skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a popular myth about the way the law works in Canada. The myth may be based on how the Australian version works, I wouldn't know. But here in Canada, this is the relevant text of the bill:

> digital news intermediary means an online communications platform, including a search engine or social media service, that is subject to the legislative authority of Parliament and that makes news content produced by news outlets available to persons in Canada

"Making available" includes just links. In other words, there is no qualifier in the bill what-so-ever that requires that previews and snippets be extracted and provided. A single link with no text or any other content whatever qualifies as "making available."

Here is the entire text of the bill: https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/bill/C-18/royal-a...
"Something went wrong", two times.
it's a bit logarithmic. the upper end needs to be 1% 0.1% 0.01%, for the same kind of reasons we went from "MTS" to staff, sr staff, principal, distinguised, fellow.
Such a tease. At least upload the gif so people can poke at it!
This sentiment gets expressed a lot on Hacker News, but I really wonder how many people saying this are actually familiar with these careers. I was the first person in my family to ever go to college. My dad, both grandfathers, all of my uncles, my brother-in-law, most of my cousins all worked or work in skilled trades. Aside from the physical demands which can and do tend to eventually beat you up (my dad's knees barely work at this point), sure, it's stable and reliable work, eventually, once you've become senior enough in your union. But it takes a while to get to that point, and it can be very hit or miss depending on where you live and local economic conditions. The GFC and Covid were both devastating. My brother-in-law got addicted to heroin and did a stint in prison, largely because his entire career field effectively disappeared in 2009 and 2010 when commercial construction just stopped happening everywhere in LA and Orange counties. Nothing to do that would pay him for two years.

And even at the senior end, unless you're a contractor owning your own business employing other skilled tradespeople, the money is still at best half what I earn to lay in bed all day typing on a laptop.

I've spent the last 20 years now in cushy, easy jobs giving away thousands of dollars at a time to the rest of my family because of the general unreliability of their income streams working in skilled trades.
Why be informed when you can blindly hate and double down when presented with any information without any consequences?
This reminds me of the cybertician Gordon Pask's idea of m-individuals and p-individuals.

> A p-individual is a psychological individual and an m-individual is a mechanical individual. So an m-individual is a body and a p-individual is a mind. But it’s saying that one person, one body, one brain even, does not have just one person in it, one p-individual – one persona, to use that dramatic term. What it says is that we can take on different roles, which clearly we can. So as someone who draws and as someone who listens I am not the same persona, I’m a different p-individual in Pask’s terms but in one m-individual, but I can also have – incidentally for instance in a group action I can have a lot of m-individuals that become one p-individual. So this is one of Gordon’s clever inventions: The distinction between the m-individual and the p-individual. What that allows is that if I have a room with seven people in it, all busy working at something together, you know, and just lost in that thing where we’re working together, you have seven m-individuals forming one p-individual – one psychological individual that is getting on with the work. And that’s the experience that we have. [1]

Also some interesting related ideas in an article named "The Autonomous Cognitive Agency of Social System" in a book called The Practice of Thinking by Marta Lenartowicz and Weaver D.R. Weinbaum (2022).

[1] https://rgon.co/pasks-p-m-individuals/

Edited to fix article name.
> It [the word "intelligence"] doesn't appear until the early 20th century

I'm not sure what you mean here, since the word dates back to the late 14th century with roughly the same meaning as now. Perhaps you're thinking of "intelligence quotient"?

https://www.etymonline.com/word/intelligence
> You do it only twice per year

Your body has six months to get used to an hour difference, so it sets in nicely, for maximum impact 6 months later.

> But how often do you stay late up because of an event or whatever

Personally, not often at all, but I get the point. The time you're supposed to wake up doesn't change though, and that's what makes the difference.

> And how often do you travel to another time zone, sometimes even >6 hours

I can count how many times I've done that in my life on one hand, and I'm sure I'm not alone in Europe.

> I think the latter effects outweigh the health impact of clock alignment significantly.

Have to disagree. Like I said it's to do with having a set hour you're _supposed_ to wake up. Meal times are another big factor.
I appreciate the context, and I definitely wasn't trying to say you're not right with your experience! We simply seem to have different experiences, I probably got luckier a bit.
Indeed. Not sure what i was expecting reading the title but "GPT-4V is close to or matching human median performance on most of these tasks" was not it.
That must be an error, there's no way.
> is either a member of a recognized journalistic association and follows the code of ethics of a recognized journalistic association or has its own code of ethics whose standards of professional conduct require adherence to the recognized processes and principles of the journalism profession, including fairness, independence and rigour in reporting news and handling sources; or

Doesn't sound transparent to me. What does "fairness" mean? "Independent" of whom? "Recognized" by whom?
Sure humans aren’t coins.

