skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you know what their definition was by any chance?

And yes, a cursory glance at the Wikipedia page for intelligence shows there’s no one agreed upon definition of intelligence.

A more useful framing is to say we’re not creating “intelligence” per se but automating tasks. GPT4 is an automated writer. Stable diffusion is an automated image creator. Alpha Go was an automated Go player. Google search automates the work of a reference librarian.

With that in mind, it’s immediately obvious how much of a waste of time it is to argue whether ChatGPT is “intelligent” or not. Who cares. What we are doing is automating all of the things which brains used to do.
That is why CAR-T and personalized medicine are some hot topics right now. Essentially, the best medicine and treatment we have often just expand or aid our own body capacity to fight back. Cancer is especially problematic because our body often refuses to fight it.

Training an elite team of cellular terminators is the next step when the local forces are just not adequate anymore. But it is still so expensive.
From _A Wizard of Earthsea_, the first book, near the end:

And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life’s sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark. In the Creation of Éa, which is the oldest song, it is said,

“Only in silence the word,
only in dark the light,
only in dying life:
bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky.”
Pimpl has so many other drawbacks, though.
Parallel imports from Asia have effectively killed off local distributors of games and physical media in Australia/NZ. There's no reason to have a subsidiary import all the media when stores will just bulk import from Asia and then sell with the same margins at half RRP.
contractors for utility here in California are cutting old growth trees when no one is looking, as fast as possible - they do it because they are pinched for money by some of the wealthiest companies in this area. Every actor in management level knows what is going on, but the stories told on the ground between the operators could be anything. "Every little tree" is fake tears.
I'm the same way. If someone is committing code that violates web standards it is not going in unless there's a thorough discussion and an excellent reason for doing so. Lean on the web.
> is implementing X an appropriate expenditure of resources

Lot of these things just require devs to not actively try to damage the usability of the defaults. It costs money to break the basics that work for free:

- missing keyboard focus indicator? yeah, dev had to go out of his way to remove it, instead of just doing nothing and focusing on the job/content

- can't paste into inputs? someone had to think about preventing this and implemented it

- ctrl+k / ctrl+f is broken? it works if you just write you page and do nothing extra!

- page is blank for people with JS disabled? someone wasted money on a person who had to learn a whole damn programming language and multi-billion dollar company's framework instead of just html/css
Was your case publicized? [1] looks quite similar but is a case from two years earlier. Similar procedure?

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000649712...
Related:

The Dome: A Simple Violation of Determinism in Newtonian Mechanics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26507118 - March 2021 (2 comments)
No mention of MethaneSAT? There's an EDF funded private satellite mission launching in a few months to go hunt methane emitters with high accuracy
Volume Encryption in Synology DSM 7.2: LUKS with Questionable Key Management
One Type of Heat Could Be the Most Deadly to Human Health
Hurricane Electric DNS does too. No charge.
I know this is a funny and edgy meme to repeat but it's just... Factually wrong. Is it hard to cut out sugar? Sure. Mostly due to its availability and prevalence in processed foods. It has serious consequences in the long term but you can eat sugar regularly all your life in moderation person and not see serious advert effects if your diet is otherwise good. You can't consume Heroin in moderation without consequences and definitely not in the amounts we consume sugar...
Yes, but then comes the question - who mentored.the mentor?
10s? Sounds like the v56 days. If the site is designed for it, with alot of info on each page, it should work fine but I guess most are not?
What do you do when a project ends? We explore creative grief
And you hit on the exact reason why torrenting will never ever die: it offers all the key features that these big companies are trying to remove.
colloquially, the distinction is "black and brown bears" (ursus americanus) and "grizzly bears" (ursus arctos horribilis), at least around here. I hadn't heard of "brown bear" referring to a grizzly until this thread.

colloquial semantics aside though, my point stands: ursus arctos horribilis are mean mofos, ursus americanus are generally chill bros. they're my favorite animal—my grandfather was a dentist, and his friend and fellow dentist Doc Casey founded Bear Country USA, a drive-through zoo, here in the Black Hills. ursus americanus walk up to and by your cars, chill in ponds and trees, and are generally cool to be around. one of Doc Casey's sons was my godfather, and he lived with his family in a house in the middle of Bear Country, and we'd drive through the park backwards after hours to visit them when I was young. somewhere one of my parents has a VHS tape with an ursus americanus cub playing with my dog.

Bear Country used to have grizzlies, in a separate pen with multiple layers of barbed wire and electric fencing, but I think they don't have any anymore because they were too much trouble.

whenever you see a funny bear video online, it's an ursus americanus—they're kind of bumbling, funny creatures, until provoked. ursus arctos horribilis are savage killers by comparison.
Owning a physical disc also comes with additional legal protections. Once you own the copy, many agreements become non-enforceable. This applies to a lesser degree to software (since the installation step involves making a copy), but even then there are protections.
It is very easy to come up with something novel. Unless you don’t interact with the world.
Medical care mistake is possibly the 3rd leading cause of death in the United States...

