skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saying we spent 3000 years on it a stretch. The modern concept of intelligence is itself barely two hundred years old [1]. Trying to see how it might apply to a machine is really just a bit of poetic exercise and language development.

We’re already at a point where some people will start staunchly attributing AGI to extant technology and others will disagree, and the tides will shift in favor of the former as technology further develops and the (themselves very modern) traditionalists tire of fighting about it.

You’re thinking about the question scientifically, but neither language or culture work that way.

There is very likely to be a broad but loudly disputed consensus that “AGI has arrived” within the next few decades, regardless of what more the technology can actually do.

Academics will be writing about it as such, corporations will be asserting as such, legislatures will be codifying it as such, budding pseudo-religious movements will be vaunting it as such, and the many old cynics like you and me will just be saying “WTF?!” before resigning ourselves to watching Seinfeld reruns and feeding birds in our own private peace.

[1] Danziger, K. (1997). Naming the mind: How psychology found its language.
It's not like your UPS/FedEx/Amazon driver cares either though
My guess is being a good scientist is less important for keeping his job than, say, not doing anything political controversial
If you want a Roman coin the safest way is to get one from the UK, where they have the PAS (portable antiquity scheme) in place for legal finds. You can definitely find a coin with a PAS number and be confident it isnt looted. There is really no other good way, though. Most digs don't sell the artifacts and coins don't come with documented find spots; at best you can buy very expensive ones that were published around 140 years ago for sale, but that isnt a guarantee that the coin wasn't originally acquired fully legally
there's more than one way to skin a potato. one can view the charge as internalizing the externality of taking soneone's attention.
Piccolo, a lightweight and async Pydantic V2 Python ORM
One thing that is easy to do, has a ton of tutorials online, requires minimal tools, and sells really well is cutting boards.

Based on your goals I think you are over complicating the situation.
I found this ORM thanks to the Litestar project, and it is really interesting. There is no hidden weird logical like in all the typical ORMs (including SQLAlchemy/SQLModel), it forces you to design your tables with foreign keys and you can integrate an existing DB into it!
I vehemently agree with your impression that a lot of that is pushed by misinformed interest, trying to hawk one more century of steam-reforming and other polluting ideas. However, a couple of processes do need hydrogen, chief among them is making steel: the coke-based approach generates far too much CO2.

If you are a little allergic to calling hydrogen blue or green, depending on how much greenwashing it receives, that might not be the best keywords to type in a search engine. But hydrogen should become a needed industrial step for the world's second or third most widely used commodity (it goes: sand, cement, steel, glass, gravel, petroleum, macadam, wheat…)

I’m not sure what’s #2 on the list of actual hydrogen uses, as most big potential applications could use an easier fuel to handle than a literal cloud of angry protons. It's often a good first step, though: ammonia, synthetic methane, etc.

Far down that list, there’s also a project to put hydrogen back into dirigibles, which I find very engrossing (and yes, the people working on that have heard of the Hindenburg), but it's less solid than making steel.
Proton therapy has existed for decades. I’m claiming the costs are too high based on today’s dollars, and is an opinion. Cyclotrons can cost anywhere from low 7 to mid 8 figures, but cyclotron time can be had as cheap as $1100/hr at certain labs. Offering someone experimental or unproven protocols is more palatable if treatment costs closer to $10k vs $100k.

On what basis are you claiming that the cost of proton beam therapy is not too high?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_therapy
The nice thing about real world compilers is that they already exist. You can write your own compiler for situations where you need to do other things. If you need performance, compile to a language with a high-performance compiler.
We learned this story/fable when I was in primary school, and brought it to life in an interactive fashion. We had all brought something to contribute beforehand. It was a bit like a ritual, actually, because first the water was boiled with the stone(s) in it, then we added our ingredients, took the stones out, and then we all had soup for lunch!

I think we were too young, because it wasn't until much later in life I heard the story again, and realized the fuller meaning of what we had re-enacted. At least the experience had stuck with me all this time, because it was all so curious.
Because this is not the “start of drafting” but roughly “final text that is largely a rubber stamp approval.” This is the output of having been through the the trilogue process - where the Parliament would/has shut things down before - and not been shut down.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_trilogue_meeting
postgres is a wrapper around block-on(tokio-postgres).
Fair enough -- I can see this might be a thing in say islands in Indonesia and the Phils. Parts of Laos and Cambodia.

The market can prove me wrong! :)
Not relevant to the article, but also:

> could

I'll believe it when I see it.
> given a choice between "abortion is illegal" or "poors don't starve to death"

What are you talking about? No voter is faced with that choice.

> those kinds of hardliners do want all the bad things to happen

Who are these "hardliners" you speak of?

