skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that Maciej a.k.a idlewords says (emphasis mine):

> The question hinges on whether LLM-like AI's are capable of recursive self-improvement

...but the evidence you suggest is:

> We already routinely train and finetune LLMs using text generated by other LLMs [...]

But there is still a huge gap between "self" improvement and improvements done that "we" trigger.

Now I do concede that you mention the next step being to close the feedback loop by replacing the humans doing the finetuning with another AI model doing so, but that is something that would open a whole new can of worms. For the researchers are improving LLMs with the input from other LLMs, sure... but why? Because of intentionality. And how do they evaluate the quality of the results? By their expectations as humans, in the context of their human culture and with their sensory experience of reality.

For an LLM to self-improve not only would it need to develop the self intention to do so (why develop it? which motivation?), but it would also need the ability to evaluate improvement (what is it "to improve"? how does it measure or sense it?).

Ultimately, without human- or real-world interaction, and without intrinsic motivation, a "self-improving" AI model would most likely result in something intelligent in a sense that is barely cogent for us, not because it is superior or inferior, but simply because nothing in it makes sense to our own purposes—harmless gibberish, as we humans would also be to the resulting self-improved AI.

Let us not forget that our own motivations as individual living creatures, as populations, and as cultures has been evolved over billions of years of natural selection which then framed millions of years of behavioural traits and tens of thousands of cultural evolution. Until AI can freely interact with the physical world and perform self-sustaining replication with the possibility of inheritable mutations, the only superintelligent AI that I would worry about would be that which is still fully in human hands.
Hi there A Telegram bot is also a good way to do summarization.

There's not enough incentive for me to continue working on my project, but it has an MIT license so feel free to copy whatever you want to your own project.
Holy - the explanation you provided clicked for me! Thank you!

And I should use now `phind.com` - awesome!
You're going to need to define "had it" then. Symptomatically? Definitely not. Exposed to the virus in any quantity, even if the body defeated it without any particular specific response? Maybe.

I would say half of my social circle never got COVID. A decent chunk of which had to test frequently throughout the whole thing due to the circumstances of their work. I never had it.
Zooming doesn’t correct the perspective though.

I didn’t know they blended lenses to create a 50mm, there must be some post processing tricks to have it look right - are there examples side by side with a true 50mm?
The problem is not with the existence of LLMs, it's with how they're marketed - as a "reasoning" engine and something that can "think". There's no cognition in it, and very unreliable information.

If you want to eat a peanut butter sandwich that's marketed as a panacea that can cure all diseases, while not even knowing if the butter has long expired, then all props to you, but I don't.

We've all lamented the disinformation campaigns made by humans recently, well this is like a disinformation engine on atomic steroids! And no, they're not going to "solve it" by feeding it more data and parameters - this problem is inherent in LLMs, and in fact gets harder the more data there is.

Of course, as always, anything that comes out of Silicon Valley is a fad that is shoved down our throats as the best thing since sliced bread. But in reality, it's completely unnecessary, as it only marginally improves the quality of life of the 0.1% of the population, while simultaneously decreasing it for the rest. That is the sad reality we live in, my friend.
This is an early prototype of a falling sand engine, which uses WebGPU for the simulation and path tracing for the lighting.

Only works in latest desktop chrome and might freeze for a few seconds during startup.
Is your suggestion that both Tesla and SpaceX ignored his leadership all of these years and went their own direction to success?
I think that the reality is the only major reason you wouldn’t use a Tesla charging station once you have access is because all stalls are occupied.

Pricing and charging speed may in some cases be a reason to choose an EA station but at least currently, it seems rare. I have an adapter for my M3 “just in case” but I have never even considered using it over several years of ownership.
> something other than the feature's merit would be pushing for its inclusion

What do you mean?
I am still waiting for them to discover the use of fire. Until that happens we are safe.
> Rust is winning market from C and C++ precisely because of strong technical leadership and direction.

No, Rust is winning because it is 40 years younger than C and 30 years younger than C++. Rust incorporates advances in computer language design that C/C++ cannot adopt without breaking backwards compatibility. Rust is winning despite its leadership rather than because of it.

EDIT: elaborated a bit more.
> the term was occasionally used but there was no particularly negative connotation by default.

I think you have completely failed to understand my point, so I will try again.

It does not matter that the current term "conspiracy theory" with its current negative meaning was not common before, to choose one date, 1945 when Popper used "conspiracy theory of society" in The Open Society and Its Enemies.

Just because the modern term did not exist, doesn't mean the underlying human behavior did not exist before then. (Indeed, Popper is describing something already present before 1945.)

Surely there were helicopter parents before there were helicopters.

Surely there were conspiracy theories before the modern phrase "conspiracy theory" was used.

