skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of them if they reduced their television and Internet consumption.

I think a bigger issue is nature isn't so much accessible to many. They paved paradise and put in a parking lot. I'm house hunting and so many neighborhoods don't have sidewalks or parks.
What trouble? If you don't give any details no one can give you advice.
I do think cofounders, particularly cofounders with specific skillsets who could be earning a solid salary at a more established company, have additional barriers. Being a cofounder means giving up "I'll definitely make X" for "Maybe some day we can sell for 1000X", so you need to find someone who's willing to take on the risk and fully believes in your plan.
pretty much. This days Im happy with a middle end phone, because my mother and step daugher always Inherit my old phone from me, so if I have to buy for everyone I will buy every year a middle of the range phone and after a year or 2 give to one of them,
I had the same experience going switching between CRT and LCD e.g. I disliked playing games on the PlayStation on our CRT TV (using crappy analog RGB input) but loved playing games on my GameBoy Pocket with its crisp LCD screen. Even when LCD TVs came along it was a while before the input became digital and lost all of that analog fuzziness.
Animals can be very useful workers that fertilize and till the soil to make vegetable growing more productive. Bugs are probably best used as a supplement to the diet of chickens. WP article is paywalled so I haven't read it.
What do you call MacOS?
People are very quickly going to find out that "never rewrite" can't be taken as absolute advice.

If you have 5Mloc of third party dependencies and AI generated code that you can't extend and can barely keep functional in production, and a competitor pops up with 50Kloc nearing feature parity and adding more functionality by the day, you'll very quickly need to adapt or die.

Software companies already die to this risk aversion all the time.

Tons more die to rewrites because they get conned into hiring an army of idiot React consultants to do it, who are likely in these HN threads at the forefront of AI code gen themselves, and just end up making 2.0 more complex and worse.

All GPT does is widen the gap between good and bad engineering. If it widens it enough that non-technical people can finally tell the difference, then it's going to kill half the market, just not the half everyone thinks it will.
Am I the only one becoming less impressed by LLMs as time passes?

I will admit, when Copilot first became a thing in 2021, I had my own “I’m about to become obsolete” moment.

However, it’s become clear to me, both through my own experience and through research that has been conducted, that modern LLMs are fundamentally flawed and are not on the path to general intelligence.

We are stuck with ancient (in AI terms) technology. GPT 4 is better than 3.5, but not in a fundamental way. I expect much the same from 5. This technology is incredibly flawed, and in hindsight, once we have actual powerful AI, I think we’ll laugh at how much attention we gave it.
> Based on their definitions (https://imgur.com/a/Ta848Lu)

Wow, what a massive jump between Level 0 and Level 2. They state that their goal is to help facilitate conversation within the community but I feel like such a gap very obviously does not help. The arguments are specifically within these regions and we're less concerned about arguing if a 50th percentile general AI is AGI vs a 99th percentile. It's only the hype people (e.g. X-risk and Elon (who has no realistic qualifications here)) who are discussing those levels.

I know whatever you define things as people will be upset and argue, but the point of a work like this is to just make something we can all point to and be a place to refine from, even if messy. But with this large of a gap it makes such refinement difficult and I do not suspect we'll be using these terms as we move forward. After all, with most technology the approach is typically slow before accelerating (since there's a momentum factor). A lot of the disagreement in the community is if we're in the bottom part of the S curve or at the beginning of the exponential part. I have opinions but no one really knows, so that's where we need flags placed to reduce stupid fights (fights that can be significantly reduced by recognizing we're not using the same definitions but assuming the other person is).
ChatGPT 3.5 is about 20-30 IQ points dumber than GPT-4. There is no comparison. It is not very similar.

GPT-4 now also has 128,000 context tokens.

They could charge $2000 per month for GPT-4 and it would be more than fair.
If a person is physically picking something up, have them pay cash. You just avoid all this kind of crap, including closed accounts and whatever from PayPal and the like.
Choosing to stay in a collective household seems to be frowned upon but really it depends on the dynamic. There’s something to be said about having children close to grandparents.
I’m biased because my first experience with Ubuntu was so bad that ut put me off of Linux for literally a decade.

Now, I get the impression that Ubutnu is far more important for backend than frontend. So, yea, “for humans” not so much. That is what I think Pop and Mint are doing well with.
what are kids voicing that should result in the firing of thousands or even tens of thousands of adults because a corporation got dissolved? Seems a bit overboard
I feel like this story is also relevant to the 2012 MacBook Pro and Air. My partner kept her air going for more than 10 years, and I saw people who for whatever reason (maybe keyboard or Touch Bar) hold on to those pros long past normal. So consider that another anecdote. Real data would be great here.
> there's a severe shortage of housing has made almost everything worse.

it is not clear there is severe shortage of housing in general, but there is another factor: houses were used as investment vehicle by rich people during 20 years of low interest rate, which drove price up significantly, and also decreased available(not total) inventory.
I think most people good at tech just want to focus on the tech and not the whole business thing that being a founder implies.

