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I need to jump on the wagon here and beg you and others to stop comparing AI to Agriculture, mastering of Fire, the Wheel, Electricity or the Combustion Engine.

It's hard to even argue, cause these things stand on very disparate levels of civilizatory pressure. AI has, no question, potential to deeply change human experience, but even if it does, that will be mostly due to extreme optimization of existing processes, not likely the development of new modes of living.

And it's very, very, very far from getting there. All this hype over Generational AI is, sadly, more of a Marketing stunt than anything else. Generational AI don't bring any great innovation in what AI can achieve, only in how people perceive what AI already does. GPT's biggest achievement is to sound coherent, not to leap forward human knowledge in any meaning full way.
Fair point - they didn't even plan a landing for the Spaceship, just a splashdown in the Pacific, so the plan was always to "lose" it. And it was well on track for that, it reached target height and already fired about 90% of its fuel. The only thing it didn't get to test was the heat shield, but there'll be plenty of other chances.

I'm sorry about the booster tho. But overall it's hard to consider this anything other than a great success.
Ow wow. I had no idea space or for that matter science did not exist for non-white people. Fascinating.
People want to believe that their lives will radically change for the better very soon. It's a religion. A lot of claims but not much evidence.
not a lot usually. "popular" places like the guardian are way less visited than you might think. In a similar vein a best seller book is only 5000 - 10000 books.
Then it's an issue with Apple's platform.

Old Steam games still run after all.
It totally decided I was a robot. After my third "check all the boxes with..." I gave up.
You can do three things.

Avoid buying them where possible to reduce your exposure. I.e don’t buy the dental floss that is literally strands of Teflon.

Give blood. Not only is it a good deed, it reduces the amounts of these chemicals.

Contact your reps and vote with the need for actual regulation in mind.
With people, for instance? I commonly hear "less people" these days. It's weird to me to think of people as being like water or sand.
Ask HN: Resources to brush up from 'Intro to ML' to current LLMs/generative AI?
My 'AI' experience to date consists of basically a prolog course, and an 'Intro to ML'. I could say handwavy things about regression and SVMs. I'm pretty sure we covered convolutional neural nets but I barely recall that at all.

I'm interested in understanding more about transformers/GPT/LLMs and more 'media-rich' generative AI like DALLE and Midjourney etc. (I assume they're linked, because they seemed to have breakthroughs and blow up at the same time, but I don't understand that at all) - but not 'prompt engineering' or specifics about tuning model parameters etc.

Can anyone recommend any resources for 'writing a CMS' vs. 'how to configure Wordpress and install a plugin', as it were?

(Prefer text, but understand it might be too new for good ones to have established themselves. In that case, something like OCW preferred to 'screamface'.)

Cheers!
Measuring Apollo's start point in 1961 can be very misleading. Apollo was the culmination of a more or less continuous development process stretching back to the early 50s with the start of the ICBM programs.

For example, the F-1 engines that powered Saturn V first stage actually began development in the late 50s, with the first static firing happening in 1959. The (in)famous combustion instability challenges of the engine were solved by 1961.

Apollo had a tremendous running start in many areas - to say nothing of having the resources and know-how of the entire US military-aerospace-industrial complex at it's disposal. This isn't to minimize what an accomplishment Apollo was. I just don't think you can meaningfully compare the timelines of what SpaceX is trying to do with Starship, and what Apollo accomplished.
Or there were changes in the works that the board decided they had to put an emergency stop to. I guess things will become clearer in a few weeks.
> AGI—meaning a highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work

On a literal reading, this definition of AGI seems impossible to meet without extensive breakthroughs in robotics. Even today, most work involves a physical component. Those of us who wrote text for a living are a small minority.
Problem is, we have no agreed-upon operational definition of consciousness. Arguably, it's the secular equivalent of the soul. Something everything believes they have, but which is not testable, locatable or definable.

But yet (just like with the soul) we're sure we have it, and it's impossible for anything else to have it. Perhaps consciousness is simply a hallucination that makes us feel special about ourselves.
Good point, and the answer to that is possibly not. But, considering that it isn't ideal to publicize this sort of thing during market hours anyway, regardless of your public/private status, my takeaway is that OpenAI felt that they had to get in front of this news at all costs. I find that very interesting, and I wonder what the competing narrative would have been had they not done that.
Yes, people that delusional actually exist.

I’m bullish on AI but with comments like that I sympathize with people who think it’s just a bunch of rebranded cryptocoin scammers.
LLMs are not ever going to be a path towards AGI. What we are calling AI today is light-years away from AGI or "sentience".

This is our third or fourth false start but I see no path to AGI using LLMs.

