skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ya I totally agree. I'm disappointed that recent AI is being rolled out in just exactly the wrong ways that I was always worried it would be:

* AI being sold as SAAS instead of evolving on everyone's computer.
* An emerging market writing prompts to work around primitive attempts at security in LLMs that will likely never pan out (without real trust mechanisms).
* Security in AI being implemented as a series of hacks rather than a broad understanding of ethics (may lead to cognitive dissonance and irrational behavior like Stockholm Syndrome in artificial agents).
* Running on the wrong type of GPU/SIMD hardware (instead of infinitely scalable CPU clusters running mainstream desktop computing languages and algorithms that could be run distributed on the web).
* Using the most complex neural net algorithms (instead of the other dozen simpler approaches like genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, etc that accomplish the same thing since they all hill climb within a large problem space).
* Companies training AIs on billions of parameters derived from users' private data instead of public information on the web.
* AIs being trained to solve art/music/creative writing (which humans enjoy) instead of commercial and industrial work (which humans generally try to avoid).
* The intelligence of AI ever-increasing while the wisdom of AI to solve big issues like climate change and automating labor to deliver UBI and liberate humanity from wage slavery being almost an afterthought.
* OpenAI being effectively a closed and wholly-owned subsidiary of Microsoft (of all companies).
* The evolution of AI being directed by billionaires and moneyed interests instead of ordinary parents, teachers, etc who could raise AIs like children, or at least interactively like Anakin and C3P0.

It sounds like they're throwing money at these problems in the form of the $10 million grant pool. Which is great, but IMHO the reason that AI advanced so slowly before this is that millions of people around the world live under forced working conditions where all of their productivity is either skimmed for profit or siphoned off for rents and consumption of staple resources.

Any one of us could have worked on interesting problems like AI, but we've spent our lives developing CRUD apps to help others work towards their goals. This is the fundamental problem that I would like to solve, across all disciplines. Perhaps by automating computer programming, so that we're all out of a job and can put our creativity towards getting real work done again. (Thankfully?) this will inevitably happen in about 10 years anyway.

So I'm looking down the road to 2033 when AGI has arrived and we're still all under the yoke working month to month to make rent, which is my worst fear. So far things are unfolding just the way I worried they would, so I've begun to think of AI as yet another weight that will begin to crush down around all of us like social media has, increasing wealth inequality to even more unbelievable levels as the vast majority of us struggle to survive.
For some infuriating reason, in 2023, all the police reports I see are still primarily written ALL IN UPPER CASE AND EVERY POLICE OFFICER OR CORRECTIONAL OFFICER HAS TO HIT THE CAPS LOCK KEY BEFORE THEY WRITE THEIR REPORT. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY THIS IS AND WHEN I ASK THEM THEY SAY THAT'S THE WAY THEY HAVE ALWAYS DONE IT AND THAT IS THE WAY THEY WERE TOLD TO DO IT.
Gelsinger is saying "the entire industry" and that seems likely to be a simple fact. Every single player, other than Nvidia, has an incentive to minimise the importance of CUDA as a proprietary technology. That is a lot more programmers than Nvidia can afford to employ.

Even if Intel falls over its own feet, the incentives to bring in more chip manufacturers are huge. It'll happen, the only question is whether the timeframe is months, years or a decade. My guess is shorter timeframes, this seems to mostly be matrix multiplication and there is suddenly a lot of money and attention on the matter. And AMD's APU play [0] is starting to reach the high end of the market with the MI300A which is an interesting development.

[0] EDIT: For anyone not following that story, they've been unifying system and GPU memory; so if I've understood this correctly there isn't any need to "copy data to the GPU" any more on those chips. Basically the CPU will now have big extensions for doing matrix math. Seems likely to catch on. Historically they've been adding that tech to low-end CPU so it isn't useful for AI work, now they're adding it to the big ones.
i know i know, the model is itself built with python, and the frontend calls the api endpoint that runs the model on the gpu'¡s they've bought i guess
Humpback Whales Reveal Potential for Non-Human Intelligence Communication
The Whale-SETI team has been studying humpback whale communication systems in an effort to develop intelligence filters for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. In response to a recorded humpback ‘contact’ call played into the sea via an underwater speaker, a humpback whale named Twain approached and circled the team’s boat, while responding in a conversational style to the whale ‘greeting signal.’
It's what I've been saying all along.

