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This reminds me of when I took an Intro to Programming with C++ course at a community college almost 10 years ago. There weren’t any basic computer usage prerequisites for this course. So I guess I shouldn’t have been so surprised that at least one classmate did not know how to locate the source code file they created for their Hello World task in the first lecture.
Scientists have 20-minute "conversation" with a humpback whale
90% of new cars can do this, it's called AEB. It's not a Tesla self driving feature.
TIL. This was an old one on the list .
Its impressive to me as well but does it really have a moat though to feel safe investing in?
Step 1: Assume a utopia.
Honestly it's a great question. Even the typical physics major isn't going to be able to give you a great answer because learning how this was derived isn't a part of any curriculum that I know of.

But if you can accept the principle of least time (that a light ray will travel along the path that takes the shortest time) then you kind of already accept that (ordinary, classical) light somehow knows the time it takes to go along all possible paths, then chooses the minimum.

The action is a kind of thing, discovered by Hamilton, by analogy, that plays the same role in mechanics as time does in optics. I image he just stared at the equations of optics for a while and had an "ah-ha" moment. He had been working on this stuff for decades, on top of being a pretty smart guy already.

It's extremely unintuitive that classical systems should minimize anything like a time or an action. Think about it: they travel along the minimum path, but how do they know that that path is the minimum? Do they sample the other paths to know?

Well interestingly, Feynman's thesis was about exactly this idea. What happens if you start from the assumption that particles just sample all possible paths (weighted by something having to do with the action/time)? It turns out you can get the Schrodinger equation (and optics equations) from that too. It partially explains how paths "find the minimum." It turns out they don't, but a nice cancellation happens that makes the minimizing path the most probable one.
Go here to see what people are prompting with V6:

https://old.reddit.com/r/midjourney/
I wonder what will be the penalties for blaspheming the AI god.
From a historical viewpoint I think that’s unfair to the 65C816. It was launched in 1985; the eZ80 in 2001.

That’s a long time to learn from other people’s mistakes, if they even were mistakes for the time. I can’t find numbers for either on the web but I guess that, being pipelined, the eZ80 uses more transistors than the 65C816 (also, a Z80 already has about twice the number of transistors as a 6502).

If that’s the case, a better ‘improved 6502’ might have been too expensive for its market in 1985.
Google doesn’t really have much of a track record in real breakthroughs, does it?

It was built on its founders’ initial application of an eigenvector centrality algorithm to web search. The main innovation there was the application, not the algorithm - it was innovation more than invention.

Since then, perhaps the most technically impressive thing I’m aware of that Google has actually productized is their language translation system. But again, that was primarily innovation that built on existing technology and access to a lot of data, hardware, and distribution capability.

> Just a few years ago it was the place to be and our PhD students were dying to work there.

Wasn’t that mainly because of money and the collection of smart people you mention, bought by that money? Which is not the same thing as a record of achievement.

I admit I could be wrong, I’m open to being corrected.
a few more:

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When people say the most important problem in a theoretical discipline, usually its not due to practical applications.

That said, there is definitely potential practical implications for this. Even if it means we can know np problems do not have efficient solutions - that is something with practical implications.
Is that sufficient? I always just assumed stuff like that only hides it from the user
This reminds me of what happens when I search "coupon" on Twitter. I would love someone to explain why you just get a thousand pages of this:

https://imgur.com/a/uzNNmuw
I was greeted with a spinner..
this has been going on for years. Google makes money with ads. the quality of search results is almost irrelevant to its business model
As popular as it is among specific groups, I can't help but feel the decentralized push is going to hurt adoption. Maybe not as badly as it hurt Mastodon because they do supply a "default" server to join, but most people in my experience, don't want a decentralized platform and enjoy the benefits of a centralized platform quite a bit.

I suppose time will tell.
"National SIGINT agencies seem to have zero problem at all recruiting people out of college to do this work effectively. There's a whole industry of people that do this work at an elite level"

If they are so elite/effective then why do their tools consistently end up in the hands of criminals? Not to mention getting hacked themselves
I think it’s not that weird, given their R&D budget as a percentage of revenue (I think it’s >=100%).

They’ve certainly not reached their final form yet. The stated goal is Mars, no?
The theory behind invite only is that it increases the density of the network. You invite people with similar interests as this the network can nucleate around some niche, rather than being 10,000 people with nothing in common. It's one of the standard plays for overcoming cold-start problems.
I've tried a few twitter alternatives (including Bluesky) as someone who hardly ever uses twitter anyway. I was a little disappointed how it just felt like ... more twitter. I'm browsing around finding mostly memes or outrage that doesn't have context to me. I fairly quickly get exhausted trying to find / curate content.