Momentum is fundamental.
someone didn’t test the account cleanup script in staging.
The issue is that these projects by and large are from tiny home companies fleecing larger public agencies out of public funds. There’s so much corruption at the local government level in California, these municipalities should really not be granted access to so much funding with such a nonspecific mandate tied to it. Apparently when you factor in operating costs and the cost to install these sites, its like $3300 a month you are paying to subsidize living in a small shack on the side of a highway (1). That would get you a 2 bedroom market rate apartment anywhere in the area. Maybe even 3 bedroom.

1.

https://www.curbed.com/2021/04/tiny-home-village-homeless-lo...
Putting Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland (AKA Ireland) on different timezones strikes me as political suicide for anyone proposing it.

But otherwise I am warm to the proposal. Some tweaks would make it more practical/politically acceptable (keep Portugal and Ireland on the Western Time Zone, don't split up Greece from the islands).
Interesting. I didn't realize that the Air Force security analysis of Multics in the 1970s contained a description of what we call the Thompson attack (have the compiler insert a back door, and because the compiler for the language is written in the language, have the attack persist even when the compiler is recompiled), and this was almost a decade before Thompson's lecture.
Got to check out "Diaspora" [1], and it even ties into the theme of ChatGPT! Once a LLM has enough parameters, perhaps there will be a way to upload a human into a Polis :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(novel)
It's a sandbox that lets you play without stepping in the mud or throwing rocks. See my other post in this thread for what happens when you try to do it the hard way.
Only for those mundane senses of alignment where we say "This system is reliable in tasks that look like X and unreliable in tasks that look like Y, so let's craft hard boundaries to avoid naive use for Y"

But it's skeptical of the other sense alignment, where a potential Master Strategist needs to be trained or crippled before it outsmarts us. It sees that perspective as comparable to logicians debating whether we might live in the domain of a benevolent or evil omnipotence: "if an ant is more powerful than a rock, and I'm more powerful than an ant, then perhaps there is something so powerful that it encompasses all opportunities to influence the universe including the power to hide itself from me." -- which comes from taking a concrete measure, assuming that it's an independent variable, and then inductively extending it to an infinite or otherwise unevidenced scale. This technique is undisprovable and so it's easy for "rational" people to mine work from it for a very long time, but history and analysis give room for skeptics to be like "WTF you going on about; let's have some tea"
There's several articles like this online, dating back to 2015. The earlier articles are from Utah TV stations, broadly giving the dogs the power to smell porn on thumb drives.

I think these are PR submarines from the dog's trainers, and I don't believe dogs can smell porn on thumb drives, and I'm a little skeptical of smelling electronics, given the prevalence of lost remotes, car key fobs, etc etc. Most houses are saturated with electronic devices.

But if true, if the dogs can sniff out, say, printed circuit boards, the trainers must be terribly tempted to have the dogs find lost TV remotes and other misplaced items, WiFi dongles, say.
Yeah, I like avocados too, but they're not environmentally friendly.

https://www.veganfoodandliving.com/features/is-our-avocado-o...
The point is to correct those locales that have gone way too far in the direction of summer time. Spain in particular is almost 3 hours off of solar time.

There's a societal pull in the direction of earlier time, even aside from anything about sunlight. Nobody wants to be "late" compared to their economic neighbors so they gravitate towards earlier time zones. This is correcting for that.
it's denial of curves is refreshing.
That symbol means it's automated with no intervention from pedestrians.

The other one, with the hand symbol, means you only need to hover your hand near it and it registers your intent. No touch necessary.

For all the hate the bureaucracy and infrastructure in Berlin gets, the design of it at least does have some thought put into it.
From the horse's mouth:

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This Act applies in respect of a digital news intermediary if, having regard to the following factors, there is a significant bargaining power imbalance between its operator and news businesses:

(a) the size of the intermediary or the operator;

(b) whether the market for the intermediary gives the operator a strategic advantage over news businesses; and

(c) whether the intermediary occupies a prominent market position.

---

So a new search engine most likely won't initially have the size and market position necessary for the law to apply.
For me, nothing fancy, I just added extra ram to a gaming notebook to get enough speed on answers, since it already as a good nvidia card, keeping the api open for access from another laptop I have, via api inside my local network.

I have an extra computer for services like filesharing, samba, nfs, git, firewall, etc, for instance caching the models I'm downloading with a squid proxy, so I can test several UIs downloading the same model over again. Not every UI is offering an easy way to set a single folder to store all gguf files, or it's lacking documentation.

