skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article segues from the failure of 80s style expert systems (in many domains) to a generic argument for x-risk and superintelligence explosions. But it doesn't address any of the obvious counter-arguments except one about the definition of intelligence, I guess because Alexander feels they're already addressed.

Once you get smart enough, you can do things that make you even smarter. AI will be one of those things. We already know that bigger blobs of compute with more training data can do more things in correlated ways - frogs are outclassed by cows, chimps, and humans; village idiots are outclassed by Einstein; GPT-2 is outclassed by GPT-4. At some point we might get a blob which is better than humans at designing chips, and then we can make even bigger blobs of compute, even faster than before.

But what about:

1. Limited to human performance by training data? OpenAI apparently aren't training GPT-5 because they think that research direction is tapped out. Their focus has been on augmenting this "superintelligence" with boring logic-based systems like calculators, Python interpreters, web browsers and 80s style expert systems like Wolfram Alpha. All this is suspiciously like what a human would need, not a superintelligence. It implies they don't think they can do another 2->3->4 style leap, probably due to lack of training data that would yield more advanced capabilities.

2. Bottlenecked by physical experimentation? Alexander casually asserts that if you trained an AI on circuit design it'd immediately do better, and that'd be used to build better AI chips, which in turn would yield a smarter AI ad infinitum. But Google already tried this and it just led to fraud claims, not better chips. And even if an LLM came up with an idea for a better chip, humans would still need to do the physical experimentation to figure out how to build them.

3. Bottlenecked by lack of imagination? LLMs can be "creative" in the artistic sense but there is a suspicious and very noticeable absence of them coming up with any genuinely interesting ideas. They can think faster than humans, and know immeasurably more, yet has anyone found even just one example of the sort of out-of-the-box thinking that would be required for AI to outsmart humans? Where are all these scientific breakthroughs the AI evangelists keep promising? GPT-4 is pretty damn smart but despite asking it many things, it never once came up with an idea I hadn't already had.

The article's examples seem to be its own undoing. There is no such thing as strength-leading-to-more-strength in some sort of recursive loop, which is why he needs such a bizarre and artificial example. Why should we believe there is for intelligence, when the history of human intelligence is a 2000 year struggle for even quite minor improvements in cognitive ability and even that is highly debatable?
That depends on the docker runtime.
I want to join the chorus of praise for your work, it's really outstanding! Good enough that I created my HN account after decades of lurking to praise your work. I intend to tell my own advisor that adopting PL would be a huge improvement over his current, spreadsheet-based methods for modeling my financial future. Regarding my usage pattern, I'd be glad to spend the $14 for month's access on the two or three months in a year when I might want to update my personal plans iff when I re-up it can start out using the data I persisted in previous sessions after the subscription hiatus. Does it work that way?
I'm pretty sure it's an EEO violation to request ID or a photo before hiring.

"Similarly, employers should not ask for a photograph of an applicant. If needed for identification purposes, a photograph may be obtained after an offer of employment is made and accepted."

https://www.eeoc.gov/prohibited-employment-policiespractices
The world is palpably warmer today than when we were children. Likewise, it was not always the case that summers were characterized by weeks of choking wildfire smoke.

Who are you going to believe: the warmth felt by your own skin, or the people telling you that nothing is wrong, and that global heating isn't something to be concerned about? Psychologically it's more comfortable to choose the latter because it implies things can stay the same without trouble. But it's only viable to do so if you can suppress the cognitive dissonance.

The planet is burning.
Sure, but it's a side discussion to the concern the post originally brought up - which suggested that increasing complexity and use of microprocessors made cars less safe - which is obviously untrue. The SUV problem is separate from the discussions it makes.
Show HN: React-tweet – Embed performant tweets into your React app
right but the non-naive approach would be to add noise or have a dumber model rewrite the image. agreed it is easier with images though
The bitter lesson just says that general purpose machine learning algorithms with large amount of compute work better than domain-specific algorithms. It doesn't say that general purpose algorithms cannot be optimized. General purpose machine learning system that's able to optimize itself will lead to intelligence explosion.
This is well timed as PRQL 0.9 was just released a few hours ago. Have a look at the release notes here:

https://github.com/PRQL/prql/releases/tag/0.9.0

There is a rather large breaking change in the syntax from `[]` to `{}` for tuples. This is because initially it seemed like these were lists but over time we've realised that they are actually tuples. As per the release notes, freeing up `[]` clears the way to start supporting arrays soon.

Disclaimer: I'm a PRQL contributor.
right, i get that, but i was asking if there's something inherently wrong with the current setup, my assumption is no
Can you give an example of a technical software question where you found it wasn't helpful? I'll see if I can get a good answer and post the permalink for you. I suspect you're not phrasing your questions well.
"Simulate surveys" makes it sound like a satirical AI product
Lithium and fluoride: two deadly chemical by-products that were rehabilitated a few decades ago, so they could be force-fed to the general population. Yum!
> Amazon is being abusive

> stand up against the bully

If one thinks one's employer is a bully and is abusive, isn't the better thing to do is to walk away?