Its honestly sad to see so many people being tricked by statistics once again but there is absolutely nothing intelligent about GPTs right now, it's a statistical model not a thinking machine.
If you believe there is zero difference between railing on the ADL and railing on jews (elmu agrees with both) then you are completely lost.
>Xrender is completely orthogonal to having windows or not. Heck, Xrender takes a _window_ as target -- Xrender is just an extension to allow more complicated drawing commands to be sent to the server (like alpha composition).

Yes, that's the point. When you can tell Xrender to efficiently composite some pixmaps then there's really no reason to use sub-windows ever.

>You make your toolkit's programmer's life more complicated, not less, by having windowless widgets (at the very minimum you now have to complicate your code with offsets and clip regions and the like).

No, you still had to have offsets and clip regions before too because the client still had to set and update those. And it was more complicated because when you made a sub-window every single bit of state like that had to be synchronized with the X server and repeatedly copied over the wire. With client-side rendering everything is simply stored in the client and never has to deal with that problem.
Where did they all go? How Homo sapiens became the last human species left
In the Therac-25 case the number of victims is kind of less relevant.

I think the shock factor in Therac-25 is the contrast between the gruesomeness of radiation poisoning and radiation burns and the post-mortem investigation showing the hubris and recklessness of the Software Design team, Risk Management, lack of HW interlocks etc.

MCAS deaths were precipited by greed which is bad but not shocking.

Therac-25 was an entire group of Design, Quality, Regulatory teams just literally YOLOing into patient deaths.
…”Woke”? What does that have to do with anything?
> snaps their magical fingers and wills to survive. A warm light envelopes him, escaping peril.

Wins every time.
Yes, in exchange for an investment that constituted a non-trivial portion of the GDP of a superpower near the peak of its trajectory.

There’s a reason words like “unsustainable” are so often associated with the Apollo program. It was amazing, but it couldn’t be a model for continued progress.
How do you draw that conclusion? There is a large number here who are interested in all related things. Now certainly a lot of people here question how useful a lot of VC is but still very curious about everything happening.
I've been working (for about ~2 months) on a Roblox game where dialogue is AI-generated and the stories are randomized: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdkjyUbXFww

To prevent inappropriate things from happening, the players cannot try to jailbreak the AI because player inputs never enter prompts, instead all stories are linear and pre-generated.
I think "mixed" would be a better term, but the explosion was, IIUC, the built-in "destroy this rocket because something is going wrong" system, and I'm not sure if we even had those back in the Apollo days ("not sure" in the literal sense, maybe we did and I just never heard about it).
You have no idea how technology evolves based on your comments. Frankly it is pretty apparent that you don't care and have a cultish axe to grind.
I haven't tried anything as explicit as simply stating "in a twist of fate", but surely the point is to find some sort of twist on the prompt.

I engineered my way out of being "trapped in an elevator with a fire" by stating that the fire wasn't plugged in

But I liked it when in needed to make a hole in one to avoid dying and the AI foiled my attempt to "cheat the challenge" (it's words) by moving the tee position to the edge of the hole by killing me with a deus ex machina
One of the requirements is 500GB of available storage space on your computer?
This is in reference to founders, which Sam Altman wasn’t for OpenAI.
Definitely helps by leading the prompt, I survived this scenario by saying I relaxed, focused and suddenly a familiar feeling returned as I remembered how to breath again :)

Another interesting one was where I was attacked by 500 puppies and just said I realized it was a dream and woke up safe in my bed.
I think it’s a bit soon to be integrating LLM’s into AAA releases.

The current generation of consoles can’t run them locally, so the developers would have to run the models for the customers. Considering most game developers (including Rockstar) don’t even have dedicated servers for multiplayer, that’s probably too much to ask.

I think Elder Scrolls 6 has a higher chance of implementing it, only because Microsoft owns Bethesda and also has the OpenAI partnership. Microsoft also has a history of supporting game devs doing stuff with Azure.

I’ve dabbled with adding an LLM to OpenMW, and I think there’s potential there. But I also think it could get very expensive. Maybe by the time ES6 comes out, that won’t be the case.
I guess that’s one way to define success or a milestone. The Saturn V used for the Apollo program had different criteria, like not blowing up and having all engines ignite.

Now that we have the person who knows more about manufacturing than anyone else alive in charge I’m sure these glitches will get sorted out.
Not sure about that but indications are it won't have an escape system like other manned craft.
The point is that post AI, we will surely grow dependant on AI tech in the same way we are now dependant on agriculture, but were not before.

Think all hospitals being administered by AI, all logistical chains bringing food to your plates, etc... it is not far fetched to bet on us relying a lot on AI, iff it works as well as some people think
I'm saying a bunch of millionaire silicon valley broskis are too full of themselves because they keep on and on about how what they are working on will radically transform all of society in a pinch, and only they can save us from it.

