skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's repeat this: current LLMs != AGI. It will never be. It could be used for knowledge store, retrieval, synthesis, and low lever reasoning. There is at least a few decades worth of work remaining for it to reach the level of AGI. The proponents in this AI gold rush are casually throwing around the term without any real thought.
Then we go back to pensions and social security instead of gambling. Things would probably be better off that way.
The lower price part is probably more relevant? Honestly, I would pay 30% more for a game on steam than a download link on some website, but I definitely wouldn't use the website for the same price, right? The discount is the only way it could compete with steam at all.
I don't know if there is a formal definition of AGI (like a super Turing Test). I read it not so much as "OpenAI has gone full AGI" but more the board thinking "We're uncomfortable with how fast AI is moving and the commercialisation. Can we think of an excuse to call it AGI so we can slow this down and put an emphasis on AI safety?"
Of course, it depends. Here's one take: https://www.reddit.com/r/PlaydateConsole/comments/17p8pdp/co...
Reading the article it sounds a bit like he is describing zoom/video-conf as sort of the uncanny valley of in person communications. We want to make sense of it in the usual way as it is close but the differences stress the process and tire the individual.

I'm also curios if this will at all be relatable to how introverts find in person communication tiring. Maybe that same stress is at work there but from the start, without the need for the differences introduce by zoom. It will be interesting to see how the research on this plays out.
I'm using a MBP 2019 16" at the moment, and I can't upgrade yet. Hopefully I get to move over to the apple silicon laptops in the next couple years!
Roughly speaking, the whole point of an LLM is to create plausible sounding text, without regard to the truth (which it cannot determine or derive), so it's a tool that is perfectly suited to this sort of malfeasance.
I mean it doesn't help that for every legit leak posted to 4chan there are 50+ fakes
Nice! I'll note, specially for pythonistas, that even with your simple (edit) and (load) shortcuts, you are doing something more than in Python: while in Python you quit and re-run your program from the terminal, in CL you quit the debugger, you stay in the running Lisp REPL, you edit code while your REPL still around, and you re-load code from the REPL. It's already a faster write-run loop, and you can add advantages like keeping all your test variables around.
Wishful thinkin buddy
yeah, they really sound like they're all high on their own supply.

however if they've really got something that can eventually solve math problems better than wolfram alpha / mathematica that's great, i got real disappointed early in chatgpt being entirely useless at math.

lemme know when the "AGI" gets bored and starts grinding through the "List of unsolved problems in mathematics" on its own and publishing original research that stands up to scrutiny.
Let’s just never criticize anyone who isn’t white, and treat them like children. Racism is solved!
Practically speaking, most models today infer at 8bit or 16bit (sometimes, rarely 32). You don't see an empirical lift at more bits of precision. Size of the memory is far more important.
Have you browsed through the Wall St Bets subreddit? Not that pre-IPO investing is any more reckless than throwing away money on naked options, but it gives a good sense for the savviness of the average investor.
>Charlie's patio at Google, 2011. Image has been manipulated to remove individuals.

I don't know if they are trying to make a point here, but this is screaming one.
Oooh love this, thanks for suggesting! We are already planning a more structured "first 90 days". We should also do a "Negative first 90 days" or something like that.

For now though there is a bit of stuff in https://www.getkata.com/handbook/first-time-direct-managers but not as structured as you're suggesting.

Completely agree on the "Now what". Such a harsh surprise more often than not...
But Skyrim is extraordinarily trivial and any spec/build/config can slap the game no problem. So it hardly works in favor of Skyrim.
I think next year's refreshes across the board will have a different architecture so the neural engine has a lot more access to RAM so that models with larger parameters can be used and faster
Except large code bases do the same. They regularly die when their ability to be understood drops too low. Even with well organized code, they are pushed to add features until they aren't understood at the deepest level. Once you hit millions of lines of code, even when you spend decades in that code base, you still forget changes you made even if you have an overarching picture. That's ignoring other people working on it all the time. The understanding gets reduced to contracts, types, and interfaces.

And most importantly, humans are more complicated than code. With enough time and knowledge, I can accurately tell you what any piece of code does on a single expression or statement. Humans regularly do things they don't even know for purposes they don't understand.
> Many students expressed enthusiasm over the privacy the single rooms would offer, Reyes said, as well as a promise from the university that Munger Hall housing costs would remain 20-30 percent below the market rate of nearby Isla Vista.