I'd much rather work on cool stuff and get rewarded accordingly, instead of feeling like I'm in an abusive relationship with my employer.

Life just seems much too short to spend it on crap like that.
That’s a ridiculous comparison. The vast majority of humans don't live anywhere near the Atlantic so there's no way the entirety of humans would be wiped out. My comparison was much more apt.
You or the parent are more than welcome to post data proving the opposite is true. Instead both of you are just stating things with nothing but vibes to back it up.
I agree but sometimes the answer exactly as asked leads to wrong things. So sometimes you don"t provide the answer to the exact question but include the reason why the exact question is not good. This gives the option for the questioner to comment why the exact answer is needed.

My experience with less experienced developers is that they ask the exact question as that is where they have stuck but they are ignorant of the better ways.

I do tend to answer differently depending on the questioners reputation. If they have a higher rep then I can assume they know what they are doing.
Don't you think that even playing with it for an hour and then never touching it again would still be worth a three fiddy?
this is a terrible idea. you'll end up overwhelming the reader.
At least it's not the reverse: a much darker story would be one about a company where employment was tied to shared procreation.
Our requirements for protein isn't as high as claimed by the majority of the fitness industry or actually meat & dairy industry.

Read the PCRM article about protein I posted further above, it has more info about this. PCRM is a group of doctors and other medical experts.

Where are you based?

If you live in a region where you can't survive without meat or dairy then you've got to do what you have to do to survive.

My comments are mainly geared towards regions where the majority of people consume meat & dairy because of taste pleasure, not because they need it to survive.
OS/400 is actually really interesting and very well thought out, particularly as an example of "Not Unix". I wouldn't want to make my living there, but lots of people do.
But if one can make money on their own, why let someone else own their time, unless they don't value their time as much?
maybe I'm not fully understanding your point, or public accounting, but it seems me that if government followed this order of operations

1. Collected sufficient taxes (ie money) to pay for a work
2. Built the work spending down the money
3. counted the work as an asset on the public balance sheet (ie, we own the pipes)

Wouldn't that mean no debt and not selling it off to corporations?
Over the years, I have some to realize that each country has its own warts. Looking across the pond, eg. UK seems to be in a much worse condition than the US in spite of having a big safety net (healthcare, colleges etc).
I think main difference is how PRQL translates into query execution plan, with SQL you need to read entirety of query to get rough understanding of order of operations (especially if you join two-three tables and have some nested and lateral queries).

with PRQL I see that the order will be explicit and set up by developer, so any footguns will be evident.

things like predicate push down, optimization fence, variable rewrite, etc are not needed to be relied upon, because pipeline of query is more explicit in PRQL

also since it is new lang, it can be naturally extended into ETL type data pipelines

also because PRQL can be translated into query execution plan - it can be converted into non-SQL languages like MongoDB or pandas / spark / etc, eliminating SQL altogether for distributed nosql engines
Where is electricity that cheap? In California were paying about $0.36 which makes charging my Chevy Volt more expensive than gasoline if gas is under $4.

People with plugin Priuses actually need gas to be $5 or higher for plugging in to payoff at my energy costs.

Californias love complaining our fuel costs 30% more than most states. Yet most don't know our electricity is 300% more.
Is the current administration doing anything at the moment to reinstate net neutrality? It's pretty obvious at this point that the repeal of it was wrought with corruption and scandals...
I’ve used Arc as my main browser on my work laptop for the last few months and I love it! It solves pain points I’ve actively tried to solve with Firefox, but couldn’t.

It’s no surprise HN is skeptical about « yet another browser », so here’s what I like specifically about Arc:

- it supports tab tiling. I can see 2 tabs next to one another easily. This is NOT solved with window tiling, it’s clunky and clutters the space.

- it’s vertical tab support is good, and beautiful. Firefox also has vertical tabs via Sidebery and TreeStyleTab, but it’s pretty awful. It hacks on side panels to implement something looking like tabs, but the look and feel honestly sucks

- theming is very easy and beautiful. Also it works by « space »

- lots features dedicated to avoiding tab cluttering:

1. Tabs can auto close when inactive

2. Links that should open a new tab don’t open a new tab by default, they open a pop-in that I can expand to a dedicated tab if I want

3. Links outside of Arc (in a mail client, in a terminal…) don’t open a new tab, they open in a unique Arc window (Little Arc), and I can expand them in a dedicated tab if I want

4. Spaces and profiles allow to organize the tabs properly

- it also integrates with a few websites, for example it can display infos directly on some non-open tabs. On my GitHub tabs, it shows the number of PRs awaiting my review. If I hover on my Google Agenda tab, it display a small agenda for the day without opening a tab

I’m sure I forget a few things that I like. None of these features individually would make me switch to Arc, but seeing all of it at once made me try it, and I don’t regret it.

