skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fundamentally I believe AGI will never happen without a body

I'm inclined to believe this as well, but rather than "it won't happen", I take it to mean that AI and robotics just need to unify. That's already starting to happen.
Have you tried Cody (https://cody.dev)? Cody has a deep understanding of your codebase and generally does much better at code gen than just one-shotting GPT4 without context.

(disclaimer: I work at Sourcegraph)
100%

We quickly learn how vulnerable we are without a local language or Lingua Franca.

In my experience working class immigrants who have immigrated to places that have no large established language community in their new home are the best demonstration of this. They often start with nothing but end up with great skills whereas others will just stay and interact with their native language community and be barely conversational in the majority language.
i'm not sure are you being sarcastic, there were no fatalities on the airplane. but once motorcycle and another time a firetruck crashed with the plane and people died.
"It looks like you missed you Duolingo lesson again, you know what happens now..."
The vocab is definitely useful in the real world, and audio comprehension is improved. Foreign language textbooks also have vocab sections, and Duolingo makes that part easier.
I think they are grounded - so it will be something else
I have a dog in this fight, but strongly recommend that you do not move to [the] Zoom [Video SDK].

tldr: architecture that doesn't work for web apps, performance issues, missing features

https://www.daily.co/blog/zoom-web-sdk-technical-notes/
wouldn't dismissing discussion of hiring practices on product quality be trampling curiosity for political or ideological battle?
> and the icon has a Firefox badge on it

This is something enforced by android. If every app was able to pin apps to the homescreen without such a badge, phishing would be too easy ... add something that looks like a bank app to the homescreen, get people to type in their password ...

It's not fair, since that's not true for chrome, but there's no obvious solution, other then I guess having some sort of "super trustworthy" status for a few other browsers like firefox.
So Airbus has fault for a paint job? While they should do better, that sounds a lot safer than airplanes losing pieces or crashing down to me.

> You'll hear more about Boeing than the rest of the industry put together because this is HN...

That's not it.
I think that <marquee> isn't that good; it makes it hard to read.

The <blink> command may be OK if the user can customize the blink rate (including to disable it entirely), but is probably also unnecessary (but I think <marquee> is worse).
When you think about it, this is why using AI-generated text is no better than using a dictionary. I want to learn from someone who actually thought about the text and whether it makes sense in context, not just whether it's free from errors.

In order to translate like a human, AI needs to be AGI.
"But but but but my CV enlarging JS framework wankery for the spotify of deli meats is obviously so much more valuable to people than a bartender!"
$2 billion dollar total price tag for a 2 km system serving two sports stadiums, whose own estimates are for 400 people per hour during peak hours.

This project encapsulates pretty much everything that's wrong with public transport planning in the US.
Matrix factoring as in LU, Cholesky, QR, SVD etc? 6 orders of magnitude from mid-70s to mid-90s?

Unless I'm misunderstanding I'm shocked that there was that much left on the table.
Way closer to 0 than to 100k
Does AGI must needs to be brain-like?
Rifles do not reach airplanes, and SAM systems are quite tightly controlled. For example Hamas is unable to take out even any of the slow piston engine Israeli surveillance drones. They even have a name for them in Arabic, you can hear the sound of the drone in almost any footage from Gaza.
That's an unreasonable metric for AGI.

You're basically requiring AGI to be smarter/better than the smartest/best humans in every single field.

What you're describing is ASI.

If we have AGI that is on the level of an average human (which is pretty dumb), it's already very useful. That gives you robotic paradise where robots do ALL mundane tasks.
And this just blew every bit of profit you could make off those extra seats.
I don’t know anything about the education system back then. My mom had a British tutor.

> Another important point is that in 1947 right before independence the Muslim League in Bengal (remember AIML was founded in Dhaka and sponsored by Nawab Dhaka!) was demanding parity of representation (professors, etc) in the education system with Hindus and the Hindus were refusing and telling them to set up their own educational establishments.