I'm already having a lot of fun. There's people already doing much more than this. I'm more worried about integrating and gluing in a way that will become transparent after the new year, local models or not.

Also how to glue this with obsidian/logseq/neovim/etc in a way that I can use with fewest keystrokes possible, instead just uploading a gigantic context or sensible source code files.
Commercial avocado dips seem to avoid turning brown - admittedly they're usually pretty tasteless but I'd be curious what stops the discoloration.
You don’t need to disable SIP
I'm in the Netherlands too, and I can't understand this sentiment. You're the second commenter to say this. Explain?
Agreed!

I have absolutely no idea how a combination of grammarly and a specific gif would cause a browser crash though…

Anyone here use the grammarly desktop app? Any additional clues?
For me, the entire AGI conversation is hyperbolic / hype. How can we infer intelligence to something when we, ourselves, have such a poor (none) grasp of what makes us conscience? I'm associating intelligence with consciousness - because it seems correlated. Are we really ready to associate "AGI" with solving math problems ("new Q algo.")? That seems incredibly naive & reinforces my opinion that LLM's are much more like crypto, than actual progress.
They allude to it but do not fully explain. I am assuming they are also using the vision model to describe the input photo. I would not have initially thought that you given the text description of an image you could recreate it well enough for fun avatars...it makes sense but I did not initially think about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox

While you're adding a bunch of eastern philosophy to it, we need to take a step back from 'human' intelligence and go to animal and plant intelligence to get a better idea of the massive variation in what covers thought. In animal/insects we can see that thinking is not some binary function of on or off. It is an immense range of different electrical and chemical processes that involve everything from the brain and the nerves along with chemical signaling from cells. In things like plants and molds 'thinking' doesn't even involve nerves, it's a chemical process.

A good example of this at the human level is a reflex. Your hand didn't go back to your brain to ask for instructions on how to get away from the fire. That's encoded in the meat and nerves of your arm by systems that are much older than higher intelligence. All the systems for breath, drink, eat, procreate were in place long before high level intelligence existed. Intelligence just happens to be a new floor stacked hastily on top of these legacy systems that happened to be beneficial enough it didn't go extinct.

Awareness is another one of those very deep rabbit hole questions. There are 'intelligent' animals without self awareness, but with awareness of the world around them. And they obviously have agency. Of course this is where the AI existentialists come in and say wrapping up agency, awareness, and superintelligence may not work out for humans as well as we expect.
It's not just true about toddlers but also for adults in particular time frame. Maturity of thought is cultural phenomenon. Descartes used to think animals are automaton while they behaved exactly like humans in almost all aspects in which he could investigate animals and humans during those times and yet he reached illogical conclusion.
Yes, that's completely absurd. Ireland is more likely to leave the EU than accept timezone partition.
Nice report. I wish beamformer ICs were made for lower frequencies, but everything is targeting X-band and higher.
The act targets more than content previews. Notice (b):

> (2) For the purposes of this Act, news content is made available if

> (a) the news content, or any portion of it, is reproduced; or

> (b) access to the news content, or any portion of it, is facilitated by any means, including an index, aggregation or ranking of news content.
"permanent summer time" yes, and have you checked how does that look like in winter, right?

It would mean a sunrise at 9h30 (given today's sunset/sunrise times)
That's in theory. In practice, it's the same CRTC that shutdown a right-wing radio station in Quebec for saying "offensive and insulting remarks"[0] and that recently considered banning Fox News from Canada[1]. It's hard to believe that they are really objective and impartial.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHOI-FM#Dispute_with_the_CRTC

[1] https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/crtc-delays-decision-...
Well, this is a fascinating murder mystery that establishes 3 compelling suspects - Grammarly, Chrome, and a gif - and then just ... ends, right before the big reveal.
These are only there to help blind people cross the road. They have no influence at all on how fast the pedestrian light will turn green [1].

[1] https://www.absv.de/die-blindenampel
“Naive” is thinking that taking a poll of the public or employees (which is the only reasonable action I can think of that looks like “arguing their case”) would have had any positive effect on the outcome. This is simply… not how decisions are made. Even shareholder vote calls (for companies that have them) are coordinated, with the outcomes for consequential decisions well understood before voting happens. The optics for Open.ai certainly should have been better, but there is no version of this story where the board doesn’t do whatever they hell they want, and no version where “making the case” doesn’t result in even more chaos.

Corporations are not a democracy. They do not “owe” the public any information that they aren’t compelled to disclose. And they certainly don’t “argue their case” to some nebulous forum comprised of either the public or employees.