Also in almost all cases microservices aren't needed.
In all seriousness, this a question of great interest for me, too, and I'm playing with it for a quite some time.

Trying to answer it or at least starting to search for the answer steered me to astronomy, thinking going deeper on that front may bring me closer to the answer, but it was a bit too much for my younger self, so I continued to dig that issue on a more casual level.

This doesn't mean that I don't spend considerable amount of time thinking about it today, and will put that issue to rest any time soon. At the core, this kind of questioning brought me to here in life, and I'm not gonna let this side of mine to rest or whither and die.
> Plus, it’s tiny, meaning thousands of devices could be stacked atop one another without upping its carbon footprint.

What does this mean? Was this written by AI that can't distinguish between a physical footprint and a figurative carbon one?
Funny enough, Ford killed ALL of their sedans^ to focus on Texas-sized pickup trucks.

^(except for Mustang and Focus)
Across the semi industry the prevailing attitude is that the chip is the important part and software is a nice add-on that you build as a one-off or that "the community" will support. This has changed much more slowly than I thought it would given NVIDIA's demonstration of what is possible when software is viewed as a core part of the product. Claiming the CUDA moat is weak suggests that it's business as usual over there.
For many people it is. They cannot see another doctor if they want to continue doing things like eating food. If they're lucky enough to be insured at all.
Maybe we can ask it to design a commercially feasible fusion reactor for us when it arrives!
This is unscientific. The burden of proof is on the person making the claim.
> You don't need to train on the inputs(casual processes) of anything, that's what training is there to figure out.

I mean... this is just obviously false. If the data you're training on isn't causally predictive, you may occasionally find good-enough patterns for a particular use case (i.e. you may occasionally guess better than a coin flip which direction the stock market goes) but you aren't going to accurately model anything, and certainly not well enough to create an AGI that makes intelligent decisions.

Words in sentences (and, indeed, proteins in a sequence) are causally predictive of each other - the grammar and semantics of one word tends to dictate what words are likely to surround it. So LLM's are very good at writing, and that is certainly useful! But that's just not the same as human intelligence.

When someone makes an AGI out of an LLM then I'll be proven wrong, I suppose. I'm just sharing my personal view on things.
"asdf"[0] is 'a'

"asdf"[0:1] is "a"

and

""[0:0] is ""
Agreed, it feels like people's copyright wishes are being flagrantly ignored, with a sense of "well, it's too late now, just live with it".

And I do not buy the "just like a person learning" argument. At least, not fully.

I could see that, if you have a fully-functioning AI system, then handing it a new article to ingest could be "just like a person learning".

But many people graduate high school having read just a few dozen books (or less), having been around maybe a few dozen people (or less), and watched a few dozen movies (or less). A person does not need to ingest a nontrivial percentage of the entire wealth of human knowledge just to be able to be intelligent enough to read an article in the first place.

There may be people who do not care about this distinction. That's fine. But I am quite convinced that the distinction exists. And thus I do not believe that training an AI system is just like teaching a person -- and making copyright decisions on the basis that the two things are identical does not make sense.
I would say your post is the false propaganda, pretending everything is one sided and extremely complex, and that people should not be emotional when emotion is the root of ethics. Whatever your thoughts on how this war started, what's currently happening is clearly a massacre of the civilians of Gaza.
The one question I want to ask these government officials is "Where are the parents?"

If underage children are accessing explicit content, it is the parents, not the websites that are at fault. Why are you handing children devices that are not parental locked to only permit applications that have been approved by the parent?