Is your point that CRT is a good way to turn America into a third world tribal society?
Stop lights out of service at time of Haneda Airport collision
What would it take to make you trust AI?
What do you think the process should be? There are only five buttons on screen, should one of them be permanently dedicated to adding a webpage/PWA to your home screen?

For the record they are the back, forward, share, history/bookmarks, and tabs buttons.

As I explained in another reply, I don’t think Apple is being malicious here. I think they just shove everything that’s not a very common use in there.
I am not being sarcastic. Fatalities were unfortunate, but not due to the airplane design or manufacturing.
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Awesome, would love to hear how it went!
> Snapchat filters, iPhone photo processing/speech to text/always-on Hey Siri/OCR/object detection and segmentation - there are countless applications and functionality doing this on device today (and for years)

But those are peanuts compared to what will be possible in the (near) future. You think content-aware fill is neat? Wait until you can zoom out of a photo 50% or completely change the angle.

That’ll costs gobs of processing power and thus time and battery, much more than a 20MB burst transfer of a photo and the backsynced modifications.

> If AI keeps expanding and eating more and more functionality the remote-first approach just isn't sustainable.

It’ll definitely create a large moat around companies with lots of money or extremely efficient proprietary models.
For context this is the type of use https://laputatrampa.com
Another approach: the adult human brain has 100 (+- 20) billion or 10^11 neurons. Each neuron has 10^3 synapses and each synapse has 10^2 ion channels, amounts to 10^16 total channels. Assuming 10 parameters is enough to represent each channel (unlikely), that's about 10^17 (100 quadrillion) total parameters. Compare that to GPT4 which is rumored to be about 1.7*10^12 parameters on 8x 80GB A100s.

log(10^17/10^12)/log(2) = 16.61 so assuming 1.5 years per doubling, that'll be another 24.9 years - December, 2048 - before 8x X100s can simulate the human brain.
Usually cost and availability. Poultry and (if near water) fish are a fairly regular part of the diet, whereas meat, due to its cost is something for the well-off, or special occasions.
I imagine at least part of this is that specs (and documentation generally) just suck now. It's nigh impossible to sort out which bits are CYA legalese, and which bits are "no, actually, do this or else <terrible outcome>".

That obviously isn't the problem with airplane manufacturing, and maybe not for car mechanics either. But it's totally endemic in the consumer world.

"Do not operate while driving" on car HUDs. "Do not consume if pregnant" on perfectly safe OTC medications. "Do not continue to ride after a crash" on bike frames.

It's not surprising most of this is just ignored now -- there's no information content. The documentation is nothing more than a list of things for which the manufacturer would like not to be liable, and the marginal cost of adding to that list is ~0. It will grow until we run out of room in the manual / space on the packaging.

"Store between 68 and 75 F." Or what? Is that a "must follow or else death", or a "it may reduce efficacy 0.5%" or a "we've never run a sufficiently powerful study under any other conditions, but there's no theoretical reason it should matter"? It matters quite a bit to me which!

I don't see how we can hope to have good-faith communication under such a heavy threat of litigation. I would not be surprised if /that/ turns out to be relevant to the Boeing issue, even if the rest is unrelated.
Veratasium just made an approachable video on this subject recently, I definitely recommend. It rebukes the whole 'oh no I just heard what a Nash equilibrium is and now I'm worried cooperation is impossible long term' fears some people interpret his thought experiment (prisoners dillema) to have. Tldr it's rare that you can't coordinate, communicate, or have exactly one trial.

https://youtu.be/mScpHTIi-kM?si=v8FvrfMCHioLJET5
Always :)
They have not adequately funded the video product for a very long time. Other companies built out better infrastructure and a much broader range of features. The market also turned out to be smaller and differently structured than all of us thought. (I am a co-founder of a company that competes with -- though also predated -- Twilio Video.)
Marquee has text as innerHTML, why can't people read that without vision?
I don't think the industry does need unity. Godot is quickly becoming the engine of choice for smaller projects and Unreal exists for larger and more complex ones.
I don't know that they could. We're talking about Boeing, they're the sort of MBA hive that's embarrassed to have to employ engineers.
I like this website. I tap on the share button. That lets me do a bunch of things I can do with websites I like, like sharing them or bookmarking them or pinning them to the homescreen.
I think you might be a little dishonest here.

