skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my personal lexicon, "AGI" means computer / machine based intelligence that is approximately as flexible and capable as an average adult human. So an "AGI" to me, should be able to drive a car, play chess, do math, discuss literature, etc. What is not required in my definition is for the AGI to be "human like" at all. So the Turing Test is meaningless to me, as I don't need an AGI to be able to lie effectively and do things like describing subjective experiences (like drinking too much wine, getting drunk, and pissing itself) that it never had.

I also don't require it to do things that require embodiment, like "play a game of baseball" or whatever. Although I do see a time coming when robotics and AI will align to the extent that an AI powered robotic player will be able to "play a game of baseball" or suchlike.

To expand on this a bit: I don't over-emphasize the "general" part like some people do. That is, some people argue against AGI on the basis that "even humans aren't a general intelligence". That, to me, is mere pedantry and goal-post moving. I don't think anybody involved in AGI ever expected AGI to necessarily mean "most general possible problem solver that can exist in the state space of all possible general problem solvers" or whatever. Disclosure: I'm partially paraphrasing Ben Goertzel from a recent interview[1] I saw, in that previous sentence.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVWzwIg4Adw
Lying and Vagueness [pdf]
Narrative and the Structure of Art
Ask HN: Most valuable skills for an early-stage startup engineer (new grad)
What are the most valuable skills for a (junior) engineer at an early-stage startup? Specifically in the AI space.
Evolution created intelligence without even being intelligent itself
I used to be a big believer of “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Then my friend told me that logic falls apart when we start to tolerate intolerance. Now I don’t know what to think.
It drives engagement for his account. I doubt very much it's helping with user acquisition/retention.

Incidentally officials have acknowledged his 'neo-nazi ideation' though they've held off identifying a motive. If you peruse his online footprint it's rapidly apparent that he's been suicidal for years primarily due to a dysfunctional family background and difficulty in forming personal relationships. Right-wing ideology serves as explanatory framework/coping mechanism roadmap for a lot of lonely and dissatisfied young men, but the more the odds tilt against them the more likely they are to end up blackpilled. Arguably, some of the smarter/more manipulative figures in that movement invest effort in maximizing that, because martyrs make great recruiting tools.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/09/texas-mall-g...
I wonder how many web devs manage to keep the complexity of these server-client interactions straight in their heads and how fun it is to troubleshoot this Rube Goldberg machinery when stuff goes wrong.
horrible click bate headline. Again people, its a giant auto-complete system. It is not actually intelligent. You want to have it manage your hard earned capital go ahead.
I agree with this... Based on my SAT and GRE from ancient times, I have a way cool IQ. Can't see it, as I can't see me as that far above the madding herd. I suspect score inflation or wish inflation's going on.

In the case of the GRE, the stars aligned and I got my best scores. The SAT's were good but the stars weren't buying.
There's a name given in the article for the mechanism by which the planet's orbit became weird, and the same mechanism has been active in our own solar system. I am not convinced that "defies the rules of physics" is an appropriate title for this article.

Perhaps "This Exoplanet's Orbit Has Been Significantly Shifted Relative to Most Orbits" and while that isn't as interesting, it is significantly more accurate.
I think this is broader than "the Internet". Parts of the fringe get absorbed into the mainstream. Capitalism is particularly good that this - look at companies monetizing social movements in various ways for the last 100 years.

I don't necessarily think this is a bad thing. I understand the feeling of having your niche diluted, but that's what happens whenever a niche is "good enough" to be influential. The mainstream isn't static, and would be worse for everyone if it were.
It would be far more surprising to me to
find a social phenomena that was independent of all possible interventions. It often comes down to questions of cost vs benefit, efficacy, how targeted an intervention can be, and political will.
I’ve always wondered if a cable/DSL modem is an actual AT-style modem somewhere in there, but I’ve been way too scared to ask.
Android will let you give an app permission to use the microphone in the background but this is not the default
If one reads RFC 1812, one finds that it does not exactly define the term. It uses it in a heading but doesn't use it in a way that agrees with its later definition of "martian", since its explanation of "martian address filtering" encompasses traffic that is not "martian" per its own glossary.

A contemporary definition that is not self-contradictory is in Eric S. Raymond's New Hacker's Dictionary, published four years earlier; but which isn't what RFC 1812 says either, however.

So whilst the people who weren't alive in the 1990s are wrong to be hung up on the "I thought it meant 'from Mars'." confusion, since the saddening reality of 2023 is that we're no nearer to that being a realistic source of confusion than we were in 1991; the obverse of the coin is that, like much of the Jargon File, it's woolly slang set over-hard into stone by Eric S. Raymond and a document from Cisco that it is unwise to rely upon for strict technical meaning.
They used to call it "strong AI" but I guess that fell out of favor.
no, it is about running iOS in VMs
> Frankly, even really understanding the moment is impossible, let alone something as distant as the past, or the as yet not-existing future.

