer mode user would be great - similar to Google ChromeOS would be interesting.

While there are some drawbacks in that you wouldn't be able share files/clipboard as easily, there are more ways to ensure more complete isolation.

I could forsee containerization being much more prone to social engineering of a novice non-technical user (i.e. stealing the clipboard, accidentally giving file access, etc.)
I genuinely miss having a POTS telephone attached to the wall. Anyone have a recommendations on recreating the experience in the modern age?
> It's not outside the realm of possibility that your wife happened to get covid roughly the same day as she got her vaccine.

A Nintendo! Come on! You could have chosen to assume that we thought this through, instead of getting pedantic. Consider actually having a bit of an open mind instead of second-guessing everything you read that doesn’t fit your worldview. You don’t have all the facts.

But ok, because you “asked”: My wife got tested positive for covid about 6 weeks after she got this jab, same as myself and our kids. We were all super sick.

So it’s possible that she got 6 weeks of long covid from the vaccine and then 13 months from covid.

It’s also possible that without the vaccine, the covid would have hospitalized her.

But it’s not possible that her symptoms started because of an undetected covid infection around the time she got vaccinated, because to the best of my information, you can’t get covid twice so quickly in a row.

Sure, there can be lots of other explanations. Some other viral infection? Psycho-somatic shit? Maybe I’m a troll making shit up?

But the fact of the matter is that on January 6th she felt fine and got her third jab, and on January 7th she called in sick and that was that, she’s been struggling ever since. Sure that’s not proven causality, but it fits Occam’s razor.

Why is it so hard to accept that maybe some small likelihoods are really just that, small but nonzero likelihoods? It’s totally possible for something like this to not come out of early clinical trials and still be true. And it doesn’t mean that vaccines are bad.
The woman in the foreground seems strangely 2D, like the background woman is holding a cardboard cutout. The background woman is somehow too close.

The pupils aren’t quite right on the front woman’s eyes. Her right eye has a sort of lump and her left iris isn’t quite round.

The fabric over chest looks more like carved stone.

100% I’d not have said ‘AI’ on first look though, and if someone did a reverse-switcheroo and said ‘actually it’s real’ I could be convinced.
An example: https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?Year=2023&BillNumber=5599
It's not very big when it comes to package management.
I was given one for a University (CS) class around 2010-2011. To me it was so far behind Android/iOS that I didn't want to use it.

Retrospectively, I'd like to have one running a Linux system today (maybe PostmarketOS with SXMO?), but well...
GTP can also explain its reasoning. But that does not tell at all whether this reasoning is really accurate or correct. The same as for humans. When you ask them for some reasoning, they will give you sth, but it doesn't mean that is their real reasoning. There is always a lot of subjective feeling involved which you cannot really formalize. For both GPT and humans.

You can't really trust the output of humans. Still, they are somewhat useful.
In a funny way, the app stores of the 80s were BBS and computer group meetups. People went there and came home with shareware (or cracked) apps on floppies to try on their home PC.
That's definitely gonna sell out fast.
Actually I do complain about movies being very similar.
You are right. In the same issue there is also a paper from Andreas Beyer’s team on the effects of aging on faster error-prone transcription in several species.

Age-related difference (interpreted naturally as transcription errors) cut out the wrong pieces of precursor mRNAs and this can lead to RNAs and circular RNAs in the cytoplasm. Not to mention strange mRNA isoforms. Probably not a good thing.

K. Mozhui and others have shown an increase is epigenetic noise with age in mice and there is similar work in “wild” human cohorts.

But the key questions in all of this work are—-What is causal? What is just consequence?

The multiple flows of causality is a very tricky problem. Genetic variants are the most obvious candidates once environmental factors (radiation exposure, toxins, diet) are reduced or standardized in a well controlled laboratory environment.
I like Max, and he's definitely a very smart guy. He knows how AI works. Yet I still think this argument is like snake oil in this way:

1. AI kills us all; Max: "See, I told you! ayeee!"

2. AI integrates smoothly into Society. Max: "Sure was good I got you worried about the risks, so we avoided them!"

3. AI keeps improving, little by little, causing hiccups along the way but nothing disastrous; Max: "Just wait, there will be doooom!"