Have you ever heard Arabic speakers at a demonstration chant “فلسطين عربية” or “فلسطين إسلامية”?

What you did was open my own wikipedia source, scroll down to the Variations section and found this old variation there.

However if you open the original source[1] which claimed this historic use of the slogan, it specifically states that some people remember it being this way during the first intifada (1987-1993). This same source also says:

> It is true that a state of Palestine would entail the end of Israel as a Jewish ethnic-national state. But as many Palestinian and Israeli intellectuals (and others) have noted: replacing Israel with a Palestinian state need not result in genocide or the ethnic cleansing of Jews.

This article also raises an important point:

> If one of our goals is to move Jewish American audiences, we need to recognize that the Israeli state and its allies have found it easy to weaponize this particular slogan in order to incite fear among Jews.

I recommend you read this article, it is quite brilliant.

1: https://mondoweiss.net/2023/11/on-the-history-meaning-and-po...
What you're describing is validation.
This may seem like a good idea, but I've followed some discussions where it became clear it might not be the case. The misuse of this feature could actually be dangerous.

It's not really "support for incremental backups" as much as "within pg_basebackup". Other backup tools (such as pgBackRest) have had incremental backup support for quite some time, and more reliably, without this code.

I'm relaying information from others who are very knowledgeable about this. There are gotchas to this new feature:

- The filesystem has to POSIX compliant
- In order to rebuild the incrementals, they all need to be present in directories
- The feature adds no notion of a block structure, so each incremental must be laid on serially

It's unclear how useful this will be unless used by some very specific external tool that takes advantage of it.

Again, tools like pgBackRest has had incremental backup support for quite some time.
I see a lot of complaining about Duolingo being worthless but I beg to differ.

First I have not used the app but IIRC it uses a lot of "Choose the correct word among those four" but it's quite bad for reinforcement.
It's much better to reinforce what you learned to have to type a sentence from scratch. I recommend using it on a computer.
Also, I don't know if that exercise is still ther, but having to pronounce a sentence is also good. The problem was it was too easy to pass though.

The other thing is that it does not replace learning the language, that is reading a grammar in order to know what are the general rules of the language.
But it does replace conversation if you are not able to speak the language and provide a a good source of daily reinforcement, and vocabulary.

It's an effective tool when used correctly in my opinion.
Respectfully, there aren't a lot of new facts here, just a more impassioned restatement of the argument you've already made. But I'm not here to convince you of anything. You don't have to fend me off!

To the extent we're having these discussions on HN (which I think are largely cursed), I'm interested in the facts being on the table: that Gaza isn't somehow an independent territory Israel can wash its hands of, that Israel is not in fact populated mostly with Europeans and Americans, that everybody from Hezbollah to the IDF has used the "river to the sea" slogan, and so forth.

I meant what I said in my preceding comment. I'm not suggesting to you that because Smotrich is a fringe figure, you should recalculate your opinions about Israeli leadership. I'm literally telling you that you can make a better, more succinct, and more persuasive case by relying less on Smotrich and Ben-Gvir. Assume the persuadable audience for what you're writing already reviles both of those characters, and avoid giving your readers an excuse to stop reading by make them load-bearing parts of your argument.

Alternatively: stop having an argument at all! It's extraordinarily unlikely that you will ever on HN have a "debate" with a counterparty on the other side of this issue that ends in you somehow "winning". And as these "debates" progress, they get less compelling, more tedious, and more damaging to everybody's case. Apathy could have no better advocate than a 30-comment-deep HN thread.

Instead, just wait for things to appear that are contrary to the facts, and calmly correct the record.
Indeed, it's in the top 5 app rankings in many countries.
https://www.appbrain.com/app/threads-an-instagram-app/com.in...

