skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well said. AGI is already here, because intelligence & generality exist on a spectrum, not a checkbox. Evaluating AGI's presence isn't "yes/no?", but "how much?"

LLMs have an astonishingly general set of emergent skills, which they can combine to solve novel problems (intelligence). LLMs smoke humans in many broad intellectual domains, are competitive in others, and fail abysmally in some. Folks try skirting this messy reality, squaring the circle, by conflating AGI with ASI or some techno-godhood outcome. We should evaluate AGI the same way we evaluate human general intelligence, which also manifests with dizzying variety.

This is what the "statistical parrot" (i.e: 'No True Scotsman') critics miss. Their handwavy statements about LLMs not "really" understanding the world, "only" doing simple token prediction, having no autonomy/drive, etc. miss the point: it doesn't matter. The damn thing communicating with you (on HN or elsewhere!) may display broad intelligence. I think that's why Turing's test requires a text interface -- people can't help themselves from judging agents by silly anthropomorphic heuristics (appearance, similarity to me, spacial behaviors, etc). So you must literally wall off those biases.

AGI is here. It just looks inhuman and our GI is "better", for now.
They adopt manifest v3 in addition to their current APIs. I.e adblockers on Firefox are going nowhere.
Microsoft, who were paid to give up on it. But they won't tell you that.
This guy basically changed darktable from a shitty Lightroom clone to something truly unique very recently, and his approach is highly divisive among the users.
This is silly, at least to a neuroscientist. Yes, let’s assume that the physicalist or naturalist interpretation of our sense of self and its content are entirely held within our cranium. And furthermore assume that a reboot is possible—as from deep sleep or anesthesia. This leave the open question if what resolution is required to take a snapshot of the embeddings? I don’t think mist neuroscientists would be satisfied with just a perfect synaptic-level connectome. One would almost certainly need to know the the deeper state of each presynaptic and postsynaptic junction. The postsynaptic molecular complex is an assembly of over 500 protein species embedded in and below the plasma membrane. And many of these molecules are labeled by their phosphorylation states in functionally very important ways.

The resolution required to obtain a functional read-out is almost certainly at the atomic level. We are beginning to get close to this level with cryo-electron tomography, but it will take an atomic resolution version of magnetic resonance imaging to achieve the throughput one would need. The dataset would probably be measured in exabytes.

In comparison, a superAGI might be able to run a damn fine simulation of you or me if given 25 years of sensory input and all behavioral output. But to what purpose other than some ill-defined vanity.

Try a mouse or rat first before soliciting VC funds. Has the Human Brain Initiative even managed to nail one 500 mg mouse brain? Not even close!
They're related, but I've had 'explosions' that were NOT part of the near-sleep experience, so they're not purely a part of hypnagogic jerk.
So it all boils down to the sole franchise of the vote as the only way to bring societal change.

That's not something that the information age is going to afford, and I thought that - pause given by threads like this notwithstanding - the foundations of hacking and cyperspace independence were meant as a surface on which to build something better.

I don't think that the world's poor and disenfranchised can afford to wait around for generation after generation while we try to figure out how to inspire change in international finance by using only the debilitated and purely symbolic tactic of voting.

> In a democracy, those limitless powers are limited by voters

I just want to point out that, empirically speaking - if you hold the US and Europe states to be democratic institutions - this is observably false. Voting has not achieved limitations unto halting empire, predation, and extraction.
Having v3 is good, but only having v3 is bad. Is Firefox removing v2 support?
No, I don't think that I provided a counter argument but rather a supplementary one. Population growth rate is a huge problem that hinders capacity to provide enough aid.

Russia certainly used the risk of hunger as a weapon to increase political pressure on Ukraine on the international level. Fortunately that attempt didn't play out and Russia was instead pressurized to make concessions. But they stopped the agreement the same moment they thought that it is not beneficial for them anymore. But this is just a side topic and was given as an example how the African incapacity to keep up with the population growth has wider geopolitical implications.
This article is not about Bluetooth in general, it is a deep dive into the bugs buried within the Android Bluetooth stack.

And what the writer is not acknowledging at all is that the underlying hardware being used is highly variable. Android runs on top of numerous Bluetooth chipsets. So when he gets a patch to seem to work on his hardware, there is no saying that it will work for a different Android phone.

Furthermore, this all depends on what else the device is up to at the current moment. If you have shared BT+Wifi chipset and you are streaming a video over wifi, then streaming the audio to your headphones, the device is having to allocate resources based on wifi usage and BT. So playing audio stored locally and audio via a stream is not necessarily going to get the same CODEC parameters.

