skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but it's still misleading.

As soon as someone says the words, "an AI", they have entered a narrative about the thing personified. The original subject is lost to an anthropomorphized facade.

The adjective, "General" was originally meant as a classifier for quality, not category. That distinction is still present on the face of the word itself. An AGI is an AI that can compete with human intelligence. Adding "General" to the phrase, "Artificial General Intelligence" does nothing to define "Artificial" or "Intelligence".

The distinction I just made is entirely based on symbolic meaning. Words are defined explicitly, and then put together. In this approach, the resulting meaning is independent of context: it's literal.

Your distinction takes the opposite approach: an entire phrase - regardless of any symbolic definitions each word is known to have - is defined by the narrative it is surrounded with. In this approach, the resulting meaning is dependent on the context: it's literary.

Large Language Models are famous for demonstrating the second approach: they implicitly model whatever patterns exist in a prompt's text, so that they can generate a "continuation" that follows those patterns, without ever needing a literal symbolic definition.

This is exciting, because natural language - as the result of humans taking both literal and literary approaches - is ambiguous. The literal approach that traditional programming language parsers use is fundamentally limited to "context-free grammars", because ambiguity can only be resolved with literary context.

The problem is that LLMs cannot be literal. They are only capable of inference, so they lose all of the functionally that symbolic definition would provide.

The distinction I made earlier has the same limitation that parsers have: it ignores the surrounding narrative context that has evolved away from the original meaning: it's short-sighted.

The distinction you made has the same limitation that LLMs have: it ignores the original symbolic meaning that is still present in each word: it's confidently imprecise.

What matters is the result:

By ignoring the literary context, the definition of "AI" is written in stone, and we lose the ability to talk around it.

By ignoring the literal meaning, we imply "AI" tech is (by definition) capable of both literal and literary transformations.

We can resolve both limitations by simply using new words. There is no need to say "AI" when "NLP" is more precise.
zerohedge exists in the same basket of deplorable conspiracy wingnuts. Big grain of salt and they're not a reliable source.
>It's a national disgrace.

No, it's s a national sport.
If it's cheaper to generate during the day, the market rate should reflect that.
why wouldn't you just offer that as email service.

tom@aistud.io
Elon has enough money that why would he need to ruin his reputation on this? What is the motive?
I wonder if Lex Friedman will cover this
Wow, I never realized hackernews was interested in fashion.
Why would you need LLMs for a boilerplate web application?
Could also be nice as it means the Rust parts are smaller and so its slow compiler speed isn't as much of a bother. You get the safety and runtime speed of Rust with the fast iteration cycle of Elixir. Best of both worlds type of thing.
I expect I'll start to see a lot of "intro to programming" books pushed to my recommendation list, based on much of the code I deal with ;)
that was me! then i realized in the apps (except iOS?) they allow you to specify your own coordinator server... so if they hated them then they'd never build that in! so i removed that part of my comment before it had any replies that I was aware of

edit: see comment below me; iOS now has that ability!
The problem being solved is AI being able to distinguish unique objects within visual data. Before SAM, people would have to train a model on specific objects by labeling data and training a model to understand those objects specifically. This becomes problematic given the variety of objects in the world, settings they can be in, and their orientation in an image. SAM can identify objects it has never seen before, as in objects that might not be part of the training data.

Once you can determine which pixels belong to which object automatically, you can start to utilize that knowledge for other applications.

If you have SAM showing you all objects, you can use other models to identify what the object is, understand it's shape/size, understand depth/distance, etc. It's a foundational model to build off of for any application that wants to use visual data as an input.
HN Insight: Pear Ring and Social Media (General Catalyst and A16Z's Take)
Dubbed the world's biggest social experiment, the Pear Ring is a bright turquoise ring to signify one's single status and singletons are encouraged to wear it in public to show status availability and to attract attentions. Pear cites the reason: "if 1.2 billion singles around the world wore a little green ring on their finger to show they’re single, we wouldn't need dating apps. IRL connection is the mission." Justine Moore (a16z Partner, Consumer) found this idea to be interesting yet controversial and was personally open to try it. Earlier, Justine's colleague Anne Lee Skates (a16z Partner, Consumer) mentioned that a giant segment of the population is yearning for connection and she believed "hybrid" 3rd spaces combining productivity and community are untapped opportunity to solve the 'lonely generation' problem. On the other hand, General Catalyst published two articles outlining how outdated the current social media, dating app, and the overall consumer technology landscape are because next generations value genuine connections, community, and tailored solutions based on their needs and interests. These ideas emphasize that the winning social platform of the future is not simply a digital solution; it must incorporate physical components to bridge the gap between the internet and real life. At the same time, it should be catered to users' needs and preferences to create unique, relevant, and authentic experiences.
I pretty much agree with this. As much as I liked the core language, I absolutely hated using anything else in the ecosystem, and in my opinion a lot of that was due to lack of static types. Using Ecto as the main way of interacting with the database was a miserable experience. Part of that was due to skill issue I'm sure.
Funny enough this is close to what the Puritans did in New England. Just familyhood instead of brotherhood.