I thought that too before, but now I'm not so sure.

Human individuals don't differ from each other that much. Sure there's a wide spectrum of physical and mental attributes such as intelligence, perseverance, confidence, etc.

But the basic motivations and behavioural patterns are close to identical, bar really exceptional outliers like Napoleon or von Neumann.
So what addictions did you have (hours spent and detriment) before and after?

Regarding drugs I would be surprised if addicts are simply not evaluating their situation properly in order to "think their way out".
I've got a personal blog I started when I moved to New Zealand in October 2000. It started as PHP Nuke, moved to PostNuke, then moved to Drupal where it's stayed ever since. I've looked at moving it to Hugo but it's too hard, all the old links etc break. I'm sure if I paid someone they'd be able to do it. It's got ~3100 entries. Most people thought I was nuts keeping my own blog when things like Livejournal etc existed. I'm glad I did it myself though, it keeps my Linux skills sort of relevant (it's a LAMP stack still though, so relevant might be a little bit of wishful thinking...)

Anyway I'm glad I've kept it up over the years - it documents me moving to NZ, the people I met, meeting my wife, buying our first house, our second house, our kids etc. I used to write in it every day, but as I've gotten older and more busy with life I'm lucky if I write in it more than 2-3 times a month. Plus life is a lot easier to document now I have a camera on me 24/7

I keep it out of Google / Search as best I can with robots and Meta-Headers, but it's there if you look hard enough.

Of course my blog is much less noteworthy than the linked one, mine's just for me (and my close family) and has zero useful public information (which is why I've kept it out of Google, I'd feel bad polluting search with my rantings)
> But there's a loss of a part of identity that isn't thrilling me.

As a friend of mine put it, "aging is a process of renunciation".
I'm amused. First, that it's the AT protocol... I thought someone was getting pissy about their 45 yr old vintage 1200 baud modem. Second, that people are discovering that Twitter 2.Oh isn't truly federated but just pretends to be. The open source community's spent how many years designing a non-proprietary protocol and putting out reference implementations (and extending it to Facebook-like and Youtube-like and Wordpress-like offerings)...

But no, everyone's all just butthurt over Elon Rocketman and will accept whatever garbage anyone puts in front of them.
> Without that oil to turn into fertilizer, the only other chance is to have ruminants actively managed on a regenerative farm growing both meat and produce.

False dilema.

There are probably more options, but one that immediately comes to mind is that we could synthesize petroleum from the atmosphere.

It'd probably be the only sensible way to do long-range air travel in your scenario anyhow.
It's actually far easier to eat vegetables, especially sauteed vegetables, with chopsticks. Same for digging sardines out of a tin. Chopsticks beats fork or spoon.

They're not for everything, but when you learn to use them, there are many foods (and many dishes in Asian cuisine where they have long thin pieces) that are simply easier with chopsticks if you have the skills.

Knife and fork for steak, or whole pieces of chicken, or turkey dinner... Spoon for stew or soup. But noodles, or stir-fried vegetables? chopsticks.
Rather than respond to you directly, I'll quote more from OP (a sly maneuver, I know):

> If that [Power of Habit book] was taught as a class in high school, it might eliminate long-term drug addiction.

No.

The book "Power of Habit", while incredibly valuable and informative, will not have this effect. If you believe otherwise, you have no understanding of the root causes of long-term addiction.
Wrong headed. Case was about Corellium's third party virtual iOS device used for security research, not a VM running on iOS.

But I really really want my iPadOS MAME app back, and I would applaud some judgement that banned Apple's VM and emulator ban on iOS and similar.
Your Backup does't include your all of your iOS and App Installation. So a 50GB in most cases should be able to backup a 64GB iPhone unless it is all Photos.
"This Exoplanet’s Weird Orbit Can Be Explained By Known Physics And The Addition Of Something We Haven't Yet Observed" is much more likely.

In human rhetoric I've noticed that there is a tendency to frame everything as if what we know today is the extent of all that can ever be known. When in fact we are naive and limited creatures who have nonetheless come up with some pretty astounding theories that have held up against repeated cases where something appears to defy physics until we learn that actually we can use the same physics and a minor update to our visibility into the system in question.
I once spent a summer upgrading my company's flagship app from VB6 to VB.Net. The performance of the .Net version was so bad we ended up throwing it away. I learned the hard way newer is not automatically better.
This is a nice side-effect of running processing code on the GUI thread. I guess we can't do that anymore now we are dealing with network latency all the time.
Film in general used to "solarize" in some situations, which would turn some over-exposed areas black.
> I thought someone was getting pissy about their 45 yr old vintage 1200 baud modem.