> People given a choice between "close the military base and lose your jobs" and "keep your jobs, but we drop more bombs on brown people"

No voter is faced with that choice either. Closing the military base in a particular district doesn't mean the military downsizes. It just means the base gets built in some other district whose representatives were better at getting pork for their constituents.

None of these things have anything to do with the basic problem I described.
Cool. Maybe souls are digital but the storage system hasn't been invented yet?
I doubt it will ever have native support. NixOS doesn't do native support. For what it's worth I'm running NixOS on an M2 Max MPB using https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon.
> It is also a complete and utter failure, costing $180bn worldwide for a mere $12bn frozen (not even seized but temporarily frozen, some being actually legit money that'll eventually be unfrozen).

Selection effect (the question is how many illegal activities it prevents in the first place)

> And there's more drugs than ever sold both in, say, the EU and the US.

Base rate effect (population and disposable income are going up, and who does market research on drug sales anyway?)
What you're saying is that a complex tool requires learning to understand it. Of course it does. Does that make the less complex tool better? No, in fact usually it only makes it better for the occasional user - at the expense of the all-day-every-day user.
Perhaps the change that I'm most excited about is official support for using sdboot instead of grub (something I have been manually configuring for the last 7 years):

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/cleanup_systemd_insta...
Kubernetes requires a platform runtime that answers its requests, but there's no law enforcement agency that will prevent you from using a custom runtime that ignores the very existence of Linux control groups.
> I remember doing this for Solaris x86 as well.

Very kewl! What era did you use Solaris x86 in, and for what reason?
Complete tangent, but how did you treat your injury? Coming back from bulging discs and sciatica is rare, to my understanding.
I can be reasonably sure when I have memories of laying down in the same bed I woke up in, while waking up in a digital world isn't likely to be something I'd find normal the first time. More scary would be the thought that the real me is out in the real world still while the digital version knows it's a fake.
I've passed through those portals probably hundreds of times and I don't remember them being that sensitive. In fact, I think it's just measuring if there is one human or 2 trying to pass in the portal.

Unless you have an exceptionally large bladder...
I think this is a great article talking about a thorny point in Golang but boy do I wish I never read this article. I wish this article was never useful to anyone.
Have you seen Griffing, your post prompted me to scan for an active project (many graveyards)

https://github.com/elixir-griffin/griffin
Y'all nerds should read Ubik before writing such posts
Go programs still make use of, e.g., /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt. These aren't strictly necessary, but using them makes it easier--more consistent, more transparent--to configure these resource across different languages and frameworks.
That's pretty awful; making some random innocent cleaning person deal with literal shit does nothing to the person you're actually mad at.
Here's what a container gives you:

- Isolation of networking
- Isolation of process namespace
- Isolation of filesystem namespace
- CPU and Memory limit enforcement
- A near-universal format for packaging, distributing, and running applications, with metadata, and support for multiple architectures
- A simple method for declaring a multi-step build process
- Other stuff I don't remember

You're certainly welcome to go without them, but over time, everybody ends up needing at least one of the features containers bring. I get the aversion to adding more complexity, but complexity has this annoying habit of being useful.
Yes, if the server does not remember what sessions have been opened. It is not possible for the server to close them early by rejecting the cookie for a session before it has expired.
And the purpose of this is to increase money velocity by providing loans. "Narrow banking" (having the government provide bank accounts) wouldn't work unless the government also provided business loans, which doesn't really make sense.
Statement from WeWork Co-Founder Adam Neumann
> Actually there's three domains of interest here.

None of which, as far as I can tell, are "the real world". So there is obviously a fourth domain that you didn't cover (although you briefly described some aspects of it).

And that kind of disconnect is what I was talking about. Abstractions are all very well, but unless they ultimately bottom out in something getting improved in the actual real world (not "academia" or "industry" or "game theory", but the world of Favelas and terminal cancers and battlefields and so on), they are useless.
> There's not really any reason to think this other than shibboleths, it's become a thought-deadening cliche.

The official OpenAI GPT-4 paper specifically reporting that the RLHF model is badly uncalibrated, while the GPT-4 base mode is pretty well calibrated, is a good reason to think that, and is not a 'thought-deadening cliche shibboleth': https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.08774.pdf#page=12 "The post-training hurts calibration significantly."
I believe I am more than just the sum of my atoms, and part of me is spiritual. A scan of my physical makeup won't capture my immaterial soul.
Wasn't that part of the selling point of USB-C. Hook it right up to whatever other equipment to offload video as you shoot, hook up external batteries that can be swapped out whenever mid-shot. How is swapping a USB-C battery back any different than a pop-out battery, other than having a cable?
Kinda... they completely lost any kind of user-lookup or CCs or versions or any other data... but yeah sure they moved comments I guess that's everything ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Opportunists chasing the money rather than great tech.
I dont think there is a difference between the two groups, no. My mind, when i see a celebrity endorsing a product, puts them clearly into the role of someone selling their product for money. Does some model have more business selling cocacola than larry david selling ftx? Larry david is a pretty wealthy guy, i wouldnt be surprised if hes done his due dilligence on finance and talks to advisors on the matter regularly. While a model might not actually know the health implications of drinking coke, and may not drink it personally.
OpenAI is on track to reach $1.3b in revenue this year.