I'd encourage people to give Threads and Bluesky a try. Both don't have a CEO that amplifies conspiracy theories and falsehoods.
If meaningful connections at work go away, then clubs (books, chess, sports etc) and social hobbies will pick up the slack. Work doesn’t have a monopoly on meaningful relationships.
Thanks for submitting this article. I wasn't aware it's so easy to misconfigure the TLS settings of web servers. It might also explain some TLS errors I have encountered in the past in Firefox.

It would be super helpful if someone could recommend easy ways to check web servers for bad configurations like this.
No, but the simple approach here was "full simulation".

And "brain in a jar" is different from "AGI"
That’s pretty incredible. After a heavy maintenance breakdown, what percentage of the plane gets replaced? Or is everything already on a routine maintenance schedule so the intention is to visually identify unexpectedly failing parts?
> We can't even simulate all of the chemical processes inside a single cell. We don't even know all of the chemical processes. We don't know the function of most proteins.

Brain > Cell > Molecules(DNA and otherwise) > Atoms > Sub-atomic particles...

Potentially dumb question, but how deeply do we need to understand the underlying components to simulate a flatworm brain?
The de-icing button issue?
Yeah, you used to be able to dive into really interesting/useful discussions (pretty much a forum) about nuances of certain phrases/words, usually involving people who have grown up speaking the respective language. It was really helpful to get that extra detail and context on weird little quirks that may not have been obvious by the content built into Duolingo itself.
I'm not an expert on their product but there's an FAQ: https://www.impulselabs.com/faqs

BTW for a much more detailed answer to your original question of what's new, and of why this is important: https://www.volts.wtf/p/induction-stoves-with-batteries-buil...
Probably the official notice came from their contracting agency.
> In hindsight, docker is probably much better off with Go, considering the use case. And I say that as someone who loves python and isn't too much into go!

Same. I use docker to escape the versioning hell that is modern python.

When you're trying to build a tool, the more self-contained the better.
Ben Schneiderman is an ACM Fellow and CS professor emeritus of the University of Maryland-College Park. These 8 principles are from his 1986 book. He’s done a lot of work in infovis and HCI and is the inventor of the treemap visualization.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Shneiderman
To borrow a phrase from Microsoft's history, "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish." AI proves to be incredibly useful and we welcome it like we welcomed the internet. It becomes deeply embedded in our lives and eventually in our bodies. One day, a generation is born that never experiences a thought that is not augmented by AI. Sometime later a generation is born that is more AI than human. Sometime later, there are no humans.
This isn't satire, it just makes no sense and seems like you're using ChatGPT (or Grok) to blogspam.

Satire is hard.
No idea, if you can survive with VR goggles for hours, and you have reasonable VR partners not trying to teach you all kinds of slang and swearwords, then maybe.
Hope no one's invoked "thoughts and prayers". The mindset of "I'm only going to buck the system if the system supports me" makes sense from the inside. Massachusetts overall has a strong sentiment of us-vs-them from government to citizen anyway.
Vector dimension precision effect on cosine similarity
That was predictable. The reaction of people here, saying that GPT4 output is of lower quality than of humans, is also a predictable cope.
I suggest that the power of these new language models is that instead of finding “the path of success“ the models can adapt, and learn to accommodate individuals with every respective path to success. Chat, GPT never has the same conversation with two different individuals, roughly speaking. If Duolingo can pivot to deliver automated, personalized learning experiences, then more power to them. That would be fantastic in my opinion.
The first time I used DuoLingo, I was just trying to get through the tree, without really learning, and that was useless. Now I have a different technique: I’ll only listen (never read), and if I can’t comprehend and respond immediately, I’ll fail that exercise deliberately, so I’ll be re-tested later. For me, I only understand the language if I can understand some one speaking to me and respond in real time.
Why don't the safe file I/O operations panic when /proc/self/mem is opened for writing?
I understand why they don't want to make all of File I/O unsafe just for edge cases like this, but shouldn't this be handled at runtime?
My understanding is that it's about 20% longer for ships coming from Asia. That means a 20% reduction in annual capacity for those ships/shipping companies, which is pretty massive.
If Boeing has insufficient competition, they don't have to care because their customers have limited alternatives. If they don't have to care then they don't have to care if their subcontractors care. They also have limited fear of regulators because the US government will be wary about damaging the country's sole supplier in an important industry.