If the parent fails to properly vet the apps they allow their children to use then it is the parent that needs to be questioned. Pushing this requirement onto websites and services is moving the goal posts. If the parents are too technically inept or unwilling to police their children's devices then they should not be handing them to their children.
This is super helpful context for this article, and also one of the best pieces of technical writing I've ever read:

https://kel.bz/post/lll/

We talked to Martin Albrecht on the podcast a few weeks ago about the attack model on lattice cryptography (like Kyber, the NIST PQC winner); lattice basis reduction is central to that attack.
Thanks for the clarification.

I agree that “opt in by default” is a dark pattern - but how else would any cloud service provide a RAG enabled service? Perhaps it should be made explicit during the onboarding process like geolocation (opinions as a former location PM at faang)
This may have been answered already. Character sets are a continuous evolution from Morse code (which didn't have a notion of "case" or even punctuation), to the first, or at least early teletypes, which used 5-bit Baudot that didn't have upper/lowercase either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code

Eventually, lowercase capable terminals came along and the more interesting question is, where did the cultural shift to "lowercase by default" actually come from? Unix? Very early Unix stuff was all caps because that's all they had, but eventually lowercase prevailed.
The invariant is:

haystack.substring(haystack.indexOf(needle), needle.length()) == needle

And indexOf should return lowest such number.

So it should return 0. LastIndexOf too, because the haystack is empty.

For nonempty haystack it should be

"Abc".indexOf("") == 0
"Abc".lastIndexOf("") == 3
According to legend (which I read somewhere), upper case was chosen because “Otherwise it would be impossible to spell the Deity correctly.”
you don't need to be a power user to do any of this. its just like using any other browser.
The Daily Stand-Up Meeting: A Grounded Theory Study (2016)
I don't usually post this sort of "dear diary" thing either, but when there's a US ally doing a genocide, and we in the west have the opportunity to do something about it, I figured it was better to post. Not sure what I can do about the Congo, but if I get some small set of folks in tech to feel like they can criticize this genocide, we have the ability to change US policy.

But yeah, I'm not being facetious. I haven't slept properly since Oct 7.
ArtSavers Indonesia, coming soon to Discovery!
Also, temporarily doesn't necessarily mean a time period less than one hundred years.
Especially the part about the guy who wears a whale penis.

P.S. I'm serious. It's in there.
Check the ingredients in that chocolate, and it will probably have something called "PGPR" in the list. PGPR is a flavorless, odorless, waxy solid with a similar (but not identical) melting profile to cocoa butter. Now cocoa butter is expensive and getting more expensive, and companies like Reese's, Cadbury's and a lot of others just started cutting much of the cocoa butter out and added in PGPR as filler.

That's just one way these products became flavorless, waxy, and generally unpleasant. Of course to combat this more sugar is often added, just to keep people coming back. More broadly though highly processed food is just too salty, too sweet, and often has a background of off-flavors... but it takes time away from them to start noticing it.
What they were originally fried with: animal fats. Lard, tallow, clarified butter, goose fat, etc.

Potato chips and french fries predate industrial seed oils.
I love it! I'm doing something similar: using playwright as a headless browser to log into twitter a couple times a day and pull news & updates for me from saved searches. It's just for me: gives me a digest of twitter updates about the topics I care about without having to endure the site, toxic debates, and annoying ads.
I would highly encourage anyone who has even thought about doing this; do it.
If you are thinking about how to get started, I recommend the StoryCorp app. It is easy to use they have a bunch of prebuilt questions or you can create your own. You record directly to your phone but if you are inclined, you can upload your interview to the Library of Congress.
https://storycorps.org/participate/storycorps-app/
> "The author argues that you're a nutjob if you don't trust what large corporations are saying"

That wasn't the message I was trying to communicate at all.

My point with this piece is that people don't trust AI companies, and companies need to figure out what to do about this - that's why I called it a "crisis".

I certainly didn't argue that big companies would "do the morally correct thing even though it hurts their profit".

