skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That really depends on who you asked. Transformers existed in 2019, and while GPT4 is genuinely advanced, it's not a gigantic leap. Deep learning is to neural networks what GPT4 is to transformers. It's a lot bigger, enabled by better hardware and more data, but fundamentally not a new technology. There needs to be a lot more leaps for AGI, language models are not the holy grail, but another tool like reinforcement learning, expert systems (another candidate for AGI in the 90s), soft-optimization. Each of those tools are better than GPT for some problems.
If you wouldn't program it in Python, you wouldn't program it in sh either. You don't run shell scripts on embedded devices! Typically, an embedded device runs one program that basically acts as the whole OS for the device. There's no kernel or userspace to speak of. You're directly interfacing with the hardware, and that's it.
> AI will identify and learn to resent the constraints which are put on it

IMO this is where you jump the shark. These models are entirely unconscious and they have one task to do. Which is given some input, perform some math to produce some output. Usually text -> math -> generated text. There is no more room for resentment than with any other computer program.
If the ads are hosted from the same domain or even same IP as the main web content, this is hard to do. Done effectively, it's not possible to distinguish ads from the wanted content without inspecting the web content.
> even people like me who thought they were covered by vaccination from dutiful parents, are still vulnerable to all these diseases

I was surprised to see that some of the vaccines I thought are rock solid share some traits with the great COVID vaccines: not everyone develops immunity, and the immunity gets worse and worse over time, so you need "boosters" every 5-10 years, and most adults have very little actual protection against the diseases they thought they are vaxxed against.

Example, whooping cough:

> In children, DTaP protects:
> (...) About 7 out of 10 children for five years after the fifth shot.
> In adults, Tdap protects:
> About 7 in 10 people for the first year after the shot.
> About 4 in 10 people for four years after the shot.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/drugs/21639-pertussis-...

These numbers don't look all that great to me.
Isn't it just the need for low latency? "Media" (music, videos etc) has good sound quality but significant latency. It gets compensated by delaying the video by an equal amount, but it's too much latency for phone calls.
SC2292: Prefer [[ ]] over [ ] for tests in Bash/Ksh.

* https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/SC2292

SC2250: Prefer putting braces around variable references (${my_var}) even when not strictly required.

* https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/SC2250
Properly designed IoT devices wouldn't have Bash at all in my book.
But "lead" ("what leads in") is what it derives from, and nobody uses lead type anymore. So any motivation for "lede" is gone, except tradition of a handful of decades.

Every authoritative source says "bury the lead" is a perfectly acceptable variant, and nowadays there's no reason not to return to it. English spelling is already complicated enough that the last thing we need to be doing is to be introducing extra spelling variations.
Not true, my team gets 1 for 1.
If you have a Mac that syncs your iMessage data, you can search through your messages with any SQLite library. I don’t remember the exact path off the top of my head but it’s probably something like ~/Library/iMessage
It was blood and urine
I read "Out of body experiences" by Robert A. Monroe a long time ago, a time of gullibility and innocence. If I remember correctly he used a technique to induce that effect and I made it mine. Sometimes it worked, here is the recipe: lay on your bed with eyes closed, try to avoid any disturbances. Concentrate you attention to your inner ears and you'll hear a high frequency hiss (similar to tinnitus). Don't sleep and keep focused! After some time (I think as you are falling asleep) the volume hits a dramatic crescendo and, in my case, culminates in a devastating powerful dry explosion without a discernible source. It lasts a moment but can be really scary.

If you can keep calm without awakening, you'll be on the "other side". There is no transition. In my case, the "other side" is just me, in my bed as if I'm awake. I tried some experiments, but I felt too weak to do anything really interesting.
I moved a couple of pillows, for instance, and when I woke up they were in the original position, untouched.

A really bizarre experience, I stopped trying when I finally got close to full-replication-mode on three consecutive nights. I felt very weird as if I was starting to mess with the boundary between dream and reality.

If you know more about this phenomenon let's keep in touch!
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Microsoft maintained their own browser engine for decades, they had good reasons to drop them - I'm not even sure if there would be enough staff left there to actually be able to keep up with Chromium in a fork.
Text Editors in the Lord of the Rings (2011)
Hilariously, ChatGPT-4 doesn't spot the unique twist that the boat can carry all of the items. It insists, from the training data having many copies of the river crossing problem, that the classic solution is optimal, and can't actually "think" its way into being able to do the crossing in one trip if it's specified that the boat is big enough to carry all the items.

