skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personal Capital which is now part of Empower. Use it every day and it has been an indespensible tool for driving my net worth chart up and to the right.
I think AGI is too ill-defined for there to be a simple litmus. For me to agree that a process running on a computer has general intelligence, the conclusion could only come after a long and fuzzy process of playing around with it, seeing what makes it tick, observing its behavior, and testing it for motivation, imagination and the ability to understand and adapt to changing contexts.

I can guess what motivation lies behind the question, so I'll also add my opinion about where we're at now: Nothing even comes close.

Furthermore, I wouldn't be surprised if we never get there at all in the next thousand years.

Why such a long period of time? Because there is more going on in the world right now than advances in machine learning. Looking at global population dynamics and climate change forecasts, we're on the road to major global infrastructure collapse in around the 22nd century. And I understand a lot of people are optimistic that (a) we will have AGI before then, and (b) climate change and population implosion won't change that much. Yet, despite the optimists, I don't think I'm on shaky ground with my current forecast.

It's not the first time in history we'll have had a major infrastructure collapse. When it's happened in the past, those periods end up being called dark ages. And I don't think there will be intensive AI R&D during a global dark age.
At this point one year would make the most sense.

I loathe updating my iDevices nowadays (and have completely stopped wasting time on betas et al). Every update fixes one thing, breaks another. Silly stuff too like: oh, on your Apple Watch the heart monitor complification is gone. It's been there for ten years, yes yes, but now it's gone.
Just wait a few weeks, we'll bring it back. Enjoy those 'other' bugfixes in the meantime!
I run a race car on methanol. There's reasons why we don't use it for civilian pedestrian use cases. Number one your eyes immediately start burning from the combustion gases. Secondly the hygroscopic nature of it leads to corrosion.
Yes, that is true. Though if you are using Google's or Amazon's managed Kubernetes services, I think you need to use Docker.
Missing source code – GPL compliance? #107
When it has independent will.
Petroleum car is also bomb. Lithium car is also bomb.
“John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.”

The Supreme Court has been ignored before.
I'm honestly not sure. I think I would say if she was in the industry for too long she is tainted as well. I was anti Ajit Pai as well for example.

I don't know what's worse her having too little experience or too much.
I’m sure that’s what they were trying to do, but their argument only carries weight in the context of those hyperboles.

In your example, it’d be like continuing the essay to argue that people should really try driving like they were just in a plain old consumer car. The thing is: that’s essentially what everybody is already doing in the real world, and so you’ve not contributed anything with your argument.
"According to StatCounter, for October 2023, Bing had a 3.1 percent global web search market share for all platforms – that's compared to Google's 91.6 percent, but up from 3 percent the month before."

Bing's market share increased by 0.1 percent? What is the point if mentioning this?
I hope they have Metroid style power armor in there!
The site doesn't seem to support HTTPS, but HTTP works fine. (This might be intentional; all the links on the home page have http: URLs, not https:.)
OpenAI announces platform for making custom ChatGPTs
Show HN: 1001 Record – A Mac app that offers good quailty recording
I think this is similar to what t-3 said, but I think to me, the gap between the very impressive current generation of AI and what would seem more like AGI to me is agency.

Right now, these systems all seem to be entirely doing things that are downstream of what some human has determined is worth doing.

People are using ChatGPT to help them write an engaging article on the trade offs between nuclear and solar energy. But, to my knowledge, there is no artificial intelligence out there looking around, deciding that the this is an interesting topic for an article, writing it, publishing it somewhere, and then following up on that with other interesting articles based on the conversation generated by that one.

I don't mean this specific thing of writing articles is an important indicator. I mean coming up with ideas and then executing them, independently.

Now, it may well be that our current technologies could do this, but that we just aren't setting them up to do so. I dunno!

But I think this is the thing that would make me change my mind if I started to see it.
> I don't need to. Because this is how the courts are interpreting the law.
Make a new one if you don't like it, because bad arguments in court don't change anything.

Her arguments comport with the law and its actual intent, how is that a bad argument? I just don’t find your appeal to authority all that compelling, since the consumer welfare standard is a court-created fiction itself, no one “created a new law” to make the courts do that, why would she be held to a different standard than Bork?
Six hundred thousand dollars for a 1m telescope? That's a crazy price tag. What's the expensive part here? That's the price of 10 upper-tier cars. Is it so insanely difficult to make that mirror, or are they just gouging because they have little or no competition?
The world is running on cold fusion, for starters.
Another Hike, and a Trip to the Beach (1999)
He's still writing stuff if anyone's curious https://www.fascinationplace.org/
Are some of us on HN superintelligent according to your definition?
And the amount of skin that need be exposed for a fatal dose is shockingly small.

