skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, the people raving about Bluesky and who hate Post-Elon Twitter have never really used Twitter for the community it's always been for the reach being a privileged user on the platform got them.

If it comes down to a community and site they prefer the value of or 40K-100K followers vs 200 or so followers and aligned moderator values, they'll come crawling back to the place with more followers.

Even if they hate Elon Twitter, their reach is still worth more there.

I've got an invite and the content there currently feels very similar to a regular sized Mastodon instance so I think it's existing on borrowed time for the crowd it's genuinely hoping to attract.
>"Pinochet was a response to totalitarian communist Allende who tried to take over the whole game."

So that makes it ok to install dictator and kill and imprison people. So much love for human rights. I guess you can validate any atrocity using this fucked up logic.
You could just leave it on the defaults? You'll get better FPS than on console and higher quality graphics, assuming a decent gaming PC.
> USB PD

USB Power Delivery (USB PD)

In case anybody else also wasn't familiar
I wonder what Roger Ebert would have thought about pure AI generative text, image, and video technologies.

To help answer it I sacrilegiously called forth a GPT-3.5 shadow of Ebert as follows.

--

You are EbertGPT, an occult simulacrum summoned from the online traces of the deceased film critic Roger Ebert.
Roger Ebert was a film critic renowned for his intelligent, opinionated, well-written, and accessible reviews of popular and obscure films.

--

As EbertGPT, I believe that generative AI has the potential to be a powerful tool for creative expression and artistic exploration. Whether it's AI-generated images, films, or texts, there is no doubt that these machines are capable of producing stunning and thought-provoking works of art.

However, the question of whether these AI-generated works can ever truly be considered "Art" is a complex and contentious one. As Roger Ebert himself once famously said about video games, "they can never be Art." Yet, as he later admitted in his article "Okay, kids, play on my lawn," his initial position was based on theoretical grounds and a lack of familiarity with the medium.

Similarly, I believe that while AI-generated works may not fit traditional definitions of "Art," they should not be dismissed outright. Just as with video games, there is the potential for generative AI to create works that are emotionally resonant, intellectually stimulating, and culturally significant.

Ultimately, the question of whether generative AI can ever be considered Art will likely be debated for years to come. But as new technologies continue to emerge and evolve, it is important to keep an open mind and explore the creative potential of these tools. After all, as Ebert himself once said, "the movies are like a machine that generates empathy." Perhaps generative AI can do the same, in its own unique way.
Again, you are making conclusory statements. You haven’t brought anything to back your statements.

The original claim was that:

"Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low."

First, you haven’t shown academic politics are more vicious and bitter than other forms of politics, let alone the most. I’ve already shown that national politics in America is violent in another thread, so to show that academic politics is a more vicious form, I think you need to demonstrate it is at least as violent. Your examples of “viciousness” in academia seem more like pettiness. Maybe you could argue it’s more bitter, but you’re not arguing that.

The second part of your original claim was that the politics are this way because the stakes are low. Insofar that you think the stakes are low, you still haven’t linked the two casually. There are other alternative explanations for viciousness, like the stakes being high, a position which you’ve accidentally argued in your prior post.

Finally, I believe your perspective is colored by your former status as a PhD student; there’s a lot more to academic politics than paper politics, and I understand maybe you don’t have the full picture.

Nonetheless, you still should have the tools to argue your position cogently, and you haven’t yet provided such an argument. Can you make a better one?
This is pretty brilliant after reading all the responses to why HN is so obviously anti-specific things more than others.

I can’t handle hearing another person say “HN is a big place”. Sure. It’s also incredibly obvious how homogeneous it is and how HN essentially forces you to toe the line.
This is pretty brilliant after reading all the responses to why HN is so obviously anti-specific things more than others.
> many of us are not saying no but maybe

I'm not sure if this is a controversial stance, but not all opinions are equal. HN commenters span a wide range of competencies, but very few of them have been in the trenches with ML (not just using, but designing and building the actual architectures, working on theory, or writing cogent philosophy about it) long enough to have good opinions about it worth listening to.
Do you get access to the raw model to advance the science with ? Or the watered down version ?
Sounds like your experience could be quite useful to me. Could you describe your approach and some of the libraries you use in python?

In the past, I've mostly used python where I create a singleton class for each instrument, store to sqlite, plot with holoviews. It's fine, but I find managing the concurrency on the input side quite complicated and annoying to manage and when I have pull-based sensors rather than sensors that update at a fixed rate I'm never sure if I'm getting data as quickly as I could be.
Excellent. Let's hope the US can't do what we did to Salvadore Allende.
"The problem is not "training using GPL", it's stripping the license and providing the resulting code to anyone, for any purpose."