Meanwhile I was expecting a Linus rant about a kernel merge for it
Yeah, it's even worse than that. If you look at what his company does https://www.marksgroup.net/, it basically helps companies send more CRM spam.

Never understood why the guardian gave him a platform.
Love this comment and the passion behind it. Another non-US person here who routinely has to do a buttload of research to know whether products will be supported (or usable) in the future, especially with US-centric takeovers.

I wish these companies had some sort of open source pact built into the licensing, eg after 3 years the support window ends but the software becomes open source. We won't solve your problems anymore but you/the community can if you want.

That would be amazing...
Interdependence with larger agricultural systems. Grains are great to grow at scale and I'm glad I can buy them in a grocery store. Tomatoes are great to grow at home and I'm glad I can do that too.
Thank you for the link, it's wonderful.
When writing to a log file, isn't that sequential write?
Something that can escape it's programming, not just master what it's been given. I expect there are mental gymnastics to explain why chatgpt already fits this in some technical sense, hopefully people see what I'm getting at.
Great, where's your discord link?
There is evidence that people believe that GTP-4 is intelligent since it can solve things like the SATs. But if you start taking away weights one by one at some point those same people will say it isn't intelligent. A NN with 3 weights cannot solve any problems that humans believe requires intelligence. So where did it come from? I don't know, but it clearly emerged as the NN got bigger.
I was with you until the end

First point: FPs are unique. Clearly true

Second point: Combing FPs isn't lossless, across most/all arithmetic. Clearly true, the root of our discussion

Third point: decimal arithmetic is lossy too. Strongly disagree. The system of representation is what is lossy - floating point. Arithmetic (between two decimal numbers) is clearly not lossy in and of itself, only as implemented with computers.
They didn't need to completely remove compatibility modes.

And I'm not asking to get one off a shelf but not only can I not buy one on amazon or newegg I can't even find a price when I look for a specific model!

I think it's fair to say that to a first approximation I, as a person, can't get one.

Edit: I found one site with a price on a WD drive, but they only have refurbished drives and the price is 25% off of $2200 for 1TB, so I'm going to ignore that site.
Some things are best left a mystery. Ignorance really can be bliss.
Safest thing to do, stop inverting and building more powerful and potentially dangerous systems which we can’t understand?
I disagree. There is an episode of King of The Hill that mocks the KKK. You know what the KKK did? NOTHING. They didn't say a word. They didn't say a word because their numbers are very weak. It is a joke at this point. The episode actually used the KKK as actual jokes in Bobby's skit. Think about that for a minute. It went from feared to a joke in a cartoon show and nobody said a word because they are a joke.
That doesn't really count all the money and/or time required to get the garden into that productive state. I've spent a lot of time and money on mine. And I don't mind that, I love working on it and it is both decorative and productive. But everything grown in my garden would have been a lower overall cost to me if I had a house with no garden at all.

For example, you listed those free items of compost etc. I also make my own and get freebies wherever I can. But when we moved here the ground was in a poor state so we have paid quite a bit for extra soil compost and mulch. We could have purchased a house with a great existing garden and mature trees - did view one, but then the house itself needed a lot of work. One way or another its expensive. Another example, I could get a lot more free/cheap material if I had a trailer. Suitable second hand trailer around here would be $1000 to $6000. That's a lot of supermarket vegetables.
It's worth also mentioning what the regulation is. Bill 2630 demands:

> The bill aims to achieve this by creating a Council for Transparency and Accountability in the Internet, the objective of which is to inspect the digital platforms and guarantee transparency and accountability of their content. It also establishes the mandatory identification of users in platforms and messaging apps, also the prohibition of creation of fake accounts. In addition, this so-called Fake News Bill requires digital platforms to check the veracity of information that can cause damage to health, public security and economic order, and to delete or immediately suspend profiles that violate the rules of conduct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Congressional_Bill_N...

So we now have government checks for truth. Brazil now gets to mandate, supra-nationally, who can post & under what conditions, and what barriers users everywhere have to get online.

And while Brazil creates it's own system for checking these entities, they demand each platform also abandon safe harbor & independently become responsible for securing all content is safe, and if any content is risky, the creator of the content must be banned.

This bill can go to hell. This is such a key example of the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace, of puffed up foolery being done by idiotic nations with who have no power & worse no sense. There's no possible way this bill can actually happen. It's implementation is infeasible. And the greater idea here is a joke; there's 195 countries on earth: the idea that any one of them can just come boss around the entire internet is ridiculous.

The submission here is an opinion piece, from a journalist. I don't have any particular grasp on where they're coming from or who they are or what they believe, but they seem intent to cause harm. It's not superb coverage, but I might try suggesting the Guardian's own coverage of this topic, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/03/alphabet-googl...