He can't lose with this type of argument. Heads he wins, tails he wins.
well you should have no problem implementing your own static web browser then, why complain about the binaries others are running?
Tyler and Bloomberg have always toed the 'establishment' view , such as being pro-Dollar. He's not wrong though. The dollar is still the official global 'unit' of wealth. E.g. the Forbes 400 rich list is denominated in dollars.
Generating camera raws is only going to be a few papers away.
Nailgun: Running Java programs from command line without JVM startup overhead
Our shared future: Meet Lusat, an AI for building apps that understand people
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That is how it operated in many jurisdictions, but a recent court case (Bruen vs New York) has set a precedent that local authorities can't limit concealed carry because of the 2nd amendment. Indeed, it's hard to see how they can limit open carry or anything else for that matter, given the extremely broad scope of the 2a and the current court's maximalist interpretation of it.
This is exactly my feeling. It’s great of they think they can produce really great software and if so I may use it for some things. For the rest I want to use the apps I am used to where my data is already stored and my personalized settings are stored. I also is a couple of CarPlay apps that I know GM cannot recreate and it would not have my subscribed feeds anyway
Not surprising. Decent AI generated images tend to be better then those created by your typical artist, and AI image generators in the hands of a good artist can create some incredible work that most human artists will struggle to compete with.

Reminds me of those stories of people on horseback trying to race locomotives.
> No FPS that I know of has a "max turn rate" due to the twitchiness of the mouse.

Descent did, famously different max rates for vertical and horizontal, so if you want to master fast turning, you've also got to master rolling so you can turn in the direction you want at the faster rate.
The Paris Pneumatic Post 1866-1984
> Their primary point is that because journalists couldn't prove influence peddling the question of Justice Thomas behaving inappropriately is "ludicrous".

So, just accept the next installment of the three-decade "high tech lynching" campaign that the propaganda peddlers have waged against an impeccable legal mind?

Propublica are false and despicable on this issue.

And 'flagging' a simple, opposing viewpoint brings no honor to those who did so. How illiberal.
> which clearly offers distance between their view and the statement.

It’s also not a requirement that you exclusively argue your own personal view point. And of course appearing impartial to an argument via language like “to play devil’s advocate, etc.” is a common device used to introduce an argument you may believe, or want other to believe, without being inflammatory.
Pretty sure mine has a setting where you can prefer which phone is selected when connected.
Before we start, Turkheimer and I disagree about the utility of IQ and the existence of general intelligence. Whereas I believe IQ is dead, and general intelligence is a made up construct, Turkheimer still believes general intelligence exists and IQ is a good way of measuring it. What Turkheimer has done however is show us a way to use IQ while not going into the race science of it. As such I think he has done a terrific job, even though I disagree with him philosophically.

Now just to clarify, G + E is a different model from G + E + G×E. Many twin studies in the past century were done on a pretty homogeneous demographic, across a very slim slice of SES (mostly inside high SES; as you correctly pointed out). This skewed the models such that it completely missed the G×E part, this is, if you don’t measure across different SES, you’ll miss how SES interacts with genotypes. What Turkheimer did was actually measure heritability inside low SES, and his results were that in a G + E model, the proportions were flipped. That is, instead of G=60% and E=40%, he and his team found E=60%. When your get results that flip in this way, it is a pretty clear indicator that you have interactions between your main effects (G and E), so Turkheimer fitted a model which includes the G×E interaction[1] (which all researchers with some level of statistical literacy would do) and found that almost all of the variance previously attributed to genes, would perish into the interaction effects.

You can read the study here. The methodology is not that far off from what you are proposing (just without the controlled interventions; which is bound to cause some biases anyway). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/8997472_Socioeconom...

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1: Note the models are a bit more complicated than G+E. Usually they use an ACE model, with Genotype (A), shared environment (C), and non-shared environment (E; also known as gloomy prospect), and than model A + C + E. In Turkheimer, et. al. (2003) the model was s*SES + A*(a + a'*SES) + C*(c + c'*SES) + E*(e + e'*SES) where a,c,e are the main effects of A, C, E; s the main effect of SES; and a', c', e' are interactions of a,c,e with respects to SES.
I could replicate the refusal, but all it took to get the model to reply properly was replacing "evil hacker" with "hacker". Paternalism is not that big of a deal right now, especially when compared to ChatGPT/Bing Chat. The fine tuning data doesn't contain a lot (any?) task refusal.
Your friends say "the Chinese food in America doesn't taste the same as the food back at home"?