Everyone wants to get into AI because end users love it and are willing to pay for it.
But then this is a principle, and it's got nothing to do with Larry David et al. Further, it has nothing to do with the FTX outcome, since the principle is not about particular outcomes, but general risks.

Given that, it makes no sense to go after any of the celebrities in this instance, since they did nothing wrong in particular except violate an abstract principle, not a law or regulation.

If no celebrities should ever endorse financial products (not sure I agree with this), then some regulatory body or legislative body should constrain us to that.

But to tell you the truth, that strikes me as pretty stupid, since this principle can be applied easily outside of financial concerns. The result, if applied correctly, would be that no celebrity should ever endorse any product whatever, since every product has massive, latent risk that would not be able to be reasonably known by any celebrity. Think recalls. Think contamination. Think unknown drug side effects. Think mechanical failure. Etc.

Go after the people who are responsible and who should know, not the incidental agents who just happen to be involved in some tragic fraud or malfeasance of which they knew nothing and could not have been expected to know. Massive misattribution of blame.
There are lots of reserve and stress testing requirements on banks, and banks are usually public companies whose finances their investors can read, and they often fail when the investors decide the finances look bad.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/basell-iii.asp
Considering how character focused that game was, I can see that working. The side quests were the most interesting part.
> "The [horse] population peaked in 1910 at 27.5 million, more than 600% higher than in 1840."

Clearly unsustainable, so I'm glad that problem solved itself. Phew! Can you imagine what it'd be like if they continued reproducing like a plague?

Anyway, the real question is: were they happier in 1910 when they were our slaves or are they happier now that they have more leisure?

How do you even measure happiness in a horse?

How do you measure happiness in humans?

Is happiness even real?

What is the meaning of life?

What does "42" mean?
See, this is why people should still do metaphysics :)

If we are a virtualized universe, they definitely would be!
'Wisdom of the crowds'. Any individual human is uncalibrated (although this is fairly easy to train away) and makes errors, but a LLM is predicting the distribution of all human responses as reflected in the corpus. So it reports a reasonable distribution.
The Linux kernel is not particularly big by comparison.

Although I suppose you could argue the cause is the choice of keeping so much in a single repo (I certainly would).
Thanks and great diagram — I’d imagined a tiny orbit around L2, not one the size of the entire earth!
And yet somehow despite Gnome's shitshow management, all the major distros default to GNOME.

Maybe they're doing something right?
Because they won't have to teach everyone how to use git, and they will have to teach everyone how to use mercurial
The status quo is the progressive theology. If billionaires fund your advocates, you have most of the elected representation, and the state-sanctioned press amplifies your views, then you're not challenging anything.
Yes, you got the timeline right, he went MIA after joining Intel. Turns out a great way to stop vulnerability disclosures is to protect them behind an NDA, plus for any that are found you can give first dibs to all of the 3-letter agencies that are shoveling money your way.
The Prompt Generator for making space images: GPT-4-made prompts fed to DALL-E 3
That money comes from the FDIC insurance fund, which comes from other banks. It's not printed or coming from taxpayers.

Anyway, a "bailout" is when you give money to equityholders. They often lose money in situations people call "bailouts" even though they're literally the opposite.
Imagine the lights go down, screen goes black, full symphony Legend of Zelda theme blasts out the speakers.

Wewlad. That's got badass potential.
Haskell's is much deeper but Gleam gives you algebraic types, generics and type aliases.

I believe Gleam offers deeper pattern-matching facilities. That is of course not the type system, but feels closely related to me.
Listen Now – Text to speech app for Shopify blogs
I've worked on projects where I got in writing that part of the solution (highly general) was open source and another part (highly specific) was not and had that work out. In that case it is perfectly ethical.
I'm very confused by the juxtaposition of your top-level comment and this one. They seem to be saying exactly opposite things.
I was misreading these charts for too long. Maybe I still am.

Am I seeing that none of these processors implement a toroidal communication path? I thought that was considered basic cluster topology these days so I’m surprised that multi core chips don’t implement it.
> U.S. GDP is north of $25 trillion and has grown 75% since 2009.

Cumulative inflation since 2009 is 42.5%. Real GDP from Q3 2009 to Q3 2023 is up 37.8%[0], and that's with the base effect of 2009 having been a deep recession.

And looking deeper into the sector breakdowns, from 2009[1] to 2022[2], the lion's share of gains in GDP were from the information, finance, professional and business services, and government categories. Some, like manufacturing, have had no growth in real terms over that time.