> . “On the one hand, it’s really nice,” said McCarthy, who lived in the “funky” Santa Rosa Residence Hall his freshman year. “It’s indisputable. There are all sorts of features — air conditioning, game rooms, balconies, flat-screen TVs in every suite — that would make it the nicest dorm on campus.” He also appreciated the project’s bike-friendly infrastructure
It may be a good idea for CA state to step in, take control of that nonprofit and review a few months of the recent communications for violations of fiduciary duty for all the board members.
That's an interesting argument. I suppose I would expect a superintelligent AI to lack goals. Or perhaps the smarter it is, the fainter its goals would be.
The problem is most companies seem allergic to working asynchronously. During covid, they moved to Zoom calls but didn't bother changing how they work.
Must be in a WayMo then.
Eh, YouTube was going to crash and burn hard without an acquisition. It was acquired in 2006, and was built into something sustainable by integrating with Google infrastructure.
I think the argument is that Steam is sufficiently dominant in the PC-games marketplace that small publishers like this feel that they absolutely have to list their games there, and so have no option other than to accept Valve's terms. (With Valve's apparent "you can't sell your game cheaper anywhere else" term serving to lock in this state of affairs for Steam, by making it really hard for another store to compete on price.)
“Insider” LARPers are a staple of 4chan.

Qanon started as one of these, obviously at first just to troll. Then it got out of hand and got jacked by people using it for actual propaganda.
>But once you achieve market dominance, your priorities have to shift. It's no longer "why wouldn't you try this" or "let's do the right thing." It's "why would you rock the boat and risk the nice thing we have?"

Antitrust is important, wouldn't you think?

>A cutthroat corporate environment where you're never sure about the future of your job?

This is the state that the unanointed live in, and we even often deem it beneficial (however erroneously), for the good of society, or a market reality, or whatever, so it is very much an option to be considered. I'm sure many are aghast at the thought, and my memetic response is playing a video clip of SpongeBob's Plankton exclaiming, "I went to COLLEGE!", with a wry smile on my face.
Given the name (Q*) it's probably pure RL.
Remarkable that this unattributed claim of a true AGI breakthrough comes with a name that's impossible to use as a search term.

I'm not saying, I'm just saying.
right but suckers and informed people offer different things. it is notable to me that elon is selecting for manipulating suckers here instead of appealing to informed people. not surprising to me per se, but a useful example in discussion with other people about what to believe in the press.
Azure runs on a modified HyperV, right? Or are you saying they are using some other hypervisor there?
I wonder if Q* is a reference to A* - some sort of search algo that makes optimising LLMs easier
I'm just looking forward to having true broadband and/or at least somewhat reliable tolerable-bandwidth (as in single digit Mbps) connectivity in Germany outside of major cities. SpaceX sadly seems like the most likely way of that happening.
HP chief throws about AI fairy dust in hopes of reviving slumbering PC giant
I would say "Yes really". ChatGPT correctly assumed that I just made a mistake typing and answered the question how I wanted it to be answered. If you suggest that this is a trick question it reveals it understands the double East thing.

https://chat.openai.com/share/d60f492b-cfd6-4c08-91b9-fbd767...
> Then there is probably a $30-50k maintenance contract that sits on top of it.

When the Soviet Union tried to get into CAD/CAM, they managed to crank out a high volume of CAM stations, but neglected ancillary things like training and maintenance, so many/most of these machines went somewhere where they sat in a remote corner until someone figured out how to use them, saw brief use, then got put back in the corner the first time something broke.
As far as I understand it, Steam only requires that you sell your game for the same price on other marketplaces if you're selling Steam keys. If you're selling a non-Steam license then you don't have to match prices at all and can sell for cheaper on Epic, Itch, GoG, etc. Can someone let me know if I'm misunderstanding?

If that is actually the case then I don't see the devs' case having any merits whatsoever.
You can understand why, though, can't you?
I can't believe there are many architects signing off for money on dubious designs, since they wouldn't be architects for long as soon as one thing went wrong with the building.
good mention of the replay feature! I haven't used that before, but that sounds like something that they could sell for a lot of money and companies would want to buy that feature.
I didn't even realize a life without cars was possible (and still doubt it outside of some very specific metro areas in the USA) until I was well into my late 20s.

The environment I grew up wasn't conducive to anything beyond trying to attain the lowest levels of maslow's hierarchy of needs. Around age 28 I was finally able to think beyond those levels.

I wouldn't be surprised at the number of folks in a similar situation.

Anyways, my point is these aren't really useful bits of advice. I am in shock you're claiming no one needs a car, and simultaneously asking them to not live somewhere expensive (which is usually where one doesn't need a car). I guess if they have a good home environment they can live with their parents, but a lot don't unfortunately, myself included.

And the medical stuff. I'm well established at the moment, but know I'm about one medical emergency (cancer, getting shot in a mass shooting, who knows) from losing my wealth.

Then there's the folks clawing their way out of poverty. They'll be from poverty and any gains they make are going to be expected to be shared with their family (father, mother, grandmother, etc.). It's extremely tough. Especially as those aging folks need medical care (both in terms of money and attention).