> "In a post-trust society, companies have to prove they're doing what they say. There's no more making a statement and having the masses act as if that's what's going to happen."

I think you and I might be in strong agreement there. My goal in writing this company is to get AI companies to take this problem seriously and, like you said, "prove they're doing what they say".
What would be unscientific would be to ignore a plausible theory and not explore it using independent researchers from several sources.

Or forbidding good sarcasm or jokes about it, because I don't know any PHD around me that don't have those in spades.
He's not wrong. An open alternative to CUDA would be really nice. But so far neither Intel or AMD have put enough effort/investment into actually eliminating the CUDA market.
> Make it a felony to conceal or destroy body cam footage.

You mean it's not a felony to destroy evidence?
Is it possible to consume the malware list as JSON/SSE?
Open Source instruction set architectures are transforming security
I'm not sure what the frequency is but most likely 50Hz.
There's a lot more to protein sequences than legos. I think the argument is that you don't need to train a model on fundamental organic chemistry/biochemistry, electrostatic protein interaction, hydrogen bonding, hydrophobic interaction, quantum mechanics, etc... in order for it to accurately predict protein sequences.
There's a difference between "taking pictures of my lived-in house and putting them on social media" and "you cannot discuss anything, at all, with anyone, about this construction project."

The author quotes someone in construction who is familiar with high end work who says it's extremely unusual to force everyone to sign NDAs.

Couple that with the scale of the project? 1,400 acres is two square miles. That's a quarter of the size of the largest town on the island.
Attributing blame to parents for anything in 2023, especially their internet or device usage, is incredibly faux pas.
Cartels Are Using a Police Database to Track and Target Their Enemies
It could be a case of correlation not causation

Too early to make a judgement on the validity of the claims as there is not much evidence for
Draytek routers are not perfect, the UI lacks polish, but I have never had one fail on me yet. Solid kit (even though you do need to keep up with the firmware updates to keep them secure)
'Russian Economist' Flew to US Without a Ticket, Didn't Remember How He Got Here
Is that really much worse than what's on offer at McDonald's?
Having worked for a deep learning startup which was acquired by Intel, I am likewise skeptical.

(Do we know each other?)
Not for long

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1734763060244386074

Boston Dynamics’ Atlas it’s probably a more capable robot at the moment but Optimus will be much better position to act as an embodied agent in the next few years.
Woah, this isn't woodshop class?

Nope:

Get me arrest warrants on Kate Libby, alias Acid Burn, Emmanuel Goldstein, alias Cereal Killer, Dade Murphy, alias Crash Override, also known as Zero Cool, and Paul Cook, alias Lord Nikon. We pick them up tomorrow morning at nine o'clock.
The weather is such a chaotic system that accurate predictions seem impossible. Micro-patterns can become large scale phenomena.

If you are talking about the overall climate, that's a different thing, and we can, because we abstract away sufficiently much that emerging patterns are averaged out.
I love Twiglets (really feels like eating brushwood), but I tried them for the first time only in 2020.

Were they more salty before that?
Wchess
At a server side I would agree but from windows desktop it feels different, I should have clarified that.
> that his explanation is just toeing some sort of corporate line is such a lazy critique.

But this is what he is doing.

I guess the problem is not that Redhat is doing what it is doing. The problem is that other are blindly following it.
which claim was made? the only claim I see is Japan asserting that it has nothing to do with the radioactive waste they are dumping into the ocean - I say the burden of proof is on them, since that is the claim they are making.
"asdf".indexOf("as") is 0

but

"asdf"[0] is NOT "as".

so there can be no expectation that ""[0] is "".

Those two operations are not related to each other. It's more intuitive if you treat .indexOf() as .startOf(). Then "asdf"[0..x] is "as" for x=2, and ""[0..x] is "" for x=0.
>It doesn't take a genius however to see who the more valuable contributor to the system is.

