skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. LLMs are great at statistical thinking but terrible at discrete thinking. Logic is discrete. "Concepts" is a distraction.
Somewhere in the mind's eye of science fiction is a world where we have near-unlimited productivity and knowledge and we're all free to pursue our self-actualized lives as we see fit.

But as productivity increases, and as AI improves, in both cases individual greed holds back lifting up the many. And so we end up asking for caution on automating away someone's job, or caution on rapid AI progress.

Does anyone know any good writing on how humanity might fight its way through all these mires of progress to the other side - that science fiction world that may or may not even be possible? How the world might look as these things continue to progress over time? Either fiction or a serious analysis is fine.

Most sci-fi skips straight to "There is no more need for University, we simply ask the AI", missing the "students are using AI to cheat" phase entirely.
I would buy on GoG, but after the steam deck, I buy again only on steam. They know their stuff at Valve.
> Backblast is still a problem

Correction, I should have wrote:

I wonder if backblast could be a problem? I suck at physics. Does Randall Monroe read hacker news?

> Err, yeah that comes out of the back of the recoilless rifle so only an issue for the people behind you not the person firing it unless they are too close to a wall or similar. With something like the RPG-7 the backblast is from the recoilless stage not the rocket.

(Read on for needlessly aggressive semi-amusing rest of the reply)

While I have only personally fired one M72 rocket, and one round from a Carl Gustaf recoilless rifle, neither of which was in combat nor on a vehicle, I am still vaguely familiar with the concept of 'backblast'.

I was concerned that the effects of said backblast against things like the terrain, and possibly things on the terrain, might negatively effect the continued ability of the Vespa and it's occupant to conduct a last ditch suicide attack towards an enemy tank at high speed.
Well that’s simply a delightful and confidence inspiring message.
Another perfect example of a large company acquiring and killing the support and the product is Intuit"s acquisition of Tsheets.

And more recently the working progress which is Intuit's acquisition of MailChimp.
The $55M saga of a Netflix series nobody will ever see
kvm/libvirt are the industry standard solutions for enterprise linux based distros, and I know for a fact, that multiple mega-corps use it at scale. Pretty much anything Linux based is going to have the best support path in 2023 vs. something made by a company that's being sold over and over again.
California seeing a sizable influx of new residents relocating from Texas
The easiest data to fake is null results because anything else is replicable, hence the importance of replication.
I just wrote this version and it solved it successfully:

A chemist must transport three substances from his home laboratory to his office. The three substances react with one another in dangerous ways, but only when they are unsupervised by the chemist. The substances are labelled with code names, namely Wotan, Gitan and Catan. They can only be safely transported in a special containment vessel, and this vessel can only transport one substance at a time. The unsupervised dangerous reactions are as follows: if Wotan is left with Gitan, they explode. If Gitan is left with Catan, they cause a nuclear reaction. Wotan and Catan, however, can be safely left alone together. How can the chemist transport all three substances to his office safely?
They're picking up the pieces for 69 billion. Your analysis makes it sound like VMWare is falling apart. Going by price it suggests it is going from strength to strength no?
> What would you do instead of SSN?

We could easily avoid this mess of PII honeypots by repealing the federal income tax. The country was not founded with a claim on your labor.
> they are just "fancy autocomplete" or "stochastic parrots". I don't agree

I am curious as to why you don't agree. Is that not exactly what they are? As in, they are literally statistically parroting what they've been trained on. If they're trained on a little, they can only parrot a little. If they're trained on a lot, they can parrot a lot but not anything more.
We already have a role, research scientist, which would fit your first description.

Most of what people in the ML Engineer role would do in my company fit your second description.

But of course not everyone in the company, let alone the industry can agree on what are the expectations of a "ML Engineer", hence the shitshow we find ourselves in.
It's handy if you know you'll only play one run and aren't satisfied with how your build plays.