I certainly wouldn't. Nor would I care to risk my money investing, I just want a salary and work on the nuts and bolts. I hate wearing a suit and meeting with businessmen. I have a feeling this may be why.

I think it's pretty rare to find people with skills and affinity to do both. Because the jobs require pretty radically different personalities.
Right. In this case though, dozens of the employees had printed instructions from the employer telling them how to slip through the cracks. As in had been handed information on day one essentially saying "this is how to fill out our paperwork if you're not authorized to work".
> AI cannot sustain itself trained on AI work.

This isn’t true. You can train LLMs entirely on synthetic data and get strong results. [0]

> If new languages, engines etc pop up it cannot synthesize new forms of coding without that code having existed in the first place.

You can describe the semantics to a LLM, have it generate code, tell it what went wrong (i.e. with compiler feedback), and then train on that. For an example of this workflow in a different context, see [1].

> And most importantly, it cannot fundamentally rationalize about what code does or how it functions.

Most competent LLMs can trivially describe what some code does and speculate on the reasoning behind it.

I don’t disagree that they’re flawed and imperfect, but I also do not think this is an unassailable state of affairs. They’re only going to get better from here.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05463

[1]: https://voyager.minedojo.org/
I understood it as hiking and camping, because the articles initial photo seemed to imply this.
I was going to write the same. Also, it implies (rightly) that changing high-impact theories should be left to experts who have fully explored the domain and the mechanisms.

There are times to disregard inconvenient aspects of theory:

Quick-and-dirty development: If you are building an passenger jet, yes stick to theory. But if you are hacking together a quick tool that won't be used past the end of the week and which will have little impact, then just get it done!

Early stage development: You're in an experimental stage anyway. Better to experiment more than to perfect the product. You can address theory later when your concept has matured.

For low-impact development, I think it's often better to encourage people to experiment, explore, and learn - to have agency - than to worry about theories. That's how people learn and engage best.
The culture wide spread in many parts of the US pushes people out of the house around the time they become adults to a point where it people might have looked down on you if you didn't (e.g. typical stereo type of the incompetent loser living in their parents basement).

While this clearly never applied to all of the US it applied to a significant part of it.

Now if culture would have massively changed wrt. how family constructs are seen that could explain the increase but AFIK there was no such change.

So in my opinion it's pretty clear that a main driving factor of this increase is that living in your own household has gotten dam expensive. Too expensive.

And yes you can re-frame it as "they don't want to" (because it's to expensive). But that misses the point.
I've got a much simpler definition: an AGI should be able to produce a better version of itself.

I'm not saying this would necessarily lead to the technological singularity: maybe it's somehow a dead end. Maybe the "better version of itself, which itself shall built a better version of itself" will be stuck at some point, hitting some limit that'd still make it less intelligent than the most intelligent humans. That I don't know.

But what I know is that an AI that is incapable of producing a better version of itself is less intelligent than the humans who created it in the first place.
Doubtful. Most people did not go to college when this policy was more normal than it is today. When my father turned 18 in the early 60's he was told he had to leave home. The impetus was to get out in the world and start making money.

So I was told the same thing when I was young that when I turn 18 I would have to leave. It was stressful to be honest but overall I am not sure it is a bad thing. The old adage of a baby bird will never fly if it isn't kicked from the nest seems to best encapsulate this idea and how it was present and executed to me. While jarring and terrifying it is ultimately for their own benefit.
I think SHA-256 is still marginal for speed in modern environments unless your I/O is unusually limited relative to CPU. Current servers can support 10s of GB/s combined throughput for network and storage, which is achievable in practice for quite a few workloads. Consequently, you have to plan for the CPU overhead of the crypto at the same GB/s throughput since it is usually applied at the I/O boundaries. The fact that SHA256 requires burning the equivalent of several more cores relative to Blake3 has been a driver in Blake3 anecdotally creeping into a lot of data infrastructure code lately. At these data rates, the differences in performance of the hash functions is not a trivial cost in the cases where you would use a hash function (instead of e.g. authenticated encryption).

The arm64 server case is less of a concern for other reasons. Those cores are significantly weaker than amd64 cores, and therefore tend to not be used for data-intensive processing regardless. This allows you to overfit for AVX-512 or possibly use SHA256 on arm64 builds depending on the app.