At this point I'm definitely planning to try and head to a country with a better social system in place, despite "making it".
“ The term "National Socialism" arose out of attempts to create a nationalist redefinition of socialism, as an alternative to both Marxist international socialism and free-market capitalism. Nazism rejected the Marxist concepts of class conflict and universal equality, opposed cosmopolitan internationalism, and sought to convince all parts of the new German society to subordinate their personal interests to the "common good", accepting political interests as the main priority of economic organisation,[13] which tended to match the general outlook of collectivism or communitarianism rather than economic socialism.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism
I would take pretty much any bet that it's less than 10 years max
> Have you not been using chatGPT for programming questions this year?

No, I'm a fighter pilot in EVE Online.
Since KVM already exists, who would renew their ESXi licenses?

Broadcom would surely rise license costs while at the same time disinvesting.

Also, what will happen with VMWare’s Kubernetes investments? I am guessing all of their open source work will cease to exist?
I agree with you that some reactions were a bit strong.

But I reject that "pretending racism doesn't exist" is a good description of objections like mine above.

In my view it's just as fair to say that taking your position means pretending that racism exists in all interactions between people of different races, and must be contended with before other matters.

Unconscious racism is a thing, yet I question the utility of bringing it up when you have no actual evidence that OP is affected by unconscious racism. He might just hate women too, right? Can't rule that out.
>and preventing them from offering lower prices on other platforms

I think this is the crux of the matter, rather than the 30%.

As much as I enjoy steam and don't care in the slightest that they charge a 30% fee for all they offer, I can't see any general benefit for any of the game companies to be able to dictate how game makers price their goods on other platforms or for direct sales.

If Valve is making access contingent on competitor pricing, I could understand it being seen as anti-competitive behavior. It should be banned across all of the marketplaces if it somehow doesn't fall afoul of some consumer protection law already.

edit:

HideousKojima says below that the pricing only applies if they're selling steam keys. If that's the case, I can't see how this has merit. If you're selling Valve's support of your game to users, pay them what they ask. If you're selling elsewhere and Valve is uninvolved, then there would be an issue.
I agree. But you could ask which is more intelligent: recognising a trick question and balking, or recognising that the question as posed doesn’t quite make sense and offering a reformulation together with its answer. It’s not always clear whether something’s a trick, a mistake or a strangely worded (but nonetheless intentionally weird) question. So I think it would be very hard to get it to never fall for any tricks.
It has midi in so if your DAW has midi out then yes you can control it.
I'd say y'all are thinking macroscopically of Android as a whole, whereas I'm thinking about my corner of 100-200 on launcher / system UI. There's very explicit examples I can think of, but now that I think of it...it might impossible to tell from the outside because you can't really tell what's The Cool Project from year to year
Who is Q?
It would do your point much better if you just showed us an example of the failure you are talking about.
This is exactly how confirmation bias fuels conspiracy theories. No one believes anything that they think sounds implausible.

As a general rule, you should give very little thought to anonymous 4chan posts.
I'm not sure what distros you have been using but Linux Mint and Debian (if you set it up right) are extremely stable. Snaps have been slow but I have never experienced that with Flapaks; reasonable critique is it takes a lot of disk space and takes too much time to update different versions of underlying tech gtk or qt.

Ubuntu has not been a good distro for a few years now. Even Fedora is more stable now and you get new software.

We never had as good Linux desktop situation as it is now. The biggest complaint is that if you want to use graphics optimized programs you kinda have to use Nvidia and that's still problematic on Linux.
It's now VMware Tanzu CloudHealth. Tanzu is where they're putting their public cloud bets.
I found myself asking the same questions after reading the post.

You might consider reading the followup post:
https://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1700627532&count=1

It suggests that, in spite of his problems with management, the author remains bullish about Flutter (and likely Dart).
I find meetings I shouldn’t have been invited to a great time to do the dishes. Likewise big status update meetings with low information content.
With all of these, signals experience is honestly ridiculously bad.

Have you tried switching iPhones while actually using signal and having a conversation history? It takes over an hour to transfer.

E2EE Backups are not impossible. I honestly feel like Signal users are lying about how much they’re using signal.
Injecting code into third-party DLLs is as sloppy as it gets. It's an awful hack.
If you need docker, just get a Linux laptop, it really works way better.
Assuming the trains aren't wide enough to collide even if they are on separate tracks
> I chose to ignore the possibility that it discovers something about how the universe that humans have not yet observed but my thought is that is a low probability outcome

I think it's likely that it is precisely these sorts of discoveries that will augur the emergence of a superintelligence. Physics work is probably one of the first things that ML scientists will use to test advanced breakthroughs. As Altman said recently:

"If someone can go discover the grand theory of all of physics in 10 years using our tools, that would be pretty awesome."
"If it can't discover new physics, I don't think it's a super intelligence."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjpNG0CJRMM
OK, I was guessing half right then — so what should we replace the illusion with, if anything?
No I am not saying anything as a negative. I am only talking about him taking the partial translation as complete and going along with it. If he was genuinely interested in knowing the Truth, he would have pursued it further himself and found a translation easily in the hundreds of articles already published about this exact story. But I doubt his intent.