Which is why I pointed to conspiracy theories of the early 1800s to show that your 1960s n-gram date does not mean there was a deep cultural change. It could simply be a newly popular turn of phrase to describe an age-old concept.

> 'oh my gosh, that's a conspiracy theory - you can't think that' style of thought which pervades in some circles in the West.

Right, but we're talking about one specific point - the idea that there's widespread weather control using "chemtrails" to cause a drought in Spain, and a conspiracy to keep that silent, and harassment of meteorologists believed to be members of that conspiracy - and THIS circle - HN commenters.

That you have your own views about other conspiracies and other circles is not something I want to engage in. THIS conspiracy theory about weather control is not tenable.

I am more than willing to believe there was a conspiracy to hide the negative effects of cigarette smoking. The evidence for that conspiracy theory is substantial. There are many other conspiracies that I agree occurred, including the conspiracy to convince Americans that streets are for cars, not people, the conspiracy to keep the illegal bombings of Cambodia quiet, the conspiracy to hide the negative effects of CO2 pollution, and the conspiracy to prevent racial mixing in the US though methods like red-lining.

However, I believe these conspiracy theories because 1) they are within the realm of possibility, and 2) there is good evidence for them.

Quite a contrast from this weather-modification conspiracy theory!

> But to some in modern times, going against the "official position"

Why do you care more about the nameless, unknown "some" concerning an "official position" about some random unspecified conspiracy theory than you care about the named meteorologists who are being harassed by weather control conspiracy theory believers, when that specific conspiracy theory has no basis in reality?
And from where does this isolation come from? I think you are contradicting a little with yourself here.
I guess this is "astrophotography" for the sake of making pretty images, because I couldn't imagine the "computational AI" features he mentions towards the end of the article doing anything but horrify even an amateur astronomer.
It's interesting that the author used a photo of the Tegra X1 here. My understanding is that the Nintendo Switch (most widely distributed Tegra X1?) never or very rarely uses its A53 cores.
The funny thing is the typical response to basic drama is aggressive moderation/oversight, which often generates as much or more drama than before.

Online communities have a natural tendency to turn inward and become disconnected from the original purpose of the community. A good measure is how much meta/political stuff comes up in every thread.
Exposed does not mean infected. That's an entirely different claim. Most people have probably been exposed. Further, I'm not claiming there are large homogenous groups that are unilaterally uninfected.
> Yeah, I kinda lost me at the end when he’s talking about AI generated “synthetic skies”.

For anyone who didn't read TFA, this is part of an in-story quote by Russell Brown (not the author) talking about the future of mobile photography. As a long-time Adobe employee he's parroting their messaging here, since Adobe's value-add is in "what comes after" photography.

Photoshop's new AI-powered Generative Fill is a good example of what Russell's thinking of when he talks about "computational AI" (a non-sensical name intended to one-up "computational photography"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR7j8r-LzQ8
What?

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-pfizer-health-c...
The title — grammatically —- hints at the idea that this is new behavior. (As opposed to newly-discovered behavior.) Why phrase it as “are building” instead of “build”?

Within the article, there is this quote that further hints at the click-baity idea that this is some new behavior: “ Researchers now suspect octopuses have been building group habitats for a long time.”

Would one say that squirrels have been hiding nuts for a “long time”?

Phrasing it this way, in my opinion, misleads the reader it I thinking this is some new behavior which has been going on for a “long time” — perhaps for several decades!

When, in reality, it’s probably normal octopus behavior thst had been occuring for as long as there have been octopuses.

I picture s 18th century naturalist breathlessly writing to the Royal Society: “you know the beavers we heard about? Well, you’re not going to believe this, but they are now building dams! And I think they’ve been up to this for quite some time! What will they come up with next?!”
Yes, we care that people behave themselves, we're referring to 'who cares' about whether the nature of a talk being 'keynote speaker or not'.

If Jim Smith is keynote, great, if they're in a conference talk, great, nobody is going to fathom one way or another but the speaker themselves.
Some think if mankind fails and goes extinct, the octopuses will be their successors
> Note that Maciej a.k.a idlewords says...

That's why I added: "The obvious next step is to close the feedback loop with LLM-based agents instead of AI researchers/developers." We have early evidence that doing some like that might work, but no one knows for sure.
Pulumi AI
It is kind of ironic that their best, most well received product is hardware. Microsoft Accessories was actually the only Microsoft product / sector I like. Sad to see it go.
As corporations "consolidate" choice disappears. More are more products are bound to be removed and only the most successful ones will remain. Only when there are medium sized companies consumers have choice.
I would like to know if listening to podcasts or audiobooks is counterproductive.

There's a difference between thinking about self-generated thoughts vs. "thinking" about a podcast episode. Basically, with a podcast you don't even get much time to really think about it while you're listening to it.
It's impossible to feasibly counteract review bombing.