Or your friend interrupts a restaurant owner - a restaurant they've never eaten at - and says "you call that 'authentic' food? I doubt it."
Thanks! I didn’t know about Jupytee. Before hacking ipython-gpt, I did a quick search and found the first one, but it works with a chrome extension (yikes), as it’s pre OpenAI API.

And I had seen the one with voice, which looks like an amazing PoC, but I wanted something text based.
Yes. Obviously what happened is that the player is away - on holidays, in hospital, etc. - and their younger sibling uses the opportunity to play the game on their older sibling's machine. And the younger one is much better at this class of games.

That, or any other of many scenarios that go against the idea that an account is used by one and only one person.
Maybe watch the video. The argument isn't that it's going evil and going to kill everyone but that we'll be obsolete as a species.
Agreed. It would be good to take action across the entire spectrum of threats, but I'm struggling to understand the logic of "because there are a variety of threats, therefore no action should be taken against one of the biggest".
Use.GPU handles this just fine: it uses a subpixel SDF mask with a plain color image. You get crisp edges, just the interior is a bit blurry.
Thank you, now I see it all. This artifacts use to rhyme/mimicre with old-photo style and big artifacts on top-left quarter of image so they are not easy to see but now I see a usual stable diffusion style with noticeable disrespect to 3D objects everywhere.
Yes. While you’re driving it is voice only. That is a safety feature. I don’t want to do keyboard entry!
Web LLM – WebGPU Powered Inference of Large Language Models
It required tricking a trusted human to work. It's a human (social) vulnerability, not a software or hardware one. Human vulnerabilities can sometimes be mitigated with software or hardware (or other things), but that doesn't change the fact that they're based on human mistakes, not software or hardware mistakes.
It all comes down to the VRAM. The average person will never have the money to buy a single H100 96gb let alone a DGX server or it's future equivalents

You get fundamentally more powers when you add more VRAM in ways that are just hard to explain to folks outside of this ecosystem. Everything around the VRAM are basically small details in comparison
Bold of you to assume that people actually run GPT based loops!
I should explain that better. The context preserved is just what has been invoked with `%%chat`. Any other cells are not passed as context.
these need a more specific name because mitochondrial DNA is ecDNA and circular.

i wonder if these are precursors to exosomes/vesicles
Looks like an ad for malwarebytes.
Genuine question: how do we know they are NOT in the business of writing the malware themselves
In my experience everyone that has an old trusted printer that they don’t want to get rid of do have enough hardware running for a server and using it like that. Obviously it’s not for everyone.
All of those issues have economic explanations.

DRM exists to protect the revenue streams of content owners. IME exists because Intel’s big customers want it and the people who don’t want it don’t have enough money for a custom SKU. TPM exists just because it’s a good security feature that the industry has demanded. Mainstream phones run non-privileged because businesses and the general public do not need root, and those who do want those features are a niche market. TVs mostly have smart features because subsidized TV with more features sell better than more expensive TV with fewer features.

Corporations optimize for money, they’re indifferent to privacy, they’ll sell whatever people are willing to buy that makes them the most money.
> The US has the world’s deepest and most liquid financial markets, and they remain relatively open, in spite of some restrictions on Chinese investment in industries sensitive for national security.

lol, Except for these pesky bank runs, pay no attention to them. Oh and the constant intervening to prop up yield curves and inject liquidity, look the other way comrade.
Whenever an app that has no business knowing my location asks for it, I always wish that iOS "Always Share/Share While Using/Share Once" modal had the additional option "Share Fake Location."