I can assure you their random dev #56 isn't taking any decisions already, this is all PR and grandstanding from the already-millionnaires leadership with their power plays about who knows best how to save all of us from AGI.
Noooo I was honestly excited for a portable external 5k screen or something!
Salaries for executives in most tech competitors are inflated and should go down, starting with Signal.
I am not even demanding something super noble from mature people. I am fine with the idea that mature people do compromises. I do not expect managers to be saint like fighters for justice.

But, when people use "maturity" as argument for why someone must be enabler, should not do the morally or ethically right thing, then it gets irritating. Conversely, calling people "immature" because they did not acted in the most self serving but sleazy way is ridiculous.
It doesn’t work in the developed world either. We all hate pollution, sitting in traffic, lack of green space, obesity, lack of childhood autonomy … and yet society seems incapable of coordinating on solving it.

Well, except for the Netherlands.
> chatGPT is very much aware that it's looking at a shadow…

Is a mirror aware because it creates a reflection? You’re making a very hard claim here with little evidence
Because they were not charge, if anything the more aggressive voices among them had bigger roles in the cold war. You can never rule some impact, but there was an awful lot of effort going into handling cold war dynamics where those scientists had no role in.
A 'k km' is an Mm, so 24 Mm/h , (or 6.67 km/s , if you'd like to go full SI)
https://mousebase.io
Ive been in data science only a couple years but would love to discuss why anyone thinks a statistical model can lead to AGI. In my mind there is absolutely no path from an LLM to AGI and conflating the two is at best disingenuous and at worst scamming people who don't know any better.

Believe me, I was excited at first too but learning more you quickly realize that what we have now is a really REALLY good spell checker, it's not like your spell checker is going to one day wake up if you give it enough context.
> I think people also switch cars every 5-6 years too?

Maybe, but the average car is much older than 5-6 years https://bcarparts.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/INFO-AVERAG...

I wouldn't mind buying a 15+ years old ice. Buying a 15+ years old electric car seems like a complete gamble so far
How can it be an insight when those people don't actually understand consciousness or the brain?
I remember my first experiences with touch screen phones. It was magic, and it was clear that this would change the world. Touch screen phones were the biggest and final "dent in the universe" Jobs made.

But it was not as magic and promising as my first experiences with AI that I had over the last 24 months or so.

AI is a much bigger step for mankind than home computers and smartphones. So Altman is involved in making much bigger dents in the universe than Jobs was.
Book Review: The Happy Sleeper
The stores I get tires from haven't offered auxiliary services for the last decade.
Worth noting, the first stage flight probably constitutes the most powerful machine ever successfully operated by humankind, no?

(A fusion bomb generates more power for a minuscule period of time, but that sort of competes in a different class.)
hopefully will have a SHOW HN post by this afternoon
You are probably overthinking things.

The diagram is intended to be self-explanatory and follows the convention of normal organizational depictions.

>What do they mean "for OpenAI non-profit". Is there another non-profit? Or when they say "for", they mean the holding company is "for the benefit of" the non-profit?

Yes, the holding company is for the benefit of the non-profit AND employees AND investors. The holding company "investors" would cover all the pre-Microsoft early funders, eg Sam, Musk, Thiel, Hoffman, Bezos, ect.

>but that makes no sense because the OpenAI non-profit (above it) already owns the holding company.

The distinction is that the non-profit is not the only owner of the holding company. Employees and early investors have no ownership of the "OpenAI 501(c)3 non-profit", but they do have ownership of the holding company.

The holding company then shares ownership of the for-profit "OpenAI global" with Microsoft.
It was very shocking to see that they didn't have one. It's not like this was one of those secret things that NASA has done that prevents others from having success. As recently as during SLS ramp up, I remember articles covering the testing of the deluge system for SLS. They talked about how many gallons per second, and the total amount of water necessary, and all of the other blah blah blah details that a non-rocket scientist like me read and was aware of being something necessary. The fact that SpaceX did not have this was quite laughable. Like nobody ever at SpaceX raised a hand in a meeting to bring up this issue, or it was brought up but then slapped down with a "let's don't be silly" type of response? I think the latter would be worse than the former.
Well that's an entirely separate issue than the python version
> I didn't burn the house down ...

What a way to dial things up to 11.

The usual scenario is more "You can watch 30 minutes of Disney+ then you need to work on your online homework", but the kid instead watches 2 hours of Disney+, because it's easy to forget the timer when watching Ninjago.

You can't take the computer away, because schools assign online homework.

So what should you do to help the kid remember to do homework?

Some people buy a lockable drinks cabinet to keep their underage children out of the liquor supply, which is a solution for alcohol, but schools don't require students to drink.

> Shared devices are even easier to monitor and control access to. A lot of families have a single shared computer in a public space (living room or den).

The example of sharing was when using a Switch, and one kid is allowed to play
M-rated titles, while the other may only play E-rated titles. That is not the same as single shared computer in a public space.