Also their release notes are fun to read.
I don't like the concept of an 'everything app'. It seems diluted and non-focused on what Twitter actually is/was: a microblogging platform. Now I see walls of text and diatribes completely lacking wit and brevity because we're now spoiled with more characters. The witty things you could inject into a 280 char tweet are now gone. Sometimes, constraints are good, and encourage creativity.

Another pain point: we can't say 'she/he tweeted that', we have to say they x'd it which is awkward and annoying.
People should go to jail over stuff like this, but they won't. It's the times we live in.
I don’t think anyone has issues with pertinent content marketing that also provides something to the community.

The argument can be made that the _important_ work was already done by GitHub and Phylum. This just appears to be a derivative work without any additional value add. That is, it functions mostly as an advertisement.

Doesn’t help that they clearly don’t even have all the malware packages in their system from this campaign, three weeks after the attacks…

https://socket.dev/search?e=&q=Btc-api-node
Indeed, this will change pretty much everything if true. A true room temperature / ambient pressure superconductor will cause a revolution in so many fields that I find it hard to believe. But if... Let's wait for replication before throwing a party. This is on par with the discovery of the transistor and possibly bigger.
Yes, solid advice. Generally I find if I'm fairly close to the sound source, and it's repeating, it's almost always accurate, to a surprising degree (when I can confirm by sighting it); if it's a one-off call from farther away, especially of a rarer bird, it's often not. Merlin helps by printing a red circle next to rare candidates for your time/location, and I've learned to treat those with suspicion. I've definitely seen it get confused - once it kept pegging a Mallard when I was nowhere near water, and I finally figured out it was interpreting the jostling sound of lens caps in my bag as I walked that apparently resembled a quack!
I think it's probably tripping the flame war detector, which triggers based on comment to upvote ratio iirc.
Noted, Kalpesh.
Thank you so much
This kind of thing strikes me in any case as something that's only good for the generation of AI it's been trained against. And with the exponential improvements happening almost on a monthly basis, that becomes obsolete pretty quickly and a bit of a moving target.

Maybe a better term would be Superior Intelligence (SI). I sure as hell would not be able to pass any legal or medical exams without dedicating the next decade or so to getting there. Nor do I have any interest in doing so. But chat gpt 4 is apparently able to wow its peers. Does that pass the Turing test because it's too smart or too stupid? Most of humanity would fail that test.
I (and my colleagues) have worked on statistical, data analysis, and ML in Java since before data science was even a career field, and before Python became popular. In my opinion Java has better IDE support, more stable and proven libraries, and high performance.

Java does occasionally require that a person might have to implement their own code after reading a research paper, but I've always enjoyed that part of the job.

I've never understood Python's popularity except that I've heard some people say that it's used at Google.
CodiumAI [0], helps me generate meaningful test suites and code suggestions.
This is exactly what I need to enable me to code fast with confidence.
Really, just try it, and let me know if you are not positively surprised.
[0] https://codium.ai/
> Shouldn't we expect ... similar climate as ... West Coast of Canada at same latitude

The Pacific ocean has a similar current to the Gulf stream (AMOC) called the Kuroshio current. If the Gulf stream stops, you should expect the climate in London to be worse than the climate in the center of northern Canada.
So what's the plan to force China to cease being the world leader in CO2 emissions?
This is what crash of 2000 was like for me. Multiple calls a day from recruiters.
Sometime around June or so, the calls Stopped. Just stopped. Six months later I was working at RadioShack.

Along with a number of engineers with 10-20 years experience.

Took me 3 years to get back into a tech job.

This is starting to feel the same.
this is not america

https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=ubc3o2KZA4w [video]
Pricing is a super tricky issue, especially when its for something related to financials. I think there are plenty of people who wouldn't bat an eye at $14p/m (and maybe they are the target audience), but there are also plenty of people who aren't buying $14 cocktails.

I fall into the camp where I like to play around with spreadsheets (free -£time) or other online calculators (free) just to make loose projections and see where I'm at. I make a good salary (for the UK) but don't pay for any financial advice (and probably wouldn't unless my situation got really complicated). I think if it was priced at £30-50 a year or £4-5p/m I (personally) might go for premium because the tool is honestly really great!

One completely different avenue you might consider is to selling direct to companies to provide to this a service to their employees. I'm not talking financial companies, but more as part of the benefit package. My company added something to their benefits, called bippit - which is awful (or at least not useful to me), but provides virtual one-one financial advisors and some very basic online tools.
I think you misunderstand his point slightly. Amazon, Aliexpress, etc. aren't feudal from the buyers' perspective, they are from the sellers' side.