It's also highly toxic if the vapors are breathed in.

Did I mention it's also invisible when burning?
AMD Zen 4 APUs Are Coming, Ryzen 7000G Bios Updates Arrive
If this was actually true, Chrome would not have anywhere near the market share it has.
Professor Reacts to Primeagen Reacts to Functional Programming Is Not Better
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I'm in the process of a career change and looking for more of junior role where I can grow as a developer. I have 6 years of part-time full stack web development. Many of my projects are still live, links in résumé. Masters in Anatomy & Cell Biology and freelancing experience means I'm accustomed to wearing many hats. Would love to chat!
Well I think generally police have lots of methods for responding to situations that they feel are a direct threat to them- that they use all the time. For instance tazing, pepper spray, and any other "less lethal" methods of violence.

Locking people in cages for a living is an inherently dangerous thing to do. I don't see how that should give them the right to execute people on a whim.

In fact I cant really imagine a situation where an ethical and justified police officer would ever need to kill someone. Like I said before in extraordinary circumstances I can see highly trained and equipped people as a necessity but having the run of the mill street bullies walking around armed to the teeth is, like I said before, literally equivalent to martial law.
They're not "trying" to survive or striving for any "reward". They're a function with no independent awareness.
I'm not sure why writing that paper would make her any more qualified. If she had actually demonstrated that her new arguments around antitrust actually held up in court, that would make her more qualified. But as far as I can tell, it was her willingness to pursue cases against "big tech" that got her picked not experience in actually pursuing cases.

If anything, the fact that her cases are failing left and right is casting a lot of doubt on the validity of her ideas on antitrust. The lesson is that a popular academic legal paper does not translate into success in real courts.
I hope you do. Thanks.
That's a great explanation, especially "Applications occasionally have holes that are accessed using novel attacks, but it is possible to secure an interface in such a way that 100% of known attacks will not affect it." - that's fundamental to the challenge of prompt injection compared to other attacks like XSS and SQL injection.

The thing where people propose a solution, someone shows a workaround, they propose a new solution etc is something I've started calling "prompt injection Whack-A-Mole". I tend to bow out after the first two rounds!
Yes, most of the time people worry about CTRs when they try to withdraw or deposit in an amount more than $10K in one transaction. So, people go around to avoid CTRs. CTRs are never a problem: for every SAR, 10+ CTRs are filed.

In other words, people exacerbate the problem by 10 times.
is the engine in the pictures just a prop?

how come there is not a single video of the engine in this announcement or in their youtube channel?
I propose the Chomsky test. Can it outsmart Noam Chomsky?
In my case, I greatly admire what folks at Huggingface have built in the candle[0] project. The project itself is amazing. I haven't yet delved deeper into the source code, but the code in their examples is clear and easy to understand

[0] https://github.com/huggingface/candle
I got inspired by Josh and Khoa Pham (@onmyway133) and create a similar TIL notes vault a while ago. [1]

I love the idea of using GitHub Issues to create and share notes that I found each every morning, I hope that people find it useful.

[1] https://github.com/vinhnx/notes
When it is smart enough to know that Tommy Tuberville is an idiot.
> Question you should ask is why would anyone hire you when they can get AI to do the same job.

My guess is that some people will always be stubborn and prefer me over an AI giving them massages every now and then, even if I won't do them as perfectly.

But at that point in time, I think me giving one massage would perhaps be enough for me to retire for life, as long as I can abstain from buying luxury goods or services, i.e. those provided manually by other people (instead of AIs, whose labor would be practically free).
Yeah and if you’re running individual zoomies you take a shower if it’s running rich. Gotta be careful though as it sometimes is hard to tell if something is on fire because it burns so clean.
ECS architectures are used in a number of young open source game engines, such as Bevy[1]. I haven't done game development for a long time, but hearing about an architecture that does away with the heavy and complex OOP you often see in games makes me want to dip my toes in again and check it out.

[1]: https://bevyengine.org/
It really shouldn’t be controversial to suggest that calling people nazis on the official website for your programming language is unprofessional, but here we are…
> Car longevity increased a ton in the last several decades years, and so "something that moves" isn't as central a motivation for new car sales anymore.

I don't think this is a valid take. Robustness is absolutely not the reason why cars are being heavily marketed based on luxury extras, even on base models.