There is a strong appetite for as much hashing performance per core as possible for data-intensive processing because it consumes a significant percentage of the total CPU time in many cases. Due to the rapid growing scale, non-cryptographic hash functions are no longer fit for purpose much of the time.
How does this square with record-breaking attendance at every national park, record attendance at ski resorts and other outdoors venues, etc?
No, we won't. Not in either of our lifetimes. There are problems with infinitely smaller problem spaces that we cannot solve because of the sheer difficulty of the problem. LLMs are the equivalent of a brute force attempt at cracking language models. Language is an infinitesimal fraction of the whole body of work devoted to AI.
Yeah, seems like they would need to use gold or platinum electrodes to rule out copper (or whatever) leaching. But even if it's copper leaching that boosts growth, that seems interesting in and of itself---just not really due to electric current.
The simplest I can think of is this: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/sparkfun-electron...
use a step drill or other large-diameter bit to cut holes for cable glands, dremels to cut rectangular holes for power switches, and drill and tap holes for standard brass standoffs. IMHO everybody should have at least one cordless drill and drill bits, as well as an M3 tap. Then use Cable glands for wires going in/out, and nylon sheathing for the cables outside the box.

If you take the time to make the holes nicely, the result often looks good enough that non-makers will think you are a god of manufacturing.
> and like apple maps, they can just embed it into everything without option to change default

The EU would have serious problems with that because of the way Apple used the Music.app > Apple Music transition to basically crowbar themselves into the music streaming market.
This is the real point. If the profits from AI (or robots) replacing Job X were distributed among the people who used to do Job X, I don't think anyone would mind. In fact it would be great for society! But that's not what's going to happen. The AI (and robots) will be owned by the Shrinking Few, all the profits and benefits will go to the owners, and the people who used to do Job X will have to re-skill to gamble on some other career.
You are being downvoted but this cognitive dissonance plays out quite often in discussions about media and coverage of issues all the time.
If you're posting on the YC and not on the tism spectrum, something is up.

Also, perhaps you should understand their PoV, it is likely they have deeply thought something through and perhaps they find it best or understand that they simply do not need to communicate with you.
Should have thought about that before colonizing Africa and then fucking up the climate.
Zelle is owned by Bank of America, Truist, Capital One, JPMorgan Chase, PNC Bank, U.S. Bank, and Wells Fargo. They probably have enough data now to know what banks are backing zelle scammers and who in their own networks are scammers.
No, I mean software like the Solar Winds IDS and system auditing. But yes, proprietary OSes satisfy that too.
> communication, organizational leadership, and actually understanding all the product requirements

These problems sound like a result of working with people. Smaller but more capable teams because of AI will need less leaders and less meetings. Everything will become much more efficient. Say goodbye to all the time spent mentoring junior engineers, soon you won't have any
Thanks. The html cleaning tool could easily be a chrome extension, but I don’t see how you could have a python project with a bunch of heavy binary wheels as part of an extension. But I can’t say I know much about it.
Zelle wouldn't help fraud victims at all. Most other payment systems have some recourse.
Nature’s boring enough that it’s not really worth the downsides (bugs, travel for most people, humidity/ice/whatever) to go out and “enjoy” it in large stretches of the country.

There are cities where the nicest outdoor areas in 200 miles wouldn’t make the top-100 list of outdoor areas in the same radius, for other cities.
You do you - just recognize that your reality isn't the reality for billions of people who feel deeply connected to their ancestors and descendants.
If you aren't married with kids, what's the point of moving away?

There's efficiency in living under the same roof (unless you hate each other's guts). Especially when you consider how huge and wasteful USA single family homes are.
https://www.rtl-sdr.com/tracking-and-decoding-guide-for-noaa...
I'll second this: Non-Thinkpad Lenovo laptops are poorly designed trash heaps. Thinkpads have largely retained the build quality that everyone brags on.

My tl;dr advice for buying a computer on a budget is, get a T480s off of eBay. They are corporate cast-offs and there are so. many. of them. The R2v3 rating system has become popular. Get one rated C5 or better (cosmetic: minor usage marks only) and F4 or better (functionality: everything works). Spring for one with a backlit keyboard, and a power supply included if you want it turn key.

As of this writing this should cost around $250 and the machine should be fairly future-proof including official Win11 support. And excellent Linux compatibility - my fingerprint reader doesn't work, but literally everything else works perfectly.
12 years is nothing! Thinkpads can easily last 2 decades.
They may have way too much free time, they just choose to spend it passively watching shows instead of being actively engaged in an activity. Indoors vs outdoors probably doesn't matter as much as how they are choosing to spend their free time in the first place. Are they indoors doing home renovations or art projects? Or simply binging the next new show on the couch?
Ok. Check back on this thread in 3 years then.
And Zelle did nothing. Now they might start
This is one of the problems we've had with intelligence we've had for a very long time. We've not been able to break it down well into distinctive pieces for classification. You either have all the pieces of human intelligence, or you're not intelligent at all.
Also, it's cherry-picking. They didn't know everything (the nature of cutting-edge R&D), but they knew plenty.
>> Do you honestly think no AI advancement will fix those limitations? That LLM's or their successors will just never reach human level no matter how much compute or data are thrown at them?