Brazil's attempt here has been extremely illiberal from the outset. And it's ask has been unreasonable. They want a magic pony. Please, make the internet pure & clean & good, tech companies. Or else we will beat you brutally. We will do nothing to help. Anything potentially bad must be purged. Then their reaction to Google making available their position, telling Google they cannot even advocate for themselves: most low, most gross. You've covered that well. What an absolute disaster this is.
Yeah, and even if you're that worried about societal agricultural instability, you're better off spending hobby time to make something like a dead-simple replicatable potato growing kit and distributing it out at a loss. Barring something truly irreversibly apocalyptic, that'd provide most of what's needed until things rebound.
It's funny how the 30% tax and App Store nonsense automatically makes me want Apple to lose every single court case in perpetuity.

Having such a monopoly on a device you purchase really means the legal system needs to take you down a notch.
Too many assumptions above, but too few questions.

- “Unwind” is very different than “burn down”. Metaphors matter.

- Why assume that diverse mixes of ages are worse for bullying?
Sure let’s take life advice from Sam Bankman-Fried
Apologies for the LinkedIn post, but I have been proposing this structure (similar to the 5 levels of autonomous driving), to frame discourse and set some definitions:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/maxirwin_as-discourse-continu...

“As discourse continues on the impact and potential of Artificial General Intelligence, I propose these 5 levels of AGI to use as a measurement of capability:

Level 1: “Write this marketing copy”, “Translate this passage”
- The model handles this task alone based on the prompt

Level 2: “Research this topic and write a paper with citations”
- 3rd party sources as input – reads and responds to the task

Level 3: “Order a pizza”, “Book my vacation”
- 3rd party sources as input and output - generally complex with multiple variables

Level 4: “Buy this house”, “Negotiate this contract”
- Specific long-term goal, multiple 3rd party interactions with abstract motivation and feedback

Level 5: “Maximize the company profit”, “Reduce global warming”
- Purpose driven, unbounded 3rd party interactions, agency and complex reasoning required

I had the pleasure to present this yesterday afternoon on WXXI Connections (https://lnkd.in/gA9CugQR), and again in the evening during a panel discussion on ChatGPT hosted by TechRochester and RocDev (https://lnkd.in/gjYDEkBE).

This year, we will see products capable of levels 1, 2, and 3. Those three levels are purely digital, and aside from the operator all integration points are done through APIs and content. For some examples, level 1 is ChatGPT, level 2 is Bing, and level 3 is AutoGPT.

Levels 4 and 5 are what I call "hard AGI" - as they require working with people aside from the operator, and doing so on a longer timeline with an overall purpose. We will likely see attempts at this technology this year, but it will not be successful.

For technology to reach a given level, it must perform as well as a person who is an expert at the task. A broken buggy approach that produces a poor result does not qualify.

Thanks for reading, and if you would like to discuss these topics or work towards a solution for your business, contact me to discuss!”
I mean is oculus vr really the same as the metaverse?
People in India have become tone-deaf to communal violence now.

It's become so frequent and obvious, that the ruling majority considers it as the cost of doing business.

We will destroy a portion of the population in the race to put India on the global map.
I'm not sure that an 8AU diameter would be that absurd, if we're talking about a proto-planetary nebula, would it?

But yeh, if I weren't a nitwit, the scale's completely wrong (and it should be hoovering up the ring in short order besides).
I don't like his thesis (of "systems collapse"). It seems to be made so complex it can't be falsified.
The author states that a nearby historical building was on what used to be Willard land. It’s likely that what remains is a very small fragment of the original whole.
(Sorry, just saw this again).

Yes, English is the common language. But you need to make sure the customers are comfortable with English while communicating. Do ask the seller about it. Depending on the answer, and your familiarity with the languages, there may be additional expenses for sales and technical support in those languages.
Eli's blog is one of my favorite out there and has been an inspiration and teacher many times.

Here's to another 20!
Feedback - consider removing the 50 euro option from the pricing page because the offer seems to have expired a week and a half ago. I clicked on the 50 button then saw 60 on the pricing page, had to hit back and try to figure out why. It's causing a lot of friction.
That would be a glorious rant.
Oil isn't "turned into fertilizer".

Methane is used as a source of hydrogen to fix atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia, but it's entirely possible but slightly more expensive to use hydrogen from splitting water. When natural gas prices go up, it'll be cheaper to use electrolysis on water so that's what will be used, no starvation involved.

You don't know what you're talking about.

The generational BS about not being able to do agriculture any more in n decades doesn't have any merit, it's just a bubble of doomers who have no idea what they're talking about convince each other that the world is going to end.
> For example, if you have a variable 'v' and want to update it to a new value 'f', you can do 'if (v == f)' to check if the variable would change.

Isn't it strictly faster to simply assign? No branching, no branch predictions, only one instruction in all cases.