skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's there or even necessarily close to being GAI.

Within our own human brains, we have many sections dedicated to different tasks and processes that all must work together with years and decades of real world interaction to produce what we consider to be a generally intelligent human being, and even in the case of a certain percentage of us humans, even a small amount of damage to a single part of the brain can cause us to become functionally subhuman in our intelligence, barely able to move or eat on our own.

A human that has been lobotomized can still sometimes speak full sentences after all.

The current models seem to be able to imagine an image or video and show that imagination to us, and they can parrot words to us with a large vocabulary and with many references, but I find myself feeling like these are similar to the sections of our brains that can compute words and imagine pictures. Doesn't quite equal a human yet.

These systems need "statefulness", short and long-term memory that can be referenced by multiple discreet interconnected AI systems to take a worthwhile step towards GAI.

These systems need an overseer AI that manages and shepherds the LLAMAs and CHATGPTs and StableDiffusions to all work together towards some goal, one that can manage statefulness and manage a limited pool of computational resources (because any GAI would automatically assume that the entire world would provide it with every available resource, because why wouldn't you, right?)

Until there is an AI system that has multiple AI systems under its subconscious control, to the point where it can surprise itself with the products it produces, has a memory bank that can be referred back to repeatedly by all of those processes, and that can accept that even if its reasoning is perfect it has been born into an imperfect world that is run by imperfect creatures and so it cannot have or do everything that it might could do even under the best of circumstances, we will not have a GAI.
You all are so cute thinking the government is going to perform this function when in reality they are simply going to choose a third party to outsource to.

Probably without even giving Intuit a chance to bid on it. Not that I like Intuit, they suck IMO. But I do think a vendor selection process such as this should be an open one. Instead we will have more back room-brokered graft.
I wonder if some stories work well with the peer group of authors/editors, but not so much with audeiences.

For example, it's annoying to me as a reader when stories are straight-up rewrites of say the odyssey or hakespeare, or put greek/roman gods in our universe. (same with computer games that are hex based and show the hexes, or card-based games that show the cards)
Not an emacs user (sadly), but worth pointing out that one can map modifier keys to other input devices like pedals. It is very helpful if you are dealing with RSIs affecting your hands.

(Admittedly, pedals work well only in a desk scenario. I can't see myself logging them to a cafe.)
Do you evaluate everything based on how you can label the people who made it or just this?
> Abortion was illegal in every state in the US by 1910.

Let's be clear about what was illegal, because the radical definition, 'life begins at fertilization', is a recent innovation[1]:

> Abortion was not always a crime. During the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, abortion of early pregnancy was legal under common law.[22] Abortions were illegal only after "quickening," the point at which a pregnant woman could feel the movements of the fetus (approximately the fourth month of pregnancy). The common law's attitude toward pregnancy and abortion was based on an understanding of pregnancy and human development as a process rather than an absolute moment. Indeed, the term abortion referred only to the miscarriages of later pregnancies, after quickening.

[1] https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft967n...
"Negative punishment is taking something pleasurable away to decrease the behavior. An example of negative punishment is taking away a toy if your child hits their sibling with it."
Paying 50% is a complaint about the tax rate, not complexity.

Billionaires not paying tax on unearned gains is a complaint about the tax policy and its basis in $ not assets, not complexity.

Doctors and Software Engineers earning >$500K/yr and paying 50% of it in tax proves that social mobility is quite enabled.
Oh, first off, I'm not Jorge, sorry, I just forked his repo. haha. But yeah, watch all his videos to get an idea of what's cool about this.