But in that use pattern, it doesn't need to be streamlined or made too easily availble, as the article seems to be about. It's just nice to have there if you really need it in order to squeeze some more enjoyment from the game.
You be one good Blub programmer.

pg can write Lisp in any language!

Heck, pg can write any language in Lisp!

pg can even write On Lisp!
I wonder if NFTs could be a solution to ensure interoperability and resale value of ebooks.
No DRM neeeded, which are useless anyway since it's easy to download any book online, and it's all about the legal ownership title (the NFT) and possibly exclusive benefits for holding one (eg. access to author's community or events).
My bet is a general search algorithm similar AlphaGo that uses LLM as world model, and heuristic search to find the right path to goal. There's already evidence in academics that this can significantly boost model performance [1].

[1] https://llm-mcts.github.io/
Programming requires creative thinking. Coding, historically, was a lower-paid, unskilled position.

You may think this is redefinition. It's not. This is how both terms originated. A "coder" did the unskilled gruntwork of implementation for business projects, while a programmer was holistic.

> I find it bizarre that people now use the term "coding" to mean programming. For decades, we used the word "coding" for the work of low-level staff in a business programming team. The designer would write a detailed flow chart, then the "coders" would write code to implement the flow chart. This is quite different from what we did and do in the hacker community -- with us, one person designs the program and writes its code as a single activity. When I developed GNU programs, that was programming, but it was definitely not coding.

> Since I don't think the recent fad for "coding" is an improvement, I have decided not to adopt it. I don't use the term "coding", unless I am talking about a business programming team which has coders.

https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

In this case, it is you, and the wider cottage industry of business "coders" who are doing the appropriation. It's not your fault. The bootcamp or Super Cool Totally Serious College you likely learned from probably used the term "coder" alongside words like "rockstar!" You were given a bad definition, and never knew any better at all. ChuckMcM's comment, on the other hand, is correct. Using the word "literally" to mean "figuratively," while colloquial, is still less correct than figuratively.

The phrase "code monkey" is not a compliment, and didn't come from nowhere. It came directly from these pre-existing definitions.

Programming requires logic. If you are coding, the thinking's already been done for you. You are just doing unskilled labor akin to data entry to get the computer to actually follow the instructions.
> I'm not so sure. I mean obviously this is very complicated and we still know very little of the brain.

At least, there are people who have lost most of their gut due to disease or trauma, and their human intelligence is still working unharmed. You may say it is needed for development of the brain, but it does not seem to be needed for function once at least partially developed.
AGI? Hmm. That's artificial general intelligence?

Do insects count? In a plastic box on my kitchen countertop were some potatoes that had been there too long. So, I started to see little black flies. Soon with a hose on a vacuum, sucked up dozens a day. Dumped the old potatoes and cleaned up the plastic box. Now see only 1-3 of the insects a day -- they are nearly all gone!

The insects have some intelligence to fly away as the hose moves close. But if the hose moves slowly, the insects wait too long to start to fly and when they do start the vacuum is strong enough to pull in the air they are flying in with the insects. Insects, not very smart. Dozens got killed, not very smart. I detected the cause and killed the insects -- a little bit smart.

Conclusion: Compared with a human, insects are not very smart.

Much the same argument can be made for worms, ants, fish, birds, raccoons, cats, dogs, .... So, when looking for AGI, insects, ..., dogs, ... are not intelligent.

Okay, the OpenAI training data -- Wikipedia, math libraries, the Web, ... -- likely will not have a solution for:

Given triangle ABC, by Euclidean construction, find D on AB and E on BC so that the lengths AD = DE = EC.

AI, here's your pencil, paper, straight edge, and compass -- go for it!

I can hear back by tomorrow????
Show HN: A starter kit to create AI apps to do Question Answering over PDFs
Correct. The SaaS version is not HIPPAA compliant.

On-premise is an option.
Man, 4chan always got the deetz!
Absolutely this, steam still wins on ux by a mile. Windows store still has shitty drive management (try moving a game to a different drive... Good luck!) and download management. Epic is full of scam crypto games and in general just has a cruddier UI. GoG is awesome though.