It's even worse when you have to release a non-native extension, as that introduces a selection bias among people who want to review bomb on the main site but can't.
Maybe… the big problem is that they said it’s going to be using fords tech stack and app so I imagine there will be some communication from the car to the charger to regulate the charging speed as not all super chargers have the magic dock upgrade that allows them to ”talk” with third party cars properly or even start without the app. That adapter maybe be doing some of that work which could make it harder to reverse engineer as you’ll still need something to auth and start charging at non magic dock chargers.
Considering him not is pretty dumb given the success of two independent companies under his leadership (spacex and tesla). Under his leadership both companies went from nothing to successful.

You can claim that all of the success is due to the other execs at those companies, but they are still his choices following his leadership. He has the power to fire any of them so they are clearly doing what he wants.
Don't think so - CPU and GPU are far more important for the speed and fluidity of UI than flash write speed.

Yes, if the storage is full it can kill both the performance and stability of Android, but devices with slow SoC are slow even with plenty of free space.
A Single Genetic Mutation Led to the Quietest Village on Earth
The C Interpreter: A Tutorial for Cin (1988)
"I decided to depart after recognizing the profound sense of disillusionment and dissatisfaction JeanHeyd experienced due to perceived unfair treatment and deception. The depth of this unfairness, reaching a level that I perceived as unjust, deeply resonated with me. This situation highlighted a need for better communication and understanding within the community, prompting my decision to step back. I express my deepest regret over these circumstances, and I sincerely hope for improvements in our conduct and interactions going forward."

-- another version by ChatGPT
Standard rebuttal to this is if we banned human cloning we can ban AGI.

Also China stands to gain from a ban on AGI. Anything that the CCP thinks it can't control it doesn't like.

Also China gets the vast amount of its AI capabilities from the West because of tech's "move fast and break things" culture, which means security is not prioritized and tech leaks common.

If the US bans AGI, the other powers don't have a choice. Their domestic capabilities are not up to the task without snooping on US research labs and AI tech startups. The biggest boon to foreign AGI research is the US.

The argument to not regulate AGI used to be:

"AGI is impossible or very far away, AGI can't ever be dangerous enough to worry about, AGI R&D cannot be stopped and is inevitable"

Then it became

"AGI can't ever be dangerous enough to worry about, AGI R&D cannot be stopped and is inevitable"

Nowadays all I hear is simply:

"AGI R&D cannot be stopped and is inevitable"

Yes it can be stopped, same as human cloning. Coordinating to regulate its development isn't some magical unreachable goal.
Germany: 'Last Generation' writes open letter to Olaf Scholz
Some here from the CDU's (EPP) sister party; actually, they've even implicitly threatened to ban well-established (non-extremist) political parties.
Can it ?

I mean, sure you can reason about a portion of code on your screen but there is no way you could emulate anything without some visual support.

There is no way your short term memory could store the program and the variables. The human brain can barely remember 5 to 10 words for several seconds and you have no control on your long term memory.

So yes your brain can somehow emulate a computer if you give him a pen, a sheet of paper paper, time, and a lot of sugar. But that’s not because it’s functioning like a computer but rather because you learnt how a computer work.
> The AGI and ASI instances that we have (e.g. GPT-4), require entire data centers with highly specialized hardware to run.

LLMs are likely not an end to the AI evolution and there's little reason to believe that AIs will always remain bound to huge data centers. We have a nice counter-example already - our pretty decent intelligence runs from about 1 Kg brain.

It's also naive to think of AIs as having to replicate themselves completely as we humans do. In some cases, it might not even make sense to talk about replication at all and simply about extending one instance of AI once CPU at a time. It's conceivable that AGIs will develop special built agents/worms for constrained offline/high latency devices. Your smartwatch is unlikely to run a whole AGI, but it could run a constrained, purpose built AGI's agent with limited intelligence, able to partially act independently and re-sync with mother AGI once connectivity is available.

> You are worried about a fictional threat scenario that doesn't map to the real world.

We're talking here about future, of course it's all speculation and "fiction" for now. GPT-4 was a complete "fiction" 5 years ago as well.
Also here in case of paywall:

https://news.yahoo.com/single-genetic-mutation-led-quietest-...

https://archive.is/tMkbF
Don’t know about Stone Age, but look at the clothing worn by desert tribes. Loose fitting clothes covering arms and legs, so e kind of covering on the head.

I think the dangers of over exposure to the sun have long been known and only recent generations think shorts and T shirts in direct sun for long amounts of time is a good idea.
But, does it know the adapter, or does it know the car?

If it just knows the adapter, how does the adapter know what car it is talking to? Assuming I can buy the adapter, then I can physically tamper with it, so now we're in the realm of mod chips, etc. If video game consoles are any indication, it'll be a matter of weeks before someone hacks the dongle.
Also the same applies with the CAP theorem… it is mostly a theoretical result but in practice things go well the vast majority of the time!