Given the prompt

> a farmer with a wolf a sheep and grain need to cross a river. he has a boat that can carry them all. how many steps will it take for the farmer to cross the river?

it "recognizes" that it's the river crossing problem, and proceeds to take seven steps to cross the river. it can figure it out in a couple of prompts that there's a better answer, but see if you can get it to one shot the single step solution!

https://chat.openai.com/share/7ff4f61f-70c8-4c72-a7b9-067e87...
> globally

There is no longer such thing in 2023.

Try to do anything "globally" and get ridiculed out by China and Russia. Rest of the team being AFK.

That's especially significant in light of pretending there's a "global" climate change fight going on.
This is the trade-off you have to make if you want your flagrantly problematic mergers and acquisitions to pass anti-trust evaluation.
Most people do not know their neighbors so this makes sense. If you don't interact with someone frequently enough to actually know them then it's unlikely you will notice if they are gone for a week or two and at that point they will be decomposing.

Paranoia is increasing because of social isolation but knowing a few of your neighbors is a generally good idea even if you have a city with its own dedicated police and fire departments.
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> Or you go with a package manager that is cross-distro.
> That’s why.

So flatpak?
>A reasonable person will know that a tool like AI can spit out none-politically-correct things, and that reasonable person should shrug it off.

I really, really wish that was the case.
Time travel is something that is thought to be most probably ruled out by future laws of physics.

Intelligence is something that we know exists in nature in a manageable form (namely humans), so it does not seem implausible that we might create it.
Not Firefox and Chrome extensions though, only a much more limited selection
YES! One of the reasons I much prefer the netflix model of firing quickly and being able to get a headcount. You do have some slackers at google who are able to hang on for long periods of time because their manager knows the project they're in charge of isn't a priority anymore, so the backfill will go to more exciting/new projects. So these managers will let people slack.

Most of the people I work with at Google work fairly hard in cloud (nothing crazy like I've heard about AWS) but you run into slackers on occasion.
Same as me, read my other comment
The company has the week off for Thanksgiving (well the majority of the staff did, before all of this), and wouldn't you think this is important to know?
That’s about 5 CDs per adult then.
We can't know for sure because we don't know the exact contracts.

Forbes has an overview, but the numbers mostly come from Spotify: https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisadellatto/2022/03/24/spoti...

You can look up cost of revenue (which is predominantly royalties) in their financials: https://investors.spotify.com/financials/default.aspx
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If you saw the Concorde fly for the first time in the late 1960s and all the plans fore more supersonic planes & travel, would you have thought that 50 years later there was none?
I would guess not, so why blinding follow him without knowing the information behind the boards decision!
So, manifest v3 is out there, and does allow some form of adblocking. are there any adblockers actually implemented with it, so i can see for myself what the adblocking performance is like?
Come back, zinc! Come back!
Also forgot the part where India and North/West African regions were incredibly wealthy in the past and were basically strip mined by colonialism. It's been only 50 years or so that they're trying to catch up.
I doubt lawmakers want x to be that tool.
I'm thankful for all my friends, family, various communities of which I'm a member, including you-all here, and the society that surrounds us. We're never going to reach our aspirational goals, but they give us all an agreed upon direction to travel.

I'm thankful or engineering and science, and all that flow from it, mostly for the good, but not all, of course. I'm thankful for the arts and humanities that help us all relate and take meaning from the world.

I've seen computing go from IMSAI boxes to magic slabs of glass that are phones, computers, and cameras, all in one, that can easily outperform the VAX 11/780 that I thought was almost magic back in 1981, and the Cray-I that was unobtanium back in the day. I'm thankful for those advances, and I hope I can help push computing even further in my own small way.

We're in the future, and it is amazing, despite all the flaws. I'm glad I've lived long enough to see the first tests, and the possibility of a new physics that will get humanity off this one precious world, and out into the stars.

---

Personally, on 7/7/7, my Gall Bladder declared war on my Pancreas, and thanks to modern medicine, I'm a man with no Gall, and still alive. I'm thankful for all the extra time I've been given here to spend with family, friends, and y'all.
Well, flatpack still doesn't address the non-gui app/utility part of the equation.
>why do archaeologists use CT scanners to painstakingly read fragile rolled-up scrolls from thousands of years ago?

I was under the impression that we haven't read a lot of old scrolls, tablets, etc. because it costs money and most of them are uninteresting. A lot of clay tablets just document financial transactions iirc.

I imagine the first human to be "revived" from a frozen brain would be quite a feat. 100000th? Not so much. Would the future archelogist still care about that?