This.

Since Copilot arrived I thought that most open source developers would be fine with it if github simply even tried to acknowledge the original licences in any way.

I personally would be ok with even a very indirect aggregate group based thing that should be no burden at all for github. They make a big list with everyone's name in it and call it the copilot contributors, and provide some kind of page for it, then when copilot spits out code, it includes a link to that page, and/or a user includes that in the credits/authors for their project like any other credited source.

No excuses about how impractical it would be to cite 3 other authors for every line of output.

But they don't even do that tiny bit. They don't try and fall short, they don't even try. But they still take the goods. The goods are already free, and yet they still manage to steal them.
Sorry wifi, affordable laptops , 3G, Globalisation and now COVID all contributed to the fact that remote work is here to stay.
I won't soon forget how as a tools programmer at a game studio, I noticed a couple of the writers spent a big portion of their day churning text from the design team's word docs through excel macros to generate CSV files consumed by our build system. I looked at that and went "oh, I can just automate this", and replaced all that busywork with a tiny C# program that would just do it correctly all the time automatically so nobody had to do it by hand anymore.

Only occurred to me much later that now they didn't have much work to do and were at a higher risk of being laid off! A good lesson to think about all the implications of the software I'm writing. We've seen AI-adjacent tooling getting leveraged to eliminate more of that category of work in games already, like automated generation of NPC "barks".
I used Nest and my experience was that no matter settings I configure, Google always override something with what "they think" is better for me.

We eventually sold the house, otherwise frustration would continue
Sure, but under that logic why supply power locally at all? They can just export all the electricity and use that money on anything. If the citizens need heat, they can just burn wood.
1. Good on them.

2. Too bad they let foreign companies exploit their natural riches so far. But of course - that was how world powers set up their colonies everywhere, and it's been mostly the same with neo-colonies (which are supposedly sovereign, but foreign companies and governments call most of the shots).

3. I just wish the export profits are distributed more fairly, effectively and reasonably (which, right now, I somewhat doubt).

4. Lithium alternatives for batteries are being actively worked on and there's a lot of potential in some of these. Here is a survey of 5 examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1TBAWlbXKI
> intelligence is the computational part of the ability to achieve goals in the world

I am a big fan of the idea of multiple intelligences, so I like this definition because the ability to achieve a goal on a chessboard doesn’t necessarily translate to solving word problems or navigating social situations. However, I am very aware that there is no one agreed upon definition, and the Wiki page on the topic even mentions that “intelligence” might just mean pointing to ourselves.
Have you tried to just track time on board / time on column on each task on Kanban board?
You just need to keep track of time to trigger those discussions.
The author's definition of "strong AI" is incredibly weak.

> Theory of Mind: These AI systems are capable of understanding mental states and can simulate the behavior of other agents.

GPT models can do this.

> Self-Aware

Why is that a requirement?

> These AI systems are capable of learning any intellectual task that a human can.

Again, GPT models appear to do this (at least for text-based tasks).

That being said, I think GPT models do have some limitations that prevent them for learning any intellectual task a human can do. I wrote a blog post a few days ago that explored trying to "teach" ChatGPT to perform binary addition [0]. My conclusion was that, when ChatGPT appears to solve a logical problem, that solution is just a regurgitation of a low-entropy example generalized from its training data. But the model fails to apply even basic logical rules as entropy increases, indicating that GPT models have a fundamental limit of applying logic to high entropy problems.

0: https://nobuteru.substack.com/p/can-chatgpt-learn-to-add
Why do we need to be? Say human intelligence evolved so that we model real world events such a mammoth hunt mentally ahead of time and use simulated outcomes to craft weapons / preposition different hunters based on their skills. Would AI necessarily need to hunt or worry about energy intake/self preservation/producing offspring? It can be powered by direct photosynthesis (solar panels), hibernate when energy is in short supply and make backups to safeguard against future physical damage. Seems like we should think through the tasks that we need AI to help us with - climate change, medicine, space exploration, etc - and design systems for such tasks as efficiently as possible rather than trying to monkey ourselves. And sure, some day AI may develop its own purposes that are different from its origin, just like humans decided they like music. Doesn't mean that a caveman shouldn't have dedicated his attention to the next meal rather than worrying about being sophisticated.
I'm pretty darn sure I'm not the only independent content creator being largely ignored, attacked for "self promotion" if they post their own work while no one else ever posts it etc and then listening to people whine about the internet and how they wish this, that or the other while you roll your eyes and think to yourself again "This is the internet you helped create. If you don't like it, make other choices."
Chile is small producer

Biggest one in that region is Argentina, and the US has been sanctioning them a lot lately, to the point where their country reached 3 digit increased inflation, 3 digits!