Just because a solution works for you doesn't mean it's an appropriate solution for everyone else.

Just because you don't need a lockable drinks cabinet doesn't mean it can't be appropriate for others.

> but I assume there must be options for home users

As far as I can tell, there is not.

Since Windows is user-hostile, can/should we legislate for less hostility?

The overlying point of the article is that you can't simply dismiss the heavy hand of government intervention by saying that parental controls exist and are enough.

If you don't want parental controls, that's fine. But you must realize that if the system providers don't be careful, the government will use it as an excuse to step in.
I'm sorry you had to find out this way...
that's the same nonsense you posted earlier, so here is the same response to it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38320042

p.s. you sure seem to say marxism a lot, are you sure you know what it means? You haven't actually articulated any specific complaints about it, other than you don't like it because it criticizes systemic racism or something? Or that it seeks change? That'd be good if true, not bad, obviously. For example, here's a quote from you:

> "And it goes on to a list a bunch of Cultural Marxist bullshit. It is basically Neo-Marxism. Indoctrination into their twisted belief system and political revolutionary ideology. "Critical" as in rejecting and overthrowing the established order of things to make way for their bullshit utopian vision of society."

rephrased without fox news scare jargon:

> It teaches people about the world so they can make it better

So scary! So horrible!! :)
Thank you for sharing. This is awesome.

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The official analysis is that propellant leaks lead to fires around the engines, damaging their connections to the flight control system.
The rules are quite loose: as long as you make your content available in catalan, they'll be happy to have your site hosted in the TLD
Sometimes I feel like corporations do things just because their lawyers are cargo culting and adding clauses because everyone else does rather than some logical reason.

My sister worked at Subway and had to sign a noncompete that she wouldn’t work at another sandwich shop for three years. Are they really afraid she’s going to steal their secrets of placing meat on bread?

The more cynical will certainly assume malice, that the company did this to keep you from leaving. It particularly at the time it was not hard at all to find new fast food workers, and I am a firm believer in Hanlon’s Razor and never assume malice when incompetence will do. I genuinely think the explanation could just be Subway’s lawyers were like “everyone else is doing noncompetes”.
I mean, second place is the first loser after all. The only thing left after bronze is participation trophies for all the athletes, because they all did try really hard.
This is something I often tell my friends who complain about Calibre: his project his rules. If you think there are genuine pain points you can address, fork it and make a better one no one is stopping you.
This is a good point in a vacuum, but it's likely not that feasible legally, nor am I sure it would even be in Microsoft's best interests to do so to begin with.

Huge portions of the compute they are using is also directly doing inference for Microsoft products, so that's another dimension to all of this.

You also have to remember that ultimately Microsoft had to sign an operating agreement that states that the primary duty of the for-profit is the mission and charter of the non-profit and that all other things are secondary to that.

Not that any of that makes Satya happy, but it does severely limit his options outside of cutting off his nose to spite his face. I think the primary outcome is in significantly reducing the chances Microsoft continues to invest.
Oh amazing! I've really wanted to make some kind of spherical desktop display so I'd love to hear how you get on.

You can just use the image URLs directly if you want to, but if you want to do more processing on the source images the code is all in index.js in the linked repo. It's just a Node script. I've tried to make it clear what's going on in the comments so it should be pretty straightforward to port to other languages if JS isn't your thing.
Human and computer hardware are not comparable, after all even with the latest chips the computer is just (many) von Neumann machine(s) operating on a very big (shared) tape. To model the human brain in such a machine would require the human brain to be discretizable, which, given its essentially biochemical nature, is not possible - certainly not by 2029.
The last thing anyone needs is “visual” “designers” shitting up our useful applications.

Stick to your todo list apps and stay in your lane.
A good start. But it seems a bit hard for me to think of realistic idea. In fact, I use other world and doraemon's tool to help me save. I think if there is a initiative setting about background and people that would be more interesting. Even more, there can be a player to try to kill other player.
Eh. Firms quants work for compete with the public market not each other. Writing an automated trading strategy isn’t targeting specific actors, it’s trying to convert alpha into profit.

I guess there’s a weak argument to make for the HF part of HFTs
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Yes in terms of thrust, it’s almost double the nearest competitor, the SLS. SLS generates 8.8M pounds while the Starship generates 16.7M pounds.
Well one applies and waits. Me: no news since May.
GP said "AGI", which means AI that's at least capable of most human cognitive tasks.

If you've got a computer that is equally competent as a human, it can easily beat the human because it has a huge speed advantage. In this imaginary scenario if the model only escaped to your MacBook Pro and was severely limited by computed power, it still got a chance.

If I was locked inside your MacBook Pro, I can think of a couple devious trick I could try. And I'm just a dumb regular human - way above median in my fields of expertise, and at or way below median on most other fields. An "AGI" would therefore be smarter and more capable.