There is so much nuance to this subject that the author just hasn't considered. Please be careful what you read.
No, I’m not. Nor am I in any of the other high paying states you might name.
this seems to be the same psychoacoustic effect as after some sudden tinnitus onset with partial hearing loss. the loss of certain high frequencies acts like the successful wave cancellation, the high tinnitus replacing certain frequencies acts like the feedback squealing. it also feels like in an airplane or elevator. if low frequencies are affected, the relative to common experience too loud high frequencies feel like hissing. both are extremely unpleasant.
>I am surprised by how dismissive the whole post sounds.

I wouldn't be surprised, it's Gary Marcus. He's an academic with a lot of prestige to lose if the LLM approach is actually good/useful/insightful, who's only widely publicly known now because AI has had a backlash and media needed an expert to quote for "the other side". Same as the computational linguistics researchers who always get quoted for the same reason.

In general, academics in competing fields whose funding threatens to get tanked or eclipsed by research approaches that work on principles they have fundamental academic disagreements with are going to talk negatively about the tech, no matter what it is achieving. Where I think it can be valuable to listen to them is when they're giving the technology credit - generally they'll only do that when it's something really undeniable or potentially concerning.
GP was describing acquiring power, which is completely orthogonal to being aligned with our values. (Indeed, power-seeking is usually deemed to be a bad thing.)

There are certainly ecological and mimetic niches where pro-social behaviors will improve fitness. But it’s also certain that anti-social (defect/dominate/parasite) behaviors will improve fitness in many niches.
Isn't it most trivial apps do these days? I wanted to install something recently and was appalled how omnipresent this pattern is. What Apple should do was to implement an obligatory attribute "needs subscription in order to operate" just like it has "Contains in-app purchases" currently. I could then avoid all this trash like a plague.
> Then US government is one of the most racist government on the planet. ... For example getting a green card for Indian people.

As an American it is basically impossible for me to immigrate to India and establish citizenship without my parents being Indian and knowing an official language fluently or by "investing" approximately $2 million USD and hiring at least 20 people to work for me.
Watching one ad and then clearing cookies seems to work for me. (shrug)
I just wish I could convince Google that I will never buy certain products that they force feed me ads on continuously. No, I will never buy a Chromebook, so please stop putting that ad everywhere. No, I am not going to switch to an Android phone either.
and that's how they get you :-)

Remember folks... when running away from a bear you don't have to outrun everyone, just the slowest person

And similarly, to get people or organizations to pay, you just have to make it much more expensive for them at every moment to hack or fork your service than just pay you. It gets harder the bigger the organization is, but works like a charm on the long tail!

If you've got an open source platform, it's a major consideration because a competitor can just fork your service and start offering it. So you have to have enough of a network effect and lock-in (e.g. ethereum nodes only taking ethereum gas as payment) that the fork is not as accepted for years, despite being faster and better (e.g. polygon). You can centralize trust (Amazon), Liquidity (exchanges) and ease-of-use through vertical integration (Apple).
One endgame is ad-blockers just blank the video and mute the sound in an undetectable way. Given the negative spiral that modern Internet usage often is, a moment of quiet to breathe and maybe break the cycle I would welcome.
I've only had one math prof be able to articulate Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem for me in a way that I could really understand (on a superficial level of course).

She was such a great math prof. Weird how one person can make you love a subject even after years of not so great teachers.
Cars are unreasonably useful, though. If you're going anywhere to work / school / moving house / going on holiday / dropping kids at a friend's house, they work for a million uses.

That's why I don't think they compare well: many people who use public transport, even the Tube or similar, still need a car, at least sometimes. So it's not an alternative, and it's not equivalent value.
YouTube isn't paying for server costs with the $0 they make on ad reads that go from the sponsor directly to the creator.

You can just tap right on your keyboard a few times to get past those anyway.
It does not. I do not care how the copy feels as I will still be dead. Even if the copy gets to live out life exactly how I would have, as if I really had just moved, I still died.

I left a comment elsewhere in the thread about the teleporter that deconstructs you and then reconstructs you somewhere else. That's what this would be like.
UBlock can't fly under the radar, but maybe this can for a while.
And I take great pleasure to manually shift to invidious instances just out of spite.
I recall visiting websites before Google was even made. In any case, the internet does not only exist within Google’s search index.

For example, I can post a URL in this comment, and you would be able to visit it, even if Google did not keep it in its search index.

The only question is how much work do people want to do to spread knowledge of theirs or others’ website, and how much work do people want to do to find them.

And it is much easier these days than even pre Google, since there are very capable alternatives to Google (and ubiquitous broadband).
The frog on a dissection table approach to software development seems like it is probably a primary cause of incidents involving lost surgical tools in production.
Ask it to solve a moderately complex mathematical equation that you describe to it.