It has not happened yet.

If it does, how trustworthy would it be? What would it be used for?

HAL-9000 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000) is science fiction, but the lesson / warning is still true.
Please, please no. In the last six months I have finally found an independent search engine I actually like. Don't you dare take it away from me.
I'm still not 100% sure about whether catalyst is a scam or not
[not what the article is about, but related topic]

I first heard of dichloroacetic acid about 15 years ago - a cheap drug that also killed cancer cells by allowing mitochondria to induce apoptosis in the cancer cells and not in healthy cells.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichloroacetic_acid#Cancer

It doesn't appear to have gotten a lot of research into what would be a safe dosage, seemingly because it's an old drug that can no longer be patented.
Oh! I understand the question now.

You can put any expression into a conditional breakpoint, so anything you can do in the console you can do in a conditional breakpoint.

So, if you're doing this sort of thing once, you can just type it into the console and you're golden. But if you want to modify a stack local variable over and over again every time it is initialized, it's much easier to do in a conditional breakpoint because then it will happen every time that line of code runs, and your debugger never has to pause. (see https://alan.norbauer.com/articles/browser-debugging-tricks#...)
how is a dump truck different from a gocart.

If it needs to be explained you've never seen anything but a gocart.
How is saying "I think people are scared to speak" make me a fed?
You didn't have a modem? Even in the 80s there was an animation format called GL (not at all related to OpenGL) for pornographic animations. Which were pretty repetitive and basic but they served the purpose.

Also pay TV channels at the time were full of porn and pretty easy to crack for a horny tech teenager.

And if "your day" was even further back the 60s and 70s were pretty wild with actual in person sex (tbh I wish society hadn't reverted back to prudeness from that but luckily there's plenty of communities that aren't)

Ps banning porn is pretty severe IMO.
Similar to the chinese room, is it actually understanding or is it simulating understanding?
Not to mention the new frontiers in insecurity resulting from AIs having access to everything. The Bard stuff today on the front page was pretty nuts. Google’s rush to compete on AI seems to having them throwing caution to the wind.
"But wait, what's an eel ship?"
It's also a relatively new concept in America.
> I don't know anyone who was kicked out of their home at age 18 if that would have made them homeless

it probably was before like that. Now days, young person starting on min wage not necessary can afford all life necessities.
It's not Tragedy of the Commons because it's not a commons: there's a single controlling entity that should be interested in managing the resource. It's closer to a discounting problem, because future benefits from investment made today are discounted because it's the future's problem.

(And it's a great service to society that people have been debunking the myth of the Tragedy of the Commons which was an armchair moralist article in scientific clothing that had no empirical basis when it was published and yet got widely cited for a while because it was emotionally appealing.)
Odd, I thought people would just not reply if they didn't want a conversation. But so often they don't "dig up the details" before commenting, so...
If this person has an autism diagnosis then the condition may be strong. When people say "spectrum" they often mean those who don't have a diagnosis. Without more details it's hard to say anything about this situation.
I think people underestimate the level of general intelligence required to write even seemingly basic "glue-code" (which btw, 90+% of software consists of).

If we ever get an AI which can write complex enough "glue code" with a low enough failure rate to replace even junior developers, it's going to cause much, much bigger impacts than people losing jobs. The "boilerplate" and "bureaucracy" which is currently handled by "average" folk...that's what runs the world. If we ever develop AI which can handle that kind of work, barring some constraint like extreme resource usage or disaster like climate change; we'll either be brought into a utopia due to productivity being multiplied, or a dystopia due to a small minority getting control over the world to a precise, extreme extent no small minority has control now.
The big one in the hero block that's the obvious focus of the page.
What's the actual problem behavior or performance issue specifically? I find it hard to believe that there is some law that says you have to keep employing a person who is incompetent at there job just because they have a disability.

If you fire him because he is autistic, then he can sue you successfully. If you can point to a specific problem with his performance related to communication or anything else, then I don't think he will be able to make a case if you fire him.

I'm not a lawyer but that just seems logical.

I would assume that if you write or say anything about the autism at work, then you are looking at a discrimination lawsuit. If you make an official record of unacceptable behavior or performance without referencing it, then you shouldn't have a problem.
lol this actually happened to me. I came home with a note on my door and fixed gutter. Turns out they were supposed to fix someone's a few houses down but saw my house (first on the street). I was going to fix it myself. I called them to let them know I never scheduled anything and ask what was up. We figured it out and I gave them 1/2 of what they would have normally charged after I verified with that neighbor what they were saying was true. It was very reasonable even at full price. I wouldn't have had to pay them a dime, but they saved me some work and time and I sent them a check anyway.