Basically, I use Fedora as an "immutable" base system, then install all my userland apps in an Arch container. It's just a really clean way to run things. My base install never really changes much, and tracks upstream Fedora. Then, if I want to do unsupported things, like install Python packages from Pip and Pacman at the same time, I can, knowing that if I get a conflict, I can just blow it all away and start over without even logging out.
base64-encoded graphic files are obviously a much better idea than sixel but graphics really benefits from animation and interactivity
90% of federal tax filers in the US do not itemize, which includes the majority of home owners.
> * A mysteriously-named Event is about to happen ("Today was the day Jimmy would have to report for The Procedure"), but the nature of the Event isn't revealed until the end of the story, when it turns out to involve death or other unpleasantness. [Several classic sf stories use this approach, which is one reason we're tired of seeing it. Another reason is that we can usually guess the twist well ahead of time, which makes the mysteriousness annoying.]

This is also the plot of an amazing short story called The Icarus Gland. It's written by a Russian author, and all of the translations are terrible. But, even with the terrible translation, it still captivates and keeps you on the edge of your seat.
This is the kind of clickbait title I like. Just raw and unapologetic.
That's not interactive for everyone else in the meeting.

With a Hub, everyone else can just collaborate on the shared whiteboard using their iPads.
> The latter may crash if integer and pointer are different sizes.

Apparently some compilers specified a special __null extension to handle that case before nullptr was a thing.
It is an impossible problem. An llm can produce any combination of words. A human can produce any combination of words.
A “commons” is any resource, not just some physical place
I went the opposite way. I was never much into video games when I was younger, there were always other things to do. My wife was more into it than I was. About three years ago--when we were all stuck at home--she was having some issues getting Fallout 4 to run on her new pc, so I loaded it up on my pc to see what it was doing. Then like 80 hours later, I was like "guess it runs okay". (Her issue turned out to be bad RAM.)
Skiff Windows – open-source, private Mail/Pages/Drive/Calendar
I also am not an statiscian, but this has the same energy as "1% of the population is accountable for 63% of all major wood works made".

Duh, it's called having "carpenters". Carpenters repeteadly do carpentry, criminals repeteadly commit crimes.
The First Influencer Transformed into AI
The genocide in question is that of the indigenous people, not of the Bison
interesting, i thought rdp was a vnc-like protocol with minimal compression, but i don't think i've actually looked at it

looks like you're right:

> With RDP 8.1 we introduced an AVC/H.264 mixed mode which in addition to using RemoteFX Media Streaming, extended support for AVC/H.264 to images as well, while text is compressed using a proprietary Codec. This mode is used by Windows RT devices running Windows 8.1 and some 3 rd party RDP implementations.
Yeah, well, knee jerk both sides are the same which completely ignores major differences between those sides is really wrong.

It is mental shortcut that leafs to wrong conclusions and often ends up being a lie.
Something conspiracy theorists will thrive off of.
Show HN: Use ChatGPT from the Shortcuts App
I've skimmed this, but will take some time to give a good response.

I don't want to sound dismissive and I think there are some good discussion points in this comment, but I believe the other posters comment about differences in brain imaging rebuts your overall point because it's proof that ADHD isn't fuzzy.
Weird, I thought that a North American accent was generally low status in the UK.
That might be true later! But so far: "The system was developed by the IRS and U.S. Digital Service, the White House’s technology consulting agency."

You can learn more about the U.S. Digital Service here: https://www.usds.gov/mission
Also in Canada, a train trip from yhe west coast to the east one, can cost you 10k if you go with first class, maybe more.
ECHR ruling on liability of FB page operator
Not all though. I developed admin-phobia since I moved back to France. Being a contractor here is such a FUCKING nightmare compared to UK and US. Sure the US could do without turbotax. BUT AT LEAST YOU GUYS HAVE TURBOTAX
I'm almost 63. I started playing SpaceWar and Chase on my high school's PDP-11 in 1974, never looked back lol. Wrote some games for the Apple II in the early '80s, spent almost a year playing Ultima III. Bought an Amiga 500 in '89 which I still use, as well as several A3000s. I have hundreds of Amiga games, and I actually worked for Psygnosis for about a year. Played Ultima Online through the '90-'00s, as well as PC games like Quake, Death Rally, Diablo I/II, Outforce, Disciples, etc. Today I play several browser games just to fill in time gaps while doing other things (UrbanDead, Pardus, Rogule, NationStates), and when I have a few hours to kill, LotRO (on Arkenstone, fyi). I'm currently designing a massive open-world RPG in Unreal Engine 5. Stay tooned!