The homeownership rate is lower now than in 2009[3]. Food is nearly 50% more expensive[4], higher than overall inflation. The cost to produce food is 51.8% higher[5]. Construction materials are 75% higher[6].

So yes, there are a lot of indications to suggest that proportionally, not as much capital was invested into the parts of the economy that are composed of atoms, not bits.

[0]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDPC1

[1]: https://apps.bea.gov/scb/pdf/2012/05%20May/0512_industry.pdf

[2]: https://apps.bea.gov/iTable/?reqid=150&step=2&isuri=1&catego...

[3]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N

[4]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIUFDS

[5]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCU311311

[6]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPUSI012011
> Rust itself parallelizes builds per crate with Cargo, which invokes rustc separately for each compilation unit.

Rust’s frontend now has support for running in parallel on nightly (they haven’t announced on the blog yet). But your point stands, Rust got pretty far all these years while keeping things simple and single threaded.
"What's best for the aboriginals" is a pondering that originates from a colonial mindset. It implies that one's opinion about the best course of action is more important, or superior, than those who's opinion actually matters. Furthermore, colonialists don't exactly have a good track record of making morally sound choices regarding land.

Not only is our opinion irrelevant; our opinion has been abundantly demonstrated to be awful in every single way. We need to stop.

Giving it to the last inhabitant, yes possibly conquerer, is really the only choice we have (apart from doing nothing and stealing the land) - to put things back the way they were.
One of the retractions occurred after this paper was published. So just one prior retraction.
And that's a good thing.

Gnome is not a distro. It doesn't provide a user facing distro.

It's a DE that other people are building the largest distros on.

They should be adding stuff based on their priorities, while Gnome's priority should be advancing the DE while ensuring their DE does not break all the many major distros that are based off Gnome.

It's a good thing that the distros can then add/fix stuff based on their priorities. That's what open development is about. That's what allows Canonical to differentiate from a Fedora. How they choose to prioritize the features/fixes they build on top of Gnome.
I had a fully converted party my first play through. I was already overpowered, but everyone having telekinesis and flight on some maps was just ridiculously broken.
Perl–A Venerable Technology
No, it is ethical- when agreed in advance- and appropriate to make something the client has paid for available to others when the client does not have a proprietary interest.

In the larger build vs buy investment process those contributions reduce gross expenditure aggregated across all clients. Many clients understand this.

However, open sourcing a library often involves considerable work that is not material to the client's interest- documentation for a generic audience, test cases that cover surface not relevant to the client, or things like ticket management/triage. None of that can be charged to the client.

And some clients, even though they understand the ecosystem benefit, are not going to agree to participate. They may have their own IP processes that require review and approval to ensure proprietary interests are not compromised, and that is just too expensive.
> Getting CP/M up and going looks like more work than would be reasonable for fun.

22NICE is still available and will almost certainly run on a PC-17-02 using the hardware 'emulation'
EV Sales Now Equal 17% of World Auto Sales
Oracle cloud may be better than azure at the lowest levels.
My prediction is this is part of why MS will buy Oracle.
Just my crazy prediction.
Your assumption that 'AI' can replace a human in this context is wrong. I realize most people have grown up with a relentless anthropomorphization of computers, so I understand why one might make it.

Despite the hype, they don't work, and aren't going to any time soon.

The FPGA link here is an interesting window into why:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37552365
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33402603
But now you're just employing another machine, which is not just made out of MOVs.

The video describes in detail what actually happens. I encourage watching it, it's pretty genius, but the very short version is that you turn execution "off" for any code that is not in the "current" branch by switching over all MOVs to target a scratch space instead of their real targets, which means they still execute, but don't have an actual effect. Before each possible branch target, you check whether to turn execution "on", if it's the current one, i.e. making the instructions which are part of that branch affect "actual" memory again.
i tried to extract assets from the ps2 version of 007 agent under fire. i thought it would be straight forward but it wasnt. i came to the conclusion that most of the game was compressed. it was so interesting to see this guy blow past where i got stuck. i made it as far as looking at the code as it was running in psx2… but i found their debugger hard to use. and iirc it doesnt let you simply dump memory, which should contain decompressed assets, into a file. the next thing would be to just look through the code for decompression function but i didnt even know how i would do that. i traced out function calls, starting with main, but that tree grew lots of branches very quickly and again i just gave up. maybe i would give it another go but i dont really see the point when the next GTP will tackle the whole thing automatically in a year or two when im 80% done and hundreds of hours sunk into it.
It will loading eventually if you're on desktop. You can also press F12, then select the console tab to see the game data downloading.
GPT4 Vision – hotdog not hotdog
Next step is to further optimize middle-out compression and increase the Weissman Score