I guess I should have expected it, but I hoped that somewhere a different network would have a different style or flavor. However, the content patterns that get engagement and etc seem ingrained in the participants no matter where you go.

Personally I can't help but feel both left out, and not wanting to be a part of whatever these style of social media apps are.

Having said that there's a lot of talk about twitter clones missing features, but for me I wonder if the content is the same, why would a significant number of people move anyway?
What's more fascinating is how they've found things to talk about every week for 10 years. Shows how detailed and complicated the game can be
GPT-Vision First Open-Source Browser Automation
Probably only if P=NP AND if the P algorithms have small polynomials.

It's possible that problems which today we only know how to solve with exponential algorithms are in fact solvable with algorithms in O(n^1000000) or whatever, in which case nothing actually changes - for all practical sizes (which is not a lot of sizes at all), the exponential algorithm is actually faster.

However, if someone found an O(n^2) algorithm that solves, say, SAT, that would be a major change in our daily lives - there are numerous problems that are completely intractable today that would become quite trivial.
Wine 9.0 RC3 – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS
Some indie recommendations
- into the breach (possibly the best tactics puzzler ever devised)
- disco elysium (possibly the best rpg ever devised)
- hades (possibly the best rogue-like ever devised)
Hello everyone,

I am happy to open-source AI Empoye: GPT-4 Vision Powered First-ever reliable browser automation that outperforms Adept.ai

Product: https://aiemploye.com

Code: https://github.com/vignshwarar/AI-Employe

Demo1: Automate logging your budget from email to your expense tracker

https://www.loom.com/share/f8dbe36b7e824e8c9b5e96772826de03

Demo2: Automate log details from the PDF receipt into your expense tracker

https://www.loom.com/share/2caf488bbb76411993f9a7cdfeb80cd7

Comparison with Adept.ai

https://www.loom.com/share/27d1f8983572429a8a08efdb2c336fe8

I am happy to open-source AI Empoye: GPT-4 Vision Powered First-ever reliable browser automation that outperforms Adept.ai
No one wants to talk to everyone on the planet at once except extremely online people anymore, that initial burst of enthusiasm from normies 10-15 years ago was borne from naivety and will never happen again.

Also every platform will get a burst of extremely online people trying to build an audience at the initial stages of its lifecycle. Discord seems to be the only place that doesn't fall into this trap because it's basically private clubs, and not about seeking attention at all times.
If only I could read that fast!
I have a Topping MX3, initially loved how knob feels but it bothered me that the tactile feedback didn't actually line up with the adjustments... mostly use the remote now anyways, which is great
Literally so crazy I can't just get an invite, it's so stupid
Verilator is not mentioned!
I’ve got five raspberry pi’s running arch Linux arm and a Mac mini for plex video encoding. Plus shared storage.
The original poster of that Tweet (Jake) admitted they got a manual penalty. Also, clearly Google didn't fix it because if not Google wouldn't be 'overwhelmed' with this current spam attack going on. If you look into the attack it's mass generated absolute spam garbage pages on hundreds if not thousands of separate domains. So it is definitely not fixed.
Yeah, but this one won't be three priests standing on each others' shoulders in a trench coat.
>where a compound noun can have exactly one meaning

I am not trying to assert that. In computing when setting out to design or make something "modern" that has 1 expected meaning.

>then I'd point out that computer != CPU

The book focuses on the CPU part of the computer, but the way memory, graphics, and input is done isn't modern either.

>the term is used in contrast to calculators or specialized number-crunching machines

Those have CPUs in them too and most would be more advanced than the CPU from this book.
It told me "Yeehaw Ridem Cowboy" was potentially problematic, which is news to me living out west.
An amusing coincidence, and not to contradict your experience, but the first review in the first "hit" when I googled TA2022 described it as less fatiguing than a conventional amplifier:

>>> The best way I can describe the Topping compared to the NAD is that the sound is richer and "warmer" (I realize this may sound strange). Listening to music through the NAD for a while got tiremsome or fatiguing. I don't get this with the Topping.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/RS7NZ301THAJP/ref...
Hey! Thank you for response! Why do you think it wasn't best way to learn?
I'll keep that in mind the next time I get the urge to spend extravagantly.
This. Google ads are spam, Google search is spam, Gmail is spam, YouTube is spam...

Google gets their money. They don't care about anything else.
Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah tells employees to 'work longer hours' in year-end email
This isn’t new. What is new are all the people who are just learning about it and think they have new ideas. Meanwhile ignoring decades (centuries IMO actually) of thinking and work on it because they have not been educated on it.