(An awful lot of retro games can be played in a browser these days.)
(Steam is good, but I don't use it. I really don't need more games in my life at the moment ha)
You do understand the difference between these mobile touchscreen devices and their apps and the UX/UI of NES/SNES, right?
This seems so backwards to me.

If it's so easy to just copy and paste an essay from an AI generator that is of such high quality that it cannot be detected, then why are we still making students learn such an obviously obsolete skill? Why penalize students for using technology?

Surely, there are still things that are difficult to do even with the help of AI. Teach your students to use these tools, and then raise the bar. For example, ask your art students to make complex compositions or animations that can't be handled by Midjourney without significant effort.
Just stumbled across this, thought it was interesting to see with 20/20 hindsight, as well as the HN discussion at the time, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17184054
>What does matter is standardization. For example a booting process.

Truth.

This is why RISC-V put a lot of effort on this, and put it early.

Relevant specs include but isn't limited to SBI[0], UEFI protocol[1] and the ongoing platform specification[2].

0. https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-sbi-doc/releases

1. https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-uefi/releases/tag/1.0...

2. https://github.com/riscv/riscv-platform-specs
>30. Brutal violence against women is depicted in loving detail, often in a story that's ostensibly about violence against women being bad.

Finally, a perfectly succinct explanation for why I can't stand watching The Handmaid's Tale.
Hi all. I am the author of the article and wanted to address some of the points raised here.

First of all, thank you reading the article and giving feedback. I never thought it would ever reach this many people.

I wanted to address the choices I made and the discussion of the lab being inadequate for real EE work. I wont argue that my choices are a bit over the place with some tools being at the highest end (eg. Knipex Side Cutters) while others being at the very low end (eg. Electronic Load).

The math of cost for my lab doesn't work the same way as a professional lab. I don't make any significant money from it. Hence the way I make choices is purely based on my requirements and on how much I use a particular tool. I use the hand tools most frequently hence I splurge on the expensive stuff. For the equipment (Scope, DMM, PSU), I slowly work my way upwards in price on a as needed basis. The current options work fine for me for the projects I work on and hence I dont see a good reason to invest in the more expensive piece of kit right away. If I need it, I will realize that and then go and buy that.

Compare that to a professional lab where there is a big cost of time and failures. Hence it makes sense to have higher end, more reliable equipment from the get go. And most labs are more purpose driven and will have equipment for that specific purpose anyways.

Moving on, there was good advice on soldering irons. I would admit that my setup might not be the best option for the current times. I have ordered the Pinecil and other similar options and will update the guide with my findings accordingly.

I will also add info about some of the missing stuff like the fume extractor, tweezers (dont know how I missed those), logic analyzer etc.

I will share more details about my component inventory and organization system soon.

My setup is always evolving and improving based on my needs, knowledge and experience. This was just a snapshot in time of how it currently stands with hopes that it would help and inspire other makers and engineers out there. There wont be a singular solution that works for everyone and that is the way it is. I just wanted to share what currently works best for me.

Finally, I apologize for not disclosing the Amazon affiliate links. I added that to the post and will be more transparent about it in the future.

Thank you.
The classic essay on this subject is "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie" in "The Language of the Night", by Ursula LeGuin.
I recommend Spacemacs for beginners, but I did end up switching from Spacemacs to Doom Emacs primarily for better stability, and haven't regretted it.

They're both good projects.
> taking away benefits

It’s not that simple. For folks who prefer remote, remote is a benefit. For folks who prefer an in office work style, remote being an option is an “anti” benefit since it totally kills the value of in person work.

You’re going to lose top talent either way. The last org I worked at went remote and lost a bunch of high performers to places that were in office.