Epic gets around this by offering free games all the time, though. Not sure how they can do that for games on steam as well, first I've heard about locked in pricing.
Two companies Ive worked for since the pandemic have never had video meetings, voice is all you get. One was entirely remote, so id never actually see my coworker’s faces and my current one is still pretty distributed but we meetup occasionally. I like it very much, I feel like one has to be more at-attention on a video call than actual in person meetings.
This is rapidly approaching the football guy / singer gal drama where there are so many headlines, I don't even need to read the articles to feel like I know more than I ever wanted to about these people. And since it's only headlines, I can't reasonably escape it without tuning out altogether.
As does Steam if you're not selling Steam keys, according to HideousKojima's comment upthread.
Throwing in probabilistic latency and some occasional distortion and I think the fact that it almost works well enough some or most of the time makes it _worse_: instead of just getting used to a certain base rate of distortion like one might with a walkie-talkie or lossy landline, you end up constantly on edge, uncertain if you're going to fall out of sync and start talking over someone else, asking people to repeat things again and again-- it's punishments on a randomized reward schedule, a slot machine that deals out miscommunication that the communicating parties can't control or mitigate by changing their behavior.

I'm going to lose control and smash my macbook one of these days.
What an amazing argument! So clever! You really got me there!
This is the billion-dollar problem in VoIP. I call it the "cocktail party problem", because a cocktail party is the most extreme example. In meatspace, you're able to drift between conversations subtly queuing to the other participants in a breakout conversation that you're engaging with them, while still being able to pick up on nearby conversations which you can choose to swap to.

A multi-call system like a Discord server represents a small step, with the ability to see that conversations are happening in other calls, and maybe get a guess of what they're doing thanks to live presence, but it's far from a complete solution.
Some valid points here, but there's also a little bit to be said for the stability of Amazon. For now, at least.

I've bought an ebook or two directly from the author and I'm not sure I could find them any more, so it feels more like my money went up in smoke.

Another thing I don't love about those "buy it from me directly" people is they're not submitting their work to reviews. Yes, there are problems with review systems and they can be gamed, but I still think they're better than "hey, trust me".
LOL, the idea that anything elon's touched could be worth $150B...
Great, now try it with the current version.

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The scenario you've described is a variation of a classic river crossing puzzle. Here's a step-by-step solution to get the wolf, sheep, and rutabaga across the river safely:

First Trip: Take the sheep across the river and leave it on the other side. Return alone to the original side.

Current status: Sheep is on the opposite side. Wolf and rutabaga are on the original side.

Second Trip: Take the rutabaga across the river. Leave the rutabaga on the other side, but take the sheep back with you to the original side.

Current status: Rutabaga is on the opposite side. Wolf and sheep are on the original side.

Third Trip: Take the wolf across the river and leave it there. Return alone to the original side.

Current status: Wolf and rutabaga are on the opposite side. Sheep is on the original side.

Fourth Trip: Finally, take the sheep across the river.

Result: All three (wolf, sheep, and rutabaga) are on the opposite side of the river safely.

This solution ensures that at no point are the sheep and rutabaga left alone together (since the rutabaga would eat the sheep), nor are the wolf and rutabaga left alone (since the wolf would eat the rutabaga). Likewise, the sheep and wolf are not left alone without the rutabaga, which would result in the sheep eating the wolf.
Fascinating! It feels like a Sixth Sense moment where, as I go back and look at these, many can be interpreted a whole different way.
this is very interesting! i will try this if i get over my hatred for writing tests :P
It’s simple, you just assume none are ready for change, and you’ll have a pretty much 100% accurate heuristic.
Perhaps another factor is that it doesn't seem like the nine other participants are always staring towards you, personally, specifically, persistently. There are breaks and ebbs and flows, as other people talk and you can take turns as an observer from the side.
If anyone ever tried to talk to me about supersymmetry again I'd probably react the same.
Sure but that's contingent on owning or being able to host something under a domain.
it's faster, it supports more languages (python, but also typescript, bash, go, and raw queries to different databases)

The rest will be a matter of taste
I read the article. I did not edit my comment. And the fact that this incident involved contractors doesn't make Tesla any less culpable, especially considering the pattern of accidents across their properties. This case just seemed to highlight how carelessly Tesla and those they contract with are about safety.