> Everyone was compelled by law to live in families. Town officials would search the town for single people and, if found, order them to join a family; if they refused, they were sent to jail.

(and the average family size at the time was a little over 9 children)
I am considering team sports as a way to (secondary) socialize, not to produce kids. Same for boy scout type of activities, in my experience people that do activities in nature get stronger spirits and are better at handling adverse conditions - for example kids in the Switzerland or Finland do a lot of outside activities at school.
i literally laughed out loud when reading this comment. this entire site is an advert for yc and their portfolio companies. it's also a job board with restricted access.
There is one lever left: Stay away from the toxic fast food.
OTOH - having them be open may ultimately lead to stable algorithms that can't be easily gamed.
> After 3 months BigQuery storage ends up being about half the cost of object storage if you use partitioned tables and don't edit the data.

It sounds like it's just standard GCS nearline pricing plus BigQuery margin fee. Raw nearline is cheaper to store, but has a per-GB access fee that'll hurt if you re-process old logs.

Interestingly, BigQuery's streaming read free tier of 300 TB/mo makes BigQuery a fun hack to store your old-but-read-more data into, even if it's e.g. backups blobs.
Racism also plays a part.
And the year before. And the year before that. And a few years before that. And a decade before that.

All while accumulating massive debts and deferred maintenance (and relying on german coal).
Vector Databases as Memory for Your AI Agents
Is IO in Erlang slow? I never got that impression; iolists are a good fit for scatter/gather I/O, which reduces copying, and Erlang supports kqueue, epoll, and I believe similar on Windows. I don't follow Erlang on Linux closely, so I don't know if there's any movement towards io_uring, which does seem promising to help with throughput.

Either way, I wouldn't expect doing I/O in NIFs or ports to substantially improve throughput, unless you're also moving significant processing into that layer as well, or you're going to end up doing substantially the same level of marshaling work as ERTS does, just in a different language. Setting up a different set of kqueue/epoll descriptors sounds like a lot of work for not much gain too, IMHO; again, maybe io_uring would be useful, but I think you'd be better served to bite the bullet and integrate it with ERTS.
Were they as able bodied as they were aged 20-25 though? If 80 years is the cutoff at which we get bored with staying alive, would you rather spend those 80 years in a "biologically" 20-year-old body then make the conscious choice for "something new" or gradually deteriorate for about half of those 80 years then die without the choice not to?
No, Bitcoin is like sending cash directly to the recipient. Lightning is exactly like cryptographic Hawala, with many hops along the way.
What kind of swimming does a submarine do?

edit: it's a glib joke, but we should think more about what makes a 'mind'. I highly recommend people check out the Children of Time series (sci-fi novels) as an enjoyable way to do that.
As a paying customer, this is 100% true. Reputation helps a lot, the core of the product being opensource for a quick skim for some sanity helped. Support being there to help with questions about why X was done the way it was helped. We don't care or have the time to audit further. The company pays _others_ to help audit them, iirc Latacora.
The direct experience of a single person has almost no value when assessing a problem as big as crime rates. It would be like saying cancer rates are up because two people you know got cancer. Direct experience shouldn't be given that much weight.
> I will admit that I'm not a fan of org mode and find it to be oversold and another time waster for people who are already wasting time configuring their editors. I personally use vimwiki, there is a vim plugin for org mode.

I actually use emacs solely for org-mode. I find editing single files and even larger projects to be more of a pain that it is worth, so I just use my custom vim to do that.

What keeps me with org mode and emacs is mostly bibliography management. I have emacs set up to read my Zotero directory, and with a keybinding I can insert a reference to a book or magazine or the such. Now, what is really great about this is that when I export the org file (usually to latex->pdf, but also occasionaly to HTML), it exports the references in the style that they need to be in (MLA, APA, Turabian, etc.) and creates a bibliography page at the end of the export with everything that I referenced.

I can also add notes to any references using org-roam, so that I have have annotated bibliographies quite easily.

If I could have something else that does just this, I would drop emacs in a heartbeat. But until I do find that, emacs and org-mode it is.
ah! very cool. thanks for the context :). I must have missed the shoutout on the website. It's cool that they coordinate with headscale to avoid breakages as well
Yeah, I am mostly taking about US and similar countries. But changing gender in one of those other countries would likely be moot, right?