Break them up and it's easier for both the market and the government to punish bad behavior.
It's a potential Heisenbug for (some of) your javascript code. Sometimes things work on some machines and sometimes it doesn't. Unless you have the cert-chain misconfig in your brain-cache you'd probably spend hours debugging confusing bug reports from customers that you fail to reproduce reliably. So it's not just harder to debug, it causes bugs (and indirectly bug-reports you'll need to investigate).
> I doubt we will have AGI by even 2100...Fundamentally I believe AGI will never happen without a body.

I think this is very plausible--that AI won't really be AGI until it has a way to physically grow free from the umbilical chord that is the chip fab supply chain.

So it might take Brainoids/Brain-on-chip technology to get a lot more advanced before that happens. However, if there are some breakthroughs in that tech, so that a digital AI could interact with in vitro tissue, utilize it, and grow it, it seems like the takeoff could be really fast.
Is the longer tl;dr that with multiple trials and possible miscommunication, the winning individual strategy is tit-for-tat, and the winning group strat is some softer tit-for-tat with one forgivable betrayal?
There is no more evolutionary pressure on lifespan after you have children since you have successfully passed on the ‘aging’ gene.
We used to live much shorter lives, being able to die of old age was rare, therefore, no selection.
If we start to have children at 90 years old we may be able to double our lifespans (while the ones that are unable to reproduce earlier will not pass on that inability).

There is no cheating, since we could not modify our genomes and give ourselves superpowers. We cannot live forever because there was no need. We won’t die before we can successfully reproduce.
The vast majority of the chemical processes in a single cell are concerned with maintaining homeostasis for that cell - just keeping it alive, well fed with ATP, and repairing the cell walls. We don't need to simulate them.
Off the Shelf vs. Custom Software: Pros and Cons
I wouldn’t say it’s exceptionally worse considering it’s free vs begging you for microtransactions.

Gamification is easy enough on your own, get some ice cream!

If you need accountability, ask a friend.

You could alternatively fill up millions of flash cards in Anki with random phrases out of chatGPT and really hone in on the Duolingo simplicity.

Silly examples, but I just feel like “AI phrases with TTS audio displayed along side 1 of 20 PNGs of a cartoon character” isn’t really a defendable product in a market that churns out multiple copies of that idea a month.

They used to be a course that was designed by employees/volunteers interested in language (in theory), now it’s a randomized. Eh.
Show HN: Neutrino – a router that dynamically routes queries to the best LLM
Hey HN! I’m Ricardo from Neutrino AI (https://www.neutrinoapp.com). I’m excited to show you all our model router, which lets you intelligently route queries to the best-suited LLM for the prompt.

Problem:

- We want to solve the problem of balancing cost and accuracy between models like GPT-3.5 and 4, and also using the best models for specific tasks, like Claude for safety, creative writing, fine tuned models for domain-specific tasks, etc.

Key Features:

- Maximize response quality while optimizing for costs and latency

- Concurrently generate and compare responses across different closed and open-source models

- Automatically sample and evaluate responses, improving routing performance over time

You can use it with the OpenAI SDK or with LangChain by just changing the api base and api key to point to Neutrino and the model name to your own router ID

Would welcome any and all feedback!
TypeScript's type system is, and it will always be, unsound by design [1].

Working with these constraints and still being able to deliver what they did is nothing short of incredible. They had the maturity and experience to ship something that wasn't Yet Another Copy Of Java's Type System, like Sorbet and Dart, for example.

[1] https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/type-compatibil...
That's not 1% of fliers representing half the flights though, I think it's more like 10% - it's saying that 1% of the entire world population causes it and only 11% of the world actually flies once a year.