As a reminder, here’s the proposal for the 1956 Dartmouth Workshop on Artificial Inelligence:

We propose that a 2-month, 10-man study of artificial intelligence be carried out during the summer of 1956 at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The study is to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it. An attempt will be made to find how to make machines use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans, and improve themselves. We think that a significant advance can be made in one or more of these problems if a carefully selected group of scientists work on it together for a summer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop
It makes little difference whether AGI can be controlled. That question only matters to 0.01% of humanity. The rest are replaced wholly regardless.
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> Ukraine was duped to turn against Russia.

Or maybe Ukraine just wants to be Ukraine.

When the Russian model has been so comprehensively rejected then it's time for Russia to take a long hard look at itself.

Russia can end the war tomorrow. All Russia needs to do is to get out of all of Ukraine.

Simple to do, easy to achieve.
> I assume there is some real geographic origin to the naming convention, but I'm pretty sure both exist in both places.

IIRC, the coiners of those terms were American, and called the simpler type European as a snub.
Weren’t there like 10 years between the BBC and the Megadrive?
This is a disgusting affront to every sensibility. We made this so we're going to worship it?

Atheism is more sensible and that's saying something.

Edit: offended an AIist clearly.
Whether it’s the answer or not, technology will never not evolve; I find its best to learn to work with it and not against it.
Yeah, they have negative moat. I was able to implement a better RAG system than what they have for ChatGPT within 3 weeks as a single engineer working on it at a small startup. Realistically yeah they have scale and capital and I loved the DevDay stuff and the new APIs, but I don't see how they keep an edge unless they specifically pursue contracts with data providers and maintain exclusivity.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

References:

1. Mixstral 8x7b (now hosted on Anyscale w/ function calling within a few weeks of release) existing at all

2. This post from moments ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/18orv70/in_a_te...

Consider how many people are advantaged by having an open source GPT-4 level model. Everyone wants this. Everyone has built OpenAI compliant APIs to help devs plug and play.

I don't see this persisting.

The singular key innovation IMO from DevDay was the Threads API with very good reranking

Assistants are much worse qualitatively vs using chatcompletion models. They are good but very limited. The best thing is the Threads API
Is there any plan to show what this hardware can do for Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct? Based on the leaderboards[0], it is a better model than Llama2-70B, and I’m sure the T/s would be crazy high.

[0]: https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboar...
Trace the accusations against Dr. Gay back to their origin: Chris Rufo. Claudine Gay is an educated, accomplished academic who happens to also be a black woman.
Maybe my approach was wrong. I should have liked more than I disliked as feedback into the algorithm.

It's just odd to me because my Instagram feed is great.
In Feb 2022, Meta hosted "Inside the Lab"[1], a day-long webinar series outlining their vision for mixed reality, AI, etc.

I highly recommend anyone interested in Meta's vision and work to watch these. Zuckerberg's demos and the AI leadership team discussions are SO INCREDIBLY CONSISTENT over the years. They are clearly executing on something very big, with quite a bit of alignment across researchers, engineers, and product managers.

That webinar really changed my perspective on Meta's vision for AI and AR (or MR, I guess). The article posted here also emphasizes this consistency.

Huge respect for anyone who can pull this off.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P3DMMwvCfY
why not use chatgpt to solve the captcha? joking aside, just another reason why Ai will not take over the world when ancient captcha technology like captchas can stop it
For content creators
No, I explained my conclusion multiple times but you don't seem to have noticed it.

I'm not a lawyer, but the fact that a representative of a company can't manage the company's funds however he wants is:

* what I've always known

* obvious on the face of it

* apparently confirmed by quick searches of terms like misappropriation and embezzlement

You seem to be just trying to win a debate competition and I have zero interest in that; especially since there isn't someone around to judge it.
how are y'all reacting to this paywalled article?

Is everyone here subscribed to this person's Substack? Are we discussing just the first part of the article?
> A humanity free from bullshit is a humanity truly capable of anything.