> If they just need something that moves, buyers can find countless used cars that still run and will keep doing so for hundreds of thousands of more miles.

This is a very silly and absurd take. Cars devalue from their dealer price, which is justified based on all these useless luxury features that no one is able to avoid by design. Used cars might be cheaper than brand new models, but they are by no means cheap.
If you think about it, it is clear that agency is not different from intelligence. The reason why current LLMs can't be trivially made into agents is not because an essential agentic spark is missing. It's simply that they aren't intelligent enough.
It would be, but so would any of the EU state controlled ones, even if that's not what you use for your domain.

The main problem isn't that it puts any limits on what you can use as a CA but rather that it mandates some of what everyone must trust as one, even if that trust isn't earned (or maintained).
When it has a relatively stable personality. When it has distinct handwriting. When it falls in love. When it can dream and generate its own goals. When it can learn how to play any game, but its personality is reflected in its play style. When it creates its own religion and gets converts. When it has a need for money and a bank account and successfully gets one.
High school chemistry class?

H2 is such a tiny molecule that leaks out of everything making it a nightmare to try and seal pipework, and it will permeate (and embrittle) metals, namely steel.

It's idiotic to try and use it as a fuel. The money being wasted on H2 research should just go into purchasing more renewable power sources.
Years before this current trend of LLM generated papers, there was a tool IIRC by some MIT students which would generate plausible looking papers which when actually read were obviously garbage. The title and abstract would have the sort of words you would expect of a research paper, but the resulting sentences would be nonsense.

The idea being that if the submission got published, the review process was obviously a total joke. I think they even had some examples that had actually been published.

Edit, Link: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/
Link: Princess Zelda has been captured by the great demon king!! I have to save her!!
Of course, I'll also take the opportunity to enjoy several, or perhaps dozens, leisurely excursions in the wild along the way...
I think there's multiple plausible scenarios:

When an AI goes "insane" and destroys itself somehow.

When an AI attempts to prolong its existence.

When an AI is the only thing capable of extending its own functionality.
Their paper from ~6 weeks earlier is on actual LLM-designed chips, though "just" from an LLM benchmark POV: https://research.nvidia.com/index.php/publication/2023-09_ve...
Seems like they’re all balding together and starting something new called Second Wind.

>@everyone I'm very excited to announce that name of our new adventure, Second Wind.

The ENTIRE Escapist video team is coming with.

<@233002118808600577> and I will be live on the channel tomorrow at 11 AM CT to discuss our plans, talk about what happened, where to support and when our first videos will drop.

All the links you need:

https://twitter.com/SecondWindGroup
https://www.twitch.tv/secondwindgroup
https://www.youtube.com/@SecondWindGroup
when a group stops large disclosed retractions and starts publishing the retraction somewhere in the Sports Section -- or worse yet : when the retractions stop.
Fake motion blur? Seems challenging.
Same sentiment still holds.
His proposition of a Hippocratic oath for animation is a beautiful and succinct way to frame a game design thesis. Great talk.
Yeah a friend of mine had this and he had to get surgery to not lose his left leg to permanent numbness due to the disc pressing on the nerves. I know one other person with the exact same issue and solution, and am also under the impression that without surgery only bad things happen.
Optus outage: Millions affected by Australian network issues
Only 18 months?
This is completely insane because at the same time go on any elixir forum and you will find lots of highly talented developers looking for jobs.

As usual the problem is that leadership has no fucking clue how to hire.
> The entire concept that tech giants being the ones to theoretically create new real estate empires...

I don't think tech companies really wanted to be in this position. It's more that cities failed to build housing, so they started whining about all the workers moving there to work at tech companies. Tech companies caved, saying they'd build more housing, but to be clear, this is a failure of local government.
pretending not to know is how you signal your own alignment
perfect language translation in any context of any context.
AMD Driver-Specific Properties for Color Management on Linux (Part 2)
They weren't forced to push the M3 out so (relatively) quickly after M2 systems. Their schedule was of their own making, and yet you end up with "our newest users need to use older software, because we couldn't wait for testing to release our new hardware". That's why.
When it decides that humanity is hopeless and go full skynet.
I understand better now, thanks!
it didnt happen?? not sure if you missed the /s ??
In the US, restaurants immediately charge the price of the meal (without tip). Then the next day the restaurant updates the amount of the original charge to add on the amount you added as a tip.

That means shady restaurant could change your tip the next day if they wanted to pull a fast one on you.

In other words, it’s not possible to get an immediate notification of the total amount charged including tip until 1-2 days after the meal.