I ended up leaving for unrelated reasons. It seems like things ended up totally stabilizing and now they are in a happy state of remote culture, but it absolutely cost them along the way.
But you probably do to make claims that someone's trauma wasn't traumatic enough for your standards
50 Years Ago: The Launch of Skylab
To me it seems like academic papers force people to back up every statement with a quote and agree with assigned readings. This style of writing leads to unoriginal results.
I love when folks argue that I should replace my working vehicle because the engine may go out and I would have to do a several thousand dollar replacement. Which, yeah, would suck. But how in the world did we start accepting the path to financing a new vehicle as the answer?
Thank you for being fair and self reflective enough to admit fault
Sugar is in lots of processed foods, not just Dr. Pepper. When the latest diet fad encouraged cutting fat, the brands turned to sugar. It's not just in food you think of as sweet-- check labels on yogurt, for example. It's often in bread, and BBQ sauce, ketchup, etc.
Non-native speakers use ChatGPT to fix the grammar, for example, but you would have to actually read it and check it.

If you are going to use ChatGPT for writing, you would have to hire an army of fact-checkers, because it can literally fake citations.
I'm in my 30s and playing videogames is just about the only thing I'm pretty sure about doing in my retirement age..
What if I earn >$229,908 but don't want to itemize? (or "do"; that web page is unreadable)
>Making a world humankind cannot observe or learn about is the wrong direction.

That is not what's happening though.
Is the real split in this country between liberals and conservatives?

Or is about whether the political contest we observe is mostly genuine or mostly constructed?

Are we watching UFC or WWF?

UFC gives the impression of an authentic contest with real outcomes while WWF is generally understood and portrayed as a form of theater. People who identify in the liberal cluster tend to take the media narratives quite seriously, and despise people who show suspicion of popular media. They call them "conspiracy theorists" pejoratively.

The conservative cluster types are more widely ranging. Many have no objection to individual freedom and expression around things like abortion, drugs, or sexuality because they believe in individual freedom and responsibility: you can do what you like until it harms others AND it isn't my job to help you execute or recover from whatever silly thing you choose to undertake, I can do it if I choose.

This is likely the dominant conservative ideology, and yet it is virtually never portrayed in the media. What we see instead of a paternalistic Christianity presented as conservativism.

Perhaps that is why conservatives tend to distrust the media?
ok but will she call me a bad user and ask me to leave my wife
The Afterlife of Go
Blizzard took surveys that showed the majority want permanent remote.
If we didn’t have to collaborate then that would be a fair statement. But when we have to work closely together, doing it on Zoom is excruciating.
> 90% of federal tax filers in the US do not itemize, which includes the majority of home owners.

Isn't that a relatively recent thing? IIRC, the standard deduction was massively increased a few years ago.
Where can I actually physically use it? Or is it again only limited to chosen ones?
> Is there a failure mode from having too much willpower?

Yes.

I was a terribly undisciplined child and carried much of that with me into college and early adulthood, so I spent over a decade doing "self discipline workouts".

I'm happy to report that it worked: I now have the ability to tell myself "you need to do X" and I will indeed do X. No matter how unpleasant. No matter how long it takes.

I'm unhappy to report that it worked: I can willpower myself into burnout easily and only notice how unhealthy I was being when I force myself (or my partner gently forces me) to take a vacation.

Overall I'm happy with the tradeoff, but it is possible to become an incredibly unhealthy version of yourself by overcorrecting on procrastination.
That's the ultimate controversy in programming languages

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1003...

it's the PL version of "mushrooms vs bamboo shoots?"
A hyphen, a hyphen, my kingdom for a hyphen.
If you look at the final part of the book “Browser APIs and Protocols” it includes WebSockets and WebRTC. It looks completely up to date. You can handle practically any Web network problem with some combination of XHR, WebSockets and WebRTC.
tl;dr:

> But not for diagnosis. As I recently wrote about and discussed on a recent podcast, ChatGPT works fairly well as a diagnostic assistant—but only if you feed it perfect information, and the actual patient has a classic presentation, which is rarely the case. (And you don’t mind a 50% success rate that often misses life-threatening conditions.)