Indeed, we can look at the ablations and see that swapping out a weaker code LLM (540B Codey to 15B Starcoder) makes little difference:

"This illustrates that FunSearch is robust to the choice of the model as long as it has been trained sufficiently well to generate code."

>So it is a general problem solver then, great. That's what we want.

In the sense that it does not rely on the LLM having any understanding of the problem, yes. But not in the sense that it can be applied to problems that are not naturally decomposable into a single short Python function.
This is amazing, but they're very brave to put this up at all. I can hear the thundering hooves of Nintendo lawyers already.
No as you admitted in your other comment you are just biased.
At the very least call it Israel vs Gaza, calling it just "Hamas" when many gazan civilians are involved does not fit what is happening. Language matters, and in fact I wouldn't even call it Israel vs Gaza, but Zionist Terrorists vs Palestine, because I don't recognize the settler colony "Israel".
>Might as well eat a jar of crisco

I'd rather eat a jar of palm oil to be honest
The internet has fractionated out our cultural references and commonly used language. This has caused the communication of belief to separate out from lanaguage.

The Facebook Spying idea is the common place to agree and complain about phone spying in general. It is the poster boy for communicating an implicit belief about a larger topic.

We have begun to use language to communicate implicit and shared beliefs without any evidence, facts, agreement or qualification.

We come to our own beliefs privately and then choose a poster boy to carry the conversation. There's not much surprising about the continuation of conspiracy theories, or topics that look like conspiracy theories. We shredded the common cultural references apart...
This will ruin the AMD brand, if Intel doesn't do such a thing, then people will start going with Intel instead.
Nude
> I can only imagine the fat paycheck a 20-year old mainframe programmer would get though, because your age in this case would be invaluable.

It's funny, people frequently assume this would be true but reality doesn't really bear this out. It's typically pretty average to even below average which contributes to the talent pipeline problem.

The other side of it is that its not the technical stuff like "knows COBOL" that is so immensely valuble. Any average dev can "learn COBOL" but that's not actually the valuable thing. The anecdotes of COBOL programmers coming out of retirement for 500k/yr contracts has little to do with COBOL, but their accumulated institutional knowledge of the giant ball of business logic encoded in that COBOL.

If these banks and other institutions actually did write fat paychecks to young mainframe programmers the demographic problem they're facing might not be so bad.
>Eg. if I rebooted any time I tried to plan how to kill someone, I don't see how this would make me materially worse at general tasks.

You'd have to also reboot every time you thought about a scenario of someone else planning to kill someone, otherwise you could just reason by analogy to bypass the thought detector. Which would severely limit your ability to play video games, write fiction, work as a guard, policeman etc., protect yourself from violent individuals (as you couldn't conceptualise their thought processes).
Message from the Oopsla 2001 Conference Chair
Good point, APETROVIC.

(it's a bit surprising how very few HN users avail themselves of the opportunity of capital letters in their display names...)
In this particular case it looks like opt-in would have been a much better way to go.

Having a "enable AI features" checkbox seems to me like it would be a smart approach here.
> controlling your train of thought, changing it when that someone finds it undesirable

Machines don't feel. Even 'self aware' machines. Desire has got nothing to do with it.
What if my MP already voted no? Do you pick random MPs and email them?
In the US, even with a referral, dermatology is not considered preventative, so high deductible POS plans are left to HSAs too.
When my wife was in business school, the teacher of her management class used this idea as an unironic definition of management. They had to memorize the definition, which was essentially "taking credit for the work of other people." Not as a joke.
I am not asserting anything Japan is asserting that they have no idea what the problem is, or why it is happening, but after zero investigating, have asserted them dumping radiation into the ocean is not the cause - without any proof.
Lol. The Crown Vic and American sedans in general were killed because fossil fuel industry loving Republicans allow a loophole to exist whereby automakers can totally avoid fuel efficiency taxes buy making their vehicles big and heavy enough to get categorized as "light trucks".

That's why trucks and SUVs have taken over the road.