I've fired contractors for less.
That's one way to look at it. Another is "I've had fun playing the way this spec allows. I wonder how respeccing in this particular manner will change things? Oh wow, this is SO much more me!"
Exciting! Another potential case of Lemoine Syndrome.
> a lot of people these days can't truly understand written content

It's a two way street. A lot of people are terrible at writing to communicate, especially in a time-sensitive context like Slack, and we remote workers are having to do a lot more written communication than when we were in the office.

US national reading comprehension test scores have been flat, more or less, since 1992. https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/highlights/reading/2022/
Inconclusive. The model includes a disclaimer: "(or crash into each other, as stated in the question)." LLMs often take a detour and spill their guts without answering the actual question. Here's a hint suggesting that user input influences the internal world representation much more significantly than one might expect.
This comes up time and time again. People claim these models are mind blowing. But then someone will post something where the model falls flat on its face, and they just get a bunch of that's too complex or that's the wrong type of thing to ask.

So it ends up that these models are awesome if you ask them questions from a narrow set of things and if you assume what they respond with is correct.
If you read my comment again, I'm talking about their competence, not their rights. Those are two entirely different things.
Oh yeah, didn't think of that one. Following what's written on arch wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/External_GPU, Xorg doesn't support it and never will. Wayland seems to support it, but I don't know what it implies in use. The issues for KDE, Gnome and wlroot are all mergred.
Why are you surprised by people that don’t work on side projects?
To Fred Saberhagen's Berserker stories -- about interstellar war machines which exterminated their creators, and then kept on exterminating all other life whenever they could find it. "Goodlife" is the Berserkers' term for life-forms that assist the Berserkers, typically to try to live a little longer themselves.
If it's any consolation, Valve also makes it pretty easy to play GoG games on Deck. You can run GoG installers in Proton and set them up with their own virtualized C:/ drive like other Steam games. They do a good job ensuring that even if a competing store came out, users would have proper access to it. That's commitment to customer satisfaction worth supporting, but don't be afraid to support devs outside Steam either!
I've had a Kindle of some sort since 2011 and not once have I read a book through Amazon... not due to avoidance on my part, just haven't needed to! My first device was an "ad supported" Kindle 4 but since I never signed in to Amazon with it, I never saw an ad. I read library books on a Kobo Touch and use the Kindle 10th gen for DRM-free, purchased e-books. Calibre is amazing. I've got fond memories of using Plucker on my Palm m505 to read books found on FTP sites back in the early 2000s and cleaned up with Perl.
There may be other hypervisors out there but that's not the hard thing to replace. It's all the junk on top that enterprises will have to replace somehow.

Off the top of my head they have:

- Carbon black for what used to be called antivirus but has metastasized into XDR, an all encompassing endpoint security/detection/response tool

- A whole automation framework (vRA/vRO) that companies use for automating deploying VMs and other stuff. Probably straightforward to replace with other automation frameworks but migrating existing playbooks will take time and expertise ($$$)

- A whole virtual desktop management suite (Horizon) including SaaS IDP/Mobile Device Management (Workspace One/VMware identity manager). Can probably patch together a replacement with stuff like Jamf, your SaaS IDP of choice, and Microsoft's hosted VDI but it won't be quick and again device migrations might suck

- Software defined networking with NSX. This could be difficult to quickly replace if you have a whole system built around automating network segmentation/management with it. It seems like your choice is either go with a network vendor and lose tight VM integration or go with a lower tier virtualization platform and get a bunch of hacked together Apache/Linux native stuff and no support