...

> I’ve taken to using ChatGPT to help empathically explain specific medical scenarios to patients and their loved ones. It’s become an invaluable resource for the frequent situations where my ER ward is too busy or short-staffed for explaining complex medical diagnoses in a way that is accurate but easy to understand.
> cheap powerful batteries

Advances in energy density, reliability, and safety have revolutionized batteries over the last 30 years.

There are entire market segments where you are only as competitive as your battery and participants scramble to integrate the latest advancements but because you can't go to the store and buy a pack of AA batteries with the tech in them people think it doesn't exist.

The volumetric energy density of lithium-ion increased 8x between 2008-2020, doubling every four years.

Solid state batteries look to be taking up the improvement race. 450 watt-hours/liter was VERY good in 2020. A cheap YANGDA Thunder Stone solid-state drone battery purchased from a sketchy retailer in 2023 has an energy density of 537Wh/L, and you can buy a 18650 battery with 670Wh/L on amazon for $10. Specialty batteries 800-1000Wh/L are available to commercial clients, so the energy density has doubled once again in less than four years.

But nobody notices.
This is probably the only online niche that Big Tech doesn't dominate.
Generate Spreadsheet Formulas with AI
I used it to write a cover letter. Saved me a whole day! I hate writing cover letters. And of course I had to read it to make sure I was not a COBOL expert.
Agreed that if you focus on any specific task, there's a safe way to do it, but the challenge is to handle arbitrary natural language requests from the user. That's what the Privileged LLM in the article is for: given a user prompt and only the trusted snippets of conversation history, figure out what action should be taken and how the Quarantined LLM should be used to power the inputs to that action. I think you really need that kind of two-layer approach for the general use case of an AI assistant.
>- Salesforce API

I've used it to write unit test methods for Salesforce apex classes & triggers. For the most part, the unit test code it spits out is actually decent. Occasionally I'll have to clean it up a bit or make minor corrections. But it has greatly helped free up some time doing mundane stuff.
It would be great if there was a read-only version of the site that can be crawled.

Much easier to do that supporting both HTTP and JS for both read and write.
If you’re using google login, use a chrome shortcut.

Should keep you logged in for longer and easier to log back in.
> It's only by convention that NULL == 0 [...] and you could just as easily put a null page at the top of your address space [...].

Technically NULL == 0 always because the standard special-cases zero-valued integer constant expressions; (uintptr_t)NULL == 0 or NULL == *(void **)calloc(1, sizeof(void *)) is another matter :)

Language lawyering aside, a non-all-zeroes representation of NULL will probably blow up most C programs [e.g. static-storage-duration initialization is now not the same as calloc or memset(,0,) and is even type-specific]. Like CHAR_BIT, that’s a joint that technically exists but has been rusted for decades (pun not intended).
I haven't verified whether or not the No-ADHD diagnosing psychologist was paid or not, but I will say that just the fact that the reporter told them what they were doing is a huge confounding factor on the scale of making their conclusion pretty useless.
How A24 Took over Hollywood [video]
Thanks for mentioning noise! I've certainly looked at it before but our challenge is the sheer scope of what we're doing. Not to mention (similar to WebRTC that people have asked about) I'm not completely understanding the fit and benefit for our use case and application.

I talk about websockets because they achieve our mission and goal (in this case shaving milliseconds off command -> action -> confirmation) with robust, battle-tested client implementations already available in the ESP framework libraries. Same thing for MQTT. Both are supported by Home Assistant (and almost everything else in the space) today.

Because of this existing framework support, we'll have websockets done today-ish. Then we can (for now) move on to all of the other things people have asked for :). Hah, priorities!

Not saying Noise won't/can't ever happen - just that this is a very ambitious project as it stands and we have plenty of work to do all over the place :)!

Want to write a noise implementation for ESP IDF :)?