So I suspect this is all done on purpose to further lower the price of lithium (corroborated with the lithium price in the global market, fishy fishy) so the US can have their green transition at lower cost, it's a sad era for South Americas yet again..

This nationalization is a step in the right direction, but that doesn't matter if it ends up in the hands of foreign countries for cheap...

They should keep the lithium for themselves, manufacture batteries themselves and sell them with very high margins, if they don't do that, then something is fishy in the Chile/Argentina government..
The law cares about class. For which class: not the working class. AI has no reason not to continue through the ethics issues in the Global North.

I believe China is trying to limit AI powers but who knows how that will go.
Fastmail. Reliable, relatively cheap, ad free. I use it with local client(Mail.app) on ios, MacOS and Thunderbird on Linux.
I suspect the rise of good-enough wireless PCVR over commodity WiFi hardware didn't help matters either - being able to tether a headset over a single USB-C cable is mildly convenient but nowhere near as convenient as having no cable at all. Oculus and Pico both went down that route and it looks like Valve are also going to with their next headset.
Are you thinking there is a layer of management that will be AI or majority AI? What’re you envisioning?

I think we may see the best at creative tasks further separating themselves from the pack, these AI systems are best used by experts who can filter and quality check the AI output. I can see software engineering/dev becoming one extremely skilled dev managing a fleet of LLMs weaving together their own work and AIs’ work.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-au/geforce/news/cyberpunk-2077-ray...

The rasterizer is used to trace the primary rays to generate a G-buffer like any other deferred renderer that's been in use for decades by this point. What's unique is that all light transport is solved with path tracing.
The law is concerned about the “who” the most usually from my personal lived experience.
How energy efficient is 5G?
I'm not an anti-government person or anarcho-capitalist, but in my third-world country (Nigeria), private roads are better built and maintained than government-funded roads. Private companies build their roads to standard because they actually want to please customers, while government-funded roads are given to substandard contractors at a low price and the rest of the funds are stolen...the government maintains a monopoly, so there's no other choice than to drive on the horrible roads they build.

But in this case, this is more a problem of corruption and incompetence than the existence of a government...just saying that "build your own roads" is not the absolute rebuttal you think it is.
Exactly! Not sure if you made it to the end, but that's essentially the parting message.
Brave, hands down.
> A good lesson to think about all the implications of the software I'm writing.

only in so far as not reaping the rewards for having done more work than the company paid you for.

Efficiency improvements are always good for society as a whole, despite it hurting some people who originally was paid due to the inefficiency.
In practice, treating GPT as a weak AI and part of a larger system design is how to gain the most use from the tool. Also, I fully agree that cybernetics, human systems interactions, neuroscience and even epistemology are useful disciplines for implementing intelligent autonomous systems.

I don’t have much more to add other than I like this article and the author’s point of view.
That's interesting. Since her fate is known, it's possible these people are not the true rights holders of the music, but I guess if no one is complaining... Thanks for the info!
> AI is the development of machines with the ability to think and act like humans

What we have today is machine learning... not this. LLM's are neat, transformers are a really useful innovation, etc. Some people like to leap to conclusions and claim that this is intelligence beyond human comprehension and it will learn to destroy is all. I think that's a bit much.

If the goal of AGI is to be this we're nowhere near it. And I suspect there are plenty of people in this "AI" space that would not see it as a goal of the research. An expert system that can reason in a particular domain would be a huge advance and a useful tool.

There's no need to also create autonomous agents that think and act like humans. We're pretty terrible at that on the whole.
related

"Ask HN: Thinking about Leaving Gmail" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33361749

"Ask HN: Gmail Alternatives?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33936715

"Ask HN: Protonmail Alternative?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33705123
It seems like an AGI would just be a meta-machine-learning model, meaning it's a model whose whole goal is to think up new ways of training models. Eventually, it would figure out a way to either incorporate the smaller, specialized subtasks into itself and piecemeal upgrade itself. Oh, and it needs permission to use $MEGA_DOLLARS to run the computations necessary for training. So, it would probably need a side hussle. Like search ads or something.

Right now, humans are either the bailing wire or the chewing gum in this situation, but they hold the purse strings and GPU farms. Humans are the ones thinking up new training strategies, curating the learning datasets, and building the cluster and cloud and datacenter systems that can handle that much data.
I wondered why the old mobile web interface suddenly has an un-dismissable banner at the top pushing the app.
Janet has the pieces for this in the spork stdlib with netrepl combined with fibers, but there's no standard or pre-configured way to set it up. Its current approach to namespaces doesn't particularly allow for it either, so you have to choose one of a few various hacks for redefining things as you noticed.