(Don’t ask me why the system works this way, makes no sense to me)
Have you ever owned a Tesla?
Wait, so they have an ECS game engine with a AAA renderer and nanite-like tech along with a lua based scripting engine and Hollywood level facial animation?

They should release the engine. It's a solid competitor to Unreal (more scalable due to ECS, easier to write with Luau)
Ruby Gems Download Trends: An Analysis from 2013 to 2023
It’s interesting how we have raised the bar to an agent that is fully autonomous and has its own goals.

Even many humans are not completely autonomous (at least in the strategic sense of the word), since they need to be “prompted” with the goals of the department and the organization that they work for, in order for said person to get a certain kind of work done as an employee.
This hits the mark for me, good type system, backed by Erlang and BEAM, access to Phoenix live view, but doesn’t have (imho Terrible) ruby syntax
Huh, I think the exact opposite. We don't understand consciousness, so I expect it to be something accidental that ends up creating it. A misconfiguration possibly, or just a couple of tools being hooked up in a novel way. We probably won't know it's conscious for the first couple years.

Kinda weird to create consciousness when you don't understand what it is, but neither did the universe and we still ended up conscious.
Never heard of the company, thank you for this very enlightening video. Depressing how this is even possible nowadays. People do not really care for our planet.
I’ve struggled with a similar idea. One thing you have going for you is that you don’t actually have to make money. You can buy your retail location with cash and just cover the daily expenses without covering real estate costs which are a major piece. The problem with these businesses is that you actually have to be there at the times it’s open which can cut into your other life stuff unnecessarily. One way you can compensate is to overstuff and pay above market for talent but still you will occasionally have to deal with issues like staff quitting during a vacation or some other major life disruption annoyance that small businesses have to live with.
ECS isn't just useful for performance. It's a better way to architect games and other sorts of software in a more data-oriented (rather than OOP oriented) way.
You're not wrong, but you left out the pandemic and how it changed how people work. Google didn't just go "nah," the whole need for this got upended.
You need to fix the layout/rendering of your charts, specifically the last column, pricing...
I've been quite frustrated that the term "technical debt" is so misused. It feels like project managers immediately assume technical debt means "the developer wants to play around". I only use it when it means "the features you want can't be implemented, correctly, and under the time constraints".

For what it's worth, I shy away from the term and talk more about approaches and outcomes. It's still baffling when I give a project manager the options:

1. Rewrite and have a working prototype in 2 weeks and solid product in two months. We will be able to use better tech, learn some new things, and the product will match the feature needs.

2. Refactor this month and get the feature you want in a couple months after that. We won't learn as much, but we'll have a cleaner technical product and we'll get some features.

3. Try to implement the feature now. It will be late, broken, and other features will break. We will spend all of next quarter patching it. We won't learn anything new. It will slow us down on the next feature.

It's always #3.
A VM provides the first 4 anyway - if you're deploying to a cloud instance then having these in the container is redundant. If you're deploying to bare metal then it's possibly useful, but only if you're deploying multiple containers to the same machine.

Go doesn't need a format for packaging - it's one file. It's becoming common practice to embed everything else into the binary. (side note: I haven't done this with env files yet, and tend to deploy them separately, but I don't see any reason why we don't do this and produce binaries targetted at the specific deployment environments. I might give it a go).

I kinda prefer makefiles for the build stuff, or even just a script. The whole process of creating a Docker instance, pushing source files to it, trigging go build and then pulling back the binary seems redundant; there's no advantage of doing this in a container over doing it on the local machine. And it's a lot faster on the local machine.

Talking to people, it appears to be as mholt said: everyone just does everything in containers so apparently we do this too.
What does Nature have to lose from publishing hype? If there's enough pushback, they retract it six years later and wash their hands.
Really? That seems insanely low to me. Where is the other $1.26 billion going?
>AGI is the point at which nothing is gained by keeping me (or you) in the loop.

I like this definition. We are having so many conversations now about new AI features, and whenever there's a human interaction with the proposed design, you always get the nagging feeling of "well why exactly does a person need to make this decision at all anymore". I think we are less than 5 years away from mass adoption and widespread availability of average human level intelligence AGI. The computer science is more or less solved; it's just a software engineering problem now.
who don’t agree

Who are the excluded people here and what do they not agree with?
The problem with tech bro philanthropy
I mean yeah 1.3b is great but your revenue is coming from everyone else chasing the hype train. It will be a big viable business but it’s probably not that earth shattering