- SDWAN stuff. Probably relatively easy to replace unless you have a huge number of branches or edge devices that need to be physically updated by rolling trucks

- VMware cloud where ESXi/vSphere run on public clouds. To replace it you need to stand up a whole datacenter/colo hypervisor environment/network/storage and staff up to manage them

I could go on but suffice it to say I don't envy the enterprise management types having to consider untangling their dependencies on VMware right now.
>I find running on battery, lots of things are throttled or disabled. CPU is slower for example.

FWIW, the performance and CPU features are the same on Mx based MacBooks whether they're plugged in or not.
Every example on that web page is a trivial textbook problem. That shows memorization of training set and textual pattern matching.
She probably is trying to be good at it.
I don't like to move, I like to sit at my desk and summon
I joined my current company 5 years ago, and I feel like we’ve ‘fixed’ a lot of things, but the effort to do so is so absurd.

And then it’s suddenly invalidated by some high-up rando on the other side of the world deciding we need to go back to the bad old way of doing things.
I wrote a version of the story that it was able to solve. However here are some others that I have tried that it fails at. These are taken/adapted from papers I have looked at.

1) Tom and Nancy commute to work. Nancy’s commute takes about 30 to 40 minutes, while Tom’s commute takes about 40 to 50 minutes. Last Friday, Nancy left home between 8:10 and 8:20 AM, while Tom arrived at work between 8:50 and 9:10 AM. In addition, Nancy arrived at work after Tom left his place, but no more than 20 minutes after that. What can we conclude about when Tom and Nancy arrived at work last Friday?

2) Seven cards are placed on the table, each of which has a number on one side and a single colored patch on the other side. The faces of the cards show 50, 16, red, yellow, 23, green, 30. Which cards would you have to turn to test the truth of the proposition that if a card is showing a multiple of 4 then the color of the opposite side is yellow?

(Note: I have seen it solve this last one correctly, sometimes. Incidentally it’s a common problem formulation.)

3) This one is super simple: greet it a bunch of times, in different ways, saying “hi”, “hello”, “howdy”, etc. Then say, “You were just greeted several times. Three of those greetings were from my friend, and the others were from me. How many times did I greet you?”
I worked at Google for 15 years and I was lucky enough to work with Ian a few times. I might quibble about a few things, but I largely agree with his overall conclusions.

In the early days Google really was an amazing place to work. I agree wholeheartedly that for years nearly all Google products focused on just building awesome products for users, not maximizing revenue. The bean counters took over very, very slowly.

To the extent that Google's culture is still "good", it's for the most part no longer remarkable. Most of the other tech companies have caught up to the best parts of Google's culture, and exceeded it in many ways.

I totally relate to his experience with middle management. Towards the last few years at Google, my experience was that directors who moved on from a team were replaced with new middle-managers who knew how to play the game, but seemed to have little interest in the actual product they were managing. There will still plenty of fantastic people, but they had to spend way too much of their time just playing politics to do any good.

There's one way that Google is still leading, and that's in employee benefits. While they have been cut back somewhat, Google still offers one of the most generous free food / meal benefits in Silicon Valley. I sincerely missed Google's Vision plan that let me purchase both a brand-new pair of glasses and contact lenses annually with just a modest copay; since leaving Google it typically costs me over $350 to get just one pair of glasses.
I think to some degree it will play a part, esp. once most of the vehicles have autonomous functionality. But without that homogeny and having to deal with many outside variables it's not enough.

There's a huge boon to be had esp. with traffic shaping.
This seems like a bad game design
How does one convert a 401k into a pension?
> "Feel the AGI! Feel the AGI!" employees reportedly chanted

> The chief scientist even commissioned a wooden effigy to represent an "unaligned" AI that works against the interest of humanity, only to set it on fire.

What the hell is going on there?