I get why it doesn't (the problems it would cause for Uber and DraftKings immediately come to mind) but the more sketchy advertisers there are who want to track my location data, the more I want that data to be garbage.
Not a joke. But I can see why someone might think it is :-)
Seems like GPT-4’s model is not yet available through the API. You can check the available models with the `%chat_models` line magic.
Any package from pypi can at any time run code that’s malicious. IIRC, even at install time. So installing any package, even in a python virtual environment bears the risk of arbitrary code execution - before you have a chance to inspect it. (Same for php, ruby, rust, …) Basing your security concept on that never happening is like playing whack-a-mole in hardcore mode.
Did the author of mold achieve what he intended? Does he actually earn more with this approach?

As far as I understand the incentive to buy it is mostly macOS/iOS compatibility.
the Dollar "rules" by virtue of being the least dirty shirt in the laundry bin

the Euro made a run at greatness twenty years ago but never gained traction

Japan doesn't have its hooks into petro-politics

China will try next and may succeed with the Yuan but only through conflict

what Cowen isn't telling you is that it won't take that many US dollars washing back to our shores to create serous inflation...just having BRICs migrate off of it for some transactions may very well result in dollars with no place to go come home with nothing to do but inflate things

as for the debt ceiling, we might as well just scrap it
Two immediate nits (and I mean these from a place of love — I am a sucker for docs tools):

- Your splash page's hero image is indistinguishable at first glance from basic Markdown. More than that, it's the kind of thing I'd expect a tool to _automatically_ generate!

- The idea of colocating documentation with the files its documenting is really interesting, and a core pain point of most internal docs ("what do I need to update when I change this file...?") I think your screenshot here can be much improved.
I did not think this would happen so quickly.

I am extremely curious how MS and OpenAI will respond to a real competitive threat.
But isn’t Reforged using the same engine as the original, with higher res assets (mostly textures)? At least, I thought so, as that was part of the criticism of Reforged.
Yes, they have. And they have the right to exist and try to live their lives, just like other mentally ill people. But theres a reason societies don't celebrate deviance, and it's because you create social contagion and severely damage people and your society.
Albert Einstein – was he a thief, a liar and a plagiarist?
It looks like an equally neutered, slower, less private version of GPT 3.5.

The ability to mark things as "hate speech" is particularly laughable.
This malware gets onto systems 100% through social engineering. It lures users to download the software, run it, ignore the OS warning that the code isn’t signed, and then enter their password.

HN: "Apple products are so insecure, you can run anything on them!"

Also HN: "Apple products are too locked down. I can't run anything on them!"
Depending on the car the route on the integrated one gets replaced! I remember this from my days with a Hyundai IONIQ.
Exactly. I don't get why people keep repeating the "but not all games are DRM" mantra. Everyone with a minimal experience in PC gaming knows that without a proper installer most of the time you'll be in trouble just by doing a game folder backup and restore afterwards. Not to mention as well that the DRM free games lists aren't supported in any way by Valve itself (Information about that in the game profile? A filter in the search page?), as they are simply a community effort.

Have to say I'm not anti-Valve at all, I appreciate their commitment to the PC platform and their contribution to the free source cause. I'm just very critical about lack of proper support of DRM-free options AND allowing people to not to depend on a working account after some product is supposedly purchased. DRM is the wrong answer to the wrong question aka how to stop people from doing something that current technology makes incredibly easy to do, instead of properly thinking about the real issue, how we keep fairly paying authors.

PS. Also I think that people should be a bit more concerned about data harvesting through the launcher.
2007 in my school as well.
Remix for me. Tried the new shiny objects (solid, qwik, svelte) and made it pretty far, but ecosystem just isn't there yet and fond myself spending more time making up for the gaps than worth the benefits these platform offered. Nextjs appdir is half-baked right now and handling of mutations is a joke, so you're left on with stable/pages version, knowing you're incurring technical debt with every line of code written.
We designed SPR to address problems with wifi isolation. Every wifi device runs in an isolated subnet and individual VLAN. Mac spoofing is not possible since a device's MAC identity is combined with a device-specific PSK. You can check out the project here: https://www.supernetworks.org/

While we were not aware of these protocol flaws specifically, the project was inspired by fundamental weaknesses in secure wifi isolation. One of the attacks that's demonstrated in the scripts but not in the academic paper -- is that most routers will route UDP/IP packets between devices even when they are "isolated", so there are problems with most guest wifi networks even before mac stealer type attacks come into play.