Ask it to solve a logical riddle that is only a minor variation with respect to items or words to existing issues (i.e. it's not something that is in its model).

It is unable to do either.

That's why it's not AGI.
I like how you call users dumb for choosing Apple and clever for wanting to sideload.

Or how else do you claim there is two sides here?

Pretending that Apple is protecting consumers is silly, they have repeatedly said internally the lock is for revenue alone. No claim of security protection has lasted past "wouldn't sideloaded apps be sandboxed the same as App Store apps and thus have the same security overall"? (Apple failed to counter that point)
I’m with you. I get a lot of value out of YouTube, mostly consume though the TV app. I pay for YouTube premium.

What is really annoying is the mobile app. The mobile app is constantly pushing shorts on me, I have no interest, that’s not why I use YouTube and if I only used the mobile app I don’t think I’d pay and instead use YouTube less. The mobile app Home Screen is junk content for me now where as the TV app brings relevant longer content…although they are sneaking in one or two shorts.
Ask HN: What hardware – phone/lap/desktop/tablet– is your main way to access HN?
I always use my laptop, never phone or tablet. Am I in the minority/majority?
Nothing gets my blood boiling like a Steam/App Store game listing that only has these "in-engine but not the actual gameplay" screenshots. If it's a FPS, show me the screen with the gun and the crosshairs. Show me the HUD in a driving game, the position of the camera in a 3rd person RPG. I don't care how some random NPC or a building looks from a position I'll never get the camera to when playing the game.
One example that comes to mind is Kagi.

They makes it a design point that Kagi should work even without javascript enabled.
I don't think it's fake, but it's just a "language" model.

This could be tremendously helpful based on the combined text & data it is trained on, and who knows, it might contribute to a 10X or more performance for more than just a small percentage of a scientist's needs.

I would think it depends on the type of scientist quite a bit.
Titanium is not good for flavor, its good for strength to weight ratio for people concerned with weight (think EDC, ultralight, etc)
It’s funny now, but OKRs as originally conceived were the simple, “just set a simple goal and work on it” lightweight thing, standing in opposition to the old way of corporate planning. I used to have goals like “try X and write a paper about it”.

Of course every process becomes perverted into waterfall eventually.
Good point. I'm thinking of the Q from reinforcement learning, but as you say, this Q is probably different.
In fact, everyone should instead band together to finance development of more maximally open hardware for laptops and phones and tablets.
Deinotherium Giganteums almost remind me of what you’d get if you cross-bred an elephant with a friendly anteater. New spirit animal https://images.app.goo.gl/Nm4eUQzax1LuGi5M6
I am not generally a fan of Xcode Cloud's design, but this is one thing I think it gets very right. Rather than let you specify the build actions in the CI settings, it invokes scripts with fixed names in the `ci_scripts` directory of your repo if they exist. There just isn't a mechanism for creating jobs which aren't something that you can build locally and test independently of Xcode Cloud.
Why don’t people just not use YouTube if they don’t like the ads? Simple.

Peertube is there for those folks. People keep whining about the monopoly but won’t go to another service to help grow it.

People also whine about sponsor ads, as if you have to watch those videos or those channels. Don’t consume their content if you don’t like it.

At the end of the day, if you don’t want to be tracked, hate ads and hate Google the solution is simple: stop using YouTube.

The anti Facebook people understand this, which is why we don’t see incessant posts about facebooks anti-Adblock on HN. The kind of people on HN who hate Facebook probably just don’t visit the site at all. Same with Reddit vs mastodon. Twitter vs threads. Quora vs ChatGPT.

Anti YouTubers seem unique in their constant whining yet reluctance to stop using what they hate.
> We currently are de facto breeding antibiotic resistant infections

For my understanding, if no one else's: are there a lot of places without decent water, but with antibiotics? What's causing that strange inconsistency?
I mean, isn’t this is basically a reason not to do any sort of prevention for most things?
You could say that about any trial. What we know is that a jury acquitted him. If you think you have more or better information than them, you can believe anything you want. But we are far from any public sentence or acquittal regarding the origins of covid, so people have even less right to form such strong opinions in this case.
Ask HN: Is there a non smart 4K TV?
I had no idea, ublock is still doing a decent job... But I get those prompts on Waze when stopped at red lights and it's super annoying!
I bought my current car only because I was able to block the car maker being stupid and force me to watch their ads on Youtube. I didn't use ad-blocker before but interruptive video ads were the last straw for me.
Same. I figure that since I watch this much YouTube, it’s probably worth paying for. At the moment, the rev share seems to be _okay_ compared to other creator platforms, so I take that bit of solace as well.
I believe flatpak provides all of those advantages too
The Linux kernel development process is indeed broken. Fixing that would reduce the discrepancy between the rate of new bugs and the rate of fixes. This needs to be done, C is not going away any time soon. But while we are writing C we will be creating new bugs faster than we can fix them. We will never get 100% fuzzing coverage. Nor can sanitizers catch every bug.