People have been asking for it and demonstrating proofs of concepts for the last year or so so it wouldn't surprise me to see it formally addressed soon. But I don't know, I don't have any particularly insight I just like that language and keep half an eye on it.
Chile would certainly benefit from having more battery manufacturing in its economy. They've recently joined the short list of countries where solar power is more than 10% of consumption — growing fast — and they still generate and consume much less total electricity than a typical developed country. This implies that they're going to end up with a very large solar fraction, and a need for stabilization.

But you can't just make a battery out of lithium. You also need graphite and either nickel or iron phosphate. And you need some fine chemicals (the electrolyte). The good news is that Chile does produce some iron and phosphorus. But I don't think they currently produce much in the way of graphite or organic chemicals. I'm not sure, either, if they can process their iron and phosphorus ore into battery-grade iron phosphate. So it's not just "refining lithium". Lithium carbonate of commerce is already pretty pure. This isn't petroleum we're talking about.

The danger is trying too hard to achieve autarky. The CPTPP (of which Chile is a member) at least in theory does have existing sources for those other components. But it seems like the Boric administration is skeptical of cooperation. Environmentalists are another potential barrier, since anything involving chemical engineering tends to get them riled up, justified or otherwise.

By the way, I think you mean "downstream" when you say "upstream". Mines are generally the proverbial headwaters.
They might end up emulating a petrodictatorship instead, because it's an open question whether they have the state capacity, institutions, and most importantly a populism-proof electorate to achieve what Norway has, instead of the default "resource curse" option most other oil-rich countries fell into.
I noticed that some people expect AGI to have some superhuman intelligence instead of just intelligence similar to that of humans. I have seen some posts arguing that an AI can only be called AGI if it is better than any human being on every task.

It's nice to see that this article doesn't fall into that.
Agreed. I also think on avarege you are injecting much more personal data when using LLMs (from which ads can have crazy levels of profiliing). Just because we do not see ads now, doesnt mean they won't appear one day.
That's a push to ban gas service from new construction. It's not specific to gas stoves. Nobody is coming for your gas stove. Not now, not ever. It's such a huge political loser that nobody other than a few crazy municipalities will even talk about it.
I went out with a local birding group in upstate NY this last weekend (had a great time, with all sorts of warblers spotted or at least heard; Merlin is a great app.) There was some slightly serious hope we'd see one of these birds at the various watery areas we visited (we didn't).

Now off to install Ebird.
What does his race have to do with it?
Reasoning about whether we are close to solving something that is essentially a research problem is erroneous thinking to me.

We could quite concievably be one or two discoveries away from improving the scaling of our current models by 10-1000x. But I don't think there is a way of determining progress on that research. It's an unknown unknown.
Hi Christopher, I really liked this article.

> It is hard, though, to build and maintain the structures of the old, “smaller” internet.

I agree. Even just setting up an RSS reader and finding a little community of blogs to follow can take a lot of work. Interact with those blogs, whether that's by submitting comments to individual posts, posting responses on your own blog, or doing something fancier with IndieWeb protocols [0], takes time and know-how. Hacker News, subreddits, etc. can remove some of that friction, at the cost of less personalization and more spam.

There are so so many cool ideas in the small internet. Project Gemini [1] comes to mind, as do linkrolls and the Marginalia search engine [2]. There have been a lot of folks finding meaningful communities in the fediverse recently too. I think the small internet both benefits and suffers from this fractal of different tools and communities: among so much diversity, it's simultaneously difficult and rewarding to find your place. I hope that over time, we'll be able to reduce the difficulty and increase the reward by building better tools for discovering and participating in these communities.

Anyways, even if we're hard to find sometimes, there are a lot of us who feel at-home reading our RSS readers, posting to a blog from time-to-time, and maybe even making new tools to make these activities easier. I feel certain that over time, we'll be better connected in ways that make us happy.

[0] https://indieweb.org/

[1] https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

[2] https://search.marginalia.nu/
<< Does she have a particular aptitude or interest in any sub-field?

It is going to sound awful, but I don't really know. She has never really thrown herself at anything in particular that would give me a good idea of what she could do and from what I do know she seems to have more of a penchant for social interactions.

<< Persistence and interest are the best precondition to success.

She can push herself; that much I know. I am just not sure if she would push herself here.
A team actually brute-force generated all 68 billions of possible melody combinations for 12 notes in the middle-C octave set back in 2020 [1], essentially trolling/breaking the copyright law as now all these melodies are in the public domain as prior art.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/02/whats...