The taxi permits also fit to some extent, though the one time payment isn't exactly rent seeking but more for creating artificial scarcity. They're BabyTaxiShibaCoins from the 60s with about as much price fluctuation as the average crypto shitcoin according to wikipedia.
If you stretch out the definition of technical analysis enough to include any predicting of the future from past patterns of pricing across multiple stocks, then sure market makers both use and profit from TA.

But what people usually mean using TA, IMO does not work at all.
Cool, will DM you.
The attraction is something that was designed after decades of usage and PL research. Consistency of syntax is a big one for me. A favorite example of mine:

SELECT substring('PostgreSQL' from 8 for 3);
SELECT substring('PostgreSQL', 8, 3); -- PostgreSQL-only syntax
SELECT trim(both from 'yxSQLxx', 'xyz');
SELECT extract(day from timestamp '2001-02-16 20:38:40');

Taken from: https://www.edgedb.com/blog/we-can-do-better-than-sql

Maybe if SQL would give me that monumental ask of trailing commas, perhaps I would hate it less.
Chicago used to ship to the coast through the Great Lakes.

The Erie Canal connected the Great Lakes to the Hudson River, and that trade made both New York and Chicago what they are today. But railroads became a thing and they just built a new one that followed the same route as the canal.

You can also ship down to the Mississippi from Chicago, but again you're dependent on a canal to bridge the gap to the navigable waterways.
We want to emphasize how important privacy is to us. It felt wrong to be able to access a company's private knowledge so we set out to make the system as secure as possible. In terms of our embedded vector DB, we use Homomorphic Encryption to vectorize the embeddings. We are still super early - started hacking on this project 7 weeks ago, in the near future we plan to get SOC 2 compliant so we can definitively prove that we are secure.

You can read more about Homomorphic Encryption here:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.finnlp-1.4.pdf
I would guess we'll see steeper gradients which means more extreme weather.
Thanks so much! And yep, you should be able to sign up for a month, cancel when you're done, then resubscribe later and pick back up where you left off :)

And you can always export your data to JSON too, if you prefer to have a local backup just to be safe.
And the voltage will be the same on both ends when it has current flowing through it.
Beans rice veggies and protein can be cheap - but you need the skills, tools, a kitchen, a fridge, a freezer, and a couple free hours a day to travel to the store, shop, prep, cook and clean. If you live in poverty and need to rely on "cheap food", you probably don't have access to these things. People working 2 full time jobs in a food desert without a regularly stocked kitchen cannot do what you suggest.
Dock the deck and hook up a USB mouse and keyboard. It’ll run Unity dev studio on the deck.
Ask HN: Who should I use for Domain Names since Google Domains has been sold?
I've been using Google Domains for a long time and have amassed a couple hundred domain names over that time. Google Domains worked well for me because I could delegate some domains to be managed by my IT team and not have to share logins.

I really need a domain management system that is setup for Multiple user permissions to maintain and manage domain changes. Can anyone share their experiences with a domain management service that has a similar feature?
The ‘Darting Children’ That Helped Japan Win Its War on Traffic Accidents
"A man is known by the company he keeps." - Aesop

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https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/690104-a-man-is-known-by-th...
No. Telegram in the default mode is not e2ee and allows Telegram to passively log all messages.

Logging messages under TOFU means you are either actively attacking the users (and they get a message when you stop) or you aren't getting the messages.

Most messages are not first messages. TOFU is valid, as evidenced by years of successful use by SSH.
What stops the reader from copy&pasting a term into a search engine?
Maybe we are getting a bit too lazy?
> The way you pin extensions is a bit annoying

Agree with that one. They’re struggling a bit to find a good place to put extensions. The latest iteration is fine, but still not great.
positions p

is a SQL alias. Was that too difficult?
I have bad news regarding the future performance of Raytheon and its stock if an alien attack fleet has come rumbling into the solar system . . . .
No, one could imagine a much more sophisticated article evaluating TA.
All I would have to do is run the same tool over the text, see it gets flagged, and then modify the text until it no longer gets flagged. That's assuming I can't just prompt inject my way out of the scenario.
Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances
I'm not sure anyone should call VMS "modern", but that's beside the point ;)

VMS has a very comprehensive system of quotas and limits, so a "properly" configured system wouldn't suffer those issues.

And furthermore, VMS isn't intended to be used "interactively" as such. You should be submitting work to the built-in batch queues - each with various attributes that can include the priority level. This allows the system to intelligently manage work based on a comprehensive view of the entire system - something a single user in a multi-user system can't have. If you like pushing a multi-user system to its limits, you'd be impressed with what VMS could do even way back in the 1990s.