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_su...
> Most scifi I've read with FTL usually has some explanation that isn't pure fantasy.

My favourites are from Futurama:

1. Scientists increased the speed of light in the year 2208.

2. "The [Dark Matter Engines] don't move the ship at all. The ship stays where it is and the engines move the universe around it."
Talks about microcontrollers, long wiring, and even high voltage (without defining what is considered "high", afaict) in the context of industrial environments.

Without even mentioning optical isolation?!? (optical fibers for transferring signals, optocouplers on inputs MIDI style). Or another option: isolation using magnetics (signal transformers etc, or even relais for slow-moving on/off signals). Not to mention wireless options that aren't always a good idea, but sometimes are.

The article itself looks written by a knowledgeable person. But personally, because of the above, I'm struggling to take it seriously... hit Wikipedia or head elsewhere for better ideas.

Btw: the article is not wrong! But I'd consider the methods described mostly at circuit board level (peripherals <-> controller on the same board, or between boards sitting next to each other). Head out of the electronics' cabinet, bring in more solid protection measures.

A $0.30 optocoupler easily gives you >4 kiloV of electrical isolation. Nice to have when a damaged 230V AC cable hits a signal wire.

And saves your control electronics when lightning strikes nearby (direct lightning strike -> all bets are off ;-)
So is the code I wrote 5 years ago and I don't have the right to rent seek the whole world for next 70 years with it.
“Drug experts”

Sure…
You're job hunting in 2023 with this kind of GitHub profile?
> They estimate that a 45 cubic meter sample of their supercapacitor could hold 10 kilowatt-hours of energy

In other words, 0.22Wh/L or 0.09Wh/kg. For comparison, the lower end for li-ion batteries is 250Wh/L and 100Wh/kg. Cute trick, but considering the carbon emissions inherent in concrete production this seems like a horrible idea - even if they manage to make them two or three orders of magnitude better.

It might be usable if you can essentially turn buildings into capacitors with zero additional change required, but as soon as it even remotely impacts the construction process it essentially instantly becomes nonviable.
Just do not, under any circumstances, see any TV shows/movies based on it.

I saw an animated one that ... was not perfect. I think there may be some live-action version out there, as well.
Don’t kid yourself, posting your code on GitHub won’t lead to your being “discovered”, either.

Online portfolios are the worst lie we tell young developers. It’s the software industry’s version of “exposure” gigs: they get a few more bits they can shove into their models, you get jack shit.

Every, and I mean, every job I got I got because I either knew a guy or I knew a guy that knew a guy. You are far better off going to conferences and networking.
> Why can’t people just appreciate that?

Because money sucks the joy out of everything?

* There's a lot of money in LLMs right now, and people are desperate to find new and profitable uses for them.

* Separately, there are a lot of people who feel that their job might be made redundant by LLMs.
Many native English speakers I've worked with consider it rude and/or condescending, to the point that on a couple of occasions I've let Indian English speakers know this. My thinking is that if I spoke another language and was using an English phrase that translated poorly, I'd want to know.
Horn OK please!

(Note: considered outdated, but I still love the phrase)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_OK_Please
This. When all else fails, and this is the only way, then it is the way. I, too, am more than happy to pay $ for a high quality physical media, but if they aren't satisfied with my one time purchase, and instead choose to force me to pay for each subsequent rewatch if that is what I desire, then they will no longer get my business, and I'll find other ways to get what I want. Why should I not?
> The reasons for the deficiencies in human-machine interaction are numerous. Some come from the limitations of today's technology. Some come from self-imposed restrictions by the designers, often to hold down cost. But most of the problems come from a complete lack of understanding of the design principles necessary for effective human-machine interaction. Why this deficiency? Because much of the design is done by engineers who are experts in technology but limited in their understanding of people. "We are people ourselves" they think, "so we understand people." But in fact, we humans are amazingly complex. Those who have not studied human behavior often think it is pretty simple. Engineers, moreover, make the mistake of thinking that logical explanation is sufficient: "If only people would read the instructions," they say, "everything would be all right."

> Engineers are trained to think logically. As a result, they come to believe that all people must think this way, and they design their machines accordingly. When people have trouble, the engineers are upset, but often for the wrong reason. "What are these people doing" they will wonder. "Why are they doing that?" The problem with the designs of most engineers is that they are too logical. We have to accept human behavior the way it is, not the way we would wish it to be.

— Don Norman, The Design of Everyday Things
Back in the day, Rockwell had a dual 6502 variant in their datebook. Two cores, each basically interleaving memory access.