Also look up Buridan’s Principle by Leslie Lamport. I emailed him and “argued” with him for a while after reading his paper, but in a theoretical sense and some practical subsets it is correct!
That more Android being more bloated than desktop Linux.
Fortunately, the text of the articles and the pictures don't change. (I bet the union would have a fit.)

Unfortunately, the Times' search is heavily weighted toward the titles, so searching for unusual words and names from the article doesn't help much.
Nothing like this has been granted to Russia. It was a time limited lease, like HK from China. Russia also unilaterally broke these agreements in 2014.
Well, the Associated Press style guide squarely disagrees with you.

Not having a label for something makes it really difficult to talk about issues around that subject. How am I supposed to advocate for a group of people who have it rough, specifically for their skin color, if I can't use the term for their skin color?

https://blackvoicenews.com/2020/06/17/black-with-a-capital-b...
I always found that huge horse racing track in Berkeley to be such a stark contrast to Bay Area sensibilities. Is that still a thing?
These numbers seem wildly inaccurate, even for SF Bay Area.

California requires that employers share the salary range for job openings. Here's a random Dropbox job opening, for example, for only 8 years of experience with a midpoint salary of 243k. https://jobs.dropbox.com/listing/5048652
There is no such notion of “undefined memory region” for a Turing Machine
I mean...it's not like Rust leadership didn't have a prominent member who loudly advocated ideas like "kill all men", right?
> What's stopping the Pi foundation just upping production?

My understanding of the rumor mill is that a few years ago the foundation started prioritizing commercial customers over hobbyists. This pissed off Broadcom which makes the processor so now they’re not getting preferential treatment at a time when there’s a lot of demand.
Home gym complete with cold plunge, and sauna.
100%. All it takes is the ability to use one's legs ...
Right, but they don’t show you need a lot of fat to help with absorption.
I like the humour "Mike Tyson • Your typical Lisp user" :-) https://buildyourownlisp.com/chapter1_introduction#who_this_...
Due to my mental illness I always forget my passwords. It annoys me because frankly aside from my email and bank account IDGAF about the rest of my online identity. But no I need to have a 12 character password for the supermarket app!
Your complaint reads like that Mitch Hedburg joke. "I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to too"
You're conflating the mathematics/physics definition for singularity with the general definition for singularity.

Singularity: the state, fact, quality, or condition of being singular.
"he believed in the singularity of all cultures"

A technological singularity has no relevance to black holes or dividing by 0.
You can find papers on anything if you put in the keywords. They'll also study bogus new age things, just to try to settle the actual science (and in some cases the papers will be from subpar journals that still get indexed. Pubmed has a big warning label that a paper being there doesn't mean the contents are endorsed by NIH.

Here are results for homeopathy https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=%22homeopathy%22 and fad diets https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=atkins+diet

In this case, the list is low tier papers and journals, or some systemical survey type papers (or low quality first order papers) that still don't reach any conclusions.
Really?

Has one of these LLMs figured out yet how to inoculate other LLMs against prompt injection attacks?
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Yeah, cause they are not that much widely disliked, it is just an attempt at political pressure and attempt to make them see widely disliked.
> Even with a clear problem statement, at intuitive level, your intuition would still cling to those associations (and heaps of Python code you may have read and wrote in your life) - you need to override that at a conscious level.

For the simple problem posed here, I dispute this. I do not need to rely on consciously overriding my intuition in order to replace "print" with "len" in this simple of an example. It's immediately obvious and, frankly, intuitive.
Out of curiosity, and if you don't mind sharing, what was your staring position?

I ask, because even if they never invest a cent in your personal ventures, it is a very significant boost to to have wealthy parents who provide both broad access to formal and informal education, valuable networking, and a dependable safety net. Saying someone with those advantages is "more capable" when comparing them to the average First Worlder (let alone the average human being) is a sort of perceptual bias that seems unfortunately common.
RIP; Don Bateman has performed the ultimate terrain escape manoeuvre now.
This can't possibly work, there's not a single line of code in there that plays those sweet mod tunes that every good keygen plays when you start it.

All kidding aside, this looks like a fork or reimplementation for the tool that got popular recently, based on a blog post from a few years back.
Can you link me to that please?
Software has also improved. Micropython is surprisingly good even on micro controllers.
> Another question i have : are there any kind of mechanism to ensure at least some kind of memory safety with regards to memory deallocation ?

In general you probably need to learn about custom allocators and how different kinds can help you manage your memory. This applies to pretty much any lower-level language, but Odin, Zig, C++ and a few others have explicit support for this in their standard libraries.
I have a blog focussed on small entries (tweet length) consisting of Markdown in a fortune file format, that renders +10k items in about 5 seconds. Using Perl.

Parsing Markdown is fast enough.
Skins are luxuriously thin these days, yeah.