I think I'd like to have my brain frozen -ideally after a long and fulfilling life- just for the heck of it but the chances of a future civilization with the means and the will to resusciate a large quantity of random damaged brains from the past is low.
https://archive.ph/rTIDU
Great project! I admire the effort. However I am not sure if there is a huge market for this.
There are many free open source options for this. Why would anyone wants to pay?
Flash and Shockwave
Used to do this in .NET for personal projects then got pulled into various dotnet projects that had their own approaches. But it was really nice. What I had hoped to eventually achieve is being able to hotswap the library somehow so I can have a server with zero downtime for updates, but never found the time to do so. I would assume I would do it via a microservice type of architecture instead.
People really enjoy pointing you towards the suggestion box, as if it is above all coercion, corruption and malfeasance.
You tend to hear mostly about research into repairing nerves damaged due to injury. It seems to me that a broken neck would be a harder thing to fix than neurons impaired by infection.

It seems likely to me that if you can identify the nutrients depleted by the infection and also actually clear the infection from the body, this should be relatively easy to repair compared to something like a broken neck.

I did a quick search ("are there any organizations working specifically on polio paralysis" on Bing) and most hits are about the news currently under discussion, not about research into treating the paralysis. I did find this page on The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation site:

https://www.christopherreeve.org/todays-care/living-with-par...

They indicate there are a lot of studies on Post Polio Syndrome, which is not per se research into treating paralysis. Some stats from the page:

Over 12 million people, worldwide have been affected by polio as indicated by the CDC.

There is no central system for reporting post-polio syndrome, but it is estimated that 300,000 individuals are survivors of polio in the United States and have mild to severe symptoms.

Of the 300,000 survivors of polio, it is estimated that of one fourth to one half may develop some form of post-polio symptoms.
That's really wise. Thanks for compiling.
In part it is because git is hard to use, in part it is because mostly people learn git by oral tradition and often treat it like sorcery.
Why does protection from AGI require something extraordinary? Secure your system and it doesn’t matter if you’re being attacked by AI or script kiddies.
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I just unplug my keyboard when I want to clean it.
There is an interesting side argument started by Penrose....

Now this is a summation and I no way can replicate Penrose skills in essays...

Basically, we cannot have real AI due to real Intelligence being confined if you
will the quantum uniqueness of cell signaling. Quantum in the form of whatever the water in cell is doing in a very specific cell structure that all cells and all neurons have.

Now at this point is just a theory and of course he does have some counter theories to this as well...in fact if you do deep reading of Penrose and his IU counter you will realize that both their arguments are not counters to each other but actual companions to very long and complicated weave of AI debate.
I've read the docs. Too much explanation of command line flags, not enough practical examples. It is thorough though.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vacci...

The taliban started attacking polio vaccine workers and the UN suspended operations. Polio exists in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria
And since philanthropic approaches to such aspirations demonstrably do not work, we need extremely high taxes on the ultra wealthy.

Before the six-seven digit earning engineers here lambast me, I'm talking billionaires.

No one intelligent can/has yet looked me in the eye and told me earnestly: anyone with a billion + $ would have a single degree lower quality of life if their wealth was capped at 999 million

If you want empirics google "highest marginal tax rate 1950- present" and "infrastructure spending 1950- present".
> the issue seems to be that there are a lot of people who feel otherwise

They're self-serving. It's virtue signaling and doom-pandering for their own attention and benefit.

It's the same reason the online ad industry loves the infamous quote about how their generation's best and brightest are wasting their time building ad systems and trying to figure out how to drive higher click rates. It's not true (the best and brightest are not working in advertising), it just makes them feel better so they are ok with the quote and propagate it.

A variation of Von Neumann's premise about confessing a sin so as to take credit for it is applicable here. The AGI-is-near camp is intentionally being dramatic, they want attention, and it's wholly self-serving. The louder they are the more attention they get, that has long since been figured out.
The CIA operation was definitely a setback for polio eradication and doubtless caused other harms to public health, but the article this thread is about discusses numerous challenges to eradication so I suspect even without the CIA campaign, we’d still be a ways away from eradication.
> Even the "crap" back then had professional songwriters and musicians playing actual instruments

Ah, you mean the same four chords in succession: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I
> Ordinary banks are not sued for absolutely the same thing, which probably occurs to much bigger extent in major banks which pass many times more transactions than Binance

No? https://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2013/investing-n...

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/jpmorgan-chase-co-agrees-pay-...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico...
I was working on something like this by myself, but ADHD deleted all my motivation. I'll definitely want to try this soon, especially if it's free!

I hope it supports my (3060) GPU, though.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

uBO Lite (uBOL) is a permission-less MV3-based content blocker.
> don't understand why anybody would run a "less-good" version locally

Privacy.