The fun part about 6502 and many friends from that era was memory was direct access, bytes moving in and out every CPU cycle. In fact the CPU was slow enough that often did not happen, allowing for things like transparent DMA.

Clock a 6502 at some Ghz frequency and would there even be RAM fast enough?

Would be a crazy interesting system though.

I have a 16Mhz one in my Apple and it is really fast! Someone made a 100Mhz one with an FPGA.

Most 6502 ops took 3 to 5, maybe 7 cycles to perform.

At 1Mhz it is roughly 250 to 300k instructions per second.

1ghz would be the same assuming fast enough RAM, yielding 300M instructions per second.

I have always thought of it as adds and bit ops per second, and that is all a 6502 can really do.
One should note that Google is already constantly improving their search engine for their customers. It is just that they are not the same as their users.
What's wrong with the last sentence?

For ease of consumption, the context again:

> On the other end of the scale are people who want to write beautiful code, spend lots of time on it, and don’t care if it actually does what it was intended to do or what the budget was. Somewhere in between, there is a balance.
This is one of the first things I changed at a new job. I just opened a PR and made the change without asking anyone. It infriuriates me when apps can't Ctrl+click.
You should go work for pornhub since their links don't work like links
Firefox is adding functionality to disable extensions on websites.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36602193

What makes you think that they won't add a global website blocker too?

I say this as someone who uses Firefox. They changed when it stopped being just software developers and became a brand.
This is exactly the argument being made.

RH are complying with the terms of the license. They equally gave the right to fire customers if they choose. Given that the customer really has no major incentive to distribute the source, its not a terribly hard decision to make.

On the one hand this is a matter of law, and the law is being upheld.

On thd other hand it's a matter of "spirit" and "community" and other non-legal arguments. Which IMO is neither here nor there. There's always someone who wants you yo do things another way; you can't please everyone all the time.

What I don't get is the fuss. If you don't like the red hat policy then pick another distro. There are plenty to choose from.
Rather than FLIR can’t they use LiDAR to see through the gaps in the foliage in the manner that ruins are being discovered in thick rainforests?
Thanks, I failed to relay the following:

Color code every container for the things they are transporting.

WhenI worked at Lockheed, we built traffick tags to determine if crates were tampered with, or had nuclear materials in them - if they were cut open, etc...

What I am saying is that this model didnt work well (for dark reasons you dont want to know about)

but a fundamental thing would be to have the most strident laws on [if container is THIS color, then it MUST be of THIS cargo type, ELSE ; PENALTIES)

Its FN simple.

But human trafficking and other trafficking is the sole reason why not.

GTFO with ANY rebuttle
>That isn't really mind boggling since you are quoting fiction

Fiction of the past plays an important role in seeing how far tech has progressed, that what was once fiction is now a commodity.
The entire AI thing has lead to creators going full Right to Read mode recently asking for insane levels of copyright protection, which had they been under, would likely have had issues with their own stories.

Too many people want a locked down future and it's scary.
For HN I think this tweet is relevant because the twitter owner is now promoting removepaywall.com.

Google got in trouble because their AI generated "answer box" at the top was based on paywalled content.
>Today's AI models are missing the ability to reason abstractly, including asking and answering questions of "Why?" and "How?"

But today's models do ask and answer those questions.

The author may be confused by the fact that the UI of most systems is currently set up to be driven by human prompts, but this is nothing to do with the nature of the AI model; it's more of how the system is integrated into its environment. We can easily choose to give these systems their own initiative, with much (even) simpler programming than was required to make the AI models in the first place.

We can get into a semantics argument about whether it's the AI model that has the initiative, or the runloop driving it, but that's missing the point that what matters is the total effect of the entire system, not whether you can point to some subcomponent of it and say that component by itself doesn't meet the definition of whatever term (consciousness, reason, etc.) you are gatekeeping.
Hard agree. Vim made typing/editing a pure joy.
There are discussions in many places about this, including right here on HN. I encourage you to Google it. Here are some examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24537267

https://www.cppstories.com/2018/01/pimpl/#pros-and-cons

It used to be a widely advertised technique maybe a decade ago, but it has long gone out of style.
I agree, ut I think your comment needs more details. I'll try:

The idea is that the Newton's Laws an be rewritten and get equivalent equations that look very different. One of the rewrites is "Lagrangian Mechanics". Instead of a differential equation, you have a calculus of variations. In this new formulation it's more clear that the solution is not unique, and you get the particle that rest on top of the dome, the one that falls down, and even some solutions where the particle waits a little and then "decides" to fall down without an eternal trigger. For this formulation, two of the man
concepts are virtual work and virtual displacement. More details in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_mechanics#D'Alember...
Yeah I also hate this but they have a point. Desktop clipboard is a shitshow. Any app can read it willy nilly, certainly if focused but I wouldn’t be surprised if it works in the background on some platforms.