Hmm, I haven't really seen gendered dress codes aside from schools (which could/should be rewritten to be gender neutral) or the "entertainment" industry (which is likely to descriminate regardless of dress code).
Light Table, which I presume to be defunct, comes to mind. (http://lighttable.com/#features)

But if you're willing to do without the "as you edit" requirement, then what you're left with is a plain old breakpoint debugger. Certainly, there are many IDEs that have those builtin.
I visited both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland the other week, and it was exactly like this. I was worried at first about delays from going through customs, etc. on the trip between the two. But, I took a train from Dublin to Belfast, and it felt like nothing changed apart from the currency and signage. It was great to see such an open connection between the two countries!
I just saw video on my local news that appears to be military personnel taking Jack Teixeira into custody.
Also possible on iOS starting in 1.38.1: https://tailscale.com/changelog/#2023-03-14-client
a) thank you!

(and I say this with an intention towards satire)

b) why the hell was finding that worth your time
On the flipside for me Ecto is the perfect balance between ORM and writing raw SQL queries. I've used many different ORMs like Entity Framework, ActiveRecord, Prisma, Ecto - Ecto stands alone.
Tomorrow is probably pushing it, but SunRun, though expensive, was incredibly responsive and could do things from Google Maps. You could give it a shot.
What a terrible comparison. There is a massive difference between identifying someone who has been charged and randomly naming brown people the killer.
Yeah you are correct, only really can be done with apis you can control, even then it is a pain bc you need the certs and app in lockstep. But for example if your proxy api used an api key and you wanted an additional layer of security. Edit: sibling comment is interesting for an approach that might remove low hanging fruit
With the style of net meter in the article is makes sense to install a battery because it allows you to sell back power during the times you get the full rate. But yes otherwise you are right the return on investment will benefit smaller systems. Since any additional power would simply be wasted. Now the new standards typically don't fully get rid of paying for additional power. So it is probably still best to build a system that covers your power usage for most of the year and get a small benefit when it is over producing.
I just run emacs on the remote server (inside tmux), emacs works great on the terminal, in fact, I don't use GUI emacs. code, orgmode, magit are just text.
Is the motivation biological, computational, or what? What does Kanerva's algebra buy?
Ask HN: What email provider do you use for backup purposes?
Since free email providers have limited support options. I'm looking for a paid email hosted provider that I can use only to recover my main online accounts I dont mind paying 3-5 a month, but I need at least email support and reliability. Which non-free service do you use? Please note I am not looking to support the major players like google, Microsoft or yahoo as they go out of there way to create user-hostile environments.
What, are you saying that it is expected that the probe will actually be inadvertently carrying Tardigrades that might actually survive to the surface? Hidden in little corners of the probe? Why didn't we sterilize it?
Not the person you are replying to, but you are making an absolutely bad faith assumption here.

Is it that impossible for you to imagine that someone could be extremely apalled by the invasion of Ukraine and be fully in support of their side (i.e., being fully opposed to the Russian side), while at the same time standing for the principles of open internet and not believing in wholesale disconnecting entire countries?

Because that's my personal stance. I am fully on the side of Ukraine here, with no "ifs" or "buts", and I simultaneously don't believe in blackholing tens of millions of people like that being a good idea.
PowerToys for Windows has a keyboard remapper. It has nowhere near the power of karabiner, but otoh you don't have to wade through karabiner's config file.
Yeah seems to be the case. Express VPN's parent corp acquired CyberGhost, Zenmate, Private Internet access over the last few years.

They also paid as much as several of these put together for the marketing/affiliate websites Webselence, VPNmentor, Safety Detectives. Which shows how much money must be in these affiliate programs.
The jail shared it. It's a public record.
It went: "The Internet: where the women are men, the men are boys, and the boys are FBI agents."
Browser extension to edit any arxiv.org paper directly on overleaf
Blowing the shit out of the kids that haven't learned to duck, yet.
The DFA is O(n) with up to exponential time spent upfront (and exponential space usage too). The exact complexity for the NFA with the regex you suggest depends on how the NFA is built, but it is at least O(n^2) worst case because you can easily build a case with n active states. Likewise for the lazy DFA.
Wow that article is very detailed and there is tons of exploitative practices

https://hindenburgresearch.com/block/
Clean energy is moving faster than you think
It doesn’t take much imagination to see how it would radically alter human existence and civilization in ways we can hardly fathom.

That said, death is rather terrible so I am in favor of curing aging to the extent that we can, while working hard to ensure things don’t go into the shitter in the process.
I've seen stories of isolated pockets of California where they do this and the people on the program are making out like bandits, paying off their battery systems in just a couple of years and raking it in after that.