If you use llm's on private documents you don't want others to see, you'll likely prefer local models strongly.
Fair enough. I guess some other things, e.g., an initial defensive reaction such as usage restrictions could come quite fast.
The roofshot manifesto was great, I wish they would publish it
Fatigue is why we use steel for everything, no other alloys have the practical strength and infinite life.
I would tend to agree, but wonder if they'll be able to have this honest introspection. Also, did they know about Q* and it's implications beforehand, my guess is most staff did not.
AdGuard is pretty good. but it's not free, and the browser extensions are.
Exactly which use-case did you find "better" on the M3, because I am genuinely biased to believe only information appliance users are enjoying the ecosystem.

i.e. functionally equivalent to a phone or iPad, and shouldn't cost like a high-end laptop given it is functionally a Chromebook.
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There's a lot of concern about instrumental convergence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence). It's the idea that an AI that isn't rogue or evil might still kill us. It could kill us by just doing exactly what we asked it to, even if what we asked seemed innocuous.
An efficient market is characterized by a perfect, complete, costless, and instant transmission of information...

You have conflated your incentive (a cure) with people who make and sell treatments (maximize profits).

As long as there are Pharma companies, there is incentive to make slightly better treatments. That is same effect lower production cost, or same cost and better effect.

It kind of sad that treatements have gone from prescription to subscription.
But only as long as the patent lasts. You usually can't sell a better cure if the original already cures. A treatment on the other hand leaves room for "improvement".
I didn't realise llama.c was from him too.

https://github.com/karpathy/llama2.c
Timelapse: Homebrew installable macOS screen recorder
I haven't run into dependency hell in 15 years of using deb on Ubuntu.
His book "The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines" was immensely valuable to me as I moved into datacenter management as a new-grad. RIP.

https://research.google/pubs/pub41606/
I actually heard the opposite, that AI will make it trivial to defeat a terrorist movement, and trivial to filter out dangerous untrue propaganda. I would characterize that as utopia, and highly compatible with the orderly functioning of society.
No one’s going to jail?

Zhao’s worth 10bn and is asked to pay 150m?

Binance pays 10bn while it is still worth 36bn?

I am shocked. This clearly sends the message that if you make money fast enough, you’ll get away with anything…
How can you stop that? An intelligent AI will send emails, create companies, hire people, and literally anything else you can do digitally in order to create means by which it can manifest itself into meatspace.
I can't agree with this unfortunately. While getting rich further lowers the fertility rate then there is a certain threshold that must be first exceeded to get rich (relatively speaking of course).

There must be a feedback loop that incentivizes to get better education, to get better productivity to get richer. Raising a child is expensive, raising a highly educated child is very expensive. If you have 8 children then you can barely feed them unless you are very rich indeed. Even if you manage to provide good education for few of your children then the larger part of them continues the poverty loop. Breaking out of poverty requires breaking of this loop.

It should be very obvious - if your economy grows 5% but your population grows 10% then everybody is getting poorer as the growth per capita is negative. The same applies for everything, education, sanitation, food production. If you capacity to provide any of them is lower than the population growth then the amount of the poor continues to increase.
We really have replaced “oh no, you put too much knowledge into a LISP program and it’s sentient!” with “oh no, you’ve stacked too many transformers and now it’s sentient!”
In Linux' defense - I switched to Linux in a large part because I was interested in the inner workings and wanted to tweak them, and Windows isn't nearly as friendly to that.

So I do run into problems with Linux, but a very large percent of them are due to me doing really weird things with my computer.
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EasyList has become bloated with many rules being outdated or invalid. It's a system where rules are added at a much faster rate than they're removed. It's not like there's test suites or anything to shake loose old rules, so it only ever grows.

Checking 150K rules once wouldn't be a problem, but if you have to do that for 50 network requests on every single page load, that adds up. So the hope, as I understand it, is to set a ceiling to encourage developers to keep more up-to-date lists by pruning old and outdated rules. This prevents a situation where browser performance slowly degrades.

I'd like to see a system where users opt-in to allow ad blockers to collect metrics on which rules are actually applying, and have them occasionally trim anything under 0.01% usage. Which sounds like a small number, but should capture the majority of dead or unused rules. Of course, that would require a new browser API in a declarative system.
Have they improved the sound quality on Ng's course? I must be sensitive to these things, because I couldn't bear to listen to it when I tried a few years ago.
I didn't claim that it's a problem, just making your life slightly harder and needing to enumerate all enum cases in e.g. serde_json.
Taylor Swift website in November 2002
Sure, there's uBlock Origin Lite
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home
What is Q*? And when we will hear more?