Nothing to do with you though! Sorry if it came across that way!

EDIT: Also if I might add, whatever you translated was accurate. Great job! Your Hindi is already pretty good! And it is surprising you were able to pick that up from Punjabi which is definitely a lot different in comparison to Hindi!
> I feel like this is not a very useful article without a comparison to data over time.

From the linked report:

>The share of consumers living paycheck to paycheck currently sits at

>60%, unchanged compared to October 2022 At 19% in October 2023,

>the share of consumers living paycheck to paycheck and struggling

>to pay bills has also remained stable relative to last year Among

>income brackets, 76% of consumers earning less than $50,000 annu-

>ally lived paycheck to paycheck as of October 2023, as did 65% of

>those earning between $50,000 and $100,000 and 42% of consum-

>ers earning more than $100,000 These are also similar to the shares

>seen in October 2022, indicating that U S consumers have adjusted

>to inflationary pressures, managing their spending where they can
Signal can comply to legal requests perfectly well through updates, having done everything they could to forbid third-party clients, third-party builds (F-Droid) and the avoidance of Google dependencies.

But it's likely they leave that job to their beloved Google, since they haven't changed course even after the compulsory handing over of signing keys to them.
> Does Citrix still exist

Yes, https://www.xenserver.com/ and French OSS derivative https://xcp-ng.org

Citrix is now a private company run by former Broadcom head of software who negotiated VMware acquisition, https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/citrix-tibco-new-ceo-tom-krau...
The truth is a modern office is based on hacking fundamental components of humans and their desire for tribal membership and signals + rewards there of. The tricks don't work as well over a zoom call.
more like 50
This is why for domains like science, tools like Elicit are so needed [1].

They've been doing some interesting work on factored cognition to avoid these sort of hallucinations [2].

1: https://elicit.com/
2: https://blog.elicit.com/factored-verification-detecting-and-...
Yes, the binary can be compiled to windows and run there as a worker but it will need a connection to the main database. Not sure how currently rundeck does it ?
Can you enlighten me about when NASA stopped doing things? I got the impression that NASA has 'always' used companies to build things for them. I'm quite cynical so I assume it's always been an tax->government->industry funding process.
Imagine the massive Tesla and SpaceX factory-sweatshops, cranking out cars and starships on a barren red planet.
Stating that Tower is your favorite git client with a profile that says
"Bruno is the Content Marketing Developer of Tower, the popular Git desktop client that helps more than 100,000 developers around the world." without a disclaimer of your affiliation is rather disingenuous.

If you're going to try to surreptitiously promote your own product, at least try to be a little less blatant.
TheInformation has just published an article about this topic:

OpenAI Made an AI Breakthrough Before Altman Firing, Stoking Excitement and Concern

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-made-an-ai-br...
Wish that was easy for me. The people I work with seem to insist on having video on.
And then commenters will complain that the company doesn't make anything, and just acquires good ideas...
A Deep Dive into SQL Vector Database
Something that can consider a variety of goals and take practical steps to achieve them.

The goals have to be similarly variable to humans, not just 3 or 4 types of goals. If it only supports a select few types of goals, it is not very general.

The steps it takes have to be similarly practical to those taken by humans, if the steps are just a random walk it is not very intelligent.
What can a person do to make Zoom calls less exhausting for themselves? I would be happy to hear any tips.
This is why I love meetings in VR so much. Even though the avatars don't look realistic, the feeling of being together is so much stronger.

It's just so hard to convince others before them having tried it. You can't tell someone what the matrix is, you have to see it for yourself.
I mainly use YouTube through the app (although I’m slowly moving off it using RSS and yt-dlp) and my account can’t watch age restricted videos because I’m not that keen on giving google my drivers license or credit card. The amount of totally normal content being age restricted and the amount of highly questionable or outright disturbing or inappropriate content marked as “for kids” is mind boggling. Especially when you consider everything that’s neither age restricted or for kids.
For proper business infrastructure. We are using VSphere for all our clients and it works very well. We can't really deal with half-baked solutions which never translate to the corporate environment.
Very interesting that he plans to continue working on Flutter after leaving Google:

https://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1700627532&count=1

I agree with him that Flutter is on a good trajectory.
I like that the old PO line looked like small calculators and this new EP version looks like a big desk calculator that an accountant would use. Nice detail in sticking with the “theme”.