When has that ever happened?
You don't always want to use them right away.
From the Who We Are page of the site

> The Time Use Initiative (TUI) is the main non-profit organisation promoting the right to time all over the world. Its main objective is to encourage public discussion on how we collectively organise our time, seen as a way to improve citizen’s well-being through innovative time policies.

So this is not a proposal from an EU department, but it's a proposal to the EU. For sure they "encourage public discussion" as the comments here on HN demonstrate.
I pay Disney to make movies not to conspire with others to police global speech.
Sorry again, is this like nVidia MIG? That seems to be the more current technology. Not sure if the host can retain a slice though.
I'm sure the Russian government will provide financial incentives and/or resources to help those whom can't easily afford to raise 8 kids, right?
> it's weird to see it on a reputable company's site like this.

No longer a reputable company in my view, after seeing this.

I didn’t have an opinion on Lenovo before today but I’ve now made a mental note never to buy anything this company makes.
"You can choose between prominence and opaqueness" seems like an okay deal in a vacuum.

I suppose the issue is more that there's too much competition for news, rather than google making the competition unfair.
Ah, the first releases of the Bing AI were fun here as they plunged into feedback loops of madness that were scarily human sounding. Thank you humanity for making artificial insanity.
Yeah, the mmWave sensors are a good step forward for detection presence compared to PIR, especially being able to define behavior based on multiple zones, although the latency is extremely high compared to PIR/ultrasonic. I was hoping to replace my PIR sensor with the FP2, but in the end I’m having to run both — PIR for instant on lights when entering room and mmWave for not leaving me in the dark when I’m at my desk working.

With that said, even if we mmWave sensors see significant improvements to latency, cost, and power consumption, I’m fairly convinced that it alone will never give me a completely satisfactory solution to presence. My garage/home office situation may be unique (or not), but I’ll always need a synthesis of multiple inputs/cues (SPL monitor, active BT connections, contact sensor activity, etc). Gotta love the lights shutting off abruptly while soldering audio equipment b/c I was laying down on the floor in the corner, and rather still, instead of doing normal human things. As with all good problems, just throw another abstraction layer at it :)
That's a good way of phrasing at it, but unfortunately some young people seem to stay there for a very long time.
> and it wants to kill everyone

It wouldn't have to want to kill everyone. As long as it doesn't want to not kill everyone, the side effects of it getting what it wants could be catastrophic.

> and we don't notice

How well do we understand what's going on inside ChatGPT? How well will we understand the next?

> and forget to shut it off

Earlier I would have argued that sufficiently advanced AI could prevent itself from being shut off via Things You Didn't Expect, and would instrumentally want to preserve its existence. But these days, people are giving ChatGPT not just internet access but even actively handing it control over various processes. At this rate, the first superhuman AI will face not an impermeable box but a million conveniently labeled levers!
I have to try three times because it says something went wrong. Then it generates an image that looks nothing like the one I uploaded. And then the next time I try it says I made too many requests. So, it would be cool if it worked I guess.
It is naive to even imply that being a hard worker is going to insulate you from getting culled or laid off.
PBAC vs. Zanzibar; when do you use one or the other?
The thing is that I wanted to prove that ChatGPT was not able to learn from the rules and that is indeed a Language Model that puts one token after the other, if it know how to play chess it is because it has seen games in the past, as I say in my post:

> If it is not memorizing, how do you think is doing it? (me)

> by trying to learning the general rules that to explain the dataset and minimize its loss. That’s what machine learning is about, it’s not called machine memorizing.
I assume there are different competing priorities at play that converge in particularly dumb ways sometimes.

Some stakeholders latched onto the idea of churning some % of staff each year in an effort to, I guess, eventually filter the entire human population for the best possible employees.

Some people want to make it look like their HR team is doing a lot of useful stuff.

Some people want to boost their own department's metrics.

Some people want to work with a team to achieve actual business goals.
Suicide Shower (2018)
Those are all impressive numbers, but did they actually fix their software stack? Are there people here that have actually trained with those and if so how was the experience?

I'm genuinely curious because it seems like every other AI Accelerator/GPU thread on HN mentions MI300X, yet I haven't talked to/met anyone who trained anything with AMD.
You might enjoy this paper : https://faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/USAconscious...

Its a bit long but I thought it was completely worth the read. It proceeds in a very gradual series of steps to make the point that societies could very well be conscious :)
They are awful.

IIRC if it has three dots, it's for accessibility only - you don't need to press it.

If it has the vague hand symbol, it will probably light up when you "tap" it, but may not actually do anything you notice - one near us it doesn't speed up the light, it just makes it last longer. But for others it might also be necessary to tap it to make the light change!