It is one of the prime candidates for a global redesign from scratch, including even physical keys (since copy-paste is so common, certainly more than say caps lock). All the APIs are riddled with decades of tech debt and are entirely platform-specific.
Trees are obviously better, but if nothing else we could probably achieve a huge cooling effect by just stretching sun shades across our 'urban canyons'
I had a friend tell me of an old doctor of his.

He said his doctor (an internist) was attending a medical conference for allergists, in the Bahamas. About 500 doctors attended.

This doctor was fearfully allergic to peanuts. Like, anaphylactic allergic.

He had an anaphylactic reaction to something he ate, during the main speaker banquet.

He died.

Surrounded by 500 allergists.
I wonder, perhaps stone could be an alternative? It'd force cars to move at a slower speed, and the variable in shape and structure could help scatter the heat from radiation.
There's been a lot of discussion in these comments regarding the author's definition of intelligence. What I haven't seen people address is the author's correct (in my opinion) criticism in the amount of data needed to train these LLMs versus what the human brain of a child is exposed to. Unless of course part of a child's knowledge is passed down through DNA/RNA/...
To be a scientist, the LLM should be asking fundamental questions (define hypotheses) on its own without human input and try to come up with answers.
There will be lots of new "studies" funded by those lobbying to get workers back into buildings. WFH is a cancer to corporate America for those with investments in office buildings and the surrounding industries. The sooner they can erode the belief that you can WFH successfully back to pre-2020 levels the happier they'll be.
Of course what started as a trilogy now contains 5 novels and a short story collection (the additional ones being Tehanu (1990), Tales from Earthsea (2001) and The Other Wind(2001)). In addition the there's the novella The Daughter of Odren (2014) and the short story Firelight (2018).

The new novels are both familar and sufficiently different that it's hard to judge whether someone who liked the original series will still enjoy the new ones. Part of it reflects Le Guin's reassessing her own writing, and give the female characters more space; part of it is a change of pace, and more focus on the characters and less on classic fantasy tropes.
Well both cancer and lab meats are infinitely dividing so in some sense they are similar. But from what I know, lab meat are made so that they can't support their own growth. They need specific media and nutrients and they are designed to not spontaneously mutate to leech these nutrients from other tissues, e.g. can form blood vessels.

But, like they said, life find a way. BUT, the chances of eating lab meat and got cancer is probably lower than say, eating fried foods gives you cancer. So not an issue IMO. Breathing gives you cancer too
I think you're missing the point of why we make power grids instead of simply having city local generators or stations.

The whole purpose of interconnecting power generation sources is to be able to accommodate for dynamic demand and ensure resiliency.

AC Power networks are sort of similar to how the internet works. The high voltage transmission lines are like the transit lines or "backbone" of the internet.

Those lines connect power stations which are sort of like ISPs in that they deliver the last mile power to the end user.

Our modern society basically instantly stops the second we are unable to meet demand for electricity, so we design these systems in a way where redundancy is supposed to be ensured.

This isn't always the case though. Texas is a great example of a completely messed up electrical grid that is insufficient to support its populous. It causes deaths in heatwaves and freezes almost every year now.
Till 3 years ago they did not have vehicle to transport bodies to orbit but counted on Russians to do the orbit taxi for 10 years.
So US living mission to the moon will not happens as never happened out of Kubrick's movies reality series...50 years ago...
> Spain's youth unemployment rate is at around 28% right now. As long as there is a single unemployed Spanish person, especially young people, we shouldn't be accepting any more immigrants.

You can expect commenters on HN to interpret this as racism, but actually, it is just a simple logic: First you need to fix the economy so that it can create jobs, then you invite potential workers to immigrate.

Take Poland as an example of this: they way are ahead of Spain on "demographic collapse" curve, but also have a blooming economy - unemployment rate is one of the lowest in EU at 2.7 percent. Two millions of Ukrainian refugees came in there in the past year, and you know what? Most of them found jobs.
It's strange to hear the author isn't a fan of cryptocurrency. There are a lot of dubious use-cases for crypto, but facilitating donations for sketchy services is an obvious one.
Using aws IAM to manage k8s access control on eks
> The focus knobs should be tuned so that the screen image is sharp. I don’t really have a good set of steps for this, so just play around with them until the monitor is as sharp as can be.

This explains my methodology for a lot of things in life
So they generated training data from one laptop and microphone then generated test data with the exact same laptop and microphone in the same setup, possibly one person pressing the keys too. For the Zoom model they trained a new model with data gathered from Zoom. They call it a practical side channel attack but they didnt do anything to see if this approach could generalize at all