As you suggested though, static analysis has lots of scope for solutions. The best static analyzer around is a little thing called rustc :)
probably more effective than trusting ublock is to find an obscure method. ublock is too much of an easy target for google. on the flipside, something obscure is possibly harder to trust
TIL lib.rs exists :D

I think it fits the bill. I was doing this on python side and aimed to use Pydantic and this looks close enough.
Pihole is only intercepting DNS resolve requests. Those only resolve the domain itself. If they don't use a different domain to serve ads, then it can't be blocked that way.
>or some other loophole to get around it. (or if it's individual wealth, then they'll use trusts or some of the many other options available to them

Completely agree, it will always be a cat and mouse game. But it's a worthy aspiration, and I'd argue the reason the wealthy have been the cat more than the mouse in the relationship with the state is due only to the budget disparity between them.

Start to shrink the disparity between the enforcement budget (think IRS special forces for the ultra wealthy) and the "avoid taxes" budget and the aspiration looks a lot more doable.

>owner of the 999m will stop investing

Maybe. Or maybe they'll get better and spending rather than hoarding and continuously need to replenish that stock.

Even if these "winners" of a more 'social capitalism' stopped gracing us with their genius, the surplus of wealth in endeavors like free stem schooling for everyone (that wants it) would surely make up for that loss??
Yes. But most music purchases were probably people from about their late teens through about their 30s. So the relevant adult population is probably quite a bit smaller.

Point is you’re looking at on the order of $100 per year plus or minus.
Why not, I'll make a pitch for Brave here too. We have the only EasyList-compatible adblocker that isn't based on an extension platform.

Yes, there is in-browser private advertising with user revenue share, but all of it can be disabled too if you prefer.
> Python doesn't work well with file names in principle: it wants everything to be Unicode. That works for many, but if you want reliable code... you just have to throw all of that away.

Windows' APIs use UTF-16 and most file name encodings on Linux are UTF-8. How should Python handle this better?

> Also, in case of pathlib, it adds no value on top of os.path of which it is a wrapper.

Completely disagree. os.path is annoying to use. Treating paths as objects with methods and joining them with / makes my life much easier.

> increasing the size and memory footprint of "standard" library

By a ridiculous amount. pathlib is just another pure Python module with a bunch of simple functions and classes. [1]

> complicating dispatch and therefore debugging

You can simply declare and accept `Union[str, os.PathLike]` and convert the paths to whatever you want at the entrypoints, then use that in your own project. Where is the complexity? I've never seen this make debugging harder, it's just an additional type.

[1] https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/d9fc15222e96942e30ea8...
I can see it now - YouTube puts a quick yes/no question after the ad to confirm comprehension. :)

Relevant green text: https://i.imgur.com/dgGvgKF.png
I wouldn't immediately call creating synthetic data 'poisoning the well' unless it is actually distributed as such. For training models with a minimal amount of quality data, it is a viable method for generating more data to increase the quality of the models. But any legit organization will obviously label synthetic data as such.
How would anyone know that? Is anyone checking on them? There’s been plenty of instances of companies breaking their own, even legally binding, word
Yes, skepticism is healthy and useful, but this sounds more like intellectual dishonesty.
Looked at android recently? It’s far far worse. Also “has ads” isn’t a synonym for “malware”.
That's bad then: nominal interest rate should be greater than the perceived inflation rate. What does this interest rate hike achieve then? I think, it creates more inflation, instead of curbing inflation.
That actually would be pretty nice. It would also help break the mindless loop of going from video to video.
They'll force you to have your webcam and mic available to watch YouTube.
Netflix definitely has some "placed" products in some movies.
I just want to plug my chromecast or my Apple TV. No need for apps or updates. And please no WiFi.
I wasn’t familiar with the term calipers outside of the measuring tool. For anyone else wondering, it refers to the leg braces used by those who have polio induced nerve damage and subsequent muscle weakness (poliomyelitis).
it is not my duty to have jayz make another 100 million
There are some really rich musicians and music industry people.

What are you advocating for ? More expensive streaming subscription will mostly go music labels and top musicians who are multi millionaires some hundreds of millions
Taking the money from parents of school kids and average 9-5 people