This has to be cost the power company an arm and a leg. It seems like it just won't be sustainable.
I've noticed community ran ISPs are on the rise. It would be great to see a boom like in the 90s as some ISPs have such a monopoly
Oh, cool. I’m thinking about something similar with SBCL plus vanilla JS. I’m not worried about libraries and these days try to be a library/framework free as possible. The web dev basics of an application server, access to an RDBMS, and possibly help spitting out HTML/CSS/JS are all I need. And it seems like Common Lisp checks those boxes. I’ll give quicklisp props too as everything I’ve tried to install ran on one go. That’s unfortunately not always my experience elsewhere.

Out of curiosity, have you done Lisp before? I’m curious if productivity gains would be lost in me ramping up.
It is painfully simple. Charges are a matter of public record. Naming random brown people as terrorists only creates innocent victims.

Honestly, it’s time to let this idea die. It’s not only completely wrong but it’s not making you look very bright.
> The printers of today are awful landfill fodder compared to the Okidata's of the 90's.

Maybe. But how expensive were they?

I can buy a good laser printer for under $200 these days. It will be more compact, lighter, mechanically simpler and use way less power than older printers. Something has to give.

Some older printers were really overengineered (which in many cases did make them more reliable), but that has a cost. Turns out, consumers didn't want to pay those costs.
Ironic that you're worried about doing something that can "incidentally" kill you - to prevent something that will definitely kill you.
Seems like over-reach when the solution is to just subscribe to youtube channels in RSS so you can sort the content in any way you please.
I'm sure batteries and electric motors have their own quirks. For example, battery performance is dependent on temperature.
We already have those future neighbourhoods, but they are powered by 4,000 acre solar installations, operated by entities we call 'utilities'.

Economies of scale greatly benefit them, for the same reason that economies of scale benefit industrial-scale smelters over the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backyard_furnace garbage that was pushed by 'great visionaries' of the last century.

There's no universe where someone driving for an hour, then climbing onto your roof to install a solar panel is cheaper than doing it at scale. There is no universe where an HOA wasting 40 acres of expensive urban or suburban land is more economic than a utility deploying 40 acres of solar panels, 15 miles out of town.
You could argue that the last two sentences were removed in the book version, since the book and film were written simultaneously and the book came out later.
>After the murder, I had to read scores of comments like this[...]

>I had to read scores of tech bros [...]

Did you though? I can't recommend enough cutting out reading people's comments that you don't want to read. If other people's comments stress you out and make you angry, there are typically actions you can take to expose yourself less to them.
No, it's the research founding team mostly. The most important was the business team: Sam Altman, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Microsoft with their Azure supercomputers.

Edit: the only supercomputer industry in Europe was developed by France's first* president Charles De Gaulle (plan Calcul) for their country military or civil nuclear strategy which the US deep state did not like very much.
A French president unilaterally killed this plan Calcul under US advice and sold Bull to American company (Honeywell) despite the opportunity to merge Bull with a few European computer giants.
As far as I know you can also have an encrypted payload in the notification, which only the app can decrypt.

I'm not sure that payload can be decrypted by an app without unlocking the phone or launching the app though.
Can't wait for LockpickingLawyer to break it open in 10 seconds using two post-its
but how will it be maintained? "IAC" seems like a bit of a misnomer here, if I'm understanding correctly. Now, if Pulumi generated terraform for me to maintain, that'd be a different matter, but this article seems to just produce cloud resources based on LLM prompts, which are not deterministic at all.
Why exactly should this law be limited to men? Put the women to work too, it would be sexist otherwise.
It does. Retail and wholesale prices are both lower during the day, but net metering cancels that out.
Has there been any word on the third part of the series? 20020 came out then allegedly 20021 was coming out "soon", but didn't seem to ever materialize.
Apple has a track record of supporting phones for half a decade.

Pixel 6 came out last year, the 5 year promise is still just a promise.

Samsung's 4 years isn't 4 years of major Android version updates. IIRC it was 2 years of Android updates + 2 years of security patches.

We'll see in 6 years whether the Nexus 6 can get the latest Android version. I'm pretty damn sure my iPhone 14 will still get updates in 2028.
AFAIK Spacedrive hasn't delivered a release yet, so it's nice to see some competitors delivering.
Why would it matter if he did?
There's a lot of overlap in that venn diagram.
How to Trust Again - Deepfakes, Misinformation, and a Possible Way Out
"(transitioning to man comes with a pay rise, transitioning to woman with a pay cut)"

Do you have some details on this?
I will bring my smartphone just so I don’t have to talk with strangers
iOS allows that now too as of two releases ago (in 1.38.1).

Go to the system Settings app, scroll down down down through your apps to Tailscale, and set the "Alternate Coordination Server URL".