Ironically, AI has been feeding us more bullshit then I've ever seen. I'm excited to see what things will look like when all the AI "gurus" and prompt "engineers" get off this train and move on to some other hype.
My whole community has moved from twitter to bsky. The first push was for mastodon, but that died out after a few weeks. But all action is on bsky now, not twitter, so I feel most have migrated fully, not just double posting.
Reading is one thing, but think about stuff like website generation, searching for information in massive datasets, real-time audio chats that don't sound like the AI misheard everything with a pause, and stuff like that.
Bluesky's big selling point is that it's an open protocol, but it's their own homegrown protocol that nobody else is using. Meanwhile Threads has working ActivityPub[1]. You can see threads posts on Mastodon.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/13/24000120/threads-meta-ac...
Even a P=NP result doesn't tell us that NP problems have efficient solutions. That depends entirely on

- if the solution is constructive,

- if the asymptotic solution has good constants (lower bound on input size, highest degree term), and

- having no other mitigating factors (requiring absurd amounts of space, for example)

The idea that P=efficient is a complete misnomer. For simple algorithms, asymptotic analysis is a fine enough coarse-grained view of program performance. However for extreme cases (like may be the case for P=NP) asymptotic analysis tells you almost nothing at all.
I am of the persuasion that secret capabilities and even conceptual roadmaps or stretch goals that they are showing to [them] are compelling to the point that they are practically building OpenAI an office at the US Mint.

I mean even the simplest of "what if" scenarios that even the HN crowd can think up can be pretty 'entangling'.

I thought of something after listening to Aza Rasking and Tristan Harris on JRE and their Summit talk...

I thought of what brought me along in tech, and I believe it is the "what ifs"

I wrote this down after listening to Aza:

--

Neuromancer and my trusty cyberpunk persona and fascination with computers got me into what I did my whole career. As so many of us 80's kids mantra'd as we read and dreamed "Wouldn't it be cool if!?"

And so we made it.. and others saw it, and said "wouldn't it be cool if?!" and made it more and better and cooler - until others saw it and we all got together and thought "Wouldn't it be cool if?!"

And we built it together, and competed for more and more cool-if's ...

And we didn't notice the entanglements. We just wanted the cool-if's.

But now, wouldn't it be cool if we could untangle the cool, and just be.*

---

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB0_-qKbal4

(JRE Spotify talk is better than this one though)
It'll be a team of moderators filtering through the output, making sure God doesn't say anything bad.
https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app

https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto
The AI Engineer Path (paid course)
There's almost no difference after 'winning' or 'losing', other than extra word count on HN. So if this bothers you so much, asking me seems pointless. Maybe try asking yourself?
> He showed that they were engaging in widespread editorializing of conservative content while lying about being neutral.

A 2021 study¹ found the opposite, which is that Twitter algorithms amplified right-wing posts more than left-wing posts. You're parroting Musk's claims, which are feelings-based. Now, of course, X is basically Parler.

¹ https://cdn.cms-twdigitalassets.com/content/dam/blog-twitter...
> technology will never not evolve

It is certainly possible that humanity meets some obstacle short of AGI, or civilization collapses to the point that no further technological development is possible.
iroh team member here. OP we’d be happy to help! https://iroh.computer/discord if you’d like to chat
Roel Van De Paar broke it several years ago. https://you.tube/Olkb7fYSyiI
I don't see it in the top 200 on Android.
Why is it taking Bluesky so long to launch basic features and allow more traffic? Are there some complexities related to using an open protocol?
OpenAI rolls out imperfect fix for ChatGPT data leak flaw
I have this reaction, but only when returning after a hard run. No exercise? Totally fine. Smells like skunky basil. If I've been on a run? Nausea, headache and it smells awful.
New Study Challenges Conventional Wisdom on Protein Consumption
Most stories of hacking are sensationalized. Mitnick was kept in solitary confinement for 5 years because of it. Aaron Schwartz was driven to suicide because of it. All the way back to RTM, incidents of hacking are rarely understood even superficially by the media so they sensationalize it.
I do agree with your sentiment that pop culture has been mostly „nice“ to autists. But I‘d argue that it has focused mainly on savants and very high functioning, very intelligent autists. That‘s IMO positive ableism. Most autists are neither exceptionally intelligent, nor are they savants.
I think this is what’s often missing when this topic is quickly presented. And, it makes the whole thing so much easier to understand. If someone were to prove P = NP by showing how to do it efficiently, that would make many computer problems easier to solve. Even problems like “guessing a password”, and that has obvious implications.

If we just knew P = NP because a trusted oracle said so, or someone proved it without showing how to do the conversion, or the conversion was impossibly laborious (a constant 2*100 steps) then that changes much less. If someone proved P ≠ NP that would change the least, since that’s how we operate today.

It’s not about getting the answer. It’s about what getting the answer suggests.
Nobody wants this war except a certain 71 year old dictator. It ends when he does.
This is why you can’t post codes anywhere publicly without them being snatched up.
Show HN: How I achieved 10,000,000 rosaries per second with Rust
You opened by incorrectly asserting that this isn't a database.
If you find out let us all know, please :)
Mixtral Q4_0 performing better than Gemini Pro, Claude 2, Llama 2 70B